Serial Experiments Lain - Season 1

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Serial Experiments Lain

“Present day, present time! Ha ha ha ha ha...”

⭐ 8 TV-14 Season 1 Japanese

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Overview

Storyline

Strange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired".

Cast & Media Details

Stars Kaori Shimizu, Ali Moriizumi, Ayako Kawasumi, Yoko Asada

Creator Yasuyuki Ueda

Genre Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Release Date 13 Jul, 1999

Total Seasons 1 Seasons

Runtime 24m

Country Japan

Audio / Language Japanese, English

Production Pioneer LDC, Triangle Staff

IMDb Votes 23,077

Keywords & Themes

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SEASON (1)

1. Weird ⭐ 7.6

13 Jul, 1999 · 1,070 votes

People are getting emails from a girl that killed herself last week (Chisa Yomoda), which claim that she only gave up her body, but is actually still alive inside the Wired, and that God is also there. After getting one of these emails, the introverted Lain becomes interested in computers and she ask her father for a new NAVI.

Director: Ryûtarô Nakamura

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2. Girls ⭐ 7.8

13 Jul, 1998 · 929 votes

Accela - a designer drug born of nanotechnology - is a big hit with the club kids, but what's that got to do with Lain? Only a madman who painted the dance floor with blood can answer that question - and he's dead.

Director: Ryûtarô Nakamura

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3. Psyche ⭐ 7.5

20 Jul, 1998 · 859 votes

Lain has questions about a computer chip someone left in her locker, and her Dad's not talking. Some kids at the club say they know all about it - but they want a piece of Lain's wired wild side.

Director: Jôhei Matsuura, Ryûtarô Nakamura

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4. Religion ⭐ 7.7

27 Jul, 1998 · 830 votes

The more involved with computers she becomes, the more Lain begins to transform. In the cybernetic cocoon that was once her room, she's hard at work blurring the lines between reality and the wired.

Director: Ryûtarô Nakamura, Akihiko Nishiyama

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5. Distortion ⭐ 7.9

03 Aug, 1998 · 825 votes

Lain's friends suspect her involvement in a series of computer errors that caused a lethal traffic accident. Meanwhile, her sister is haunted by mysterious messages demanding that she "fulfill the prophecy".

Director: Masahiko Murata, Ryûtarô Nakamura

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6. Kids ⭐ 7.6

10 Aug, 1998 · 781 votes

When an image of herself appears in the clouds, the real Lain enters the wired on a search for answers. Her quest leads to a "child-killer" scientist whose devious work is being exploited by the Knights.

Director: Ryûtarô Nakamura

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7. Society ⭐ 7.8

17 Aug, 1998 · 763 votes

Covert agents in black suits take Lain in for questioning. When the interrogation hits too close to home, Lain flips from real to wired in the blink of an eye.

Director: Jôhei Matsuura, Ryûtarô Nakamura

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8. Rumors ⭐ 8.3

24 Aug, 1998 · 785 votes

Lain's unsavory behavior within the wired turns her into an outcast at school. Confused and alone, Lain investigates her own cyber-lifestyle only to be shocked by a voyeuristic incarnation of herself.

Director: Ryûtarô Nakamura, Shigeru Ueda

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9. Protocol ⭐ 7.8

31 Aug, 1998 · 726 votes

A DJ at the club passes Lain a plain brown envelope containing a computer chip of unknown origins. Hoping to learn more about the clandestine technology, Lain abducts a young boy for a "date."

Director: Ryûtarô Nakamura, Akihiko Nishiyama

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10. Love ⭐ 8.4

07 Sep, 1998 · 778 votes

Lain encounters a man who call himself the ''god of the wired'', and members of the Knights all across the world log on to participate in a cryptic mass suicide.

Director: Masahiko Murata, Ryûtarô Nakamura

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11. Infornography ⭐ 7.5

14 Sep, 1998 · 714 votes

Lain risks a meltdown by uploading a Navi clone into her own brain. Later, the border between reality and the wired is threatened when Lain forces the world forget a secret that never should have been revealed.

Director: Jôhei Matsuura, Ryûtarô Nakamura

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12. Landscape ⭐ 8.5

21 Sep, 1998 · 781 votes

"God" preaches that our bodies are simply an obstacle preventing the evolution of mankind. An exhausted Lain appears willing to sacrifice her own flesh and blood until Alice convinces her to take a stand against the digitalized deity.

Director: Ryûtarô Nakamura

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13. Ego ⭐ 8.7

28 Sep, 1998 · 859 votes

Lain's guilt over the havoc caused by her interaction within the wired provokes her to take drastic - and irreversible - action.

Director: Ryûtarô Nakamura

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