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Layer:02 Girls
Summary (spoilers)
Alice, Julie and Reika insist they met a loud, confident Lain at the nightclub Cyberia. Confused, Lain asks her father for a better Navi and then visits the club herself, where a man on a strange new drug causes a frightening scene. The cool way Lain handles him suggests a side of her nobody knew about.
Full credits
| script | Chiaki J. Konaka 小中千昭 |
|---|---|
| storyboard | Ryutaro Nakamura 中村隆太郎 |
| episode director | Ryutaro Nakamura 中村隆太郎 |
| animation director | Yoshihiro Sugai 菅井嘉浩 |
| layout | Tatsuo Yanagino 柳野龍男, Masahiro Sekiguchi 関口雅浩, Yoshihiro Sugai 菅井嘉浩 |
| key animation | 安藤正浩, 後藤有宏, 三宅雄一郎, 中谷マリ, 後藤隆宏, 千島知明 |
Sources: seesaawiki.jp · ja.wikipedia.org archived · animenewsnetwork.com archived
What it refers to (2)
- Cyberia (club) and Douglas Rushkoff's book 'Cyberia' (1994): The girls drag Lain to the club Cyberia; the name matches Rushkoff's book about cyber-culture and the global brain.
source: lawmune.net archived · lain.wiki
- Accela: A stimulant pill that a boy takes at Cyberia before the shooting; Eng reads it as a drug that speeds the user up toward the pace of the Wired.
source: lawmune.net archived · lain.wiki