Serial Experiments Lain
| Serial Experiments Lain | |
North American cover of the first DVD volume from Pioneer featuring titular character Lain Iwakura.
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シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン (Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein) |
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| Genre | Cyberpunk, psychological horror, science fiction, drama, mystery |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Ryūtarō Nakamura |
| Produced by |
Yasuyuki Ueda Shojiro Abe |
| Written by | Chiaki J. Konaka |
| Music by | Reichi Nakaido |
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Triangle Staff Pioneer LDC |
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| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | July 6, 1998 – September 28, 1998 |
| Episodes | 13 |
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| Developer | Pioneer LDC |
| Publisher | Pioneer LDC |
| Platform | PlayStation |
| Released | November 26, 1998 |
| Manga | |
| The Nightmare of Fabrication | |
| Written by | Yoshitoshi ABe |
| Published | May 1999 |
Serial Experiments Lain (シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein?) is an avant-garde anime series directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura, with character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. The series is influenced by themes such as reality, identity and communication, and it demonstrates them by using philosophy, computer history, cyberpunk literature and conspiracy theory.
The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent middle school girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network which is similar to the Internet. Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her emotionally distant mother, and her computer-obsessed father; while Lain herself is somewhat awkward, introverted, and socially isolated from most of her school peers. But the status-quo of her life becomes upturned by a series of bizarre incidents that start to take place after she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from a dead student, Chisa Yomoda, and she pulls out her old computer in order to check for the same message. Lain finds Chisa telling her that she is not dead, but has merely "abandoned her physical body and flesh" and is alive deep within the virtual reality-world of the Wired itself, where she has found the almighty and divine "God". From this point, Lain is caught up in a series of cryptic and surreal events that see her delving deeper into the mystery of the network in a narrative that explores themes of consciousness, perception, and the nature of reality.
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