Editing Serial Experiments Lain (section)

==Related media==
===Art books===
*''An Omnipresence In Wired'': Hardbound, 128 pages in 96 colors with Japanese text. It features a chapter for each layer (episode) and concept sketches. It also features a short color [[manga]] titled "The Nightmare of Fabrication". It was published in 1998 by Triangle Staff/SR-12W/Pioneer LDC. ({{ISBN|4-7897-1343-1}})
*''Yoshitoshi ABe lain illustrations ab# rebuild an omnipresence in Wired'': Hardbound, 148 pages. A remake of "An Omnipresence In Wired" with new art, added text by Chiaki J. Konaka, and a section entitled "ABe's EYE in color of things" (a compilation of his photos of the world). It was published in Japan on October 1, 2005, by [[Wanimagazine]] ({{ISBN|4-89829-487-1}}), and in America as a softcover version translated into English on June 27, 2006, by [[Digital Manga Publishing]] ({{ISBN|1-56970-899-1}}).
*''Visual Experiments Lain'': Paperback, 80 full-color pages with Japanese text. It has details on the creation, design, and storyline of the series. It was published in 1998 by Triangle Staff/Pioneer LDC. ({{ISBN|4-7897-1342-3}})
*''Scenario Experiments Lain'': Paperback, 335 pages. By "chiaki j. konaka" (uncapitalized in original). It contains collected scripts with notes and small excerpted storyboards. It was published in 1998 in Japan.({{ISBN|4-7897-1320-2}})

===Soundtracks===
The first [[original soundtrack]], ''Serial Experiments Lain Soundtrack'', features music by [[Reichi Nakaido]]: the ending theme and part of the television series' score, alongside other songs inspired by the series. The second, ''Serial Experiments Lain Soundtrack: Cyberia Mix'', features [[electronica]] songs inspired by the television series, including a remix of the opening theme "Duvet" by DJ Wasei. The third, ''lain BOOTLEG'', consists of the ambient score of the series across forty-five tracks. ''BOOTLEG'' also contains a second mixed-mode data and audio disc, containing a clock program and a game, as well as an extended version of the first disc – nearly double the length – across 57 tracks in 128&nbsp;kbit/s [[MP3]] format, and sound effects from the series in [[WAV]] format. Because the word ''[[Bootleg recording|bootleg]]'' appears in its title, it is easily confused with the Sonmay [[copyright infringement|counterfeit edition]] of itself, which only contains the first disc in an edited format. All three soundtrack albums were released by [[Pioneer Corporation|Pioneer Records]].

The series' opening theme, "[[Twilight (Bôa album)|Duvet]]", was written and performed in English by the British rock band [[Bôa]]. The band released the song as a single and as part of the [[Extended play|EP]] ''[[Tall Snake]]'', which features both an acoustic version and DJ Wasei's remix from ''Cyberia Mix''.

===Video games===
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On November 26, 1998, Pioneer LDC released a video game with the same name as the anime for the [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005OVPO/|title=Serial Experiments Lain|access-date=September 25, 2010|archive-date=January 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122195345/https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005OVPO/|url-status=live}}</ref> It was designed by Konaka and Yasuyuki, and made to be a "network simulator" in which the player would navigate to explore Lain's story.<ref name="HK" /> The creators themselves did not call it a game, but "Psycho-Stretch-Ware",<ref name="HK" /> and it has been described as being a kind of [[visual novel]]: the gameplay is limited to unlocking pieces of information, and then reading/viewing/listening to them, with little or no puzzle needed to unlock.<ref name="GAF">{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesarefun.com/gamesdb/review.php?reviewid=67|title=Games Are Fun: "Review – Serial Experiments Lain – Japan"|date=April 25, 2003|access-date=November 10, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927061706/http://www.gamesarefun.com/gamesdb/review.php?reviewid=67|archive-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref> Lain distances itself even more from classical games by the [[random]] order in which information is collected.<ref name="HK" /> The aim of the authors was to let the player get the feeling that there are myriads of informations that they would have to sort through, and that they would have to do with less than what exists to understand.<ref name="HK" /> As with the anime, the creative team's main goal was to let the player "feel" Lain, and "to understand her problems, and to love her".<ref name="Animerica2" /> A guidebook to the game called ''Serial Experiments Lain Official Guide'' ({{ISBN|4-07-310083-1}}) was released the same month by [[MediaWorks (publisher)|MediaWorks]].<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ja:シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン公式ガイド|trans-title=Serial Experiments Lain Official Guide|language=ja|id={{ASIN|4073100831|country=jp}}}}</ref>

In March 2025, Team MJM announced ''Signal'', an official occult-themed role-playing game derivative of the ''Serial Experiments Lain'' series. Scheduled for release on April 30, 2025, the game will be available for [[Windows]] and [[macOS]] via [[Steam (service)|Steam]] and [[itch.io]] services, with a limited CD-ROM edition also planned.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Loo|first1=Egan|last2=Tai|first2=Anita|title=Authorized Serial Experiments Lain Spinoff Game Launches on April 30|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-03-16/authorized-serial-experiments-lain-spinoff-game-launches-on-april-30/.222447|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=March 17, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250317022227/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-03-16/authorized-serial-experiments-lain-spinoff-game-launches-on-april-30/.222447|archive-date=March 17, 2025|date=March 16, 2025}}</ref>