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The '''Layers''' are a series of 15 promotional illustrations for ''Serial Experiments Lain'' drawn by [[Yoshitoshi ABe|Yoshitoshi Abe]] and superimposed with text written by [[Chiaki J. Konaka]]. Nine of them were published in consecutive issues of ''AX'' magazine starting with the April 1998 issue. The other six were not shown in ''AX'', but all 15 can be seen in both editions of [[Omnipresence in Wired|''Omnipresence'']]. 

''AX'' (エーエックス) was a monthly anime magazine published by Sony Magazines that launched in March of 1998. The magazine was discontinued after the November 2001 issue.

==List of Layers==

{| class="wikitable"
! Title
! ''AX'' issue
! Notes
|-
|pre-layer
|style="text-align:center;"|98/04
| Coming Soon!
|-
|layer:01 Weird
|style="text-align:center;"|98/05
|
|-
|layer:02 Girls
|style="text-align:center;"|98/06
|
|-
|layer:03 Psyche
|style="text-align:center;"|98/07
|
|-
|layer:04 Religion
|style="text-align:center;"|98/08
|
|-
|Layer:05 Distortion
|style="text-align:center;"|98/09
|
|-
|Layer:06 Kids
|style="text-align:center;"| Unpublished
|
|-
|layer:07 Society
|style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished
|
|-
|layer:08 Rumors
|style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished
|
|-
|layer:09 Protocol
|style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished
|
|-
|layer:10 Love
|style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished
|
|-
|layer:11 Infornography
|style="text-align:center;"|98/10
|
|-
|layer:12 Landscape
|style="text-align:center;"|Unpublished
|
|-
|layer:13 Ego
|style="text-align:center;"|98/11
|
|-
|layer:00 Program
|style="text-align:center;"|98/12
|
|}


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