[[File:Sel-lain-friends.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Photo of Lain's school friends]]
In the Serial Experiments Lain anime, there are 4 people in [[Lain Iwakura]]'s school friend group. She also, has 4 other friends that she met at [[Cyberi
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'''[[Touko Yonera]]'s [[NAVI]]''' is a standard desktop NAVI with no visible modifications or spe
[[File:830px-Touko's NAVI Screen.png|thumb|250px|The screen of Touko's NAVI]]
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...s is also S.]][[File:Metaphorlize.jpg|right|300px|thumb|This is NOT S. (it's typographics)]]
'''S''' stands for '''superimpose'''. In [[Chiaki J. Konaka]]'s [[Scenario Experiments Lain|scripts]], it was his way of indicating that a
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[[File:300px-Guntype.jpg|right|thumb|500px|Taro's HandiNavi based on a toy gun]]
...lphin key chain attached to its strap. [[Taro]] is also seen with a [[Taro's NAVI|HandiNAVI]] based on a toy gun.
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...es a small handheld [[NAVI]] in the shape of a pistol. It's called a child's gun-type NAVI in ''[[Visual Experiments Lain]]''. Its display pops up out o
...] destroys a similar NAVI in [[Layer 04]] by dashing it against a building's rooftop.
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...akura|Lain]]'s three known [[Lain's Friends|friends]] at [[school]]. Reika's other friends include [[Juri Katou]] and [[Alice Mizuki]].
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...in fact it almost seems that she enjoys it as it show in [[Layer 07]]. She's seen laughing at the Wannabe Knight implying she knows that she is going to
...age any ideas she was getting in her head that would go against the Knight's own objectives.
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[[File:Lain's new navi.jpeg|thumb|Lain's new NAVI as of Layer 02.]]
[[File:Lain's navi layer 03.jpeg|thumb|By Layer 03, Lain's NAVI has already shown extensive modification.]]
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[[File:212px-Lain%27s_hairclip_from_VEL_cover.jpg|thumb|Lain's hairclip as seen in [[Visual Experiments Lain]].]]
...Fanworks|fans]] believe - is one of the defining items in [[Lain Iwakura]]'s appearance. Indeed, throughout the [[Serial Experiments Lain (anime)|anime]
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|navi = [[HandiNAVI]], [[Alice's NAVI]]
...same [[school]] as [[Lain Iwakura]]. She is also one of Lain's best [[Lain's Friends|friends]].
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...change to someone else's- Taro's, Yasuo's, maybe just an unnamed stranger's? This is Alice narrating Layer 12.)
''Let's all love Lain.''
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[[File:Yasuo's NAVI hardware.jpeg|300px|right|thumb|Iwakura Yasuo's NAVI and hardware, featuring multiple screens and processing units.]]
...ura|his daughter]] has become fully engrossed in [[the Wired]] and [[NAVI]]s his own setup pales in comparison.
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...Café''' in Lain alludes to [[wikipedia:Douglas Rushkoff|Douglas Rushkoff]]'s book [[wikipedia:Cyberia (book)|''Cyberia'']], published in 1994. It revolv
*It's probably no coincidence that one of the real world's [[Wikipedia:Cyberia,_London|first internet cafes]] was also called Cyberia.
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[[File:Oldnavi.jpg|frame|Lain's old navi]]
Alice's NAVI is based on the iMac G3.
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|navi = [[Yonera Touko's NAVI]]
|location = [[Tachibana General Laboratories]], Touko's Apartment
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...'') is a [[Lain's Friends|friend]] of [[Lain Iwakura]] at [[school]]. Juri's friends include [[Reika Yamamoto]] and [[Alice Mizuki]].
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...ng a [[NAVI]] for the first time in a long time. It also functions as Lain's pajamas.
Lain's pajamas are meant to shield her from the outside world. Every time she want
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*Lain's "family", who are not really her relatives
*[[Masami Eiri]]'s modification of [[Protocol 7]], [[Psyche]], the [[Schumann Resonances]]
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...xperiments Lain (anime)|anime]]. Calls are sent and received using [[NAVI]]s, presumably over IP. Though its name implies a means of video messaging, it
...f Alice and the teacher, and when Alice tries to remind Juri of "yesterday's '''CU Mail'''," Juri professes not to have any recollection of their exchan
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...is interviewed. The relevant portion of the interview, beginning with Lain's mention of God, is reproduced below:
--There's a God of Wired? You believe that?
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'''Misato''' is [[Lain Iwakura|Lain's]] best friend in the [[Serial Experiments Lain (game)|game]]. She is very t
...lived in a rich neighbourhood in a very fancy house. Lain said that Misato`s mother is very beautiful and looks like an actress.
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...lor [[Touko Yonera]] meets with Kyoko to find out more about Lain and Lain's friend, [[Misato]].
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...time being in [[Layer 03]]. In the anime, crosstalk is used to convey Lain's forays into the Wired, when she does research or eavesdrops on conversation
...suggests that the ability to hear net chatter is a passive ability of Lain's, brought to its full potential when she obtains the [[Psyche]] chip in Laye
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|location=[[Lain's House]], [[Shibuya]]
'''Iwakura Mika''' (岩倉 美香) is [[Lain Iwakura]]'s sister. At the beginning of the anime, she is a regular teenage girl who of
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The confrontation of Lain's alter-egos was an extensive focus during the writing and voice acting of th
...[[Serial Experiments Lain]] franchise is the question of [[Lain Iwakura]]'s identity. She displays several different personalities in the [[Serial Expe
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|location = [[Lain's House]], Shoko's House
A minor character in [[Layer 02]] who brings [[Lain Iwakura]]'s new [[NAVI]] and tells her how great it is. He also delivers a mysterious P
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...n copying some C code onto the chalkboard in [[Layer 01]] just before Lain's fingertips begin to emit [[Paranormal Occurrences in Serial Experiments Lai
if(a>b) printf("%c>%￥n",/*teacher's head*/);
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[[File:SEL95.png|right|thumb|250px|Lain's Home]]
The furnishing is plain and ordinary, except for the large number of [[NAVI]]s that Yasuo has in one room, and later, that Lain has in her bedroom.
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...dle school. [[Alice's Teacher|Alice's teacher]] and [[Keiko Yoshii]] (Lain's Teacher) work here.
...he security guard sits. A circular, decorative fountain lies in the school's courtyard.
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...ria]] along with [[Masayuki]]. She becomes jealous when she witnesses Taro's advances on Lain in Layers [[Layer 03|03]] and [[Layer 09|09]].
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Father: No, she's not strange.
Reika: It's strange for there to be a sudden staff meeting.
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...affectionately called '''Tomo-kun''' by [[Lain Iwakura]], is a boy in Lain's elementary school class in the [[Serial Experiments Lain (game)|game]]. Whi
Not much is known about his personality, but it was stated in [[Lain's Diary]] that he and the other boys in her class were very rowdy.
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Eiri: Yes, they were born with human's evolution.
...e reference to John C. Lilly established this in the previous layer and it's reinforced many times throughout the anime.
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Mayu is often seen with [[Kyoko]], and attends Lain's junior high school in the [[Serial Experiments Lain (game)|game]].
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[[Lain's House|Lain's house]] is in Setagaya, a ward adjacent and to the east of Shibuya. Minato
...in's face is displayed on the large screen mounted on the front of the Men's 109 building.
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...Techno, House, Trance, Breaks, Drum & Bass, Chill Out, Rock, etc. Enjoy JJ's diverse world of remixes and "Uta-mono" songs (with lyrics). Of course, the
| title4 =Wired (JJ's Cyberia On The Floor Mix)
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Mr. Rabbit is [[Lain Iwakura]]'s friend she meets on [[the Wired]] in the [[Serial Experiments Lain (game)|g
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...ura]] has the ability to affect [[reality]] through manipulation of people's memories, once during [[Layer 08]] and most notably during the [[reset]].
We went to our relative's house in Fujisawa by train. All of us together.
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Serial experiments lain collector's edition is a special edition of the anime series released in Spain<ref>http
[[File:Lain_Collector's_Edition.jpg|thumb|Collector's edition box]]
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Fat Man: Let's have some fun together.
Lain: It's too noisy. Can't you all shut up?
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|location=[[Lain's House]], [[Shibuya]]
...he acts as surrogate mother to [[Lain Iwakura]]. She acts as Lain and Mika's apathetic stay at home mother. Miho is completely indifferent to the lives
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|navi = [[Nezumi's NAVI]]
...mouse") is evidently inspired by the dormouse from Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''.
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Of the more common NAVIs, the first is the Child's NAVI. It is distinguished by its bright red shell and space-efficient desig
...comfortable computer use... this feature is also included in the children's version of the NAVI.
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...ss's_NAVI.jpg|300px|thumb|In [[Layer 07|''Society'']], Lain fixes the boss's archaic NAVI.]]
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Lain(w): What's so interesting about killing other players?
Taro: Nobody knows what's fun and why.
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|navi=[[Taro's NAVI]]
Little of Taro's life before the start of the [[Serial Experiments Lain (anime)|series]] is
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Police: It's late. I'll escort you home.
Alice: Lain, sorry. It's our fault. Are you all right?
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...ka says the spires rise out from between the residential buildings of Lain's neighborhood (which is somewhere in [[Delivery Man|Setagaya]], by the way).
'''Page 277''' (Episode: 11, setting: Lain's neighborhood)
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...a compilation album of techno by [[Chikada Wasei]]. It is a sequel to 1998's ''[[Serial Experiments Lain: Cyberia Mix|serial experiments lain sound trac
...butions to the ''beatmania'' series of rhythm games. Notably, remixes of ""s"peEd" and "Cloudy, with occasional rain" from the original ''Cyberia Mix''
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Professor Takashima is [[Touko Yonera]]'s boss at [[Tachibana General Laboratories|Tachibana Research Center]] in the
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* Tomcat's Big Adventure: Director, Script, Storyboard, Composition (1992)
* Kino's Journey: Director, Storyboard, Episode Director (2003) (ep 1, 2, 5)
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...ime events of ''Serial Experiments Lain''. After the Kensington Experiment's disastrous results, Hodgeson destroyed the machine and deleted its schemati
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Voice: You are the only one who doesn't know what's happening in this society...
Lain: No, that's not true.
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Father: It's not that I enjoyed acting as a family, but I think that I envied someone li
Father: That's the kind of being you are.
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'''Yoshida''' is [[Touko Yonera|Touko's]] lover in the [[Serial Experiments Lain (game)|game]] and a worker of the
After Touko finds out about Takeshi's marriage, she seeks support in Yoshida, and desperately tries to become clo
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|image = File:Alice's teacher.jpeg
The young, handsome male teacher who is [[Alice Mizuki|Alice's]] heartthrob. Though he appears 3 times in the [[Serial Experiments Lain|an
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Text: 10,000 yen? That's too expensive! The market price is about 4,000 yen.
Text: It's not precisely a drug.
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...5-second TV Tokyo weather forecast segment, which immediately followed SEL's time slot.
...no official translation available]||amateur translation: How will tomorrow's weather be?
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'''Masayuki''' is [[Taro]]'s best friend and he is often seen together with him and [[Myu-Myu]] at [[Cyb
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*Kara no Kyoukai (it's [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4932 7 movies] totalin
*Hoshi no Koe / Voices of a Distant Star (just 25 min, maybe best with 5cm/s because also from Makoto Shinkai)
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...published in the original Restore booklets packaged with Geneon Universal's 2010 Japanese release of Serial Experiments Lain Blu-ray BOX|RESTORE. Also
...tten some similar 4-panel comic strips which may have been inspired by ABe's ''Chibi Chibi Lain''. Refer to [[Fanworks]].
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| title1 =Lain's Theme <small>(Lainのテーマ; "Lain no Theme")</small>
| title6 =Working Man's Theme <small>(Working Manのテーマ; "Working Man no Theme")</small>
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...gs featured in the Serial Experiments Lain DVD boxset, the alien with Lain's face and personality that appears in front of Alice is called “Glain,”
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...eventually causes the dog to bark and say its own name repeatedly, to Lain's delight.
It is revealed that Bike-chan's automation is a sort of field test for Lain's later plans. After completing Bike-chan by giving him mobility and the abil
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Alice: Sorry, Lain. It's our fault. Are you all right?
Boy died at Cyberia:) It's easy to die, Lain. Isn't it?
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...achibana General Laboratories]], albeit in a different building from Touko's. There, Takeshi stopped consistently communicating with Touko, occasionally
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* Magical Project S (1996), Assistant Producer
...blog during the time ''Lain'' was being restored in 2009-2010 for Pioneer's Blu-ray Box|RESTORE.
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Lain: It's very interesting.
Juri: Let's hang out together again.
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Huh? What's going on?
There's still some time before class starts.
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...s by [[Yoshitoshi ABe]]. They were drawn to accompany [[Chiaki J. Konaka]]'s articles in ''Looker'' magazine. Two of them were never published in ''Look
...led "life as usual." I believe that in order to portray the unusual, Alice's relative normalcy was essential. In pictures, unaffected spontaneity is the
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* It is a reference to Apple's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system) project] of the sa
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| title1 =Intro (It's Like A Kind Of Awe)
| title7 =Eva Adam (JJ's Cyberia Mix)
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Deus: The network. It's the Wired, Lain.
Mika: It's bad luck.
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|navi = [[Yasuo's NAVI]]
|location = [[Lain's House]], [[Shibuya]]
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...l''' is an important method of communication in [[the Wired]]. [[File:Lain's Pokat Mailer.png|thumb|The "Pokate Mailer" e-mail client on a HandiNAVI]]
...between Lain and [[Alice Mizuki|Alice]] is via email on their [[HandiNAVI]]s.
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A small machine that, when swallowed, causes a person's brain to operate 12 times faster. Used in [[Layer 02]] by a boy in [[Cyberi
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...12 people made a secret pact with an extraterrestrial under the President's direct orders.
...now that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman President Truman]'s signature was copied from another document.
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...uction art (i.e. layouts and storyboards), and information about the anime's production process. It also contains several original illustrations and sta
|Knights, Nezumi's POV, NetNews, Shou's flight simulator, NAVIoldtype, Typographics, from玲音toレイン, friends
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...akura]] has returned, much to her confusion and anger. In response to Mika's threat that she would call the police, Karl and Lin tell her that she had n
...Angered by their intrusion, Lain yells at them to "go away" and causes Lin's eyepiece to malfunction, wounding him as well. This causes both of the agen
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In [[Layer 12]], Eiri becomes infuriated by Lain's resistance and attempts to manifest himself physically, becoming an abomina
After Lain resets both The Wired and reality (it's unclear if they are in fact the same), he is seen grumbling on his way to w
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...a]], dropping her [[bike-chan|stuffed animal]]. When she responds to Alice's apologies, her voice is no longer adult-like, but youthful, as one might ex
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...to be linked with the incident in the same episode where [[Lain Iwakura]]'s face appears on a large screen. It is likely to be the work of the evil Lai
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...r of the anime series releases a countdown website that lasts 24 hours. It's an April Fools Joke for the 25th anniversary of Serial Experiments Lain. ([
:* '''11th''' - Launch of Yoshitoshi ABe's Patreon account. ([https://www.patreon.com/abfly source])
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Proto-4.jpg|Lain's fake severed head in the wire
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...but I'm really not capable of anything beyond the basics at the moment. It's fortunate that Ren'Py has been around for long enough for there to be guide
*Ideas should go on the relevant story's discussion page- the article is for agreed-upon plans and draft text for th
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...oshi Abe]], Takahiro Kishida, Hiroyuki Kakudou (who worked on [[Layer 09]]'s documentary film portion [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A7%92%E9%8A%85%E
*A Fan's View
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Lain: But, it's true.
Lain: Human can really exist only inside of other human's memory.
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Taro: It's a game.
Masayuki: Let's toss for it again.
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[[Lain Iwakura]]'s '''homeroom teacher''', is a minor character who appears in episode 1 and e
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...chbox originally came packaged with the 4 disc DVD collection, a cd of Bôa's "[[Duvet]]", as well as 4 limited edition stickers, one for each DVD.
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|navi = [[Children's NAVI]], [[Handheld NAVI]], [[Lain's NAVI]]
|location = [[Lain's House]], [[Shibuya]]
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The only people who noticed Lain's absence or had any impression of her left were [[Yasuo Iwakura]], her surro
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Q's are all done, A's coming soon, maybe.
...easonable to think that Kyouko may have harbored feelings for Tomo-kun. It's like they say; women value love more than friendship.
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The scene opens with the main character waking up. He is staring at the room's ceiling. There is the hum of a fan motor and the flowing air.
NAVI: Good morn- (The NAVI's greeting is interrupted.)
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...0 to October 30, 2023. The event was run in conjunction with NBC Universal's own "#lainTTL" event, which encouraged the posting of Lain-inspired fan wor
...ry, etc." for Lain as a video or audio file, submitted on a form on Anique's website. The users' spoken voice was "processed and mixed with the voices o
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|navi = [[Shoko's NAVI]]
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Later that day in [[Shibuya]], in response to Alice's questions, Lain further expounds that all the dead students had been hooked
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*Lain's classmates discuss receiving an email from Chisa
*Smoke comes from Lain's fingertips - a sign of hallucination
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| Young woman's voice
| [[S]]
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|navi = [[The Boss's NAVI]]
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--What's your name?
--There's a god of the Wired? You believe that?
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...s [[Taro]] what is fun about the game, he responds with "Nobody knows what's fun and why."
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*https://en.wasei.tokyo/layer-03 - Album's release page on Chikada Wasei's website
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...,'' '''metaphorize''' (メタファライズ) is to project a digital incarnation of one's personality into the Wired. Lain is highly admired in the Wired partly beca
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...in a random order that allow the player to piece together [[Lain Iwakura]]'s story.
...er psychiatrist Yonera Touko. The following is a rough summary of the game's events as related by Keisuke Shindo. [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lainpsx.txt
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...''Ergo Proxy.'' He also played the bassist of YEN TOWN BAND in Iwai Shunji's 1996 film, ''Swallowtail''.
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'''It's always been like this.'''
I can talk to people there. It's easy, hiding behind a screen. I don't get nervous. I can find people who ar
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| Lain's Friend / Lain's Friend 2 || Selece Zann || What character are they referring to? || <ref na
| Girl's voice || || || [[Layer 01 Credits]]
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In [[Chiaki J. Konaka|Konaka]]'s [[Scenario Experiments Lain]], a footnote says Hodgeson is named after [[Wi
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Each clip focused on a different part of Shimizu's body. The point was to liken parts of the body to computer hardware. This c
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...e same title by Japanese Dadaist poet Jun Tsuji. Though the title of Tsuji's poem comes from the word "despair" or "desperation", the official blog for
...ly unveiled in Japan yet, but he revealed that it will be set during Japan's Taishō era. On his personal blog the next day, ABe clarified that the titl
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*Lain sees the [[Men in Black]]'s car outside her home
...police are concerned because they cannot reach anyone by telephone at Lain's house. As the interrogation continues Alice watches from an outer room.</p>
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...rs in the [[Serial Experiments Lain (anime)|anime]]; it is dropped at Lain's feet by a young girl in [[Shibuya]].
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*Lain's new [[NAVI]] is set up
*Lain goes to Cyberia upon Alice's invitation
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...where the title is a run-on sentence! Well, that's not really true, but it's the only page whose title is a run-on sentence that doesn't suck! Although
13) If you visit your friend's house for the first time and everything is covered with blood, cords, and w
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*https://en.wasei.tokyo/layer-03 - Album's release page on Chikada Wasei's website
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...]], a website whose url appears on a pressure gauge on [[Lain Iwakura|Lain's]] computer. In the real world, it is the website that is arguably the centr
It was a hobby of Mebious users to attempt to track down the website's creator, who is known to be called monkiesnake. He is notoriously difficult
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*[[Lain Iwakura]]'s family talk about her recent behaviour
...rs and comments: "Lain is weird, I mean she's naturally weird, but.." "She's not weird," her father interjects. "What do you mean?" Mika asks. Amazingly
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...ng Mika" and "Adult Site"; "prayer" centers around "Enormous Lain"; "K.I.D.s" contains elements of "KIDS system" and "Beauties of nature"; and "INFANiTy
| title1 ="s"peEd
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*Conspicuous lack of Lain in her [[Lain's House|house]], although only [[Yasuo Iwakura]] notices
...ain's grasp. Her hand makes contact with Lain's face and draws blood. Lain's lip starts to quiver as she realizes how she again has hurt Alice. Lain thi
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|The book's contents page. Most of the data in this table is taken from this page. Exce
...w paragraphs by ABe, with a translation, talking about his concept of Lain's existence and how it was manifested in his creative process.
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(it's a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ZMOv7OtaI long clip] so start is at aro
...a game) has also been created so audiences can continue to understand Lain's world.
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The site's admin BloodBerry has scanned the first half of the [[Serial Experiments Lai
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*Lain goes [[Lain's House|home]] to find an empty house with wilted plants
*Lain's "father", [[Yasuo Iwakura]], gives her a final farewell
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...game]]. Other icons are apparently emails from [[Ueda Yasuyuki|Ueda]] (he's tired) and [[Yoshitoshi ABe|Abe]] (a reference to [[Weather Break]]).
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...station. The area code drama was the brainchild of Kenji Kasai (笠井一二, that's probably the wrong reading) of Antinos Records. (Antinos is the prefix 'ant
...he group, and if you're looking for a main character, she might be it. She's played by Yukiko Morikawa (森川友紀子), who had a fairly pronounced li
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...uki|Alice]], [[Juri Katou|Juri]] and [[Reika Yamamoto|Reika]] discuss Lain's social life and they go shopping together
*Lain's room explodes due to a bomb planted by the Knights
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...ika dressing in her school uniform and checking herself in a mirror. A boy'
s face comes up behind her. She is in his apartment. He asks "Shall we get a
<p style="text-align:justify">From the flashing screen of Lain'
s Navi, a voice is heard reading some news. "At various places in Tokyo, the
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*An alien walks into [[Lain Iwakura]]'s room
*Exposition about [[Masami Eiri]]'s [[Protocol 7]] involvement, dismissal and death
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Suicide is a common occurrence in [[Lain Iwakura]]'s world. The first suicide the viewer sees is the death of [[Chisa Yomoda]] b
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* Magic User's Club: Script (eps 2–6), novelization (1,2,5,6)
* Cthulhu's Strange Record
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...life] lainchan radio with songs similar to that of serial experiments lain's OST
...un by ain with various scans and unofficial translations of ABe and Konaka's works.
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* The code is completely open source and it's encouraged that users create their own instances of it to create a decentra
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...of the public facing pages result in 404 or 403 errors following the admin's decision to close the site on the basis of "moral dilemma" regarding operat
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...ere and now, it’s me isn’t it? This me that’s talking . . . who is me, who’s me?”''
...ional Japanese culture and the ‘modern’ industrialized West. Like Pandora's box, this collision gave birth to serious issues, issues that stem from the
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...xt probably won't contribute to your understanding of ''Lain'', because it's merely decorative or stylistic, having little to no relevance to the events
actively moves with the body or Drexler's smart paint.
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| Girl's voice
| [[S]]
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One popular feature of the software is it's ability to be heavily customized, allowing users to change the background i
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...is a collection of interactive processes.(Pinsky, 2003: 133) As individual's and their bodies cannot be absent from their historical and cultural narrat
...territorialization will be utilized to express the cyclical nature of Lain's existence and the wider system in which we all exist.
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...s the question can people survive in the virtual? In the film series, Lain's only true friend is her classmate that she interacts with mainly in the rea
...kind of façade as one does in the physical world? Also, wouldn't a person's awkward social habits and personality flaws still exist in the virtual real
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...[[KIDS]] project, which was designed as a result of [[Professor Hodgeson]]'s research.
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It sounds very WEIRD, but it's fact.
This is the only known Lain release that refers to each DVD's "lif." number without the proceeding zero - such as "lif. 1" rather than "l
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...er-obsessed father [[Yasuo Iwakura]]. The first ripple on the pond of Lain's lonely life appears when she learns that girls from her school have receive
...es such a system with the [[Schumann Resonances]], a property of the Earth's magnetic field that theoretically allows for unhindered long-distance commu
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S U S A N J . N A P I E R
However, it's not often that I have the chance to speak before such a
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|maincharintro = [[Alice's Teacher]]
...rested in killing other players so much?” Taro replies, “Nobody knows what's fun or why.” Digital Lain appears skeptical, “Hmmm..”</p>
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...is a paragon of many dimensions, and completely unrivaled in many more. It's a masterpiece of intellectuality, and utterly unparalleled in providing a m
...possibilities to many of the open-ended points in Serial Experiments Lain's plot and themes is without limit.
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A thread was made on 4chan's "/x/" (Paranormal) board about the Project where it was greeted with intere
...course, they, chief among them NYPHVR, "one of the 4-5 (I'm pretty sure it's 5) mods we've chosen", also had to refute certain arguments supporting the
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The rejected anthropology master's thesis of the author Kurt Vonnegut posited that all stories could be plotte
...y true. For that reason, the first few minutes of Layer 1 (depicting Chisa’s suicide) do not matter for our purposes, as Lain is not immediately reveale
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...ng of the real world with the virtual realm and the central character Lain's search for identity in this unstable environment. Lain struggle with the re
...through the virtual realm (the internet is called the “Wired” in the show's terminology), but this is eventually discredited as a way of creating authe
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*Various scenes asserting Lain's [[identity]]
*Half an episode's worth of flashbacks
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*[[Alice Mizuki]] shows concern about Lain's recent quietness
*The Boss questions Lain's knowledge of herself and her family
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*Let's all love Lain
*Alice visits [[Lain's House|Lain's house]] and confronts her about her memories
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** K.S.M.E (July, 2000)
* A total of 44 early (mid to late 90's) images by Abe: [http://www.taremeparadise.com/maindata/ab_cg1j.html] [http
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...fects from the series in AIF format, including the reading of each episode's title.
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...or their plot development. In screen cultures, we are shown the human body’s specific neurological and sensory structures, obsessions and desires, organ
...organic). The affect of compounding modalities of registration on the body’s sensory structures, and by implication, interaction/development of the worl
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