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Lain Iwakura (岩倉 玲音 ) is the titular character of Serial Experiments Lain. They are a sentient computer program designed to sever the barrier between the material world and the wired, introduced as a shy Japanese student in middle school at the beginning of the series.Lain have a equivalence to. Both Wasei and Akira created an incredible soundtrack, capturing the esence of the Cyberia club from the ’Serial Experiments Lain’ anime. The tracks are danceable and the music style can go from Deep House tunes to Psychedelic Trance. Also, including the remix of Duvet was a plus, since we (anime lovers) know this song, even if some have never. Serial Experiments Lain, an Album by Nakaido ’Chabo’ Reichi. Released 26 August 1998 (catalog no. Genres: Television Music, Ambient. Serial Experiments Lain is an anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda (credited as production 2nd) for Triangle Staff. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998.
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Serial Experiments Lain (シリアルエクスペリメンツレインShiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein) is a science fictionanime series directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura, with character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. The series explores themes such as reality, identity and communication,[2] and it explores them through philosophy, computer history, cyberpunk literature and conspiracy theory.
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*6Related mediaPlot[edit]
The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescentmiddle school girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network which is similar to the Internet. Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her emotionally distant mother, and her computer-obsessed father; while Lain herself is somewhat awkward, introverted, and socially isolated from most of her school peers. But the status-quo of her life becomes upturned by a series of bizarre incidents that start to take place after she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from a dead student, Chisa Yomoda, and she pulls out her old computer in order to check for the same message. Lain finds Chisa telling her that she is not dead, but has merely ’abandoned her physical body and flesh’ and is alive deep within the virtual reality-world of the Wired itself, where she has found the almighty and divine ’God’. From this point, Lain is caught up in a series of cryptic and surreal events that see her delving deeper into the mystery of the network in a narrative that explores themes of consciousness, perception, and the nature of reality.
The ’Wired’ is a virtual reality-world that contains and supports the very sum of all human communication and networks, created with the telegraph, televisions, and telephone services, and expanded with the Internet, cyberspace, and subsequent networks. The series assumes that the Wired could be linked to a system that enables unconscious communication between people and machines without physical interface. The storyline introduces such a system with the Schumann resonances, a property of the Earth’s magnetic field that theoretically allows for unhindered long distance communications. If such a link were created, the network would become equivalent to Reality as the general consensus of all perceptions and knowledge. The increasingly thin invisible line between what is real and what is virtual/digital begins to slowly shatter.
Masami Eiri is introduced as the project director on Protocol Seven (the next-generation Internet protocol in the series’ time-frame) for major computer company Tachibana General Laboratories. He had secretly included code of his very own creation to give himself absolute control of the Wired through the wireless system described above. He then ’uploaded’ his own brain, conscience, consciousness, memory, feelings, emotions – his very self – into the Wired and ’died’ a few days after, leaving only his physical, living body behind. These details are unveiled around the middle of the series, but this is the point where the story of Serial Experiments Lain begins. Masami later explains that Lain is the artifact by which the wall between the virtual and material worlds is to fall, and that he needs her to get to the Wired and ’abandon the flesh’, as he did, to achieve his plan. The series sees him trying to convince her through interventions, using the promise of unconditional love, romantic seduction and charm, and even, when all else fails, threats and force.
In the meantime, the anime follows a complex game of hide-and-seek between the ’Knights of the Eastern Calculus’, hackers whom Masami claims are ’believers that enable him to be a God in the Wired’, and Tachibana General Laboratories, who try to regain control of Protocol Seven. In the end, the viewer sees Lain realizing, after much introspection, that she has absolute control over everyone’s mind and over reality itself. Her dialogue with different versions of herself shows how she feels shunned from the material world, and how she is afraid to live in the Wired, where she has the possibilities and responsibilities of an almighty goddess. The last scenes feature her erasing everything connected to herself from everyone’s memories. She is last seen, unchanged, encountering her oldest and closest friend Alice once again, who is now married. Lain promises herself that she and Alice will surely meet again anytime as Lain can literally go and be anywhere she desires between both worlds.Characters[edit]Lain Iwakura (岩倉 玲音Iwakura Rein)Voiced by: Kaori Shimizu (Japanese); Bridget Hoffman (English)The titular character of the series. Lain is a fourteen-year-old girl who uncovers her true nature through the series. She is first depicted as a shy junior high school student with few friends or interests. She later grows multiple bolder personalities, both in the physical world and the Wired, and starts making more friends. As the series progresses, she eventually comes to discover that she is, in reality, merely an autonomous, sentientcomputer program in the physical and corporeal form of a human being, designed to sever the invisible barrier between the Wired and the real world. In the end, Lain is challenged to accept herself as a de factogoddess for the Wired, having become an omnipotent and omnipresent virtual being with worshippers of her own, as well as an ability to exist beyond the borders of devices, time, or space.Masami Eiri (英利 政美Eiri Masami)Voiced by: Shō Hayami (Japanese); Kirk Thornton (English)The key designer of Protocol Seven. While working for Tachibana General Laboratories, he illicitly included codes enabling him to control the whole protocol at will and embedded his own mind and will into the seventh protocol. Because of this, he was fired by Tachibana General Laboratories, and was found dead not long after. He believes that the only way for humans to evolve even further and develop even greater abilities is to absolve themselves of their physical and human limitations, and to live as virtual entities—or avatars—in the Wired for eternity. He claims to have been Lain’s creator all along, but was in truth standing in for another, who was waiting for the Wired to reach its more evolved current state.Yasuo Iwakura (岩倉 康男Iwakura Yasuo)Voiced by: Ryūsuke Ōbayashi (Japanese); Barry Stigler (English)Lain’s father. Passionate about computers and electronic communication, he works with Masami Eiri at Tachibana General Laboratories. He subtly pushes Lain, his ’youngest daughter’, towards the Wired and monitors her development until she becomes more and more aware of herself and of her raison d’être. He eventually leaves Lain, telling her that although he did not enjoy playing house, he genuinely loved and cared for her as a real father would. Despite Yasuo’s eagerness to lure Lain into the Wired, he warns her not to get overly involved in it or to confuse it with the real world.Miho Iwakura (岩倉 ミホIwakura Miho)Voiced by: Rei Igarashi (Japanese); Petrea Burchard (English)Lain’s mother. Although she dotes on Mika, she is indifferent towards Lain. Like her husband, she ends up leaving Lain.Alice Mizuki (瑞城 ありすMizuki Arisu)Voiced by: Yōko Asada (Japanese); Emilie Brown (English)Lain’s classmate and only true friend throughout the series. She is very sincere and has no discernable quirks. She is the first to attempt to help Lain socialize; she takes her out to a nightclub. From then on, she tries her best to look after Lain. Alice, along with her two best friends Julie and Reika, were taken by Chiaki Konaka from his previous work, Alice in Cyberland.Mika Iwakura (岩倉 美香Iwakura Mika)Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese); Patricia Ja Lee (English)Lain’s older sister, an apathetic sixteen-year-old high school student. She seems to enjoy mocking Lain’s behavior and interests. Mika is considered by Anime Revolution to be the only normal member of Lain’s family:[3] she sees her boyfriend in love hotels, is on a diet, and shops in Shibuya. At a certain point in the series, she becomes heavily traumatized by violent hallucinations; while Lain begins freely delving into the Wired, Mika is taken there by her proximity to Lain, and she gets stuck between the real world and the Wired.[4]Taro (タロウTarō)Voiced by: Keito Takimoto (Japanese); Brianne Siddall (English)A young boy of about Lain’s age. He occasionally works for the Knights to bring forth ’the one truth’. Despite this, he has not yet been made a member, and knows nothing of their true intentions. Taro loves VR games and hangs out all day at Cyberia with his friends, Myu-Myu and Masayuki. He uses special technology, such as custom Handi Navi and video goggles. Taro takes pride in his internet anonymity, and he asks Lain for a date with her Wired self in exchange for information.Office WorkerVoiced by: Shigeru Chiba (Japanese); Richard Plantagenet (English)A top executive from Tachibana General Laboratories. He has a personal agenda, which he carries out with the help of the Men in Black. He looks forward to the arrival of a real God through the Wired, and is the man behind the Knights’ mass assassination. There are many things he doesn’t know about Lain, but he’d rather ask questions about her than disclose his agenda.Men in BlackKarl Haushoffer (カール・ハウスホッファKāru Hausuhoffa), Voiced by: Takumi Yamazaki (Japanese); Jamieson Price (English)Lin Suixi (Chinese: 林随錫; pinyin: Lín Suíxī), Voiced by: Jouji Nakata (Japanese); Bob Buchholz (English)The Men in Black work for the above ’Office Worker’ in tracking down and murdering all of the members of the Knights. They are not told the true plan, but they know that Masami Eiri is somehow involved, despite having been ’killed.’ They see no need for an almighty, all-powerful God—let alone Lain—in the Wired.Chisa Yomoda (ヨモダ チサYomoda Chisa)Voiced by: Sumi Mutoh (Japanese); Lia Sargent (English)A teenage girl who committed suicide at the beginning of the series. After her death, she e-mails Lain, Julie, and a few other kids, saying that she’s still alive in the Wired.Reika Yamamoto (山本 レイカYamamoto Reika)Voiced by: Chiharu Tezuka (Japanese); Lenore Zann (English)One of Alice’s friends from school. She doesn’t seem to care for Lain, since she harasses her quite a lot. She’s more serious than Julie, and also somewhat meaner.Julie Kato (加藤 ジュリーKatō Juri)Voiced by: Manabi Mizuno (Japanese); Alexis A. Edwards (English)Another friend of Alice. She also harasses Lain, but not as severely as Reika does. She is sometimes insensitive to other people’s feelings.Masayuki (マサユキ)Voiced by: Sora FujimaTaro’s best friend. He is usually seen hanging out with Taro and Myu-Myu.Serial Experiments Lain EpisodesMyu-Myu (ミューミュウMyūmyuu)Voiced by: Yuki Yamamoto (Japanese); Sandy Fox (English)A young girl who hangs out with Taro and Masayuki at Cyberia Café. She has feelings for Taro, so she gets jealous when he flirts with Lain.NarratorVoiced by: Takashi Taniguchi (Japanese); George C. Cole (English)Production[edit]
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.[5]
Producer Ueda had to answer repeated queries about a statement made in an Animerica interview.[4][6][7] The controversial statement said Lain was ’a sort of cultural war against American culture and the American sense of values we [Japan] adopted after World War II’.[8] He later explained in numerous interviews that 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. This would lead to a ’war of ideas’ over the meaning of the anime, hopefully culminating in new communication between the two cultures. When he discovered that the American audience held the same views on the series as the Japanese, he was disappointed.[7]
The Lain franchise was originally conceived to connect across forms of media (anime, video games, manga). 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 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. A dōjinshi titled ’The Nightmare of Fabrication’ was produced by Yoshitoshi ABe and released in Japanese in the artbook Omnipresence in the Wired. 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.[9]Writing[edit]
The authors were asked in interviews if they had been influenced by Neon Genesis Evangelion, in the themes and graphic design. This was strictly denied by writer Chiaki J. Konaka in an interview, arguing that he had not seen Evangelion until he finished the fourth episode of Lain. Being primarily a horror movies writer, his stated influences are Godard (especially for using typography on screen), The Exorcist, Hell House, and Dan Curtis’s House of Dark Shadows. Alice’s name, like the names of her two friends Julie and Reika, came from a previous production from Konaka, Alice in Cyberland, which in turn was largely influenced by Alice in Wonderland. As the series developed, Konaka was ’surprised’ by how close Alice’s character became to the original Wonderland character.[10]Lain’s custom computer features holographic displays and liquid carbon dioxide cooling.
Vannevar Bush (and memex), John C. Lilly, Timothy Leary and his eight-circuit model of consciousness, Ted Nelson and Project Xanadu are cited as precursors to the Wired.[9]Douglas Rushkoff and his book Cyberia were originally to be cited as such,[4] and in Lain Cyberia became the name of a nightclub populated with hackers and techno-punk teenagers. Likewise, the series’ deus ex machina lies in the conjunction of the Schumann resonances and Jung’s collective unconscious (the authors chose this term over Kabbalah and Akashic Record).[8]Majestic 12 and the Roswell UFO incident are used as examples of how a hoax might still affect history, even after having been exposed as such, by creating sub-cultures.[8] This links again to Vannevar Bush, the alleged ’brains’ of MJ12. Two of the literary references in Lain are quoted through Lain’s father: he first logs onto a website with the password ’Think Bule Count One Tow’ (’Think Blue, Count Two’ is an Instrumentality of Man story featuring virtual persons projected as real ones in people’s minds);[11] and his saying that ’madeleines would be good with the tea’ in the last episode makes Lain ’perhaps the only cartoon to allude to Proust’.[12][13]Character design[edit]ABe came up with Lain’s hair by imagining Lain cutting it herself and making a ponytail of what was left.[6] This was later included in his Omnipresence in the Wired artbook.[14]
Yoshitoshi ABe confesses to have never read manga as a child, as it was ’off-limits’ in his household.[15] His major influences are ’nature and everything around him’.[4] Specifically speaking about Lain’s character, ABe was inspired by Kenji Tsuruta, Akihiro Yamada, Range Murata and Yukinobu Hoshino.[6] In a broader view, he has been influenced in his style and technique by Japanese artists Chinai-san and Tabuchi-san.[4]
The character design of Lain was not ABe’s sole responsibility. Her distinctive left forelock for instance was a demand from Yasuyuki Ueda. The goal was to produce asymmetry to reflect Lain’s unstable and disconcerting nature.[16] It was designed as a mystical symbol, as it is supposed to prevent voices and spirits from being heard by the left ear.[6] The bear pajamas she wears were a demand from character animation director Takahiro Kishida. Though bears are a trademark of the Konaka brothers, Chiaki Konaka first opposed the idea.[10] Director Nakamura then explained how the bear motif could be used as a shield for confrontations with her family. It is a key element of the design of the shy ’real world’ Lain (see ’mental illness’ under Themes).[10] When she first goes to the Cyberia nightclub, she wears a bear hat for similar reasons.[16] The pajamas were finally considered as possible fan-service by Konaka, in the way they enhance Lain’s nymph aspect.[10]
ABe’s original design was generally more complicated than what finally appeared on screen. As an example, the X-shaped hairclip was to be an interlocking pattern of gold links. The links would open with a snap, or rotate around an axis until the moment the ’ X ’ became a ’ = ’. This was not used as there is no scene where Lain takes her hairclip off.[17]Themes[edit]
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Lain Iwakura (岩倉 玲音 ) is the titular character of Serial Experiments Lain. They are a sentient computer program designed to sever the barrier between the material world and the wired, introduced as a shy Japanese student in middle school at the beginning of the series.Lain have a equivalence to. Both Wasei and Akira created an incredible soundtrack, capturing the esence of the Cyberia club from the ’Serial Experiments Lain’ anime. The tracks are danceable and the music style can go from Deep House tunes to Psychedelic Trance. Also, including the remix of Duvet was a plus, since we (anime lovers) know this song, even if some have never. Serial Experiments Lain, an Album by Nakaido ’Chabo’ Reichi. Released 26 August 1998 (catalog no. Genres: Television Music, Ambient. Serial Experiments Lain is an anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda (credited as production 2nd) for Triangle Staff. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998.
Download Lagu Dhoom Again Ost Dhoom 2; Endnote X4 free. download full Version Windows; Crack Extreme Gammon; Torrent Alan Parsons Project Best; Drivers Epson Tm U220 Windows 7 64 Bits; Serial Experiments Lain Soundtrack Cyberia Mix Rar; Dvd Studio Pro 4.2.2 Download Mac; Riptide Pro Serial Number; Examples Of Mission Oriented Serial Killers. (Redirected from Serial Experiments)Jump to navigationJump to searchSerial Experiments LainNorth American cover of the first DVD volume from Pioneer featuring titular character Lain Iwakura.シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン(Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein)GenreCyberpunk, psychological[1]Anime television seriesDirected byRyūtarō NakamuraProduced byYasuyuki UedaShojiro AbeWritten byChiaki J. KonakaMusic byReichi NakaidoStudioTriangle StaffLicensed byOriginal networkTV TokyoEnglish networkG4techTV (Anime Current)Original run July 6, 1998 – September 28, 1998Episodes13 (List of episodes)GameDeveloperPioneer LDCPublisherPioneer LDCPlatformPlayStationReleasedNovember 26, 1998MangaThe Nightmare of FabricationWritten byYoshitoshi ABePublishedMay 1999Anime and Manga portal
Serial Experiments Lain (シリアルエクスペリメンツレインShiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein) is a science fictionanime series directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura, with character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. The series explores themes such as reality, identity and communication,[2] and it explores them through philosophy, computer history, cyberpunk literature and conspiracy theory.
*3Production
*6Related mediaPlot[edit]
The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescentmiddle school girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network which is similar to the Internet. Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her emotionally distant mother, and her computer-obsessed father; while Lain herself is somewhat awkward, introverted, and socially isolated from most of her school peers. But the status-quo of her life becomes upturned by a series of bizarre incidents that start to take place after she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from a dead student, Chisa Yomoda, and she pulls out her old computer in order to check for the same message. Lain finds Chisa telling her that she is not dead, but has merely ’abandoned her physical body and flesh’ and is alive deep within the virtual reality-world of the Wired itself, where she has found the almighty and divine ’God’. From this point, Lain is caught up in a series of cryptic and surreal events that see her delving deeper into the mystery of the network in a narrative that explores themes of consciousness, perception, and the nature of reality.
The ’Wired’ is a virtual reality-world that contains and supports the very sum of all human communication and networks, created with the telegraph, televisions, and telephone services, and expanded with the Internet, cyberspace, and subsequent networks. The series assumes that the Wired could be linked to a system that enables unconscious communication between people and machines without physical interface. The storyline introduces such a system with the Schumann resonances, a property of the Earth’s magnetic field that theoretically allows for unhindered long distance communications. If such a link were created, the network would become equivalent to Reality as the general consensus of all perceptions and knowledge. The increasingly thin invisible line between what is real and what is virtual/digital begins to slowly shatter.
Masami Eiri is introduced as the project director on Protocol Seven (the next-generation Internet protocol in the series’ time-frame) for major computer company Tachibana General Laboratories. He had secretly included code of his very own creation to give himself absolute control of the Wired through the wireless system described above. He then ’uploaded’ his own brain, conscience, consciousness, memory, feelings, emotions – his very self – into the Wired and ’died’ a few days after, leaving only his physical, living body behind. These details are unveiled around the middle of the series, but this is the point where the story of Serial Experiments Lain begins. Masami later explains that Lain is the artifact by which the wall between the virtual and material worlds is to fall, and that he needs her to get to the Wired and ’abandon the flesh’, as he did, to achieve his plan. The series sees him trying to convince her through interventions, using the promise of unconditional love, romantic seduction and charm, and even, when all else fails, threats and force.
In the meantime, the anime follows a complex game of hide-and-seek between the ’Knights of the Eastern Calculus’, hackers whom Masami claims are ’believers that enable him to be a God in the Wired’, and Tachibana General Laboratories, who try to regain control of Protocol Seven. In the end, the viewer sees Lain realizing, after much introspection, that she has absolute control over everyone’s mind and over reality itself. Her dialogue with different versions of herself shows how she feels shunned from the material world, and how she is afraid to live in the Wired, where she has the possibilities and responsibilities of an almighty goddess. The last scenes feature her erasing everything connected to herself from everyone’s memories. She is last seen, unchanged, encountering her oldest and closest friend Alice once again, who is now married. Lain promises herself that she and Alice will surely meet again anytime as Lain can literally go and be anywhere she desires between both worlds.Characters[edit]Lain Iwakura (岩倉 玲音Iwakura Rein)Voiced by: Kaori Shimizu (Japanese); Bridget Hoffman (English)The titular character of the series. Lain is a fourteen-year-old girl who uncovers her true nature through the series. She is first depicted as a shy junior high school student with few friends or interests. She later grows multiple bolder personalities, both in the physical world and the Wired, and starts making more friends. As the series progresses, she eventually comes to discover that she is, in reality, merely an autonomous, sentientcomputer program in the physical and corporeal form of a human being, designed to sever the invisible barrier between the Wired and the real world. In the end, Lain is challenged to accept herself as a de factogoddess for the Wired, having become an omnipotent and omnipresent virtual being with worshippers of her own, as well as an ability to exist beyond the borders of devices, time, or space.Masami Eiri (英利 政美Eiri Masami)Voiced by: Shō Hayami (Japanese); Kirk Thornton (English)The key designer of Protocol Seven. While working for Tachibana General Laboratories, he illicitly included codes enabling him to control the whole protocol at will and embedded his own mind and will into the seventh protocol. Because of this, he was fired by Tachibana General Laboratories, and was found dead not long after. He believes that the only way for humans to evolve even further and develop even greater abilities is to absolve themselves of their physical and human limitations, and to live as virtual entities—or avatars—in the Wired for eternity. He claims to have been Lain’s creator all along, but was in truth standing in for another, who was waiting for the Wired to reach its more evolved current state.Yasuo Iwakura (岩倉 康男Iwakura Yasuo)Voiced by: Ryūsuke Ōbayashi (Japanese); Barry Stigler (English)Lain’s father. Passionate about computers and electronic communication, he works with Masami Eiri at Tachibana General Laboratories. He subtly pushes Lain, his ’youngest daughter’, towards the Wired and monitors her development until she becomes more and more aware of herself and of her raison d’être. He eventually leaves Lain, telling her that although he did not enjoy playing house, he genuinely loved and cared for her as a real father would. Despite Yasuo’s eagerness to lure Lain into the Wired, he warns her not to get overly involved in it or to confuse it with the real world.Miho Iwakura (岩倉 ミホIwakura Miho)Voiced by: Rei Igarashi (Japanese); Petrea Burchard (English)Lain’s mother. Although she dotes on Mika, she is indifferent towards Lain. Like her husband, she ends up leaving Lain.Alice Mizuki (瑞城 ありすMizuki Arisu)Voiced by: Yōko Asada (Japanese); Emilie Brown (English)Lain’s classmate and only true friend throughout the series. She is very sincere and has no discernable quirks. She is the first to attempt to help Lain socialize; she takes her out to a nightclub. From then on, she tries her best to look after Lain. Alice, along with her two best friends Julie and Reika, were taken by Chiaki Konaka from his previous work, Alice in Cyberland.Mika Iwakura (岩倉 美香Iwakura Mika)Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese); Patricia Ja Lee (English)Lain’s older sister, an apathetic sixteen-year-old high school student. She seems to enjoy mocking Lain’s behavior and interests. Mika is considered by Anime Revolution to be the only normal member of Lain’s family:[3] she sees her boyfriend in love hotels, is on a diet, and shops in Shibuya. At a certain point in the series, she becomes heavily traumatized by violent hallucinations; while Lain begins freely delving into the Wired, Mika is taken there by her proximity to Lain, and she gets stuck between the real world and the Wired.[4]Taro (タロウTarō)Voiced by: Keito Takimoto (Japanese); Brianne Siddall (English)A young boy of about Lain’s age. He occasionally works for the Knights to bring forth ’the one truth’. Despite this, he has not yet been made a member, and knows nothing of their true intentions. Taro loves VR games and hangs out all day at Cyberia with his friends, Myu-Myu and Masayuki. He uses special technology, such as custom Handi Navi and video goggles. Taro takes pride in his internet anonymity, and he asks Lain for a date with her Wired self in exchange for information.Office WorkerVoiced by: Shigeru Chiba (Japanese); Richard Plantagenet (English)A top executive from Tachibana General Laboratories. He has a personal agenda, which he carries out with the help of the Men in Black. He looks forward to the arrival of a real God through the Wired, and is the man behind the Knights’ mass assassination. There are many things he doesn’t know about Lain, but he’d rather ask questions about her than disclose his agenda.Men in BlackKarl Haushoffer (カール・ハウスホッファKāru Hausuhoffa), Voiced by: Takumi Yamazaki (Japanese); Jamieson Price (English)Lin Suixi (Chinese: 林随錫; pinyin: Lín Suíxī), Voiced by: Jouji Nakata (Japanese); Bob Buchholz (English)The Men in Black work for the above ’Office Worker’ in tracking down and murdering all of the members of the Knights. They are not told the true plan, but they know that Masami Eiri is somehow involved, despite having been ’killed.’ They see no need for an almighty, all-powerful God—let alone Lain—in the Wired.Chisa Yomoda (ヨモダ チサYomoda Chisa)Voiced by: Sumi Mutoh (Japanese); Lia Sargent (English)A teenage girl who committed suicide at the beginning of the series. After her death, she e-mails Lain, Julie, and a few other kids, saying that she’s still alive in the Wired.Reika Yamamoto (山本 レイカYamamoto Reika)Voiced by: Chiharu Tezuka (Japanese); Lenore Zann (English)One of Alice’s friends from school. She doesn’t seem to care for Lain, since she harasses her quite a lot. She’s more serious than Julie, and also somewhat meaner.Julie Kato (加藤 ジュリーKatō Juri)Voiced by: Manabi Mizuno (Japanese); Alexis A. Edwards (English)Another friend of Alice. She also harasses Lain, but not as severely as Reika does. She is sometimes insensitive to other people’s feelings.Masayuki (マサユキ)Voiced by: Sora FujimaTaro’s best friend. He is usually seen hanging out with Taro and Myu-Myu.Serial Experiments Lain EpisodesMyu-Myu (ミューミュウMyūmyuu)Voiced by: Yuki Yamamoto (Japanese); Sandy Fox (English)A young girl who hangs out with Taro and Masayuki at Cyberia Café. She has feelings for Taro, so she gets jealous when he flirts with Lain.NarratorVoiced by: Takashi Taniguchi (Japanese); George C. Cole (English)Production[edit]
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.[5]
Producer Ueda had to answer repeated queries about a statement made in an Animerica interview.[4][6][7] The controversial statement said Lain was ’a sort of cultural war against American culture and the American sense of values we [Japan] adopted after World War II’.[8] He later explained in numerous interviews that 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. This would lead to a ’war of ideas’ over the meaning of the anime, hopefully culminating in new communication between the two cultures. When he discovered that the American audience held the same views on the series as the Japanese, he was disappointed.[7]
The Lain franchise was originally conceived to connect across forms of media (anime, video games, manga). 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 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. A dōjinshi titled ’The Nightmare of Fabrication’ was produced by Yoshitoshi ABe and released in Japanese in the artbook Omnipresence in the Wired. 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.[9]Writing[edit]
The authors were asked in interviews if they had been influenced by Neon Genesis Evangelion, in the themes and graphic design. This was strictly denied by writer Chiaki J. Konaka in an interview, arguing that he had not seen Evangelion until he finished the fourth episode of Lain. Being primarily a horror movies writer, his stated influences are Godard (especially for using typography on screen), The Exorcist, Hell House, and Dan Curtis’s House of Dark Shadows. Alice’s name, like the names of her two friends Julie and Reika, came from a previous production from Konaka, Alice in Cyberland, which in turn was largely influenced by Alice in Wonderland. As the series developed, Konaka was ’surprised’ by how close Alice’s character became to the original Wonderland character.[10]Lain’s custom computer features holographic displays and liquid carbon dioxide cooling.
Vannevar Bush (and memex), John C. Lilly, Timothy Leary and his eight-circuit model of consciousness, Ted Nelson and Project Xanadu are cited as precursors to the Wired.[9]Douglas Rushkoff and his book Cyberia were originally to be cited as such,[4] and in Lain Cyberia became the name of a nightclub populated with hackers and techno-punk teenagers. Likewise, the series’ deus ex machina lies in the conjunction of the Schumann resonances and Jung’s collective unconscious (the authors chose this term over Kabbalah and Akashic Record).[8]Majestic 12 and the Roswell UFO incident are used as examples of how a hoax might still affect history, even after having been exposed as such, by creating sub-cultures.[8] This links again to Vannevar Bush, the alleged ’brains’ of MJ12. Two of the literary references in Lain are quoted through Lain’s father: he first logs onto a website with the password ’Think Bule Count One Tow’ (’Think Blue, Count Two’ is an Instrumentality of Man story featuring virtual persons projected as real ones in people’s minds);[11] and his saying that ’madeleines would be good with the tea’ in the last episode makes Lain ’perhaps the only cartoon to allude to Proust’.[12][13]Character design[edit]ABe came up with Lain’s hair by imagining Lain cutting it herself and making a ponytail of what was left.[6] This was later included in his Omnipresence in the Wired artbook.[14]
Yoshitoshi ABe confesses to have never read manga as a child, as it was ’off-limits’ in his household.[15] His major influences are ’nature and everything around him’.[4] Specifically speaking about Lain’s character, ABe was inspired by Kenji Tsuruta, Akihiro Yamada, Range Murata and Yukinobu Hoshino.[6] In a broader view, he has been influenced in his style and technique by Japanese artists Chinai-san and Tabuchi-san.[4]
The character design of Lain was not ABe’s sole responsibility. Her distinctive left forelock for instance was a demand from Yasuyuki Ueda. The goal was to produce asymmetry to reflect Lain’s unstable and disconcerting nature.[16] It was designed as a mystical symbol, as it is supposed to prevent voices and spirits from being heard by the left ear.[6] The bear pajamas she wears were a demand from character animation director Takahiro Kishida. Though bears are a trademark of the Konaka brothers, Chiaki Konaka first opposed the idea.[10] Director Nakamura then explained how the bear motif could be used as a shield for confrontations with her family. It is a key element of the design of the shy ’real world’ Lain (see ’mental illness’ under Themes).[10] When she first goes to the Cyberia nightclub, she wears a bear hat for similar reasons.[16] The pajamas were finally considered as possible fan-service by Konaka, in the way they enhance Lain’s nymph aspect.[10]
ABe’s original design was generally more complicated than what finally appeared on screen. As an example, the X-shaped hairclip was to be an interlocking pattern of gold links. The links would open with a snap, or rotate around an axis until the moment the ’ X ’ became a ’ = ’. This was not used as there is no scene where Lain takes her hairclip off.[17]Themes[edit]
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