The three Lains

The three Lains — from The Faces Of Lain (Yoshitoshi ABe · 1998) in the Serial Experiments Lain gallery gallery. What you are looking at: The three Lains.

ABe’s own sheet of Lain’s three selves, the shy child of the real world, the bold Lain of the Wired, and the sly third one. The writers marked the three in the scripts by writing her name three different ways.

Shown here at its verified native size, 309×323 — the largest honest scan the Library holds for this cover.