Serial Experiments Lain
| Category: | TV Series |
| Adult: | No |
| Native: | シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン |
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| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Aired: | Jul 7, 1998 [26 years 6 months ago] |
| Ended: | Sep 29, 1998 [26 years 3 months ago] |
| Language: | Japanese |
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| Links: | MAL ANIDB ANN ANILIST |
The first episode opens with the mysterious suicide of a junior high school girl, Yomoda Chisa. She was a classmate of Iwakura Lain, a quiet, 14-year-old junior high school girl. One of the other girls in the class has been receiving e-mail messages from Chisa, and Lain discovers she also has mail from Chisa. She explains in the mail to Lain that she just abandoned her flesh. She assures Lain that she still is alive in the 'wired' world. After getting a new 'navi' and adding a 'psyche' circuit, Lain spends more and more time in the wired. It seems that Lain has at least two personalities, and Lain's first personality is changing even now. Who is Lain? Who are the 'knights'? Can the wired influence the real world with a prophecy? Is the real world nothing but a hologram of the information in the wired?
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Episode 1: Weird
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-07-07
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.”
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Episode 2: Girls
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-07-14
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.
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Episode 3: Psyche
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-07-21
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.
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Episode 4: Religion
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-07-28
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.
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 5: Distortion
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-08-04
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”.
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Episode 6: Kids
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-08-11
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.
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 7: Society
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-08-18
Covert agents in black suits take Lain in for questioning. When the interrogation hits too close to home, Lain flips from real to wired in the blink of an eye.
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Episode 8: Rumors
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-08-25
Lain’s unsavory behavior within the wired turns her into an outcast at school. Confused and alone, Lain investigates her own cyber-lifestyle only to be shocked by a voyeuristic incarnation of herself.
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 9: Protocol
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-09-01
A DJ at the club passes Lain a plain brown envelope containing a computer chip of unknown origins. Hoping to learn more about the clandestine technology, Lain abducts a young boy for a “date.”
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 10: Love
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-09-08
Lain encounters a man who call himself the “god” of the wired, and members of the Knights all across the world log on to participate in a cryptic mass suicide.
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Episode 11: Infornography
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-09-15
Lain risks a meltdown by uploading a Navi clone into her own brain. Later, the border between reality and the wired is threatened when Lain forces the world to forget a secret that never should have been revealed.
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 12: Landscape
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-09-22
“God” preaches that our bodies are simply an obstacle preventing the evolution of mankind. An exhausted Lain appears willing to sacrifice her own flesh and blood until Alice convinces her to take a stand against the digitalized deity.
Source: crunchyroll
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Episode 13: Ego
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-09-29
Lain’s guilt over the havoc caused by her interaction within the wired provokes her to take drastic - and irreversible - action.
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