What many don’t know is that Serial Experiments Lain received a video game adaptation. Released in 1998 for the PlayStation 1, the game has never left Japan and is now a rare and sought-after title.

The idea of incorporating this missing component into Serial Experiments Lain’s complex vision, however, projects a different sort of image. Lain is a shy middle school girl who initially ...

("Jikai o-tanoshimi ni.", or "Look forward to the next episode."), "serial experiments lain: Close the world. open the nExt.", and then shows a picture of Lain in her bear suit standing in a field ...