Serial Experiments Lain
シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン
Serial Experiments Lain is a tv anime with 13 listed episodes from Triangle Staff. Use this page for synopsis, release timing, trailer links, score history, and internal links to its season and genres.
Synopsis
Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide. Lain has neither the desire nor the experience to handle even basic technology; yet, when the technophobe opens the email, it leads her straight into the Wired, a virtual world of communication networks similar to what we know as the internet. Lain's life is turned upside down as she begins to encounter cryptic mysteries one after another. Strange men called the Men in Black begin to appear wherever she goes, asking her questions and somehow knowing more about her than even she herself knows. With the boundaries between reality and cyberspace rapidly blurring, Lain is plunged into more surreal and bizarre events where identity, consciousness, and perception are concepts that take on new meanings. Written by Chiaki J. Konaka, whose other works include Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain is a psychological avant-garde mystery series that follows Lain as she makes crucial choices that will affect both the real world and the Wired. In closing one world and opening another, only Lain will realize the significance of their presence. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
At a Glance
Type and status
TV · Completed
Season
Summer 1998
Primary studio
Triangle Staff
Episodes
13
Background
Serial Experiments Lain won the Excellence Prize in the 1998 Japan Media Arts Festival. It has been subject to commentary in the literary and academic worlds such as the Asian Horror Encyclopedia and The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation by the American Philosophical Society.
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What is Serial Experiments Lain about?
Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide. Lain has neither the desire nor the experience to handle even bas
How many episodes does Serial Experiments Lain have?
Serial Experiments Lain currently lists 13 episodes.
Who worked on Serial Experiments Lain and when did it air?
Serial Experiments Lain is associated with Triangle Staff and aired Jul 6, 1998 to Sep 28, 1998.