List of Serial Experiments Lain media

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Boxed Set, All four volumes

Serial Experiments Lain was created as a multimedia production, including an anime, a video game, a manga, and several artbooks and soundtracks.

1 Anime episodes
2 Video game
3 Artbooks
4 Soundtracks
5 Operating system
6 Further reading
7 External links

[edit] Anime episodes

This is the complete episode listing of the anime produced for Serial Experiments Lain, which first aired on TV Tokyo on 6 July 1998 and concluded on 28 September 1998 with the thirteenth and final episode.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

DVD cover	Ep #	Episode title	Original airdate
Navi (Layers 1-4)
	01	Weird	6 July 1998
	People are getting emails from a girl that killed herself last week (Chisa Yomoda), which claim that she only gave up her body, but is actually still alive inside the Wired, and that God is also there. After getting one of these emails, the introverted Lain becomes interested in computers and she ask her father for a new NAVI.

	02	Girls	13 July 1998
	Alice, Juri, and Reika talk to Lain saying they saw her during their first visit to the hardcore techno club 'Cyberia', but with an infinitely more vigorous and forceful personality. After some persuasion, Lain decides to join Alice and her friends who are at Cyberia again to disprove that it was her. However, Lain becomes involved with a shooting in the club by a man under the influence of the micro-machine drug Accela.

	03	Psyche	20 July 1998
	Lain's life is thrown into further disarray as she begins to recognize that she is being spied upon by a car containing MiB agents near her house. At school, Lain is anonymously sent a mysterious computer chip, about which she initially asks her father, and then the similarly aged Taro at Cyberia. Taro then recalls seeing Lain in the Wired once, noting her Wired personality being the complete opposite of her restrained real world persona, bringing about the possibility that there could be two separate Lains.

	04	Religion	27 July 1998
	Rumors are flying around Lain's school and in the Wired with regards to numerous senior students of various high schools committing suicide, with each of the deceased being addicted to the online action game, PHANTOMa. Interested, Lain investigates only to discover the deaths were most likely caused by the elite secretive hacker group known as the Knights of the Eastern Calculus (or the Knights for short).

Knights (Layers 5-7)
	05	Distortion	3 August 1998
	Amidst the events surrounding Tokyo having its traffic information transmission system hacked to cause deliberate accidents, Lain experiences a series of hallucinations teaching her (by means of inanimate objects, and eventually her parents) the nature of the Wired, and the supposed God (Deus) within it. In the meantime, Lain’s sister Mika is driven to the point of insanity due to the Knights repeatedly communicating the message for her to “Fulfill the Prophecy.”

	06	Kids	10 August 1998
	An image of Lain appears in the sky and children are raising their arms toward the image. Lain searches for the reason behind the strange happenings and finds Professor Hodgeson the creator of KIDS. KIDS was an experiment that tried to gather psi energy from children and store it. The result of the project destroyed the children. Now it seems that the Knights have gotten hold of the projects schematics.

	07	Society	17 August 1998
	Knights activity starts surfacing as they make the evening news. Lain gets more and more involved in the Wired, being connected even in class through her HandiNAVI. Alice starts worrying about her closing up again, saying she starts resembling "her old self". The Men in Black finally make their move, asking Lain to follow them to a Tachibana office where a man wants to know more about her, her origins, her parents....

Deus (Layers 8-10)
	08	Rumors	24 August 1998
	Lain is investigating the Wired ever deeper. A rumor is spread about Alice having sexual fantasies about a male teacher, and a second one says that Lain has spread the first. To cope with the distress of rejection, Lain acts directly on reality for the first time, and duplicates of herself start appearing more frequently.

	09	Protocol	31 August 1998
	Throughout the episode, background information is being shown from "archives" about the Roswell incident, MJ-12, MEMEX, Xanadu, John C. Lilly, the Shumann resonnance, and Eiri Masami. During that time, Lain gets a microchip from JJ, the DJ from the Cyberia nightclub. She then asks Taro on a "date", to ask him about it. After being scared to death, he admits it is code made to disrupt human memory, made by Knights. He takes their defense, but admits not knowing much about them.

	10	Love	7 September 1998
	Eiri Masami introduces himself as God, explaining that he is such because of his believers, the Knights. Knowing this, Lain deals with the Knights once and for all by leaking a list of all of its members onto the Wired, leaving a trail of murder (by the Men in Black) and suicide in its wake.

Reset (Layers 11-13)
	11	Infornography	14 September 1998
	Lain lays exhausted in her room, wrapped in electrical cord. After a long, complicated flashback, Eiri appears to congratulate her for downloading her NAVIs in her own brain, but warns her about her "hardware capacity". Lain appears to Alice, and declares that anything is possible, as they don't need devices anymore; so she'll make everything all right for Alice again. The next day, nobody seems to remember the rumor incident, and Lain smiles at Alice complicely.

	12	Landscape	21 September 1998
	The frontier between the Real and the Wired falls down. The Men in Black receive their final payment from their employers. Eiri Masami makes his final move, resulting in one last confrontation with Lain.

	13	Ego	28 September 1998
	Lain resolves her inner quest for identity and takes radical action.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Video game

Main article: Serial Experiments Lain (video game)

[edit] Artbooks

Omnipresence In The Wired: Hardbound, 128 pages in 96 colors with Japanese text. It features a chapter for each layer (episode) and concept sketches. It also features a short color manga titled "The Nightmare of Fabrication". It was published in 1998 by Triangle Staff/SR-12W/Pioneer LDC. (ISBN 4-7897-1343-1)
Yoshitoshi ABe lain illustrations ab# rebuild an omnipresence in the Wired: Hardbound, 148 pages. A remake of "Omnipresence In The Wired" with new art, added text by Chiaki J. Konaka, and a section entitled "ABe's EYE in color of things" (a compilation of his photos of the world). It was published in Japan on 1/10/2005 by WANIMAGAZINE Co.,Ltd (ISBN 4-89829-487-1), and in America as a softcover version translated into English in July of 2006 by Digital Manga Publishing (ISBN 1-56970-899-1).
Visual Experiments Lain: Paperback, 80 full-color pages with Japanese text. It has details on the creation, design, and storyline of the series. It was published in 1998 by Triangle Staff/Pioneer LDC. (ISBN 4-7897-1342-3)
Scenario Experiments Lain: Paperback, 335 pages. By "chiaki j. konaka" (uncapitalized in original). It contains collected scripts with notes and small excerpted storyboards. (ISBN 4-7897-1320-2)
Serial Experiments Lain Official Guide: Paperback. A guide to the PlayStation game.

[edit] Soundtracks

"Duvet": Opening song. Written by the British band bôa as their first single, it is performed in English.
"Toi Sakebi": Ending song. Lyrics and composition by Nakaido "Chabo" Reichi.
Serial Experiments Lain Soundtrack: The first OST featuring music by Nakaido "Chabo" Reichi. It features the closing theme song and some of the tracks included in the television series.
Serial Experiments Lain Soundtrack: Cyberia Mix: A second OST featuring electronica songs inspired by the television series, including a remix of the opening theme song.
lain BOOTLEG: 2 CD, Soundtrack, 45+ tracks, limited edition. Contains ambient music from the series and a mixed-mode data and audio CD with a clock program and a game. Released by Pioneer Records. Because bootleg appears in its title, it is easily confused with the Sonmay counterfeit edition of itself, which is 1 CD of 45 tracks, some with shorter lengths than the original.

[edit] Operating system

Screenshot of LainOS in early development.

LainOS was an open source programming project that aimed to produce a Unix-like operating system, recreating the interface of the fictional computer Navi. Its base system is FreeBSD. The project's primary focus was the GUI, which involved writing a variation on XFree86 that used OpenGL for all primitive functions and a Blackbox-based window manager, LainWM. As of June 2005, the project had ceased development.