Creators: Chiaki Konaka, yoshitoshi ABe Year: 1998 Manga Incarnations: Anime Incarnations: Game Incarnations: Overview: 1. Yoshitoshi ABe was hired to do the design for Serial Experiments Lain after the producer came across his portfolio on a website. 2. A Serial Experiments Lain console game was released on the Sony Playstation in Japan. |
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4. There are several stylistic similarities between Lain and yoshitoshi ABe's second anime project, NeiA_7. Most notable is probably the similarity between the DJ in Lain and Genzo in NeiA. 5. An 18 page full colour Serial Experiments Lain manga can be found within the pages of the 'An Omnipresence in Wired' art book. This manga is drawn by yoshitoshi ABe and is the only manga based on Lain to be produced. 6. There are 'easter eggs' hidden on the menu screen of each DVD. 7. Serial Experiments Lain was the first title
released in the UK as part of MVM's sublicensing deal with US
distributor Geneon. If you like this try:
.Hack://Sign (Anime - Beez) |
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