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| ==Related Websites== | | ==Related Websites== |
| ===English=== | | ===English=== |
− | * [http://per.hedbor.org/lain/ Serial Experiments Lain: Root] ([[Serial Experiments Lain: Root|article]]) has a collection of Lain media for download, including cover scans and soundtracks. | + | * [https://arisuchan.jp/ arisuchan] anonymous lain-themed cyberpunk imageboard with a dedicated /lain/ board |
| + | * [http://asphyxia.su/ asphyxia.su] Collection of every background image from mebious, going back over a year. |
| + | * [https://systemspace.link/ systemspace.link] Religion lightly themed around SEL. Has an anonymous imageboard named TSUKICHAN and a Rocket.Chat server. |
| * [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm Thought Experiments Lain] ([[Thought Experiments Lain|article]]) is owned by Lawrence Eng aka Lawmune. It includes, among other things, a review, fanart contest and glossary. It is perhaps best known for the [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm list of Apple references in Lain]. | | * [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm Thought Experiments Lain] ([[Thought Experiments Lain|article]]) is owned by Lawrence Eng aka Lawmune. It includes, among other things, a review, fanart contest and glossary. It is perhaps best known for the [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm list of Apple references in Lain]. |
| * [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/ Omnipresence] is full of information about SEL and includes episode transcripts, screencaps, a fanlisting and a very outdated list of links. It is impossible to navigate. Content is [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/wired.html here]. | | * [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/ Omnipresence] is full of information about SEL and includes episode transcripts, screencaps, a fanlisting and a very outdated list of links. It is impossible to navigate. Content is [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/wired.html here]. |
− | * [http://misslain.homestead.com/index.html Lain - Alive in Cyberspace] includes reviews, screencaps, poetry, and a rather intriguing [http://misslain.homestead.com/cyberqs.html dialogue] on Lain.
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| * [http://www.mebious.co.uk/ Mebious.co.uk] ([[Mebious.co.uk|article]]) comes from a URL that appears briefly on a pressure gauge. Sometimes called "Mebi" or "Mebby". Allows anonymous text or image posting. The most recent 10 lines of text are displayed. | | * [http://www.mebious.co.uk/ Mebious.co.uk] ([[Mebious.co.uk|article]]) comes from a URL that appears briefly on a pressure gauge. Sometimes called "Mebi" or "Mebby". Allows anonymous text or image posting. The most recent 10 lines of text are displayed. |
− | * [http://www.mebious.mobi/ Mebious.mobi] ([[Mebious.mobi|article]]), sometimes called "Mobi", is inspired by Mebious and notably includes features such as music upload and auto-refresh. | + | * [http://mebious.com/ Mebious.com] hosts this very wiki. |
− | * [http://mebious.com/ Mebious.com] hosts this very wiki as well as Minecraft and various files. | + | * [https://mebio.us Mebio.us] is another clone of the original .co.uk site, created after the closure of Mobi. |
− | * [http://cerealexperiments.com/lain/wakaba.html cerealexperiments.com] SEL image board | + | * [https://mebious.neocities.org wired.entry.neocities] Fansite under constant occasional development. |
− | * [http://asphyxia.su/ asphyxia.su] Collection of every background image from mebious, going back over a year. | + | * [https://re.wire.zone/ re:wire] Originally created in Discord, centers around technology, glitching and cyberpunk. Has it's own anonymous imageboard called Wirechan. |
| + | *[[VisualWired]] |
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| + | ===Japanese=== |
| + | *[http://www.konaka.com/alice6/lain/ Serial Experiments Lain], a site by [[Chiaki Konaka|Chiaki J. Konaka]], has interviews, information about [[Books|books]], and links related to Lain, as well as a font that was used in the anime. |
| + | *[http://www.geocities.jp/zatugakubeya/lain/index.html Deep Researches Lain] has a glossary of terms from the anime and a quiz game. |
| + | *[http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/grifonsgarden/garenwarehouse.htm Grifon's Garden] has pictures and descriptions of at least 6 homemade Lain figurines. |
| + | *[http://page.freett.com/boondock/lain/ LAINてんぷら] is a website used to start Lain threads on the 2channel BBS. Has links to many Lain threads on 2ch and many other obscure and edifying Lain-related links. てんぷら (tempura) is slang for template. |
| + | *[http://page.freett.com/m_utsumi/ Protocol of lain's world] has lots of great and rare info, but mostly in Japanese, because the English portion of the site is unfinished. (Click lain's face to access the content.) |
| + | ===Russian=== |
| + | *[http://boards.haruhiism.net/abe/ Old Home], an image board that is primarily for discussions related to [[Yoshitoshi ABe| ABe]]. |
| + | *[http://lain.xq3.ru/ lain game] contains files from the Serial Experiments Lain [[Game|PSX game]], extracted using jPSXdec. |
| + | *[http://lain.ru/index.php lain.ru] |
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| ==Past Related Websites== | | ==Past Related Websites== |
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| * [[Thewired.info]] | | * [[Thewired.info]] |
| + | * [http://per.hedbor.org/lain/ Serial Experiments Lain: Root] ([[Serial Experiments Lain: Root|article]]) had a collection of Lain media for download, including cover scans and soundtracks. |
| + | * [http://misslain.homestead.com/index.html Lain - Alive in Cyberspace] included reviews, screencaps, poetry, and a rather intriguing [http://misslain.homestead.com/cyberqs.html dialogue] on Lain. Site has been disabled. |
| + | *[http://hr.deadgods.net/hr/index/ Wakachan's ABe board], R.I.P. |
| + | * [http://cerealexperiments.com cerealexperiments.com] Website that had an imageboard that was barely Lain-related. |
| + | *[http://easterncalcul.us/ ahania's boards] are available intermittently. /ec/ is for general discussion and /l/ is for all things Lain. Feel free to start or join in a discussion. |
| + | *[http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/9755/ serial experiments lain - Unnoficial Homepage in the Wired] |
| + | * [http://www.mebious.mobi/ Mebious.mobi] ([[Mebious.mobi|article]]), sometimes called "Mobi", is inspired by Mebious and notably includes features such as music upload and auto-refresh. (defunct as of May 10th 2015) |
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| ==Essays== | | ==Essays== |
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| * [[VKK 320: Decoding Virtual Culture in the Media - a case-study of Serial Experiments Lain]] | | * [[VKK 320: Decoding Virtual Culture in the Media - a case-study of Serial Experiments Lain]] |
| * [[Serial Experiments: Lain as a Reflection of Modern Japanese Anxieties in the Digital Era]] | | * [[Serial Experiments: Lain as a Reflection of Modern Japanese Anxieties in the Digital Era]] |
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| * [[To what commodity end are concepts of the ‘post-human’ and the ‘cyborg’ marketed? Give screen and theoretical examples of each.]] | | * [[To what commodity end are concepts of the ‘post-human’ and the ‘cyborg’ marketed? Give screen and theoretical examples of each.]] |
| * [[The Real Verses the Virtual]] [sic] | | * [[The Real Verses the Virtual]] [sic] |
| + | * [[All I Ever Needed To Know In This Fragile Layer Of Existence We Call The Real World I Learned From Serial Experiments Lain]] |
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− | ==Other articles== | + | ==Scholarly articles and books== |
− | ===English=== | + | *"Topologies of Identity in Serial Experiments Lain" by Craig Jackson, published in ''Mechademia'', Volume 7, 2012, pp. 191-201 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mec/summary/v007/7.jackson01.html] |
− | * [[All I Ever Needed To Know In This Fragile Layer Of Existence We Call The Real World I Learned From Serial Experiments Lain]] | + | *"The Signal of Noise" (manga) by Adèle-Elise Prévost and MUSEbasement, published in ''Mechademia'', Volume 3, 2008, pp. 173-188 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mec/summary/v003/3.prevost.html] |
| + | *"When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain" by Susan J. Napier, published in ''Science Fiction Studies'' vol.29, No. 3, Japanese Science Fiction (Nov. 2002) pp. 418-435 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241108] |
| + | *"The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation" by Susan J. Napier, published in ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society'', Vol. 149, No. 1 (Mar., 2005), pp.72-79 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4598910] |
| + | *"Screening Anime" by Steven T. Brown, an essay published in the 2006 book ''Cinema Anime'', a collection of essays by various authors, edited by Brown. [http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781403970602] |
| + | *''Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture'' by Steven T. Brown. This time the whole book is by Brown. [http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230103597] |
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| + | ==Games== |
| + | * [[Lain visual novel project]], a project to create a Serial Experiments Lain visual novel, started on [[mebious.co.uk]] and worked on here. |
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| ==Analysis== | | ==Analysis== |
| * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjaG8gqE7uY&feature=g-u-u Youtube video] Analyzing exactly what happened in the anime. | | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjaG8gqE7uY&feature=g-u-u Youtube video] Analyzing exactly what happened in the anime. |
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− | ==Fanfiction Recommendations== | + | ==Fanfiction== |
| ===English=== | | ===English=== |
| * [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2196634/1/Stopped Stopped], a short story that concisely captures the essence of Serial Experiments Lain. | | * [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2196634/1/Stopped Stopped], a short story that concisely captures the essence of Serial Experiments Lain. |
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| ""Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.*" Lain. Madoka. Homura. Arisu. I am uncertain what genre to classify this under." | | ""Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.*" Lain. Madoka. Homura. Arisu. I am uncertain what genre to classify this under." |
| (*Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.) | | (*Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.) |
| + | ===Japanese=== |
| + | *[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=14756418 せりあl えxぺりめんts ぁいn], a manga by Gomennasai on Pixiv, probably inspired by [[Chibi Chibi Lain]]. |
| + | * [http://ifs.nog.cc/i25127.at.infoseek.co.jp/281/rakkatan.html Ganbare Rakka-tan], a Lain/NieA/Haibane crossover manga in the style of Abe, drawn by a user of the 2channel board "hankaku nijigen ita" who went by the name ''281''. |
| + | *[http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52044575.html One], [http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52064879.html two], [http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52067572.html three] threads archived from news4vip at 2ch. |
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| + | ==Music== |
| + | *[https://archive.org/details/keif_mesa_earth_brain_waves Earth Brain Waves], A concept album. The theme imaged the world of the network by the Schumann resonance in serial experiments lain. |
| + | *[http://3x6x.com/discography.html SUBHUMAN], serial experiments lain image album |
| + | [[Category:Media]] |