Serial Experiments Lain

Serial Experiments Lain

1998 1 Seasons ⭐ 8.223
Animation Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy Mystery

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.

Seasons

1. Layer:01 – WEIRD

1998-07-06 • ⭐ 8.083

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.

2. Layer:02 – GIRLS

1998-07-13 • ⭐ 8.091

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.

3. Layer:03 – PSYCHE

1998-07-20 • ⭐ 7.833

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 …

4. Layer:04 – RELIGION

1998-07-27 • ⭐ 8.25

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 a…

5. Layer:05 – DISTORTION

1998-08-03 • ⭐ 8.333

Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.

6. Layer:06 – KIDS

1998-08-10 • ⭐ 8.545

Young 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 to get to t…

7. Layer:07 – SOCIETY

1998-08-17 • ⭐ 8.455

As 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 Lain"". M…

8. Layer:08 – RUMORS

1998-08-24 • ⭐ 8.6

Still 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 said is true;…

9. Layer:09 – PROTOCOL

1998-08-31 • ⭐ 8.455

A 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 before and…

10. Layer:10 – LOVE

1998-09-07 • ⭐ 8.1

Lain 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 and for a…

11. Layer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHY

1998-09-14 • ⭐ 7.65

Alone 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.

12. Layer:12 – LANDSCAPE

1998-09-21 • ⭐ 8.2

Troubled 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 real motiv…

13. Layer:13 – EGO

1998-09-28 • ⭐ 8.5

The 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 sacrifice.

Top Cast

Kaori Shimizu
Kaori Shimizu
Yoko Asada
Yoko Asada
Ayako Kawasumi
Ayako Kawasumi
Ryusuke Ohbayashi
Ryusuke Ohbayashi
Rei Igarashi
Rei Igarashi
Sumi Mutoh
Sumi Mutoh
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Keito Takimoto
Chiharu Tezuka
Chiharu Tezuka
Manabi Mizuno
Manabi Mizuno
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Yuki Yamamoto
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Sora Fujimatsu
Show Hayami
Show Hayami

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