Serial Experiments Lain: The Nightmare of Fabrication

Serial Experiments Lain: The Nightmare of Fabrication

In this short full-color manga by Yoshitoshi ABe, Lain sits alone in her room, starved for any human contact, and counts off the people she has lost: Touko, who has turned cold toward her; her now-divorced parents; Tomo and Kyoko, whom she has cut off; and Misato, whom others insist was never real. Cutting the collar off her toy dog Bike-chan, Lain insists Misato existed — then cannot find the art supplies she remembers buying with her. Tied to the Serial Experiments Lain franchise, it reads as a missing fragment of that world rather than a standalone entry.