Words like "weird" or "bizarre" are almost systematically associated to review the series by English Language reviews due mostly to the freedoms taken with the animation and its unusual science fiction, philosophical and psychological context.
In 2009, Yoshitoshi ABe announced a spiritual sequel to Serial Experiments Lain called Despera who will reunited many of the staff who worked on Serial Experiments Lain, including Chiaki J Konaka and Ryūtarō Nakamura. Ueda and Konaka declared in an interview that the idea of a multimedia project was not unusual in Japan, as opposed to the contents of Lain, and the way they are exposed. A dōjinshi titled "The Nightmare of Fabrication" was produced by Yoshitoshi ABe and released in Japanese in the artbook Omnipresence in the Wired. The scenario for the video game was written first, and the video game was produced at the same time as the anime series, though the series was released first. Producer Yasuyuki Ueda said in an interview, "the approach I took for this project was to communicate the essence of the work by the total sum of many media products". The Lain franchise was originally conceived to connect across forms of media (anime, video games, manga). Later, when he discovered that the American audience held the same views on the series as the Japanese, he was disappointed. This would lead to a "war of ideas" over the meaning of the anime, hopefully culminating in new communication between the two cultures. He explained he created Lain with a set of values he took as distinctly Japanese he hoped Americans would not understand the series as the Japanese would. Reading this is unlikely to add much to your understanding of SEL but it may be interesting nonetheless.Serial Experiments Lain was conceived, as a series, to be original to the point of it being considered "an enormous risk" by its producer Yasuyuki Ueda. However, it does contain a few typos as well as some more substantial errors and omissions related to the show, as well a a couple speculative musings written in inappropriately concrete terms. Overall, most of the book's information is pretty solid. A commenter on the internet asserts that many included illustrations are lower-quality versions of art available elsewhere. I do not know if any of the art is unique to this book, or if it is all available in the SEL artbooks. The final section contains a series of scans of character art and drawings for the show. This RPG related information seems to be the real purpose of the book. In the next section, a guide is given to integrating characters and plot elements from Serial Experiments Lain into BESM, a table-top RPG with which I am not familiar. After that, a more speculative section describes and analyzes the characters, organizations, and setting of SEL.
No new information is presented, but it could be a reasonable reference if you didn't get what happened in an episode. The first and longest part of the book summarizes each of the show's episodes. Some information about the book: The book is officially licensed, but not made in any collaboration with the show's creators as far as I can tell. (dot) com/bfC3L9vbw1/Serial_Experiments_Lain_Ultimate_Fan_Guide_-_Bruce_Baugh_Lucian_Soulban_pdf I also downloaded the images and compiled them into a pdf, linked here: After reading that thread I searched for scans of the book, and I was able to find this album containing all the pages as well as the front and back covers on vk (dot) com:
#LAIN SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN FULL#
In another thread, commenters discuss the Serial Experiments Lain Ultimate Fan Guide, an english informational book published about the series, though they don't seem to find a full copy online.
Note: my first post was seemingly auto-deleted so i have reposted it with links slightly scrambled in an effort to defeat any automatic reddit censors.
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