Serial Experiments Lain 1
1998-07-06 | Animation,Drama,Sci-Fi & Fantasy,Mystery | 13 episodes1 Season
Episode
Layer:01 – WEIRD (1998)
Lain 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.
Directed By
- Ryutaro Nakamura
Writer
- Chiaki J. Konaka
Layer:02 – GIRLS (1998)
Classmates 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.
Directed By
- Ryutaro Nakamura
Writer
- Chiaki J. Konaka
Layer:03 – PSYCHE (1998)
Alice, 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 seems she is also being followed.
Directed By
- Yuichi Tanaka
Writer
- Chiaki J. Konaka
Layer:04 – RELIGION (1998)
Some 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 classmates Mika and Alice.
Directed By
- Akihiko Nishiyama
Writer
- Chiaki J. Konaka
Layer:05 – DISTORTION (1998)
Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.
Directed By
- Masahiko Murata
Writer
- Chiaki J. Konaka
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