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Serial Experiments: Lain: Season 1

Serial Experiments: Lain

Serial Experiments: Lain: Season 1

Funimation (1998)
Blu-ray Disc
MA15+
704400095474
TV Series | Animation | Anime | Drama | Mystery | Science Fiction
Japan | Japanese | Color | 00:24

The best description for this intelligent, erudite, confusing and chilling anime from the late 1990s is "creepy cool seinen cyberpunk." Serial Experiments Lain takes an information-rich dive deep into the nature of reality and truth, and in the process leads viewers to come up with their own conclusions about the meaning of the show, the meaning of reality, and even what actually happens in both. Much of the plot development is orthogonal to the viewer, sometimes seen but often simply implied, requiring viewers to think about and draw their own conclusions about what is happening. A fair amount of information is obscured or distorted, challenging viewers to impose their own interpretation on even the most self-evident aspects of the show. [Source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SerialExperimentsLain]


Episodes View details

1 Weird 25 min | Jul 13, 1999

People are getting emails from a girl that killed herself last week (Chisa Yomoda), which claim that she only gave up her body, but is actually still alive inside the Wired, and that God is also there. After getting one of these emails, the introverted Lain becomes interested in computers and she ask her father for a new NAVI.

2 Girls 25 min | Jul 13, 1998

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.

3 Psyche 25 min | Jul 20, 1998

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.

4 Religion 25 min | Jul 27, 1998

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.

5 Distortion 25 min | Aug 03, 1998

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".

6 Kids 25 min | Aug 10, 1998

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.

7 Society 25 min | Aug 17, 1998

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.

8 Rumors 25 min | Aug 24, 1998

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.

9 Protocol 25 min | Aug 31, 1998

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."

10 Love 25 min | Sep 07, 1998

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.

11 Infornography 25 min | Sep 14, 1998

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 forget a secret that never should have been revealed.

12 Landscape 25 min | Sep 21, 1998

"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.

13 Ego 24 min | Sep 28, 1998

Lain's guilt over the havoc caused by her interaction within the wired provokes her to take drastic - and irreversible - action.

Cast View all

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn S
Shô Hayami Deus
Bridget Hoffman Lain Iwakura
Kaori Shimizu Lain Iwakura
Randy McPherson Additional Voices
Jake Lord Additional Voices
Ali Moriizumi DJ (Present Day announcer)
Ayako Kawasumi Mika Iwakura
Patricia Ja Lee Mika Iwakura
Yôko Asada Arisu Mizuki
Emilie de Azevedo Brown Arisu Mizuki
Lenore Zann Reika Yamamoto
Barry Stigler Yasuo Iwakura
Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi Yasuo Iwakura
Chiharu Tezuka Reika Yamamoto
Manabi Mizuno Juri Kato
Alexis A. Edward Juri Kato
Dorothy Melendrez Keiko Yoshii
Petrea Burchard Miho Iwakura
Brianne Brozey Taro
Rei Igarashi Miho Iwakura
Keito Takimoto Taro
Kirk Thornton Deus
Jamieson Price Man in Black #1
Sandy Fox Myu-Myu

Edition details

Nr Discs 2
Screen Ratios Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio Tracks Dolby TrueHD 5.1 [English]
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 [Japanese]
SUB [English]
Subtitles English
Distributor FUNimation
Layers Single side, Single layer
Edition Release Date May 20, 2014
Regions Region Free