lainarchive

An archive of Serial Experiments Lain: the 1998 anime, the PlayStation game and everything around them. This is the plain version; the interactive one is built from the game itself.

Level 01: The anime

• Serial Experiments Lain
  What Lain is: the story, the people, the themes and the credits, with a way into everything else.
• Watch Serial Experiments Lain
  All thirteen episodes, in Japanese with English subtitles or in the English dub.
• Episode guide 13 entries
  All thirteen Layers: air dates, credits, teasers and spoiler-folded summaries.
• Characters 23 entries
  The characters of the anime and the game, with their Japanese and English voices.

Level 02: The game

• Serial Experiments Lain (PlayStation)
  The 1998 PlayStation game: what it is, its database and story, and every way to play it today.
• Game files 716 entries
  All 716 files of the PlayStation game, with their audio or video and what is said in them.
• The game script
  Everything said in the PlayStation game, series by series, in English and Japanese: Lain's diary, Touko's diary, the counseling sessions and more.

Level 03: The archive

• Music 8 entries
  Duvet, the soundtracks, the BOOTLEG disc and the musicians, and where to listen.
• Who made it 12 entries
  The people and companies who made the anime and the game.
• Books and materials 24 entries
  Art books, the script book, guides, every home video release, interviews, and what is rare or lost.
• Fan projects and reading 46 entries
  Fan projects, translations, preserved sites, a reading list and where to watch legally.
• Magazines and press 101 entries
  Japanese and English magazine coverage, promotional material, and where scans can be found.
• Timeline 50 entries
  Lain from the first scripts in 1997 to today.

Level 04: The collection

• Gallery
  Lain's 59 animations from the game, its interface art, and promotional art, covers and scans.
• Merchandise 51 entries
  Official Lain merchandise from 1998 to today: figures, dolls, apparel, posters, cards and anniversary goods.
• Disc releases 24 entries
  Every release of the series on tape and disc: the five Japanese lif volumes on LaserDisc, VHS and DVD, the boxes up to the Blu-rays, and the releases abroad.
• Interviews 16 entries
  What the makers said: the interviews, panels and talks from 1998 to today, each summed up with its main points.

Level 05: This archive

• Contribute
  How to send scans, photos, recordings and corrections, and what the archive is missing.
• Credits
  The translators, transcribers, archivists and projects this archive is built on.
• Changes
  What was added or changed in the archive, and when.