Series

Serial Experiments Lain

1998★ 8.21 seasons

Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

Cast

Featured cast

Kaori ShimizuLain Iwakura (voice)

Yoko AsadaArisu Mizuki - Lain's friend (voice)

Ayako KawasumiMika Iwakura - Lain's older sister (voice)

Ryusuke OhbayashiYasuo Iwakura - Lain's father (voice)

Rei IgarashiMiho Iwakura - Lain's mother (voice)

Sumi MutohChisa Yomoda (voice)

Episodes

1Layer:01 – WEIRDLain Iwakura, a shy, 13-year-old schoolgirl, receives an email from a schoolmate after her suicide. Is it a prank? Lain doesn't feel horror, but curi…24 min

2Layer:02 – GIRLSClassmates Alice, Julie, and Reika wonder if that was Lain they saw at the nightclub Cyberia. To find out, they invite Lain to go with them to the cl…24 min

3Layer:03 – PSYCHEAlice, Julie, and Reika are minor celebrities in their class after they witness a shooting at The Cyberia. Lain is given a black-market chip for her …24 min

4Layer:04 – RELIGIONSome players of a Wired game called PHANTOMa are dying suspicious deaths. Lain investigates, but her growing interest in the Wired worries her father…24 min

5Layer:05 – DISTORTIONLain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.24 min

6Layer:06 – KIDSYoung children are acting strangely, arms outstretched and silently staring at the sky. A shocking vision suddenly appears in the skies; it looks lik…24 min

7Layer:07 – SOCIETYAs the Knights activities make the evening news, a strange man named Nazumi wanders the city with machines strapped to his body. People on the WIRED …24 min

8Layer:08 – RUMORSStill shaken by the information she received from the Men In Black, Lain discovers that she is being blamed for spreading an ugly rumor in the WIRED.…24 min

9Layer:09 – PROTOCOLA documentary about Roswell gives Lain some valuable information about the pioneers of the WIRED. Later, at the Cyberia, J.J. tells Lain that she lef…24 min

10Layer:10 – LOVELain struggles with her identity. Is she a human being, or just a hologram? And are the Knights responsible for the Evil Lain? Lain decides to deal w…24 min

11Layer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHYAlone and frightened, Lain immerses herself in the WIRED, processing the events of the past few weeks and searching for the truth of who she is.24 min

12Layer:12 – LANDSCAPETroubled by what she saw, Alice decides to visit Lain at home and find out what is going on. Meanwhile, the two MIB agents receive a terrible shock a…24 min

13Layer:13 – EGOThe world is crumbling, people are dying and Alice's sanity is threatened. To save humanity, there is only one thing Lain can do; she must make the u…24 min

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