Visual Experiments Lain

Visual Experiments Lain is a Serial Experiments Lain anime artbook. It mostly includes screencaps, concept art, some illustrations and information in Japanese. The layout is highly experimental.

It was originally published in 1999. There was a reissue in 2013. Whether the contents were altered or not in the 2013 version is unconfirmed.

Contents

Taken verbatim from the front flap of the book jacket, except for the description field.

Page No.	Contents	Description
01	What is " lain " ....?	Various staff members' comments on what Lain means to them.
04	story & data	Credits and synopses for each episode.
image of each layer & the making of the layers
08	layer:01 WEIRD	wire, life, layout, NAVI series, weird, profile
12	layer:02 GIRLS	Accela, cyberia, handyNAVI, bear-wear, horror, GIRLS
16	layer:03 PSYCHE	Psyche, home, friends, newNAVI, men in black, KIDS
20	layer:04 RELIGION	hardware, PHANTOMa, boy meets girl, friends, family, design
24	layer:05 DISTORTION	SHIBUYA, direction, memory, profile
30	layer:06 KIDS	KIDS, inner side of WIRED, kids, friend, sound effect, design
34	layer:07 SOCIETY	Knights, Nezumi's POV, NetNews, Shou's flight simulator, NAVIoldtype, Typographics, from玲音toレイン, friends, design
40	layer:08 RUMORS	eye, school, HandyNAVI interface, Tarou's 3D game, layout, lain duplication, Alice with T., adult sight on wired, 玲音、レイン、lain
44	layer:09 PROTOCOL	history of network, expanding NAVI, broken girl, family, kiss,　レイン of the Wired, design of creature
48	layer:10 LOVE	deus, virtual window, guruguru lain, "wind," love, world without her, design
54	layer:11 INFORNOGRAPHY	lain?, inforno, Typographic, chisa, Alice's NAVI, image, design
58	layer:12 LANDSCAPE	alice and lain, friends, layout & conte, home, men in black, "let's all love lain," TARO, Gun type NAVI, expanding machine
64	layer:13 EGO
68	device# (kaori shimizu)	opening, Eiri's fall, All RESET, life without lain, dining table, after story, "れいん", pedestrian bridge, "lain"
interviews
02	What is "lain"? (chiaki j. konaka / ueda yasuyuki)
24	digital effects & "NAVI" system (junji nakahara & tomokazu tokoro)
72	opening & ending themes (boa / CHABO)
74	sound direction,effects, & design (youta tsurouka, kouji kasamatsu, & akira takemoto)
76	film direction & design (ryutaro nakamura & takahiro kishida)
special image graphics (original illustration/CG)
cover 01 02,03 62-63	takahiro kishida
38-39	ueda yasuyuki
52-53	hidenori matsuhara
78-79	ryutaro nakamura (text: chiaki j. konaka)

Staff

Producer: Acura Honda

Editors/Writers: Acura Honda, Shunsuke Kishi, Motohisa Tanaka, Kaori Yamamoto

Translator: Akiko Matsumoto

Proof Readers: Cathy Fisherman, Scott Shifrel

Photographer: Hisashi Maruyama

Hair and Makeup: Tomoko Ebisawa

Photo & CG works (cover pages of layer): Makoto Abe

Art director/designer: Atsushi Doi

designers: Mayumi Matsukura, Yuji Satoh

Serial Experiments Lain Media [ × ]

Anime • Game

Books

Omnipresence in Wired • The Nightmare of Fabrication • Serial Experiments Lain Official Guide • Serial Experiments Lain Ultimate Fan Guide • Scenario Experiments Lain • Visual Experiments Lain

Music

OP Duvet • ED Tooi Sakebi • Serial Experiments Lain OST • Serial Experiments Lain: Cyberia Mix • serial experiments lain BOOTLEG • LPR-309 • Cyberia Layer 2 • Cyberia Layer:03 • Twilight (Bôa album)