Lain Chat Details

The creators of Serial Experiments Lain, Yasuyuki Ueda (creator/producer) and Yoshitoshi Abe (character designer), are planning to host a live chat at the Anime Colony on Monday, August 7, at 9PM ET to share their experiences with Lain as well as their new series NieA_7. Fans will be able to ask their questions and find out what makes these creators tick.

Ueda has worked on the Playstation adventure/dating-sim game Noel as director, has produced several other animes and discovered Abe during the conception of Lain. In 1994, Abe won 2nd prize in Koudansha Magazine’s Summer Season Award. Since then, he has worked on the Furu-Machi (“Old Town”) CD-ROM/Artbook, the Lain Playstation game, the WachenRoder Sega Saturn strategy-RPG, and other commercial and non-commercial works.