description Serial Experiments Lain Overview
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 he...
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Serial Experiments Lain ranks #418 of 4125 in the Anime ranking, behind Silver Spoon 2nd Season, ahead of Dr. Stone: Stone Wars.
info Serial Experiments Lain Specifications
| Year | 1998 |
help Serial Experiments Lain FAQ
What is the Wired in Serial Experiments Lain?
The Wired is the show's fictional global communications network, close enough to the internet to feel familiar but stranger in how it affects identity and reality. Lain Iwakura's connection to it is the center of the 13-episode story.
Who wrote and directed Serial Experiments Lain?
The anime was written by Chiaki J. Konaka and directed by Ryutaro Nakamura. Triangle Staff animated the series, which aired in Japan in 1998.
Is Serial Experiments Lain connected to a video game?
Yes. Pioneer LDC released a Serial Experiments Lain game for the original PlayStation in 1998, but it is a companion work rather than a normal adaptation of the anime plot.
Why do people compare Lain to modern social media and online identity?
The series deals with online personas, disembodied communication, rumors, surveillance, and the collapse of private identity. Those themes were unusually sharp for a 1998 TV anime, years before smartphones and large social networks became normal.
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