Nakamura Ryûtarô’s Anime, Serial Experiments, Lain (1998)

  This paper introduces Nakamura Ryūtarō’s anime, Serial Experiments, Lain (1998) as a new type of anime, a genre nameable as an “expository anime”, for the reason that it creates a diachronic story out of a synchronic aspect of a certain field of science. The overarching topic of Experiments is e...

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Main Author: Tamae KOBAYASHI PRINDLE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2015-07-01
Series:Asian Studies
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Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/3018
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Asian Studies
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title_short Nakamura Ryûtarô’s Anime, Serial Experiments, Lain (1998)
title_full Nakamura Ryûtarô’s Anime, Serial Experiments, Lain (1998)
title_fullStr Nakamura Ryûtarô’s Anime, Serial Experiments, Lain (1998)
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publisher Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
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publishDate 2015-07-01
description   This paper introduces Nakamura Ryūtarō’s anime, Serial Experiments, Lain (1998) as a new type of anime, a genre nameable as an “expository anime”, for the reason that it creates a diachronic story out of a synchronic aspect of a certain field of science. The overarching topic of Experiments is electronics, focusing on the comparison between digital and analogue communication systems. Experiments unfolds the rationales, potentials, and effects of the two types of communication systems using the perceptions of the major character, a thirteen-year old girl, Rein, as well as other supporting characters.  
topic embodiment
analogue
digital
mind
body
url https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/3018
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