Serial experiments lain - Ultimate Fan Guide Just the facts I would recommend this book to die-hard lain fans only. 336-pages long, this book is almost all Japanese text, with the exception of the cover illustrations, a few color and black-and-white character images, and several black-and-white storyboard images. Instead, it contains the original screenplays of all 13 episodes of the anime. Konaka, scenario experiments lain is not really an artbook. omnipresence is not easy to find and it is relatively expensive, but if you love Lain, you can't do without this book.īy Chiaki J. Each in their own way, the two books are a visual tour de force. With not much text at all, omnipresence contains page after page of gorgeous illustrations, many of them full page or even spanning two pages. The layout is simple-not as interesting as Visual Experiments Lain-but the content is rich.

The various illustrations that appeared in AX Magazine, all the cover art, PSX game art, stuff from the various omake (LD and DVD extras), design sketches, a beautiful and creepy full-color 's all there and more. The variety of illustrations and drawings is excellent as well. Most of the art is full-color, but even the few black and white drawings are stunning. Hardcover with a plastic slip-case and containing 128-pages of art on high quality paper, the package is irresistible. If you're a fan of lain, I give VEL my highest recommendation.Īn omnipresence in wired by yoshitoshi ABe is surely one of the greatest anime artbooks ever made.

This book seems readily available at various online anime stores or on ebay, and is relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, it does includes some excellent full-color illustrations by Takahiro Kishida, who drew the animation character designs. VEL is not a book of original illustrations, so the work of Yoshitoshi ABe (original character designer) is not heavily featured. serial experiments lain is a visually interesting anime, so it's no wonder that the book devoted to it is also visually interesting, living up to its billing as a 'visual experiment.' The progressive layout reminds me of Mondo 2000 or other postmodern mags not your typical use of white space.and it looks nice.very nice, in fact. What sets VEL apart from other artbooks is its incredible layout. Text aside, VEL is simply great to look at. In addition, there's a decent amount of English text to help readers navigate the book.

If you can read Japanese, there's more than enough text to make this book worth buying. Of course, I can't read Japanese, so I am judging the book purely by its aesthetics. Like artbooks for other anime series, the 80-page VEL includes plenty of screen shots, conceptual drawings, original illustrations, and informational text in Japanese. Visual experiments lain is one of the nicest artbooks I own, and I own a decent number (41).

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