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

Asian Studies

Tamae KOBAYASHI PRINDLE¹ 

[1] Colby College;

关键词: embodiment;    analogue;    digital;    mind;    body;   

DOI  :  10.4312/as.2015.3.1.53-81

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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