An informational guide to the 1998 cult classic anime series, Serial Experiments Lain. For my episodic analysis of the series, check out the First Serial Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw6UBKuaMyFC9QsLUFlbRFpa6GXs-FvZd

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Links:
The abandoned Lain translation project: http://jpsxdec.blogspot.com/search/label/Lain
Lain for PS1 on sale on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xlain+game&_nkw=lain+game&_sacat=0&_from=R40
ABe's twitter: https://twitter.com/abfly
Interview with Yasuyuki Ueda from 1998: http://www.cjas.org/~leng/fruits.htm
Otakon 2000 panel transcript with Ueda and ABe: http://www.cjas.org/~leng/o2klain.htm
thought experiments lain fansite: http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm#lainlink
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain
Anime News Network: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=166
Watch Lain on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9kYAEyVjEY&list=PL29CFFB0C178E4903
Buy Lain on blu-ray: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B40N2UK/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1STSKGMM65MH5QPFG8P7&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200382&pf_rd_i=507846

Academic citations:
When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and "Serial Experiments Lain"
by Napier, Susan J
Science Fiction Studies (0091-7729), 11/2002, Volume 29, Issue 3, pp. 418 - 435
Gonzaga, Elmo (01/06/2002). "Anomie and Isolation: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain, and Japanese Consensus Society". Humanities Diliman (1655-1532), 3 (1), p. 39

All music in this video comes from the Serial Experiments Lain soundtrack.

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