Name: Serial experiments lain
Released: 1998-07-06T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Ayako Kawasumi, Kaori Shimizu, Obayashi Ryunosuke

Serial experiments lain

TV Show · Anime · Sci-Fi

Acclaimed artist Yoshitoshi ABe (Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze) brings to life the existential classic that paved the way for blockbuster films such as The Matrix. Follow along as fourteen year old Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly looses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

1998 · 24m

Starring Ayako Kawasumi, Kaori Shimizu, Obayashi Ryunosuke

Director Ryutaro Nakamura

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Lain wasn’t interested in computers until she received her first email from a formerly suicidal classmate. Her newfound desire to connect with the dead will lead her into the twisted maze of the “wired world.”

22m
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

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.

22m
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

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.

22m
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

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.

22m
EPISODE 5

Episode 5

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”.

22m
EPISODE 6

Episode 6

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.

22m