2008, 16 pages; published in Mechademia 3, University of Minnesota Press (Frenchy Lunning, editor)

Description:
   An analysis and exploration of the many-layered visual world of Serial Experiments Lain, presented in manga format.
   Lain Iwakura is 13. She goes to school and lives with her normal suburban family. Although she isn't very good with computers, the world she lives in is intensely technologized: power lines crisscross the sky, advanced personal computers and phones are pandemic, and a multifunctional internet-like stratum of reality called the Wired envelops the world. When Lain acquires a new top-of-the-line computer and proceeds to connect to the Wired, she begins to fall into an existence where reality is undetermined, memory is malleable, and identity is a diffuse quality...