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the remaster, at the other end of the quality scale from the vhs capture above. the same thirteen episodes, seen the way the restoration wanted.

layers eleven to thirteen taken off a japanese vhs tape and subtitled. tracking lines, tape hiss and all, which is closer to how anyone outside japan first watched this.

a various artists tribute album. fan made, uploaded by somebody who did not want it to vanish with whatever forum it was posted on.

the music collection as it circulated on bootleg discs, including the cyberia club tracks. not the official release, which is why it survived.

scans from the japanese navi dvd release, catalogue number pida-2231v. the packaging art nobody outside japan saw for twenty years.

a mediawiki devoted to the series: episodes, the navi hardware, the protocol seven material and the production notes, written by people who argue about it.

imageboard tooling and archives, including the scripts that keep old boards usable after their software stopped being maintained.

the 1998 playstation game, which is less a game than a pile of audio diaries you unlock out of order. fan translated after twenty odd years of it being unreadable outside japan.

the 1998 series with english subtitles, sitting on archive.org where anyone can watch it. what an archive entry looks like when the rights holder has not noticed yet.

named for the club in layer 02, and one of the places the aesthetic kept living after the anime stopped airing.

a fan rebuild of the operating system from the show, made to be used rather than looked at.

a community zine of essays, code and art, assembled in issues by whoever turned up that year.

file hosting, a git host and assorted services run under the lain name for people who need somewhere to put things.

the surviving arisuchan address, and the host now keeping the sizeof.cat mirror. the same people, a different domain.

the imageboard the whole culture routes through: cyberpunk, programming, and the radio above.

the lain board that split from lainchan in 2015 and ran its own culture for years. the domain now answers with a payment demand. last good capture was may 2026.