Serial Experiments Lain
Information
Type: TVStatus: Finished AiringBroadcast: Tuesdays at 01:15 (JST)Episodes: 13Duration: 23minAired: July 6, 1998 to September 28, 1998Source: OriginalStudios: Triangle StaffGenre: Avant Garde, Award Winning, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Supernatural, SuspenseTheme: PsychologicalDemographics: -Producers: Genco, Pioneer LDCLicensors: FunimationRating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
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Synopsis
Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide. Lain has neither the desire nor the experienc...
Background
Serial Experiments Lain won the Excellence Prize in the 1998 Japan Media Arts Festival. It has been subject to commentary in the literary and academic worlds such as the Asian Horror Encyclopedia and The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation by the American Philosophical Society.
CharactersMore info
BossSupporting
Delivery ManSupporting
DetectiveSupporting
Eiri, MasamiSupporting
FreeterSupporting
Green Shirt ChildSupporting
Haushofer, KarlSupporting
Iwakura, MihoSupporting
Iwakura, YasuoSupporting
Iwakura, MikaSupporting
J.JSupporting
Katou, JuriSupporting
KuchiSupporting
MarunekoSupporting
Masatsugu, ShouSupporting
MasayukiSupporting
Masuoka, TakuyoshiSupporting
Mizuki, ArisuSupporting
Myu-MyuSupporting
NarratorSupporting
NezumiSupporting
Professor HodgesonSupporting
Sui-Xi, LinSupporting
TaroSupporting
Yamamoto, ReikaSupporting
Yomoda, ChisaSupporting
Yoshii, KeikoSupporting
Synopsis
Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide. Lain has neither the desire nor the experienc...
Background
Serial Experiments Lain won the Excellence Prize in the 1998 Japan Media Arts Festival. It has been subject to commentary in the literary and academic worlds such as the Asian Horror Encyclopedia and The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation by the American Philosophical Society.
CharactersMore info
BossSupporting
Delivery ManSupporting
DetectiveSupporting
Eiri, MasamiSupporting
FreeterSupporting
Green Shirt ChildSupporting
Haushofer, KarlSupporting
Iwakura, MihoSupporting
Iwakura, YasuoSupporting
Iwakura, MikaSupporting
J.JSupporting
Katou, JuriSupporting
KuchiSupporting
MarunekoSupporting
Masatsugu, ShouSupporting
MasayukiSupporting
Masuoka, TakuyoshiSupporting
Mizuki, ArisuSupporting
Myu-MyuSupporting
NarratorSupporting
NezumiSupporting
Professor HodgesonSupporting
Sui-Xi, LinSupporting
TaroSupporting
Yamamoto, ReikaSupporting
Yomoda, ChisaSupporting
Yoshii, KeikoSupporting