Serial Experiments Lain pushes the envelope of what the perceived notion of what can be done with television as a medium. Serial Experiments Lain falls in the latter category and for this reason Serial Experiments Lain stands out as a true classic. There are anime that simply entertain for the sake of enjoyment, and there are anime that stretches the boundary of human imagination. Above all, there are two standards I hold true for anime. Introduction: I find myself typing this review thinking more about the conceptualization of existence, than the anime itself. Review for Serial Experiments Lain by John Kim In closing one world and opening another, only Lain will realize the significance of their presence. Konaka, whose other works include Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain is a psychological avant-garde mystery series that follows Lain as she makes crucial choices that will affect both the real world and the Wired. With the boundaries between reality and cyberspace rapidly blurring, Lain is plunged into more surreal and bizarre events where identity, consciousness, and perception are concepts that take on new meanings. Strange men called the Men in Black begin to appear wherever she goes, asking her questions and somehow knowing more about her than even she herself knows. Lain's life is turned upside down as she begins to encounter cryptic mysteries one after another. Lain has neither the desire nor the experience to handle even basic technology yet, when the technophobe opens the email, it leads her straight into the Wired, a virtual world of communication networks similar to what we know as the internet. Reading this is unlikely to add much to your understanding of SEL but it may be interesting nonetheless.Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda-the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide. 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: 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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