The production company Team MJM released a press statement announcing that it is developing a spin-off for the anime Serial Experiments Lain , scheduled for release on April 30, 2025.
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The team described the game //signal as an “occult RPG” and confirmed that it will be released on Steam for Windows and macOS . The digital version of the game will cost 1,000 yen (approximately R$38.00), and its limited CD-ROM edition will be 1,700 yen (approximately R$65.00).
The game is official and part of the Serial Experiments Lain lore, authorized by the guidelines of NBCUniversal , which released the first promotional image of //signal , see:
In the game, the player can interact with the characters , gathering emails and records of events and reuniting people whose bonds were broken. Through this, the player can discover "a new facet" of the character Lain Iwakura and, by extension, of the anime itself.
Regarding the original story
Yasuyuki Ueda created the anime, Ryuutarou Nakamura directed it, Chiaki J. Konaka wrote the script, and Yoshitoshi Abe was the character designer. The studio Triangle Staff released the series in July 1998.
Due to its success, the anime received a PlayStation in November of the same year. In addition, a one-shot written and illustrated by Yoshitoshi Abe was released in May 1999, which blends 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 of human communication networks . Telegraph and telephone services created the network, which the internet and its subsequent networks expanded.
The anime suggests that Wired may connect to a system that allows unconscious communication between people and machines without the need for a physical interface.
History 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 link, the network would become equivalent to reality, forming a consensus of perceptions and knowledge. The tenuous line between the real and the virtual would begin to disappear.
hyper-connected world , we follow Lain, a fourteen-year-old girl who doesn't get along very well with technology . But driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate, she enters the Wired. Lain gets lost in a distorted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected psyches.
Source: Press Release .
