Serial Experiments Lain

Serial Experiments Lain 1998

serial experiments lain

★ 8.2TMDB 0h 24min 1 season

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.

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S1·E1 Layer:01 – WEIRDJul 6, 1998 · TMDB 8.1Lain 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 curiosity.S1·E2 Layer:02 – GIRLSJul 13, 1998 · TMDB 8.1Classmates 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 club.S1·E3 Layer:03 – PSYCHEJul 20, 1998 · TMDB 7.8Alice, 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 computer, but it…S1·E4 Layer:04 – RELIGIONJul 27, 1998 · TMDB 8.2Some players of a Wired game called PHANTOMa are dying suspicious deaths. Lain investigates, but her growing interest in the Wired worries her father, as well as…S1·E5 Layer:05 – DISTORTIONAug 3, 1998 · TMDB 8.3Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.S1·E6 Layer:06 – KIDSAug 10, 1998 · TMDB 8.5Young children are acting strangely, arms outstretched and silently staring at the sky. A shocking vision suddenly appears in the skies; it looks like Lain! Determined…S1·E7 Layer:07 – SOCIETYAug 17, 1998 · TMDB 8.5As 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 are asking: ""Who is…S1·E8 Layer:08 – RUMORSAug 24, 1998 · TMDB 8.6Still 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. Is what the MIB…S1·E9 Layer:09 – PROTOCOLAug 31, 1998 · TMDB 8.5A documentary about Roswell gives Lain some valuable information about the pioneers of the WIRED. Later, at the Cyberia, J.J. tells Lain that she left something the day…S1·E10 Layer:10 – LOVESep 7, 1998 · TMDB 8.1Lain 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 with the Knights once…S1·E11 Layer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHYSep 14, 1998 · TMDB 7.7Alone 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.S1·E12 Layer:12 – LANDSCAPESep 21, 1998 · TMDB 8.2Troubled 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 and Eiri reveals his…S1·E13 Layer:13 – EGOSep 28, 1998 · TMDB 8.5The 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 ultimate personal…

Cast

Crew

Cinematography
Takashi Azuhata
Editing
Tsuyoshi Imai
Composer
Reichi Nakaido

Details

First air date
Jul 6, 1998
Last air date
Sep 28, 1998
Seasons
1
Episodes
13
Episode runtime
24 min
Network
TV Tokyo
Status
Ended
Studios
Pioneer LDC, Triangle Staff
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese

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