Page No.Ī picture of Lain on a semitransparent piece of paper. This book doesn't even have a contents page. Note: The pages are not numbered, so this might not be very useful.
The actual cover is dark blue and unadorned except for the title and the words "Hello NAVI." The 2006 edition has a cardboard slip cover (pictured). Yoshitoshi ABe lain illustrations: ab# rebuild an omnipresence in wired (2006) A paragraph of general information about Abe, then a "general chronology" of events in his life starting in 1993 when he entered college, then a "fragile goods chronology" listing every computer he'd owned since 1990 (I think?) An index of comments by Abe about every illustration in the book and information on where each of them was originally published. The title of each Layer illustration is listed with the magazine issue it was originally published in. Abe and Konaka having a conversation about the Layers illustrations. Special issue "the nightmare of fabrication" (DC1029) See Layers (illustrations) for more info. Except the descriptions.Ī few paragraphs by ABe, with a translation, talking about his concept of Lain's existence and how it was manifested in his creative process. Most of the data in this table is taken from this page.
The title of the book with a bunch of identical pictures of lain, except with different photoshop effects added to them. The cover itself has only the picture of lain. The slip cover is transparent and marked with the title and white shading. The cover of the first edition as it appears with the plastic slip cover.