Anime Profile: Serial Experiments Lain
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USA Info |
Japanese Info |
Image |
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Title |
Serial Experiments Lain | Serial Experiments Lain (シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン) |
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Released |
13 TV episodes | 13 TV episodes | |
Dates |
1999 | July 7, 1998–Sept 28, 1998 | |
Company |
Pioneer Ent., Animaze Inc. | Triangle Staff/AIC/GENCO/Bandai Channel/TV Tokyo | |
Creator |
Yoshitoshi Abe | ||
Director |
Ryotaro Nakamura | ||
Genre |
Sci-Fi, Paranormal, Drama, Mystery, Psychological | Sci-Fi, Paranormal, Drama, Mystery, Psychological | |
Characters |
Alice Mizuki | Alice Mizuki | |
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Anime Characters: Serial Experiments Lain
English Name |
Japanese Name |
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English Name |
Japanese Name |
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| Alice Mizuki | Alice Mizuki | Mika Iwakura | Mika Iwakura | |
| Lain Iwakura | Lain Iwakura | Reika Yamamto | Reika Yamamto | |
| Jaro | Jaro | Yasuo Iwakura | Yasuo Iwakura | |
| Juri Kato | Juri Kato |
Anime Description: Serial Experiments Lain
After a suicide committied by Chisa Yomoda, strange e-mails have been received by people suggestiong that they came from her. Lain Iwakura, age 13, gets this strange e-mail, then soon is drawn close into the world of the Wired (also known as the internet). Soon her Navi is upgradeded, and strange things start happening to her. She soon discovers there is another her, in the wired, and she goes about trying to find out who she is.
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Anime Description: Serial Experiments Lain
In a world where technology is growing more and more advanced, Lain Iwakura was a girl with no experience. However, all of this changes when one of Lain's classmates mysteriously commits suicide. Lain decides to get her own computer and link to the Wired (the advanced internet of the Lain universe). Things get even stranger when her classmate e-mails Lain... after she dies.
From then on, Lain sinks deeper and deeper into the Wired and Lain transforms into something other than herself. She becomes a celebrity of the Wired, and even grows new and shocking personas. But what is the Wired, and how is it influencing everything in reality? The mysteries and questions grow even more complex, even to the point where Lain might not even know who she is.
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