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→yoshitoshi ABe lain illustrations: ab# rebuild an omnipresence in wired (2006): clean up, typos fixed: etc → etc.
'''An Omnipresence in Wired''' is the [[Serial Experiments Lain]] artbook that was released only in Japan in 1999. A heavily modified version, ab# rebuild, was released in 2006 in both Japan and the United States.
'''An Omnipresence in Wired''' is the [[Serial Experiments Lain]] artbook that was released only in Japan in 1999. A heavily modified version, ab# rebuild, was released in 2006 in both Japan and the United States.
It contains illustrations by [[Yoshitoshi Abe]], some of which feature text by [[Chiaki Konaka]]. The manga [[The Nightmare of Fabrication]] is included.
It contains illustrations by [[Yoshitoshi ABe|Yoshitoshi Abe]], some of which feature text by [[Chiaki J. Konaka]]. The manga [[The Nightmare of Fabrication]] is included.
Note that any of the following information regarding the 2006 version is obtained from the hardcover English edition by Digital Manga Publishing. If you have the softcover edition, or the Japanese edition from Wani Magazine, please feel free to edit this page with information on them.
Note that any of the following information regarding the 2006 version is obtained from the hardcover English edition by Digital Manga Publishing. If you have the softcover edition, or the Japanese edition from Wani Magazine, please feel free to edit this page with information on them.
''Under construction lol''
''Under construction lol''
===an omnipresence in wired (1999)===
===an omnipresence in wired (1999)===
[[File:Omnipresence in wired.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The cover of the first edition as it appears with the plastic slip cover. The slip cover is transparent and marked with the title and white shading. The cover itself has only the picture of lain.]]
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! style="text-align:left;"| Page No.
! style="text-align:left;"| Page No.
|001
|001
|style="text-align:center;"|Title page
|style="text-align:center;"|Title page
|The title of the book with a bunch of identical pictures of lain, except withdifferent photoshop effects added to them.
|The title of the book with a bunch of identical pictures of lain, except with different photoshop effects added to them.
|-
|-
|002
|002
|004
|004
|style="text-align:center;"|the original layers
|style="text-align:center;"|the original layers
|Illustrations that originally appeared in Sony Magazines' AX magazine in 1998. Some of them are overlaid with Japanese text by Konaka, most of which is translated to English.
|See [[Layers (illustrations)]] for more info.
|-
|-
|046
|046
|}
|}
===yoshitoshi ABe lain illustrations: an omnipresence in wired (2006)===
===yoshitoshi ABe lain illustrations: ab# rebuild an omnipresence in wired (2006)===
[[File:Serial_Experiments_Lain_Illustrations.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The 2006 edition has a cardboard slip cover (pictured). The actual cover is dark blue and unadorned except for the title and the words "Hello NAVI."]]
''Note: The pages are not numbered, so this might not be very useful. This book doesn't even have a contents page.''
''Note: The pages are not numbered, so this might not be very useful. This book doesn't even have a contents page.''
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! style="text-align:left;"| Page No.
! style="text-align:left;"| Page No.
|A picture of Lain on a semitransparent piece of paper.
|A picture of Lain on a semitransparent piece of paper.
|-
|-
|005
|01 touch of illustration
|Various illustrations paired with their rough sketches, pre-effects images from a few of the layers with their coloring altered
|-
|040
|02 comic
|the nightmare of fabrication (DC1029) (translated of course)
|-
|063
|03package illustration : DVD+LD+CD
|
|-
|076
|04 others : game+poster+etc.
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|
|-
|091
|05 layer
|The aforementioned layer illustrations.
|-
|122
|06 pencil drawing + step by step
|Corresponds with monochrome sketch in original book.
|-
|141
|07 personal
|Color photos by Abe, and a "short history" of Abe beginning in 1993
|-
|149
|Liner notes
|corresponds with "about all the illustrations" in the original book. Has the page number of the illustrations being described, but if you count the pages you'll always end up a few pages off.
|-
|colspan="3"|This book has a total of 153 pages.
|colspan="3"|This book has a total of 153 pages.
|}
|}
==Differences between the two editions==
==Differences between the two editions==
=== What Rebuild has that the original does not have ===
*Two new illustrations and their rough sketches
**Lain under an overpass
**Cover illustration
*Pre-effects images of some of the Layers
*Step-by-step for the Layer 02: Girls illustration
=== What the original has that Rebuild does not have ===
=== What the original has that Rebuild does not have ===
*[[Chibi Chibi Lain]]
*[[Chibi Chibi Lain]]
*some more stuff
*[[Looker illustrations]]
*Gekikare! A Sales Promo Ad By Dame-Dame Lain (comic originally from a doujinshi called ''Tareme Paradise 5'')
*Many of the rough, conceptual sketches in the monochrome sketch section
===Other miscellaneous differences===
'''Layer text''': In ''Rebuild'', the text of the Layer illustrations were re-translated and of course the English was re-typeset, sometimes in completely different positions. A typesetting error was introduced in Layer 11. In some of the illustrations the Japanese text was also re-typeset, and in some cases completely removed. The Rebuild translation is perhaps better than the original's in general, but the typesetting looks better in the original as it's styled to blend with the image. In Layer 09, the patch of code floating to the right of lain was replaced with different code. Excepting the Layer images, there is no Japanese text to be found anywhere in the English version of ''Rebuild''.
'''Pencil Sketches''': As stated above, there are many rough sketches in the original ''Omnipresence'' that don't appear in ''Rebuild''. However, those sketches that do appear in ''Rebuild'' are generally much larger, showing more detail.
===Conclusion===
Each has images the other doesn't have. They're both nice and you should get them both.
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