Developer Team MJM has released a press release announcing that they are developing a spin-off Serial Experiments Lain anime , scheduled for release on April 30, 2025.
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The team described //signal as an "occult RPG" and confirmed that it will release the game on Steam for Windows and macOS . The digital version of the game will cost 1,000 yen (about $38.00), and the limited edition CD-ROM will cost 1,700 yen (about $65.00).
The game is official and is part of the lore of Serial Experiments Lain, being authorized by the guidelines that NBCUniversal , which released the first promotional image of //signal , see:
In the game, players can interact with characters from the anime, gathering emails and records of past events "a new side" to the character Lain Iwakura and, by extension, the anime itself.
About the original story
Yasuyuki Ueda created the anime, Ryuutarou Nakamura directed it, Chiaki J. Konaka wrote the script, and Yoshitoshi Abe designed the character. The Triangle Staff released the series in July 1998.
Due to its success, the anime spawned a PlayStation in November of the same year. A one-shot written and illustrated by Yoshitoshi Abe was released in May 1999, combining the narrative and characters from the anime and the game.
Synopsis of Serial Experiments Lain
In Lain's story, the characters are connected by the " Wired ," the sum total of human communication networks . Telegraph and telephone services created the network, which the internet and its successors expanded.
The anime suggests that Wired can connect to a system that allows unconscious communication between people and machines without the need for a physical interface.
The story introduces us to this system with the "Schumann Resonance ." A property of the Earth's magnetic field that theoretically overcomes all barriers to long-distance communication . If someone were to create such a connection, the network would become equivalent to reality, forming a consensus of perceptions and knowledge. The thin line between the real and the virtual would begin to disappear.
hyper-connected world , we follow Lain, a fourteen-year-old girl who struggles with technology . But driven by the sudden suicide of a classmate, she enters the Wired. Lain becomes lost in a distorted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected psyches.
Source: Press Release .
