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Layer 12 Analysis

2016-07-09T02:00:34Z

Xoro:

== Lain is actually God ==

<center>
==== There was some dialogue in Layer 12 that leads me to believe that Lain may in fact be the 'Creation God' reborn. ====
</center>

<tt>
<pre>
Lain: You could make the wired free from the devices.
Lain: Telephones, TV, network... You could nothing without them.
Eiri: Yes, they were born with human's evolution.
</pre>
</tt>

<blockquote>
The NAVI and the devices like it that allowed humans to network, were a crude means of accessing an existing system. 
This system is known as the global consciousness. It is the Wired in it's true form. The reference to John C. Lilly established this in the previous layer and it's reinforced many times throughout the anime.
</blockquote>

<tt>
<pre>
Lain: A program to synchronize to the peculiar resonance of the earth in
Lain: the Protocol 7.
Lain: And it makes "the group of unconscious" into consciousness.
Lain: Did you really invent it by yourself?
</pre>
</tt>

<blockquote>
Here Lain places doubt upon Eiri's authorship of the physics that allow IP7 to work. 
This creates a new assumption revealed in Eiri's next statements:
</blockquote>

<tt>
<pre>
Eiri: What are you saying? It can't! It can't!
Eiri: Do you say that there is true God!?
</pre>
</tt>

<blockquote>
Here we see that Eiri implies that he is not a "true god" and that his power and presence is limited.
</blockquote>

<tt>
<pre>
Lain: Humans have been all connected in their unconsciousness.
Lain: I'm just reconnecting them.
Alice: Did you do it, Lain?
Lain: I did nothing.
Lain: It doesn't matter which is real, this side or the other.
Lain: I was in both.
</pre>
</tt>

<blockquote>
We come back to Lain's statements to Alice. She reveals knowledge of the global consciousness and the lack of distinction between it and the Wired. 
The power to "reconnect" people implies knowledge of them once being connected, perhaps Lain being the original connector. This is also a power Eiri does not seem to have.
</blockquote>

<tt>
<pre>
Eiri: No! I'm almighty! I made your flesh in this real world!
Eiri: You were omnipresent, scattered through the Wired! I gave you an ego!
Lain: If I were so, what are you?
</pre>
</tt>

<blockquote>
Here we see that Lain is something much more than human, a homunculus of sorts. Omnipresence also heavily implies godhood. 
What he's referring to as "ego" may be 'Ego Lain' or more likely the dictionary definition of ego; as an individual person formed from the omnipresent Lain.

*Ego: "the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought."
</blockquote>

<tt>
<pre>
Lain: Yes, you were a god in the wired. But, before the wired appeared...
Lain: You were only a proxy god of someone who was waiting for the appearance of the wired.
</pre>
</tt>

<blockquote>
Here Lain acknowledges that Eiri's power is only enabled by the Wired. The second statement is most important, because it allows the theory that "God" merely waited for the Wired to be created. Having existed prior to the Wired. The real God. 
Since we've established Lain's presence as a homunculus, an isomorphic organism omnipresent in the Wired, it is entirely possible that she is God.
</blockquote>

Layer 12 Analysis

2016-07-09T01:26:54Z

Xoro: Lain is actually God.

== Lain is actually God ==

There was some dialogue in Layer 12 that finally clicked inside my head that leads me to believe that Lain may in fact be the 'Creation God' reborn.

<center>
Lain: You could make the wired free from the devices.
Lain: Telephones, TV, network... You could nothing without them.
Eiri: Yes, they were born with human's evolution.
</center>
The NAVI and the devices like it that allowed humans to network, were a crude means of accessing an existing system.
The global consciousness. This is the Wired in it's true form. The reference to John C. Lilly established this in the previous layer and it's reinforced many times throughout the anime.

<center>
Lain: A program to synchronize to the peculiar resonance of the earth in
Lain: the Protocol 7.
Lain: And it makes "the group of unconscious" into consciousness.
Lain: Did you really invent it by yourself?
</center>
Here Lain places doubt upon Eiri's authorship of the means that allow IP7 to work.
This creates a new assumption revealed in Eiri's next statements:

<center>
Eiri: What are you saying? It can't! It can't!
Eiri: Do you say that there is true God!?

List of fanworks based on Serial Experiments Lain

2015-06-16T21:29:28Z

Xoro: /* English */

==Related Websites==
===English===
* [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm Thought Experiments Lain] ([[Thought Experiments Lain|article]]) is owned by Lawrence Eng aka Lawmune. It includes, among other things, a review, fanart contest and glossary. It is perhaps best known for the [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm list of Apple references in Lain].
* [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/ Omnipresence] is full of information about SEL and includes episode transcripts, screencaps, a fanlisting and a very outdated list of links. It is impossible to navigate. Content is [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/wired.html here].
* [http://www.mebious.co.uk/ Mebious.co.uk] ([[Mebious.co.uk|article]]) comes from a URL that appears briefly on a pressure gauge. Sometimes called "Mebi" or "Mebby". Allows anonymous text or image posting. The most recent 10 lines of text are displayed.
* [http://mebious.com/ Mebious.com] hosts this very wiki.
* [https://mebio.us Mebio.us] is another clone of the original .co.uk site, created after the closure of Mobi.
* [https://mebious.neocities.org wired.entry.neocities] Fansite under constant occasional development.
* [http://asphyxia.su/ asphyxia.su] Collection of every background image from mebious, going back over a year.
*[[VisualWired]]

===Japanese===
*[http://www.konaka.com/alice6/lain/ Serial Experiments Lain], a site by [[Chiaki Konaka|Chiaki J. Konaka]], has interviews, information about [[Books|books]], and links related to Lain, as well as a font that was used in the anime.
*[http://www.geocities.jp/zatugakubeya/lain/index.html Deep Researches Lain] has a glossary of terms from the anime and a quiz game.
*[http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/grifonsgarden/garenwarehouse.htm Grifon's Garden] has pictures and descriptions of at least 6 homemade Lain figurines.
*[http://page.freett.com/boondock/lain/ LAINてんぷら] is a website used to start Lain threads on the 2channel BBS. Has links to many Lain threads on 2ch and many other obscure and edifying Lain-related links. てんぷら (tempura) is slang for template.
*[http://page.freett.com/m_utsumi/ Protocol of lain's world] has lots of great and rare info, but mostly in Japanese, because the English portion of the site is unfinished. (Click lain's face to access the content.)
===Russian===
*[http://boards.haruhiism.net/abe/ Old Home], an image board that is primarily for discussions related to [[Yoshitoshi ABe| ABe]].
*[http://lain.xq3.ru/ lain game] contains files from the Serial Experiments Lain [[Game|PSX game]], extracted using jPSXdec.

==Past Related Websites==
===English===
* [[Thewired.info]]
* [http://per.hedbor.org/lain/ Serial Experiments Lain: Root] ([[Serial Experiments Lain: Root|article]]) had a collection of Lain media for download, including cover scans and soundtracks.
* [http://misslain.homestead.com/index.html Lain - Alive in Cyberspace] included reviews, screencaps, poetry, and a rather intriguing [http://misslain.homestead.com/cyberqs.html dialogue] on Lain. Site has been disabled.
*[http://hr.deadgods.net/hr/index/ Wakachan's ABe board], R.I.P.
* [http://cerealexperiments.com cerealexperiments.com] Website that had an imageboard that was barely Lain-related.
*[http://easterncalcul.us/ ahania's boards] are available intermittently. /ec/ is for general discussion and /l/ is for all things Lain. Feel free to start or join in a discussion.
*[http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/9755/ serial experiments lain - Unnoficial Homepage in the Wired]
* [http://www.mebious.mobi/ Mebious.mobi] ([[Mebious.mobi|article]]), sometimes called "Mobi", is inspired by Mebious and notably includes features such as music upload and auto-refresh. (defunct as of May 10th 2015)

==Essays==
===English===
* [[VKK 320: Decoding Virtual Culture in the Media - a case-study of Serial Experiments Lain]]
* [[Serial Experiments: Lain as a Reflection of Modern Japanese Anxieties in the Digital Era]]
* [[The role of technology in modern society according to Serial Experiments: Lain]]
* [[The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation]]
* [[The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: Questioning the Post-Christian Bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George]]
* [[Give some examples of cybernetic systems at play in specific visual texts. What metaphors of the body in contemporary society do they suggest? And to what commodity end are they marketed?]]
* [[To what commodity end are concepts of the ‘post-human’ and the ‘cyborg’ marketed? Give screen and theoretical examples of each.]]
* [[The Real Verses the Virtual]] [sic]

==Other articles==
===English===
* [[All I Ever Needed To Know In This Fragile Layer Of Existence We Call The Real World I Learned From Serial Experiments Lain]]
*"Topologies of Identity in Serial Experiments Lain" by Craig Jackson, published in ''Mechademia'', Volume 7, 2012, pp. 191-201 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mec/summary/v007/7.jackson01.html]
*"The Signal of Noise" (manga) by Adèle-Elise Prévost and MUSEbasement, published in ''Mechademia'', Volume 3, 2008, pp. 173-188 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mec/summary/v003/3.prevost.html]
==Games==
* [[Lain visual novel project]], a project to create a Serial Experiments Lain visual novel, started on [[mebious.co.uk]] and worked on here.

==Analysis==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjaG8gqE7uY&feature=g-u-u Youtube video] Analyzing exactly what happened in the anime.

==Fanfiction Recommendations==
===English===
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2196634/1/Stopped Stopped], a short story that concisely captures the essence of Serial Experiments Lain.
"Lain's watch stopped..."
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6974007/1/The_Gods_Themselves The Gods Themselves], an odd crossover between SEL and Puella Magi Madoka Magica in which Lain and Madokami are indistinguishable and [[Alice]] discusses [[God]] with Homura.
""Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.*" Lain. Madoka. Homura. Arisu. I am uncertain what genre to classify this under."
(*Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.)
===Japanese===
*[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=14756418 せりあｌ　えｘぺりめんｔｓ　ぁいｎ], a manga by Gomennasai on Pixiv, probably inspired by [[Chibi Chibi Lain]].
*[http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52044575.html One], [http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52064879.html two], [http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52067572.html three] threads archived from news4vip at 2ch.

[[Category:Media]]

List of fanworks based on Serial Experiments Lain

2015-06-16T21:28:51Z

Xoro: /* English */

==Related Websites==
===English===
* [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm Thought Experiments Lain] ([[Thought Experiments Lain|article]]) is owned by Lawrence Eng aka Lawmune. It includes, among other things, a review, fanart contest and glossary. It is perhaps best known for the [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm list of Apple references in Lain].
* [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/ Omnipresence] is full of information about SEL and includes episode transcripts, screencaps, a fanlisting and a very outdated list of links. It is impossible to navigate. Content is [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/wired.html here].
* [http://www.mebious.co.uk/ Mebious.co.uk] ([[Mebious.co.uk|article]]) comes from a URL that appears briefly on a pressure gauge. Sometimes called "Mebi" or "Mebby". Allows anonymous text or image posting. The most recent 10 lines of text are displayed.
* [http://mebious.com/ Mebious.com] hosts this very wiki.
* [https://mebio.us Mebio.us] is another clone of the original .co.uk site, created after the closure of Mobi.
* [https://mebious.neocities.org wired.entry.neocities] Fansite under constant occasional development.
* [http://asphyxia.su/ asphyxia.su] Collection of every background image from mebious, going back over a year.
*[[VisualWired]]

===Japanese===
*[http://www.konaka.com/alice6/lain/ Serial Experiments Lain], a site by [[Chiaki Konaka|Chiaki J. Konaka]], has interviews, information about [[Books|books]], and links related to Lain, as well as a font that was used in the anime.
*[http://www.geocities.jp/zatugakubeya/lain/index.html Deep Researches Lain] has a glossary of terms from the anime and a quiz game.
*[http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/grifonsgarden/garenwarehouse.htm Grifon's Garden] has pictures and descriptions of at least 6 homemade Lain figurines.
*[http://page.freett.com/boondock/lain/ LAINてんぷら] is a website used to start Lain threads on the 2channel BBS. Has links to many Lain threads on 2ch and many other obscure and edifying Lain-related links. てんぷら (tempura) is slang for template.
*[http://page.freett.com/m_utsumi/ Protocol of lain's world] has lots of great and rare info, but mostly in Japanese, because the English portion of the site is unfinished. (Click lain's face to access the content.)
===Russian===
*[http://boards.haruhiism.net/abe/ Old Home], an image board that is primarily for discussions related to [[Yoshitoshi ABe| ABe]].
*[http://lain.xq3.ru/ lain game] contains files from the Serial Experiments Lain [[Game|PSX game]], extracted using jPSXdec.

==Past Related Websites==
===English===
* [[Thewired.info]]
* [http://per.hedbor.org/lain/ Serial Experiments Lain: Root] ([[Serial Experiments Lain: Root|article]]) had a collection of Lain media for download, including cover scans and soundtracks.
* [http://misslain.homestead.com/index.html Lain - Alive in Cyberspace] included reviews, screencaps, poetry, and a rather intriguing [http://misslain.homestead.com/cyberqs.html dialogue] on Lain. Site has been disabled.
*[http://hr.deadgods.net/hr/index/ Wakachan's ABe board], R.I.P.
*[http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/9755/ serial experiments lain - Unnoficial Homepage in the Wired]
==Essays==
===English===
* [[VKK 320: Decoding Virtual Culture in the Media - a case-study of Serial Experiments Lain]]
* [[Serial Experiments: Lain as a Reflection of Modern Japanese Anxieties in the Digital Era]]
* [[The role of technology in modern society according to Serial Experiments: Lain]]
* [[The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation]]
* [[The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: Questioning the Post-Christian Bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George]]
* [[Give some examples of cybernetic systems at play in specific visual texts. What metaphors of the body in contemporary society do they suggest? And to what commodity end are they marketed?]]
* [[To what commodity end are concepts of the ‘post-human’ and the ‘cyborg’ marketed? Give screen and theoretical examples of each.]]
* [[The Real Verses the Virtual]] [sic]

==Other articles==
===English===
* [[All I Ever Needed To Know In This Fragile Layer Of Existence We Call The Real World I Learned From Serial Experiments Lain]]
*"Topologies of Identity in Serial Experiments Lain" by Craig Jackson, published in ''Mechademia'', Volume 7, 2012, pp. 191-201 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mec/summary/v007/7.jackson01.html]
*"The Signal of Noise" (manga) by Adèle-Elise Prévost and MUSEbasement, published in ''Mechademia'', Volume 3, 2008, pp. 173-188 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mec/summary/v003/3.prevost.html]
==Games==
* [[Lain visual novel project]], a project to create a Serial Experiments Lain visual novel, started on [[mebious.co.uk]] and worked on here.

==Analysis==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjaG8gqE7uY&feature=g-u-u Youtube video] Analyzing exactly what happened in the anime.

==Fanfiction Recommendations==
===English===
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2196634/1/Stopped Stopped], a short story that concisely captures the essence of Serial Experiments Lain.
"Lain's watch stopped..."
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6974007/1/The_Gods_Themselves The Gods Themselves], an odd crossover between SEL and Puella Magi Madoka Magica in which Lain and Madokami are indistinguishable and [[Alice]] discusses [[God]] with Homura.
""Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.*" Lain. Madoka. Homura. Arisu. I am uncertain what genre to classify this under."
(*Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.)
===Japanese===
*[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=14756418 せりあｌ　えｘぺりめんｔｓ　ぁいｎ], a manga by Gomennasai on Pixiv, probably inspired by [[Chibi Chibi Lain]].
*[http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52044575.html One], [http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52064879.html two], [http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52067572.html three] threads archived from news4vip at 2ch.

[[Category:Media]]

Mebious.mobi

2015-05-14T10:18:09Z

Xoro: /* History */

Started in 2011 as an improved version of [[Mebious.co.uk]] by a person affectionately referred to as "Mobi-sama", sometimes "emotikun". This person sometimes posts in yellow text.

Mebious.mobi features 6 colour schemes, an image gallery, wordfilter, a [http://www.weusecoins.com/ Bitcoin] donations link, a music upload function(music player at /sound/assembly.html), a private area and an auto-refresh function. It displays 20 posts of up to 512 characters at a time and the URLs are clickable. To match the style of original mebious.co.uk sometimes URLs become corrupted and impossible to follow.

The text posts on Mobi are generally more coherent than the ones on Mebious.

In the early days, the image uploader was flooded with images of Bernkastel from Umineko no Naku Koro ni. As a consequence, Bernkastel is almost always visible.

In 2012 several users suggested meeting up in London, England sometime in 2014 and named the event mobicon/mebbycon. A blackboard and green chalk were mentioned.

==History==

In late September of 2013 www.mebious.mobi starting redirecting to www.mebious.co.uk. The reason is unclear and as of October 10th mobi is down.

In mid of February 2014 mebious.mobi wasn't reachable over the DNS address. It was still accessible over http://162.243.45.33/classic.php .

As of May 10th, 2015 most of the public facing pages result in 404 or 403 errors following the admin's decision to close the site on the basis of "moral dilemma" regarding operating the site as an open forum for perceived malignant discussion.

==External Links==
* [http://www.mebious.mobi Mebious.mobi]
* [http://www.mebious.co.uk Mebious.co.uk] ([[Mebious.co.uk|article]]), the original Mebious.

Mebious.mobi

2015-05-14T10:15:52Z

Xoro: /* History */

Started in 2011 as an improved version of [[Mebious.co.uk]] by a person affectionately referred to as "Mobi-sama", sometimes "emotikun". This person sometimes posts in yellow text.

Mebious.mobi features 6 colour schemes, an image gallery, wordfilter, a [http://www.weusecoins.com/ Bitcoin] donations link, a music upload function(music player at /sound/assembly.html), a private area and an auto-refresh function. It displays 20 posts of up to 512 characters at a time and the URLs are clickable. To match the style of original mebious.co.uk sometimes URLs become corrupted and impossible to follow.

The text posts on Mobi are generally more coherent than the ones on Mebious.

In the early days, the image uploader was flooded with images of Bernkastel from Umineko no Naku Koro ni. As a consequence, Bernkastel is almost always visible.

In 2012 several users suggested meeting up in London, England sometime in 2014 and named the event mobicon/mebbycon. A blackboard and green chalk were mentioned.

==History==

In late September of 2013 www.mebious.mobi starting redirecting to www.mebious.co.uk. The reason is unclear and as of October 10th mobi is down.

In mid of February 2014 mebious.mobi wasn't reachable over the DNS adresse. It was still accessible over http://162.243.45.33/classic.php .

As of May 10th, 2015 most of the public facing pages result in 404 or 403 errors following the admin's decision to close the site on the basis of "moral dilemma" regarding operating the site as an open forum for perceived malignant discussion.

==External Links==
* [http://www.mebious.mobi Mebious.mobi]
* [http://www.mebious.co.uk Mebious.co.uk] ([[Mebious.co.uk|article]]), the original Mebious.

List of fanworks based on Serial Experiments Lain

2015-05-14T10:09:04Z

Xoro: /* English */

==Related Websites==
===English===
* [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm Thought Experiments Lain] ([[Thought Experiments Lain|article]]) is owned by Lawrence Eng aka Lawmune. It includes, among other things, a review, fanart contest and glossary. It is perhaps best known for the [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm list of Apple references in Lain].
* [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/ Omnipresence] is full of information about SEL and includes episode transcripts, screencaps, a fanlisting and a very outdated list of links. It is impossible to navigate. Content is [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/wired.html here].
* [http://www.mebious.co.uk/ Mebious.co.uk] ([[Mebious.co.uk|article]]) comes from a URL that appears briefly on a pressure gauge. Sometimes called "Mebi" or "Mebby". Allows anonymous text or image posting. The most recent 10 lines of text are displayed.
* [http://www.mebious.mobi/ Mebious.mobi] ([[Mebious.mobi|article]]), sometimes called "Mobi", is inspired by Mebious and notably includes features such as music upload and auto-refresh. (defunct as of May 10th 2015)
* [http://mebious.com/ Mebious.com] hosts this very wiki.
* [http://asphyxia.su/ asphyxia.su] Collection of every background image from mebious, going back over a year.
* [http://cerealexperiments.com cerealexperiments.com] Website that has an imageboard that is sometimes Lain-related.
*[http://easterncalcul.us/ ahania's boards] are available intermittently. /ec/ is for general discussion and /l/ is for all things Lain. Feel free to start or join in a discussion.
*[[VisualWired]]

===Japanese===
*[http://www.konaka.com/alice6/lain/ Serial Experiments Lain], a site by [[Chiaki Konaka|Chiaki J. Konaka]], has interviews, information about [[Books|books]], and links related to Lain, as well as a font that was used in the anime.
*[http://www.geocities.jp/zatugakubeya/lain/index.html Deep Researches Lain] has a glossary of terms from the anime and a quiz game.
*[http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/grifonsgarden/garenwarehouse.htm Grifon's Garden] has pictures and descriptions of at least 6 homemade Lain figurines.
*[http://page.freett.com/boondock/lain/ LAINてんぷら] is a website used to start Lain threads on the 2channel BBS. Has links to many Lain threads on 2ch and many other obscure and edifying Lain-related links. てんぷら (tempura) is slang for template.
*[http://page.freett.com/m_utsumi/ Protocol of lain's world] has lots of great and rare info, but mostly in Japanese, because the English portion of the site is unfinished. (Click lain's face to access the content.)
===Russian===
*[http://boards.haruhiism.net/abe/ Old Home], an image board that is primarily for discussions related to [[Yoshitoshi ABe| ABe]].
*[http://lain.xq3.ru/ lain game] contains files from the Serial Experiments Lain [[Game|PSX game]], extracted using jPSXdec.

==Past Related Websites==
===English===
* [[Thewired.info]]
* [http://per.hedbor.org/lain/ Serial Experiments Lain: Root] ([[Serial Experiments Lain: Root|article]]) had a collection of Lain media for download, including cover scans and soundtracks.
* [http://misslain.homestead.com/index.html Lain - Alive in Cyberspace] included reviews, screencaps, poetry, and a rather intriguing [http://misslain.homestead.com/cyberqs.html dialogue] on Lain. Site has been disabled.
*[http://hr.deadgods.net/hr/index/ Wakachan's ABe board], R.I.P.
*[http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/9755/ serial experiments lain - Unnoficial Homepage in the Wired]
==Essays==
===English===
* [[VKK 320: Decoding Virtual Culture in the Media - a case-study of Serial Experiments Lain]]
* [[Serial Experiments: Lain as a Reflection of Modern Japanese Anxieties in the Digital Era]]
* [[The role of technology in modern society according to Serial Experiments: Lain]]
* [[The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation]]
* [[The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: Questioning the Post-Christian Bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George]]
* [[Give some examples of cybernetic systems at play in specific visual texts. What metaphors of the body in contemporary society do they suggest? And to what commodity end are they marketed?]]
* [[To what commodity end are concepts of the ‘post-human’ and the ‘cyborg’ marketed? Give screen and theoretical examples of each.]]
* [[The Real Verses the Virtual]] [sic]

==Other articles==
===English===
* [[All I Ever Needed To Know In This Fragile Layer Of Existence We Call The Real World I Learned From Serial Experiments Lain]]
*"Topologies of Identity in Serial Experiments Lain" by Craig Jackson, published in ''Mechademia'', Volume 7, 2012, pp. 191-201 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mec/summary/v007/7.jackson01.html]
*"The Signal of Noise" (manga) by Adèle-Elise Prévost and MUSEbasement, published in ''Mechademia'', Volume 3, 2008, pp. 173-188 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mec/summary/v003/3.prevost.html]
==Games==
* [[Lain visual novel project]], a project to create a Serial Experiments Lain visual novel, started on [[mebious.co.uk]] and worked on here.

==Analysis==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjaG8gqE7uY&feature=g-u-u Youtube video] Analyzing exactly what happened in the anime.

==Fanfiction Recommendations==
===English===
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2196634/1/Stopped Stopped], a short story that concisely captures the essence of Serial Experiments Lain.
"Lain's watch stopped..."
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6974007/1/The_Gods_Themselves The Gods Themselves], an odd crossover between SEL and Puella Magi Madoka Magica in which Lain and Madokami are indistinguishable and [[Alice]] discusses [[God]] with Homura.
""Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.*" Lain. Madoka. Homura. Arisu. I am uncertain what genre to classify this under."
(*Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.)
===Japanese===
*[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=14756418 せりあｌ　えｘぺりめんｔｓ　ぁいｎ], a manga by Gomennasai on Pixiv, probably inspired by [[Chibi Chibi Lain]].
*[http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52044575.html One], [http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52064879.html two], [http://elephant.2chblog.jp/archives/52067572.html three] threads archived from news4vip at 2ch.

[[Category:Media]]

VisualWired

2015-01-06T17:29:04Z

Xoro:

'''VisualWired''' is a monthly video stream for SEL Fans.

It is regularly the first Saturday of every month, at 20:00 UTC on http://www.livestream.com/visualwired

==Currently Queued==
*February : Blame! + Perfect Blue
*March: Cyber City Oedo 808 + Millennium Actress
*April: The Zero Theorem + Ghost in the Shell 1995 Movie
*May: Heavy Metal + Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
*June:
*July: Serial Experiments Lain

==Suggestions==
''please no series over 16 Episodes / 6 hours''
*Despera
* Twilight of the Dark Master (45min) ([http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=525611 Link to Nyaa])
*Tetsuwan Birdy Decode
*Tetsuwan Birdy Decode: The Cipher
*Mardock Scramble (3 Movies, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardock_Scramble Wikipedia])
*Butt Attack Punisher Girl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA8wSpdK8xc)
*Stalker (1979) ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/] )
*23 (1998 German movie, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_%28film%29 Wikipedia])
*World on a Wire ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire Wikipedia], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvlQ8TQsmQA Trailer])
*Mind Game
*Fantastic Planet
*We live in Public
*Fritz the Cat
*Rebuild of Evangelion series
*Now and then, here and there
*Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
*Silent MÖbius (2 weeks)
*Kara no Kyoukai (it's [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4932 7 movies] totaling 8.5 hours, so maybe 2 or 3 weeks as well)
*Tokyo Godfather (Satoshi Kon)
*Sennen Joyuu / Millenium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
*Hoshi no Koe / Voices of a Distant Star (just 25 min, maybe best with 5cm/s because also from Makoto Shinkai)
*Cat Soup
*Kaiba
*Aku no Hana / The Flowers of Evil
*Trava: Fist Planet
*Solaris (1972) ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/] )

==Watched==
*All About Lily Chou-Chou (on fauux's channel)
*Serial Experiments Lain (Annually on July 5th)
*Black Mirror
*2013 Wipe
*Kino no Tabi
*Baccano!
*Summer Wars
*Akira
*Eve no Jikan
*Animatrix
*Metropolis
*My Neighbor Totoro
*Freedom
*Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki
*Seven Samurai
*Gunslinger Girl
*Puella Magi Madoka Magica
*Paprika
*Angel's Egg / Tenshi no Tamago ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%27s_Egg Wikipedia])
*Spice and Wolf S1
*Bartender
*megazone 23
*Boogiepop Phantom ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop_Phantom Wikipedia])
*Malice@Doll ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malice@Doll Wikipedia]) & Alice in Cyberland
*Paranoia Agent ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_Agent Wikipedia])
*Tron
*Tron Legacy
*Armitage III
*Haibane Renmei
*Kaze Tachinu
*Sakasama no Patema
*Mai Mai Miracle
*Pale Cocoon + Garden of Words + Harmonie
*A Scanner Darkly
*5 Centimeters Per Second ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Centimeters_Per_Second Wikipedia])
*π ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film) Wikipedia])
*FLCL
*Hackers
*American Psycho
*Star Wars Holiday Special
*2014 Wipe
*The Interview

VisualWired

2014-08-24T00:11:18Z

Xoro: /* Watched */

'''VisualWired''' is a weekly video stream for SEL Fans.

It is regulary every Saturday, 20 UTC on http://www.livestream.com/visualwired

==Currently Queued==
*July 26: 5 Centimeters Per Second ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Centimeters_Per_Second Wikipedia])
*August 2: no stream
*August 9: no stream
*August 16: no stream
*August 23: π ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film) Wikipedia])

==Suggestions==
''please no series over 16 Episodes / 6 hours''
*Despera
*Heavy Metal
*FLCL ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLCL Wikipedia])
*Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin-roh Wikipedia])
*Mardock Scramble (3 Movies, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardock_Scramble Wikipedia])
*Ghost in the Shell
**1995 Movie
**GitS 2: Innocence
**Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
**Arise series
*Butt Attack Punisher Girl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA8wSpdK8xc)
*Blame!
*Stalker (1979) ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/] )
*23 (1998 German movie, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_%28film%29 Wikipedia])
*World on a Wire ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire Wikipedia], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvlQ8TQsmQA Trailer])
*Mind Game
*Fantastic Planet
*We live in Public
*Fritz the Cat
*Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
*Rebuild of Evangelion series
*Now and then, here and there
*Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
*Silent MÖbius (2 weeks)
*Kara no Kyoukai (it's [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4932 7 movies] totaling 8.5 hours, so maybe 2 or 3 weeks as well)
*Tokyo Godfather (Satoshi Kon)
*Sennen Joyuu / Millenium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
*Hoshi no Koe / Voices of a Distant Star (just 25 min, maybe best with 5cm/s because also from Makoto Shinkai)
*Cat Soup
*Kaiba
*Aku no Hana / The Flowers of Evil
*Trava: Fist Planet
*Solaris (1972) ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/] )

==Watched==
*All About Lily Chou-Chou (on fauux's channel)
*Serial Experiments Lain (Annually on July 5th)
*Black Mirror
*2013 Wipe
*Kino no Tabi
*Baccano!
*Summer Wars
*Akira
*Eve no Jikan
*Animatrix
*Metropolis
*My Neighbor Totoro
*Freedom
*Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki
*Seven Samurai
*Gunslinger Girl
*Puella Magi Madoka Magica
*Paprika
*Angel's Egg / Tenshi no Tamago ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%27s_Egg Wikipedia])
*Spice and Wolf S1
*Bartender
*megazone 23
*Boogiepop Phantom ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop_Phantom Wikipedia])
*Malice@Doll ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malice@Doll Wikipedia]) & Alice in Cyberland
*Paranoia Agent ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_Agent Wikipedia])
*Tron
*Tron Legacy
*Armitage III
*Haibane Renmei
*Kaze Tachinu
*Sakasama no Patema
*Mai Mai Miracle
*Pale Cocoon + Garden of Words + Harmonie
*A Scanner Darkly
5 Centimeters Per Second ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Centimeters_Per_Second Wikipedia])

VisualWired

2014-08-24T00:10:40Z

Xoro: /* Watched */

VisualWired

2014-08-24T00:09:20Z

Xoro: /* Suggestions */

'''VisualWired''' is a weekly video stream for SEL Fans.

It is regulary every Saturday, 20 UTC on http://www.livestream.com/visualwired

==Currently Queued==
*July 26: 5 Centimeters Per Second ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Centimeters_Per_Second Wikipedia])
*August 2: no stream
*August 9: no stream
*August 16: no stream
*August 23: π ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film) Wikipedia])

==Suggestions==
''please no series over 16 Episodes / 6 hours''
*Despera
*Heavy Metal
*FLCL ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLCL Wikipedia])
*Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin-roh Wikipedia])
*Mardock Scramble (3 Movies, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardock_Scramble Wikipedia])
*Ghost in the Shell
**1995 Movie
**GitS 2: Innocence
**Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
**Arise series
*Butt Attack Punisher Girl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA8wSpdK8xc)
*Blame!
*Stalker (1979) ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/] )
*23 (1998 German movie, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_%28film%29 Wikipedia])
*World on a Wire ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire Wikipedia], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvlQ8TQsmQA Trailer])
*Mind Game
*Fantastic Planet
*We live in Public
*Fritz the Cat
*Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
*Rebuild of Evangelion series
*Now and then, here and there
*Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
*Silent MÖbius (2 weeks)
*Kara no Kyoukai (it's [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4932 7 movies] totaling 8.5 hours, so maybe 2 or 3 weeks as well)
*Tokyo Godfather (Satoshi Kon)
*Sennen Joyuu / Millenium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
*Hoshi no Koe / Voices of a Distant Star (just 25 min, maybe best with 5cm/s because also from Makoto Shinkai)
*Cat Soup
*Kaiba
*Aku no Hana / The Flowers of Evil
*Trava: Fist Planet
*Solaris (1972) ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/] )

==Watched==
*All About Lily Chou-Chou (on fauux's channel)
*Serial Experiments Lain
*Black Mirror
*2013 Wipe
*Kino no Tabi
*Baccano!
*Summer Wars
*Akira
*Eve no Jikan
*Animatrix
*Metropolis
*My Neighbor Totoro
*Freedom
*Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki
*Seven Samurai
*Gunslinger Girl
*Puella Magi Madoka Magica
*Paprika
*Angel's Egg / Tenshi no Tamago ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%27s_Egg Wikipedia])
*Spice and Wolf S1
*Bartender
*megazone 23
*Boogiepop Phantom ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop_Phantom Wikipedia])
*Malice@Doll ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malice@Doll Wikipedia]) & Alice in Cyberland
*Paranoia Agent ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_Agent Wikipedia])
*Tron
*Tron Legacy
*Armitage III
*Haibane Renmei
*Kaze Tachinu
*Sakasama no Patema
*Mai Mai Miracle
*Serial Experiments Lain Anniversary Edition
*Pale Cocoon + Garden of Words + Harmonie
*A Scanner Darkly

VisualWired

2014-03-23T02:45:48Z

Xoro:

'''VisualWired''' is a weekly video stream for SEL Fans.

It is regulary every Saturday, 23 UTC on http://www.livestream.com/visualwired

==Currently Queued==

==Suggestions==
''please no series over 16 Episodes / 6 hours''

*Despera
*Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin-roh Wikipedia])
*Mardock Scramble (3 Movies, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardock_Scramble Wikipedia])
*23 (1998 German movie, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_%28film%29 Wikipedia])
*World on a Wire ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire Wikipedia], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvlQ8TQsmQA Trailer])
*5 Centimeters Per Second ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Centimeters_Per_Second Wikipedia])
*Haibane Renmai
*Ghost in the Shell
**1995 Movie
**GitS 2: Innocence
**Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
**Arise series
*Butt Attack Punisher Girl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA8wSpdK8xc)
*Mind Game
*Fantastic Planet
*We live in Public
*Fritz the Cat
*π ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film) Wikipedia])
*FLCL ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLCL Wikipedia])
*Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
*Rebuild of Evangelion series
*Now and then, here and there
*Pale Cocoon
*Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
*Mai Mai Miracle
*Tron
*Silent MÖbius (2 weeks)
*Kara no Kyoukai (it's [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4932 7 movies] totaling 8.5 hours, so maybe 2 or 3 weeks as well)
*Tokyo Godfather (Satoshi Kon)
*Sennen Joyuu / Millenium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
*Hoshi no Koe / Voices of a Distant Star (just 25 min, maybe best with 5cm/s because also from Makoto Shinkai)

==Watched==
*All About Lily Chou-Chou (on fauux's channel)
*Serial Experiments Lain
*Black Mirror
*2013 Wipe
*Kino no Tabi
*Baccano!
*Summer Wars
*Akira
*Eve no Jikan
*Animatrix
*Metropolis
*My Neighbor Totoro
*Freedom
*Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki
*Seven Samurai
*Gunslinger Girl
*Puella Magi Madoka Magica
*Paprika
*Angel's Egg / Tenshi no Tamago ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%27s_Egg Wikipedia])
*Spice and Wolf S1
*Bartender
*megazone 23
*Boogiepop Phantom ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop_Phantom Wikipedia])
*Malice@Doll ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malice@Doll Wikipedia]) & Alice in Cyberland
*Paranoia Agent ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_Agent Wikipedia])

VisualWired

2014-03-23T02:45:22Z

Xoro:

'''VisualWired''' is a weekly video stream for SEL Fans.

It is regulary every Saturday, 23 UTC on http://www.livestream.com/visualwired

==Currently Queued==

==Suggestions==
''please no series over 16 Episodes / 6 hours''

*Despera
*Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin-roh Wikipedia])
*Mardock Scramble (3 Movies, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardock_Scramble Wikipedia])
*23 (1998 German movie, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_%28film%29 Wikipedia])
*World on a Wire ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire Wikipedia], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvlQ8TQsmQA Trailer])
*5 Centimeters Per Second ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Centimeters_Per_Second Wikipedia])
*Haibane Renmai
*Ghost in the Shell
**1995 Movie
**GitS 2: Innocence
**Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
**Arise series
**Butt Attack Punisher Girl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA8wSpdK8xc)
*Mind Game
*Fantastic Planet
*We live in Public
*Fritz the Cat
*π ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film) Wikipedia])
*FLCL ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLCL Wikipedia])
*Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
*Rebuild of Evangelion series
*Now and then, here and there
*Pale Cocoon
*Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
*Mai Mai Miracle
*Tron
*Silent MÖbius (2 weeks)
*Kara no Kyoukai (it's [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4932 7 movies] totaling 8.5 hours, so maybe 2 or 3 weeks as well)
*Tokyo Godfather (Satoshi Kon)
*Sennen Joyuu / Millenium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
*Hoshi no Koe / Voices of a Distant Star (just 25 min, maybe best with 5cm/s because also from Makoto Shinkai)

==Watched==
*All About Lily Chou-Chou (on fauux's channel)
*Serial Experiments Lain
*Black Mirror
*2013 Wipe
*Kino no Tabi
*Baccano!
*Summer Wars
*Akira
*Eve no Jikan
*Animatrix
*Metropolis
*My Neighbor Totoro
*Freedom
*Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki
*Seven Samurai
*Gunslinger Girl
*Puella Magi Madoka Magica
*Paprika
*Angel's Egg / Tenshi no Tamago ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%27s_Egg Wikipedia])
*Spice and Wolf S1
*Bartender
*megazone 23
*Boogiepop Phantom ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop_Phantom Wikipedia])
*Malice@Doll ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malice@Doll Wikipedia]) & Alice in Cyberland
*Paranoia Agent ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_Agent Wikipedia])

VisualWired

2014-01-08T13:47:11Z

Xoro:

'''VisualWired''' is a weekly video stream for SEL Fans.

It is regulary every Saturday, 23 UTC on http://www.livestream.com/visualwired

Next Saturdays (11th January 2014) programm will be Angel's Egg / Tenshi no Tamago ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%27s_Egg Wikipedia]).

==Suggestions==
''please no series over 20 Episodes / 8 hours''

*Despera
*Akira
*Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin-roh Wikipedia])
*Malice@Doll ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malice@Doll Wikipedia])
*Boogiepop Phantom ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop_Phantom Wikipedia])
*Mardock Scramble (3 Movies, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardock_Scramble Wikipedia])
*Paranoia Agent ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_Agent Wikipedia])
*23 (1998 German movie, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_%28film%29 Wikipedia])
*World on a Wire ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire Wikipedia], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvlQ8TQsmQA Trailer])
*Ghost in the Shell
**1995 Movie
**GitS 2: Innocence
**Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
**Arise series
*Mind Game
*Fantastic Planet
*We live in Public
*Fritz the Cat

==Watched==
*Serial Experiments Lain
*Gunslinger Girl
*Puella Magi Madoka Magica
*All About Lily Chou-Chou
*Paprika

Mebious.mobi

2013-10-10T13:24:10Z

Xoro:

Started in 2011 as an improved version of [[Mebious.co.uk]] by a person affectionately referred to as "Mobi-sama", sometimes "emotikun". This person sometimes posts in yellow text.

Mebious.mobi features 6 colour schemes, an image gallery, wordfilter, a [http://www.weusecoins.com/ Bitcoin] donations link, a music upload function(music player at /sound/assembly.html), a private area and an auto-refresh function. It displays 20 posts of up to 512 characters at a time and the URLs are clickable. To match the style of original mebious.co.uk sometimes URLs become corrupted and impossible to follow.

The text posts on Mobi are generally more coherent than the ones on Mebious.

In the early days, the image uploader was flooded with images of Bernkastel from Umineko no Naku Koro ni. As a consequence, Bernkastel is almost always visible.

In 2012 several users suggested meeting up in London, England sometime in 2014 and named the event mobicon/mebbycon. A blackboard and green chalk were mentioned.

==History==

In late September of 2013 www.mebious.mobi starting redirecting to www.mebious.co.uk. The reason is unclear and as of October 10th mobi is down.

==External Links==
* [http://www.mebious.mobi Mebious.mobi]
* [http://www.mebious.co.uk Mebious.co.uk] ([[Mebious.co.uk|article]]), the original Mebious.

Mebious.co.uk

2013-10-10T13:07:36Z

Xoro: /* Past events */

In the [[Serial_Experiments_Lain_(anime)|anime]], a website whose url appears on a pressure guage on [[Iwakura_Lain|Lain's]] computer. In the real world, it is the website that is arguably the central hub on the Lain online community; several websites, including this one, have come from its visitors.

Mebious is known to have inane comments, random numbers and, periodically, text in Russian.

Despite the challenges such a chaotic environment poses, several people have managed to make contact through the site, and interact more in other places on the internet (to the annoyance of some of them).

It is a hobby of Mebious users to attempt to track down the website's creator, who is known to be called "Tadzio Troman-Taylor" (aka monkiesnake). He is notoriously difficult to find information about in comparison to Internet users.

==Input fields==
There are input boxes for text and images, labeled "in_txt" and "in_img", respectively. When an input fails, the "in_txt/img" button turns from green to red.

===Text===
10 lines of text are displayed at a time. Each row can have a maximum of 48 characters.

Some characters in each line of text randomly turn into symbols that look like the character in question. This only affects lower-case letters. This allows text to remain legible but makes it difficult to follow URLs.

Text may eventually reappear as part of the background image (bg_out).

===Images===
Those new to Mebious often have trouble with image uploading.

It is possible that there is a limit to the total file size that one user can attempt to upload per day. This means that if the limit is exceeded on the first attempt, then no images can be uploaded that day.

To be confirmed:
*What is the file size limit? (From the source code: name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="262144")
*Which filetypes are supported? (I believe jpg/png)

Images are randomly distorted, turned green and placed in the background.

Like text, images may eventually reappear as part of the background image.

==History==
In the middle of 2010, the first of now-familiar russian spam waves appeared.

Sometime in 2010, a suicidal person appeared on Mebious. Several people (or perhaps just one, it is impossible to know for sure) encouraged him or her to commit suicide, and some other group tried to convince them not to. This caused much controversy amongst the users. Someone claiming to be the same person appeared about a year later, stating that they had entered therapy and was doing better.

In early 2011, a troll who posted in ALL CAPS spammed Mebious. This incident has since been resolved.

On the 8th of November 2011, a spammer appeared, posting a URL amongst nonsensical combinations of English words. This incident has not yet been resolved. (May have cleared up now - Feb 2012)

In October 2012, someone decided to start frequently posting the word "lewd", for apparently no reason.

In late September of 2013 www.mebious.mobi starting redirecting to www.mebious.co.uk. The reason is unclear and as of October 10th mobi is down.

Since October of 2012 to October of 2013, Russian spam overwhelms the site. Many people find the site prior to watching SEL resulting in less than relevant posting. In addition, the site was linked to several forums and imageboards across the internet during the year, compounding the issue.

==Projects==
*[[Lain visual novel project]]

==External Links==
*[http://www.mebious.co.uk Mebious.co.uk], the site in question
*[http://www.mebious.mobi Mebious.mobi] ([[Mebious.mobi|article]]), a website inspired by Mebious.co.uk and has additional functions such as music upload.

[[Category:Themes]]

Becoming God

2013-09-17T10:14:46Z

Xoro: Write Up

{{VNProject}}

[[Category:VN]]

Chapter 1
----

“UNTITLED (VISUAL NOVEL EXPERIMENTS LAIN) (WIP)”
By: Anonymous

INTRODUCTION
The scene opens with the main character waking up. He is staring at the room’s ceiling. There is the hum of a fan motor and the flowing air.

MC: Another unfamiliar ceiling?
No…

This is my room.

Why…

---
An Alarm Begins to sound and the view changes to a loft room from behind a Kotatsu. A monitor with Copland OS running can be seen on a desk.
---

NAVI: Good morn- (The NAVI’s greeting is interrupted.)

MC:I’m awake!

Not sure if I’m alive though.

Messages!

NAVI: There are no messages for- (The NAVI is again interrupted)

MC: Wonderful, I can step into the office without losing an ear or two.

FACELESS VOICE:
>SE:white noise in the background<

“It is such a nice day to serve God isn’t it?”

MC: Huh?

NAVI: There are n-

MC: Shut up!

I’ve got no time to lose my mind before work. I’m behind as it is!
Working for Tachibana Labs is enough!

Now where did I put my keys...

---
There is a quick shot of the door and the sound of it creaking open and closing.
---
The scene is now in a grey cubicle. A monitor running Copland OS is seen on the desk along with office stationary. The occasional phone can be heard ringing in the background, Distant keys click profusely.
---

TGL EMPLOYEE: Good morning!

MC:Good morning.

I didn’t get any messages, what happened? Did Eiri-san descend from Paradise and finish all the late commits?

EMPLOYEE:
Haha, that’s a little too soon. The nutcase only killed himself last month. We could’ve really used him though. We’ve got more problems than solutions lately.

Anyways, Lead says he cleared your plate. You’ve really dodged a bullet. He’s been forcing us to drink ‘Coffee’ as punishment all morning.
He said something about you doing a special assignment, Wetware division. Didn’t you get a message?

MC: I haven’t heard a thing.

EMPLOYEE:
Well you better see him before Lead thinks you’re back on the job.

MC: Yeah, will do.

:The scene fades a bit:

MC (IN THOUGHT):

The boss? I’ve never so much as seen him since my interview 7 years ago.

Even weirder, Wetware? A special assignment? Am I being transferred? No, I’ve never even dissected a frog. How could I work in Wetware?

Whatever, I’ll get some answers.

But first, coffee.

---
The scene opens in a luxurious office, a deep brown mahogany decorates the walls and furniture of the office, a couch is upholstered a dark green and a lamp sits atop the desk. A holographic interface running Copland OS floats on the desk.
The silhouette of a tall intimidating blonde man with an executive cut and a jet black American cut suit stands behind the desk glancing out the window. He stands at attention and his hands are behind his back at his waist. His back is facing the ‘camera’
The perspective is from a seat in front of the desk.
---

MC:I’ve been told to see you about an assignment sir. I haven’t received any kind of message…

BOSS: Take a seat.

Yes, I’m transferring you to Wetware, I’m told there’s a task that suits someone of your… Competence.

MC: I don’t know the first-

BOSS: You don’t have to. I don’t know the details. This comes from even higher up. I’m just responsible for a little paperwork.

MC: When is this supposed to happen? Where is the Wetware division?

BOSS: Tomorrow, a car will pick you up from your apartment in the morning.

---
The scene is in the MC’s loft again.
The screen on the desk is dark.
:SE:Cicadas stridulate in the background.
---
FACELESS VOICE:
>SE: White noise in background<

Waaake up.

MC: *Yawn*

I must be dead…

Nothing can hurt this much in the morning and still be considered alive.

---
There is a knock at the door.
>:SE: Knocking<
---

MC: The reaper is so much more polite than my landlord.

WAIT A MINUTE!

What time is it?! I must have slept in.

Oh NAVI… You have failed me for the last time.

I’ll be out in a minute!

---
Two men sprites of the MIB’s stand in the foreground. The background is the front of a Black Toyota Century. They’re wearing strange eyepieces with a laser-sight. (They can be recognized as the MIB; Lin Sui-Xi and Karl.)
---

MC: You’re my ride right?

MIB (KARL): Yes, we’re here to escort you. Step into the car.

---
Scene opens with the sounds of wheels passing over gravel.
A landscape of Sakura trees passes by; the perspective is from the right rear passenger behind a black tinted window.
---

MC: How far is this place?

Do I have to get there everyday?

MIB (LIN): We’ll be there soon.

I don’t think that will be expected of you.

---
The car stops with the sound of the brakes bringing the car to a halt.
>SE<
---

MIB (KARL): We’re here. We’ve been instructed to bring you back with the package or not at all.

MC: Whoa, what package?

MIB (LIN): Don’t ask too many questions. It’s bad for your health. *He takes a drag from a cigarette*

MC: Right.

---
The scene stands before a 3 storey tall concrete and glass office complex, it stands solitary and there is no one outside.
A few footsteps are heard as the scene fades into a reception area. It appears very sterile. Like a doctor’s office.
In the Foregorund: A very professional looking young woman sits at a desk typing on a small NAVI monitor. It partially obscures her.
---

MC: Hello?

RECEPTIONIST: She speaks in a dead tone: Tsubaki-san will see you now.

*She glances past him*

MC: Uhh…

---
A black-haired man in a white lab-coat quickly enters the foreground. He bears a neutral expression.
---

TSUBAKI: You must be the transfer.

MC: That’s correct, I’m supposed to work in Wetware?

TSUBAKI: That’s not entirely correct, for the time being…

*He glances at the receptionist*

Let’s continue this on the way shall we?

---
The scene changes to a hallway and the sound of footsteps is heard.
>SE<
---

TSUBAKI: Now, that’s better.

Officially, you’re under employment of Tachibana Lab’s Wetware division. You’ll receive the same payroll as our specialist technicians while you carry out your task.

MC: My task?

TSUBAKI: Yes of course, better to show you.

---
The ding of an elevator call is heard
And the scene briefly switches to the inside of the elevator
---

---
Tsubaki inserts and turns a key into the panel while pressing a button below the rest without a number.

The same ding is heard and the scene resembles a wide Operating Room. Gurneys line the walls and beside them are IV stands. Numerous medical paraphernalia can be seen.

In the center of the room stands a large vat of green fluid. It bubbles and this can be heard. Inside the tank is the silhouette of a slim humanoid figure.
---
MC: Whoa.

TSUBAKI: Impressive isn’t it? It is the culmination of years of work by Eiri and The Knights, The most valuable project in human history.

MC: What?

Who? I…

Who again?

How?

I’m in the dark here.

TSUBAKI: None of that’s really relevant to you. I’ll brief you and the specimen will be released to your custody.

MC: Okay but… Wait, wait, what exactly do you do here?

I thought I was picking up a package. What is this “specimen?”

TSUBAKI: This is Wetware. If it can be done with biology we make it happen. Anything.

MC: So, that thing in there… That’s a cyborg? A clone?

TSUBAKI:The specimen is an synthetic lifeform bonded to the form of a human being.

It was but an anomaly drifting in the Cyberspace of the Wired and saved by Eiri. He gave it form.

We brought it to life.

To call it by some ridiculous science-fiction moniker does not do our work justice.

We prefer to call her… Lain.

MC: When did I step into wonderland…

Lain, Like rain?

TSUBAKI: No, I take it you have never studied Russian before?

MC: Of course not.

TSUBAKI: It means Online. She was discovered in Russian networks and found among their domains and thus she is named.

MC:You expect me to deliver that thing?

TSUBAKI: No, you are to be her Handler.

----
END OF CHAPTER 1

Lain Visual Novel Project

2013-09-17T08:41:48Z

Xoro: /* Stories */

{{VNProject}}

On 2012-12-15, several users of [[Mebious.co.uk]] decided to make a visual novel based on [[Serial Experiments Lain]].

It will consist of a collection of short stories and use the Ren'Py visual novel engine.

==Staff==
*[[user:Amysteriousgal|Amysteriousgal]] - Writer, possible artist
*[[user:bytor|bytor]] - editor, maybe writer
*[[user:アラベスク|アラベスク]] - audio stuff, Japanese translation, general enthusiast
*[[user:Ahania|Ahania]] - tentative writer and programmy-stuff-do-er

==Plan==
*The text used for the VN will be collected here in a page in the next section. Each page represents one short story idea that will be included. Feel free to add your own ideas or to choose an existing one to write up.

*Music will be Creative Commons (any non-ND license). Possible source: http://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV

*Backgrounds should mostly be made from anime screencaps. Some specific ones may need to be drawn or adapted from photos.

*Character sprites will need to be drawn. (I'll try to draw some if she has time, but I can't guarantee quality. -Amysteriousgal)

*Everything will then be assembled into a visual novel. (I'll try my best to do this, but I'm really not capable of anything beyond the basics at the moment. It's fortunate that Ren'Py has been around for long enough for there to be guides to practically everything. -Amysteriousgal)

*Ideas should go on the relevant story's discussion page- the article is for agreed-upon plans and draft text for the story.

==Stories==
<onlyinclude>
*'''[[Come to the Wired]]'''
** Chisa's story, leading up to her suicide. Also sort of like a prequel.
** First draft completed

*'''[[Let's all love Lain]]'''
** Reality slippage causes people to become obsessed with Lain. Told in first person as one of the other characters - could be anyone, but perhaps Alice or Taro are easiest to use. Concurrent with Layer 12.
** In progress

*'''[[Visual Novel Experiments Lain]]'''
** Visual novel adaptations of the text snippets found in [[Visual Experiments Lain]].
** In progress

*'''[[A day in the life of Lain]]'''
** A light comedy where you go to school, explore the Wired, flirt with Alice, hallucinate, fulfill the prophecy, fend off your other self and try not to be too socially awkward.
** '''Writer needed'''

*'''[[Becoming God | Becoming God(Title to change at a later date.)]]'''
** The conspiracy from the perspective of a nameless Tachibana Labs Employee, covering the modification of Protocol 7 and the incarnation and conditioning of Lain. A prequel to the anime.
** '''Writer is Lazy'''

*'''[[Love Experiments Lain]]'''
** A dating sim with Lain, where the player plays as himself. Possible choice of which of the 3 Lain personalities to date?
** '''Writer needed'''

*'''[[Rumours in the Wired]]'''
** You play as yourself - you can enter your name or handle at the beginning. Voices are whispering things in the Wired. They're mostly random things, but when you speak to the Wired, it listens and begins responding, allowing you to collect information. Possible topics of investigation: Knights, Lain, some sort of conspiracy theory? And if you say the wrong things, the speakers become increasingly chaotic and perhaps attack you by spreading rumours until you can't stay on the Wired anymore.
** '''Writer needed'''
</onlyinclude>

==Art==

===Character sprites===

{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width=50%
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1lightfar.png|thumb|50px]]
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1lightclose.png|thumb|100px]]
|Lain in school uniform, standard pose, 1st (default) expression, light atmosphere.
|-
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1darkfar.png|thumb|50px]]
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1darkclose.png|thumb|100px]]
|Lain in school uniform, standard pose, 1st (default) expression, dark atmosphere.
|}

[[Category:VN]]

Lain Visual Novel Project

2013-09-17T08:41:09Z

Xoro: /* Stories */

{{VNProject}}

On 2012-12-15, several users of [[Mebious.co.uk]] decided to make a visual novel based on [[Serial Experiments Lain]].

It will consist of a collection of short stories and use the Ren'Py visual novel engine.

==Staff==
*[[user:Amysteriousgal|Amysteriousgal]] - Writer, possible artist
*[[user:bytor|bytor]] - editor, maybe writer
*[[user:アラベスク|アラベスク]] - audio stuff, Japanese translation, general enthusiast
*[[user:Ahania|Ahania]] - tentative writer and programmy-stuff-do-er

==Plan==
*The text used for the VN will be collected here in a page in the next section. Each page represents one short story idea that will be included. Feel free to add your own ideas or to choose an existing one to write up.

*Music will be Creative Commons (any non-ND license). Possible source: http://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV

*Backgrounds should mostly be made from anime screencaps. Some specific ones may need to be drawn or adapted from photos.

*Character sprites will need to be drawn. (I'll try to draw some if she has time, but I can't guarantee quality. -Amysteriousgal)

*Everything will then be assembled into a visual novel. (I'll try my best to do this, but I'm really not capable of anything beyond the basics at the moment. It's fortunate that Ren'Py has been around for long enough for there to be guides to practically everything. -Amysteriousgal)

*Ideas should go on the relevant story's discussion page- the article is for agreed-upon plans and draft text for the story.

==Stories==
<onlyinclude>
*'''[[Come to the Wired]]'''
** Chisa's story, leading up to her suicide. Also sort of like a prequel.
** First draft completed

*'''[[Let's all love Lain]]'''
** Reality slippage causes people to become obsessed with Lain. Told in first person as one of the other characters - could be anyone, but perhaps Alice or Taro are easiest to use. Concurrent with Layer 12.
** In progress

*'''[[Visual Novel Experiments Lain]]'''
** Visual novel adaptations of the text snippets found in [[Visual Experiments Lain]].
** In progress

*'''[[A day in the life of Lain]]'''
** A light comedy where you go to school, explore the Wired, flirt with Alice, hallucinate, fulfill the prophecy, fend off your other self and try not to be too socially awkward.
** '''Writer needed'''

*'''[[Becoming God (Title to change at a later date.)]]'''
** The conspiracy from the perspective of a nameless Tachibana Labs Employee, covering the modification of Protocol 7 and the incarnation and conditioning of Lain. A prequel to the anime.
** '''Writer is Lazy'''

*'''[[Love Experiments Lain]]'''
** A dating sim with Lain, where the player plays as himself. Possible choice of which of the 3 Lain personalities to date?
** '''Writer needed'''

*'''[[Rumours in the Wired]]'''
** You play as yourself - you can enter your name or handle at the beginning. Voices are whispering things in the Wired. They're mostly random things, but when you speak to the Wired, it listens and begins responding, allowing you to collect information. Possible topics of investigation: Knights, Lain, some sort of conspiracy theory? And if you say the wrong things, the speakers become increasingly chaotic and perhaps attack you by spreading rumours until you can't stay on the Wired anymore.
** '''Writer needed'''
</onlyinclude>

==Art==

===Character sprites===

{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width=50%
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1lightfar.png|thumb|50px]]
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1lightclose.png|thumb|100px]]
|Lain in school uniform, standard pose, 1st (default) expression, light atmosphere.
|-
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1darkfar.png|thumb|50px]]
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1darkclose.png|thumb|100px]]
|Lain in school uniform, standard pose, 1st (default) expression, dark atmosphere.
|}

[[Category:VN]]

Lain Visual Novel Project

2013-09-17T06:34:30Z

Xoro: /* Stories */

{{VNProject}}

On 2012-12-15, several users of [[Mebious.co.uk]] decided to make a visual novel based on [[Serial Experiments Lain]].

It will consist of a collection of short stories and use the Ren'Py visual novel engine.

==Staff==
*[[user:Amysteriousgal|Amysteriousgal]] - Writer, possible artist
*[[user:bytor|bytor]] - editor, maybe writer
*[[user:アラベスク|アラベスク]] - audio stuff, Japanese translation, general enthusiast
*[[user:Ahania|Ahania]] - tentative writer and programmy-stuff-do-er

==Plan==
*The text used for the VN will be collected here in a page in the next section. Each page represents one short story idea that will be included. Feel free to add your own ideas or to choose an existing one to write up.

*Music will be Creative Commons (any non-ND license). Possible source: http://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV

*Backgrounds should mostly be made from anime screencaps. Some specific ones may need to be drawn or adapted from photos.

*Character sprites will need to be drawn. (I'll try to draw some if she has time, but I can't guarantee quality. -Amysteriousgal)

*Everything will then be assembled into a visual novel. (I'll try my best to do this, but I'm really not capable of anything beyond the basics at the moment. It's fortunate that Ren'Py has been around for long enough for there to be guides to practically everything. -Amysteriousgal)

*Ideas should go on the relevant story's discussion page- the article is for agreed-upon plans and draft text for the story.

==Stories==
<onlyinclude>
*'''[[Come to the Wired]]'''
** Chisa's story, leading up to her suicide. Also sort of like a prequel.
** First draft completed

*'''[[Let's all love Lain]]'''
** Reality slippage causes people to become obsessed with Lain. Told in first person as one of the other characters - could be anyone, but perhaps Alice or Taro are easiest to use. Concurrent with Layer 12.
** In progress

*'''[[Visual Novel Experiments Lain]]'''
** Visual novel adaptations of the text snippets found in [[Visual Experiments Lain]].
** In progress

*'''[[A day in the life of Lain]]'''
** A light comedy where you go to school, explore the Wired, flirt with Alice, hallucinate, fulfill the prophecy, fend off your other self and try not to be too socially awkward.
** '''Writer needed'''

*'''[[Becoming God]]'''
** The conspiracy from the perspective of a nameless Tachibana Labs Employee, beginning with the modification to Protocol 7 and evolving into the incarnation and conditioning of Lain. A prequel to the anime.
** '''Writer is Lazy'''

*'''[[Love Experiments Lain]]'''
** A dating sim with Lain, where the player plays as himself. Possible choice of which of the 3 Lain personalities to date?
** '''Writer needed'''

*'''[[Rumours in the Wired]]'''
** You play as yourself - you can enter your name or handle at the beginning. Voices are whispering things in the Wired. They're mostly random things, but when you speak to the Wired, it listens and begins responding, allowing you to collect information. Possible topics of investigation: Knights, Lain, some sort of conspiracy theory? And if you say the wrong things, the speakers become increasingly chaotic and perhaps attack you by spreading rumours until you can't stay on the Wired anymore.
** '''Writer needed'''
</onlyinclude>

==Art==

===Character sprites===

{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width=50%
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1lightfar.png|thumb|50px]]
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1lightclose.png|thumb|100px]]
|Lain in school uniform, standard pose, 1st (default) expression, light atmosphere.
|-
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1darkfar.png|thumb|50px]]
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1darkclose.png|thumb|100px]]
|Lain in school uniform, standard pose, 1st (default) expression, dark atmosphere.
|}

[[Category:VN]]

Lain Visual Novel Project

2013-09-17T06:33:01Z

Xoro: /* Stories */

{{VNProject}}

On 2012-12-15, several users of [[Mebious.co.uk]] decided to make a visual novel based on [[Serial Experiments Lain]].

It will consist of a collection of short stories and use the Ren'Py visual novel engine.

==Staff==
*[[user:Amysteriousgal|Amysteriousgal]] - Writer, possible artist
*[[user:bytor|bytor]] - editor, maybe writer
*[[user:アラベスク|アラベスク]] - audio stuff, Japanese translation, general enthusiast
*[[user:Ahania|Ahania]] - tentative writer and programmy-stuff-do-er

==Plan==
*The text used for the VN will be collected here in a page in the next section. Each page represents one short story idea that will be included. Feel free to add your own ideas or to choose an existing one to write up.

*Music will be Creative Commons (any non-ND license). Possible source: http://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV

*Backgrounds should mostly be made from anime screencaps. Some specific ones may need to be drawn or adapted from photos.

*Character sprites will need to be drawn. (I'll try to draw some if she has time, but I can't guarantee quality. -Amysteriousgal)

*Everything will then be assembled into a visual novel. (I'll try my best to do this, but I'm really not capable of anything beyond the basics at the moment. It's fortunate that Ren'Py has been around for long enough for there to be guides to practically everything. -Amysteriousgal)

*Ideas should go on the relevant story's discussion page- the article is for agreed-upon plans and draft text for the story.

==Stories==
<onlyinclude>
*'''[[Come to the Wired]]'''
** Chisa's story, leading up to her suicide. Also sort of like a prequel.
** First draft completed

*'''[[Let's all love Lain]]'''
** Reality slippage causes people to become obsessed with Lain. Told in first person as one of the other characters - could be anyone, but perhaps Alice or Taro are easiest to use. Concurrent with Layer 12.
** In progress

*'''[[Visual Novel Experiments Lain]]'''
** Visual novel adaptations of the text snippets found in [[Visual Experiments Lain]].
** In progress

*'''[[A day in the life of Lain]]'''
** A light comedy where you go to school, explore the Wired, flirt with Alice, hallucinate, fulfill the prophecy, fend off your other self and try not to be too socially awkward.
** '''Writer needed'''

*'''[[Becoming God]]'''
** The conspiracy from the perspective of a nameless Tachibana Labs Employee, beginning with the modification to Protocol 7 and evolving into the incarnation of Lain and brainwashing of Lain. A prequel to the anime.
** '''Writer is Lazy'''

*'''[[Love Experiments Lain]]'''
** A dating sim with Lain, where the player plays as himself. Possible choice of which of the 3 Lain personalities to date?
** '''Writer needed'''

*'''[[Rumours in the Wired]]'''
** You play as yourself - you can enter your name or handle at the beginning. Voices are whispering things in the Wired. They're mostly random things, but when you speak to the Wired, it listens and begins responding, allowing you to collect information. Possible topics of investigation: Knights, Lain, some sort of conspiracy theory? And if you say the wrong things, the speakers become increasingly chaotic and perhaps attack you by spreading rumours until you can't stay on the Wired anymore.
** '''Writer needed'''
</onlyinclude>

==Art==

===Character sprites===

{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width=50%
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1lightfar.png|thumb|50px]]
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1lightclose.png|thumb|100px]]
|Lain in school uniform, standard pose, 1st (default) expression, light atmosphere.
|-
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1darkfar.png|thumb|50px]]
|[[File:Lainschoolstandard1darkclose.png|thumb|100px]]
|Lain in school uniform, standard pose, 1st (default) expression, dark atmosphere.
|}

[[Category:VN]]

META:Current events

2013-04-24T05:34:23Z

Xoro:

== The fan-made Serial Experiments Lain Visual Novel Project ==

Feel free to pop in at the [[Lain visual novel project]] page and contribute as much as you are willing and able. Several possible projects are available to pick-up, or start your own and add assets as you go. The project is in it's infancy so any Artwork, Sprites, Music, Sound or Dialog would be appreciated. Be sure to discuss the project on the page as well as across The Wired.

'' Let's all love Lain! ''