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| − | ==Related Websites==
| + | <!---------------------------ANYTHING RELATED TO SEL FRANCHISE (NOT FANWORK)------------------------------------> |
| − | ===English=== | + | <!----------------------------ONLY SHOW THE LAST 3 YEARS OF ANNOUNCEMENTS---------------------------------------> |
| − | * [https://systemspace.network/ The TSUKI Project] ([[The TSUKI Project|article]]) an arg website that has some references to serial experiments lain.
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| − | * [https://arisuchan.jp/ arisuchan] anonymous lain-themed cyberpunk imageboard with a dedicated /lain/ board, it has since been archived.
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| − | * [http://asphyxia.su/ asphyxia.su] Collection of every background image from mebious, going back over a year.
| + | ! colspan="2" style="font-size:120%; height:60px" | Serial Experiments Lain News [[Serial Experiments Lain (news)|[×]]] |
| − | * [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].
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| − | * [https://lainzine.org lainzine]: a lain-themed online magazine about hacking, art, culture, and related topics.
| + | | colspan="2" style="background-color:#656565; font-size:120%; height:20px" | '''2022''' |
| − | * [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Omnipresence] is full of information about SEL and includes episode transcripts, screencaps, a fanlisting and a very outdated list of links.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].
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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. It has been inactive since November 11, 2020.
| + | |<span style="font-size:115%">'''January'''</span> |
| − | * [https://mebious.neocities.org wired.entry.neocities] Fansite under constant occasional development.
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| − | * [https://lainchan.org/lain/ lainchan] Anonymous lain-themed imageboard that mainly focuses on programing, technology, and other things. It has a lain board that isn't as active and mainly uses the lain name to attract people interested in technology and coding.
| + | |<span style="color:#e69710">•</span> '''9th''' - Wasei "JJ" Chikada announced he will release his next record "Cyberia Layer_4" around April, 2022. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZadhSs5HTk source]) |
| − | * [https://wirechan.org/ wirechan] Anonymous lain-themed imageboard centered around technology, with its own mebious instance.
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| − | * [https://initiate.space/ initiate.space] Spiritual successor to systemspace. Themed around Lain, has an anonymous imageboard and discord server.
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| − | * [https://discord.com/invite/JGnEyhD6ah lainland] the biggest lain discord server.
| + | | colspan="2" style="background-color:#656565; font-size:120%; height:20px" | '''2021''' |
| − | * [http://www.konaka.com/alice6/indexe.html konaka.com] the english version of a site made by [[Chiaki Konaka|Chiaki J. Konaka]]. It has interview, info, links, and images about the show. You could also download the font used in the anime.
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| − | | + | |<span style="font-size:115%">'''November'''</span> |
| − | ===Japanese=== | + | |- |
| − | *[http://www.konaka.com/alice6/lain/ konaka.com], a site by 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.
| + | |<span style="color:#e69710">•</span> '''11th''' - Launch of Yoshitoshi ABe's Patreon account. ([https://www.patreon.com/abfly source]) |
| − | *[http://www.geocities.jp/zatugakubeya/lain/index.html Deep Researches Lain] has a glossary of terms from the anime and a quiz game.
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| − | *[http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/grifonsgarden/garenwarehouse.htm Grifon's Garden] has pictures and descriptions of at least 6 homemade Lain figurines.
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| − | *[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.
| + | |<span style="font-size:115%">'''March'''</span> |
| − | *[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.)
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| − | | + | |<span style="color:#e69710">•</span> '''29th''' - Released of the fan project lainTSX recreating Serial Experiments Lain PS1 game in English and playable on web browser ([https://www.otaquest.com/serial-experiments-lain-ps1-game-english/ source]) |
| − | ===Russian=== | + | ---- |
| − | *[http://boards.haruhiism.net/abe/ Old Home], an image board that is primarily for discussions related to [[Yoshitoshi ABe| ABe]].
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| − | *[http://lain.ru/index.php lain.ru]
| + | |<span style="font-size:115%">'''February'''</span> |
| − | *[https://lain.in.net/ lain.in] russian speaking, lain themed forum
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| − | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20010405072957/http://lain.narod.ru/ lain.narod] old website with lots of lain related information.
| + | |<span style="color:#e69710">•</span> '''24th''' - Wasei “JJ” Chikada launches his weekly music streaming show Club Cyberia Wired. Every Wednesday at 10 p.m. JST. ([https://www.otaquest.com/club-cyberia-wired-wasei-jj-chikada/ source]) |
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| − | ===French=== | + | |- style="text-align:center;" |
| − | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20051027100229/http://serialain.ifrance.com/ serialain.ifrance.com], a site that stores a lot of lain related, info and images.
| + | | colspan="2" style="background-color:#656565; font-size:120%; height:20px" | '''2020''' |
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| − | ===Spanish===
| + | |<span style="font-size:115%">'''June'''</span> |
| − | *[https://wired-7.org wired-7] Spanish speaking, lain themed imageboard.
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| − | *[https://disboard.org/server/779888683967971359 LaiÑ] Spanish speaking, lain discord server.
| + | |<span style="color:#e69710">•</span> '''20th''' - Release of the remix album Cyberia Layer:03 "After Hours" ([https://en.wasei.tokyo/ source]) |
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| − | ===Korean=== | + | |- style="text-align:center;" |
| − | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20051018025112/http://www.lain.pe.ky/ lain.pe.ky] Korean speaking, lain themed imageboard
| + | | colspan="2" style="background-color:#656565; font-size:120%; height:20px" | '''2019''' |
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| − | ===Polish=== | + | |<span style="font-size:110%">'''November'''</span> |
| − | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070108042514/http://experimentslain.ovh.org/index2.php experimentslain.ovh] Fansite, with fanart, cyberpunk, and other lain related info.
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| − | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081023233154/http://lain.klub.mylog.pl/ lain.klub] Polish speaking, lain themed imagedboard
| + | |<span style="color:#e69710">•</span> '''23rd''' - Release of the concept album Cyberia Layer:03 by Wasei “JJ” Chikada with new art by Yoshitoshi ABe ([https://en.wasei.tokyo/layer-03 source]) |
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| − | ==Past Related Websites== | + | |- |
| − | * [[Thewired.info]]
| + | |<span style="font-size:110%">'''July'''</span> |
| − | * [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.
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| − | * [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.
| + | |<span style="color:#e69710">•</span> '''13th''' - Residents of Japan have the express permission to create derivative works of Serial Experiments Lain for non-commercial purpose until July 2028 as part of an "Open Source Project." ([https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-07-13/serial-experiment-lain-goes-open-source-in-japan-until-2028/.148812 source]) |
| − | *[http://hr.deadgods.net/hr/index/ Wakachan's ABe board], R.I.P.
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| − | * [http://cerealexperiments.com cerealexperiments.com] Website that had an imageboard that was barely Lain-related.
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| − | *[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.
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| − | *[http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/9755/ serial experiments lain - Unnoficial Homepage in the Wired]
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| − | * [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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| − | * [https://mebio.us Mebio.us] ([[Mebious.us|article]]) was another clone of the original .co.uk site, created after the closure of Mobi.
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| − | * [[VisualWired]]
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| − | * [https://systemspace.link/ systemspace.link] Religion lightly themed around SEL. Has an anonymous imageboard named TSUKICHAN and a Rocket.Chat server.
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| − | ==Essays== | |
| − | * [[VKK 320: Decoding Virtual Culture in the Media - a case-study of Serial Experiments Lain]]
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| − | * [[Serial Experiments: Lain as a Reflection of Modern Japanese Anxieties in the Digital Era]]
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| − | * [[The role of technology in modern society according to Serial Experiments: Lain]]
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| − | * [[The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation]]
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| − | * [[The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: Questioning the Post-Christian Bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George]]
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| − | * [[Give some examples of cybernetic systems at play in specific visual texts. What metaphors of the body in contemporary society do they suggest? And to what commodity end are they marketed?]]
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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.]]
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| − | * [[The Real Verses the Virtual]] [sic]
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| − | * [[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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| − | ==Scholarly articles and books==
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| − | *"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]
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| − | *"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]
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| − | *"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]
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| − | *"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]
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| − | *"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]
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| − | *''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== | |
| − | * [https://laingame.net/ Lain Game] contains files from the Serial Experiments Lain [[Game|PSX game]], extracted using jPSXdec. It also includes a playable web-version of the game, created by many of the [https://initiate.space/ initiate.space] members.
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| − | * [[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==
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| − | * [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==
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| − | ===English===
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| − | * [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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| − | "Lain's watch stopped..."
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| − | * [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6974007/1/The_Gods_Themselves The Gods Themselves], an odd crossover between SEL and Puella Magi Madoka Magica in which Lain and Madokami are indistinguishable and [[Alice]] discusses [[God]] with Homura.
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| − | ""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.) | |
| − | ===Japanese===
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| − | *[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]].
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| − | * [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''.
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| − | *[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==
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| − | *[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.
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| − | *[http://3x6x.com/discography.html SUBHUMAN], serial experiments lain image album
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