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Serial Experiments Lain – Season 1, Episode 8
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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.
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{{ Infobox | image = File:DVD-Lain_Cover.jpg | Box title = Serial Experiments Lain | Row 1 title = Genre | Row 1 info = *Cyberpunk
- Psychological
- Science fiction
- Sense of Self/Identity
| Row 2 title = Creator | Row 2 info = Yasuyuki Ueda | Row 3 title = Director | Row 3 info = Ryūtarō Nakamura | Row 4 title = Productors | Row 4 info = Yasuyuki Ueda Shōjirō Abe | Row 5 title = Scenario | Row 5 info = Chiaki J. Konaka | Row 6 title = Music | Row 6 info = Reichi Nakaido | Row 7 title = Original run | Row 7 info = July 6, 1998 – Sept 28, 1998 on TV Tokyo | Row 8 info = 13 | Row 8 title = Episodes}} Serial Experiments Lain is a thirteen-episode anime miniseries written by Chiaki J Konaka and directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura .
It tells the story of Lain Iwakura as she finds her way through The Wired .
The series was originally broadcast on TV Tokyo from July 6 to September 28, 1998, and explores themes such as reality, identity, and communication through philosophy, computer history, cyberpunk literature, and conspiracy theories.
- 2.1 Production
- 4 Theme songs
- 7 External links
- 8 Citations
Episodes [ ]
- Infornography
Development [ ]
Production [ ].
Serial Experiments Lain was conceived, as a series, to be original to the point of it being considered "an enormous risk" by its producer Yasuyuki Ueda . He explained he created Lain with a set of values he took as distinctly Japanese; he hoped Americans would not understand the series as the Japanese would. This would lead to a "war of ideas" over the meaning of the anime, hopefully culminating in new communication between the two cultures. Later, when he discovered that the American audience held the same views on the series as the Japanese, he was disappointed.
The Lain franchise was originally conceived to connect across forms of media (anime, video games, manga). Producer Yasuyuki Ueda said in an interview, "the approach I took for this project was to communicate the essence of the work by the total sum of many media products". The scenario for the video game was written first, and the video game was produced at the same time as the anime series, though the series was released first. A dōjinshi titled "The Nightmare of Fabrication" was produced by Yoshitoshi ABe and released in Japanese in the artbook Omnipresence in the Wired. Ueda and Konaka declared in an interview that the idea of a multimedia project was not unusual in Japan, as opposed to the contents of Lain, and the way they are exposed.
In 2009, Yoshitoshi ABe announced a spiritual sequel to Serial Experiments Lain called Despera who will reunited many of the staff who worked on Serial Experiments Lain, including Chiaki J Konaka and Ryūtarō Nakamura .
Reception [ ]
Words like "weird" or "bizarre" are almost systematically associated to review the series by English Language reviews due mostly to the freedoms taken with the animation and its unusual science fiction, philosophical and psychological context. Despite the show judged atypical, the critics responded positively to the thematic and stylistic characteristics. It was praised by the Japan Media Arts Festival, in 1998, for "its willingness to question the meaning of contemporary life" and the "extraordinarily philosophical and deep questions".
In 2005, Newtype USA stated that the main attraction to the series is its keen view on "the interlocking problems of identity and technology". The author saluted Abe's "crisp, clean character design" and the "perfect soundtrack". It concluded saying that "Serial Experiments Lain might not yet be considered a true classic, but it's a fascinating evolutionary leap that helped change the future of anime."
In 2001, Lain was subject to commentary in the literary and academic worlds. The Asian Horror Encyclopedia calls it "an outstanding psycho-horror anime about the psychic and spiritual influence of the Internet" noticing the presence of horror lore (like ghost from train accident story) and horrific visuals.
The Anime Essentials anthology, Gilles Poitras describes it as a "complex and somehow existential" anime that "pushed the envelope" of anime diversity in the 1990s, alongside the much better known Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop.
In 2003, Professor Susan J. Napier, in her reading to the American Philosophical Society called The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation. Napier asks whether there is something to which Lain should return, "between an empty real and a dark virtual ".
In 2020, the review-aggregation website website Rotten Tomatoes, classified Serial Experiments Lain as one of the 25 anime TV series that have been essential to the medium over the last five decades. [1]
"Serial Experiments Lain helped usher in a new style of anime, of more digitally-produced shows with a glossy bloom and deeper, darker, complicated storylines. In the wake of Neon Genesis tearing up the typical anime playbook, Lain pursues a surreal, interior cyberpunk story about a withdrawn high school girl who receives an email from a classmate who has recently committed suicide. Questions of hyperreality, consciousness, and the everyday tangibility of cyberspace ensue. Lain is pretentious, symbolic, and absorbing – a prime example of a brave new world in anime."
Despite the general positive feedbacks, some negative critics stated the "lifeless" setting it had [2] , how the last episodes failed to resolve the questions, and how the show relied so little on dialogue [3] .
- Japan Media Arts Festival 1998: Excellence Prize [4]
Theme songs [ ]
- Opening Theme: " Duvet " by BOA
- Ending Theme: " Tooi Sakebi " by Reiichi "Chabo" Nakaido
- Despite this claim, Lain contains extensive references to Apple computers, as the American brand was used at the time by most of the creative staff.
External links [ ]
- Konaka's Official SEL site
- Angelic Trust - Lain:Omnipresence
- Thought Experiments: Lain
- Mebious SEL Wiki
Citations [ ]
- ↑ https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/essential-anime-series/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110927060034/http://www.animeacademy.com/finalrevdisplay.php?id=201
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110826092828/http://www.ex.org/5.2/25-anime_followup_lain.html
- ↑ http://archive.j-mediaarts.jp/en/festival/1998/animation/works/06an_serial_experiments_lain/
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Serial experiments lain
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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Ayako Kawasumi
Kaori Shimizu
Obayashi Ryunosuke
Rei Igarashi
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Serial Experiments Lain Episode 8 Discussion
| ---------------------------------------- Lain's split persona took over her real life D: |
| This anime was lame :( |
| Instagram: Luzifurr |
| It is getting quite esoteric! I do hope it all makes sense in the end. Finally getting to see some more of "wild Lain" - what a b****! |
| This episode is terrifying. The doll are great. |
| Does anyone here know the band "she"? ( ) I noticed that there are audio samples from this episode used in the track "day 5" from album "days". (listen here ) There are more samples from "Serial Experiments Lain" in that album. If you like electronic music I recommend you check it out. There even is a "cyberpunk" side story to it It's also interesting, because the musician's name is Lain Trzaska. |
| O_O This was the craziest and most mindfuckish episode so far, basically Lain is being completely isolated from the real world, or so it seems... |
| Completely mindfucked. |
| The part where Lain was happy that her friends forgot everything and then suddenly her other personality appeared.. that was the best part for me. |
| Not even gonna pretend like I know what that was about x.x But I enjoyed it all the same. If I had to make a guess on anything, I'd speculate that Lain is probably the physical manifestation of the wired/internet, hence the crumbling of the boundary between the real world and the wired world. But that's just me speculating :) |
| Those dolls were so creepy. Also, wild Lain is horrible. |
| If you don't remember something, it never happened. If you aren't remembered, you never existed. <3 |
| Definitely not echoing the 'Mindfuck' consensus, either for this rewatching, or when I originally watched it back a couple years ago. Lain is already established to be a goddess of the internet by this point. As well, since there's likely interference from 'God' and the other parts of Lain, it's no surprise this attempt at a reset didn't work. |
| I'm not sure of this, but maybe Lain's personality has once again split at the point where she became aware of her abilities. Maybe she can't remain the old Lain after this, but at the same time her "past" personality wasn't erased, but more likely - recreated... |
| Whoa, this is getting pretty crazy. Wild Lain is pretty insane. |
| Things just got a whole lot creepier. It also feels like things are piecing themselves together, though. |
| And once again - some questions got answered, while many new ones arose. Has her Wired-personality taken over? If that's the case, then where is the real Lain? Have they switched places? Really hope that all of this will make sense in the end... |
| I think this was a bad place to stop watching for almost a month. I'm thoroughly confused. With the mention of the 7th protocol, I've got an idea of what might happen and what's going on. What I don't know though, is whatever happened to Phantoma or that possibly murderous little kid from earlier? |
| This anime is quite the epitome of 'mindfuck'. Whenever you begin to conceptualize things, you get lost again. It's absurd yet fascinating at the same time. |
| Wow, this was so messed up and creepy. The wild Lain is a nut. O_O |
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| Gorgeous episode. Absolutely. That doeasn't mean I liked what I saw, beacuse I didn't - wild Lain that takes her life, Lain hated by the whole school ect. yet the episode was ingenious. |
| This episode for me had the most WTF moments in it so far along with even more questions. It appears that the wild lain did some research on the 7th protocol, but I am not sure what that means yet. Maybe it has to do with the end of the episode where wild lain has taken over her real body? Also, what was up with her little handheld unit saying peeping tom and suddenly everyone in the school was just staring at her? Some things were revealed, but in the end, even more questions are being asked. |
| Seems Lain having problems with her own personality now, her split one or her wired personality seems to have taken over... it's getting really weird now but lets keep watching! |
| but essential for the up cumming episodes. |
| So is Lain God? I have a feeling that the "real world" that the "good" Lain sees doesn't exist, and the Wired is the real thing. |
| I'm getting the same idea. Remember that time in the beginning when she came back home and her whole house was empty? The puzzle of the multiplying high-tech equipment in her room? Her making other people forget things now? What if the "real world" is essentially Lain's own creation in a Matrix-type world? Her parents/sister aren't real, just projections. Most people at school are the same - think of it, as soon as Lain gets the "peeping Tom" message, everyone is staring at her. That is her reaction/her fear, not everyone else suddenly acting in unison for no reason. Everyone behaves like people in a dream. Lain's dream. Which fits well with the "lain is everyone and everywhere"-theme. Maybe some people are real. The men in black, for one. And the Knights, possibly. Logged in from outside. Her friends - I'm not certain about those. They might well just be dream-like projections. If it's not actually all a dream, but that would be disappointing. |
| Lain is slowly getting isolated from reality. Wired Lain is taking over! |
| I wonder if the ending will be satisfying |
| man, lain's family sucks. so lain was spying on arisu masturbating to her teacher? lmao |
| Wow, easily the best episode so far! I really, really enjoyed it. For the past episodes you are focusing more on what is going on and why it is happening, but this shows the first major breakthrough. I'm not sure if I'm correct or not, but what I'd like to think is Lain was from the Wired. The "real Lain" is an ego that formed outside of the Wired, but the original, omnipotent one is trying to switch places with her so she can become the malevolent god of the real world as well as the Wired. |
| I really wanted to see the wild Lain but damn i hate her. I wonder what is going to happen to Lain. Mindfuck all over again. |
| Very good! Lain is obviously open for interpretation, but that's what I got out of it. It's actually my favorite anime :) |
| I think that "peeping tom" message refers to incident when Lain spied on Arisu while she was fingering herself. Anyways, this episode was mind blowing as usual. |
| "And if, there were so many people in the world, there had to be someone living an interesting life that wasn't ordinary. I was sure of it. Why wasn't that person me?" - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part V [/center] |
| We seriously need a proper explanation for all this stuff... |
| MY MIND. I'm just... This episode was enjoyable, but the biggest mindbubbling episode yet. So i'm guessing the 'lain' we've seen throughout is an entitiy thats stuck between both reality, and the wired? having no parents, no history or anything? Maybe she was born when the 'wired' was born? Or even more far-fetched, that the knights created her?? Smiley Lain looked hilarious, but i'm guessing whenever she changes the 'timeline' a different Lain comes about?!? I'm so lost, yet intrigued!! I honestly don't see a good end for Lain in this. Yeah, thats what i thought!! >___< |
| Wondering if her sister will return to normal. |
| so wired lain is taking over.. wonder why.. is it just to affirm she exists? "Also, what was up with her little handheld unit saying peeping tom and suddenly everyone in the school was just staring at her?" i didn't understand it the first time, but once the episode was over it seems it was meaning they knew she spied on them @xAvengerx "Wondering if her sister will return to normal." wondering that too, she's looking pretty pityful now |
| after "the Modern★Profile★Update★★Rip★Profile★" |
| i recognize myself, thus my absolute ego is inside me. Mindfucked. |
| This was a really interesting episode, and one in which a bit more actually happened than usual. The majority of it is very surreal. I actually had to watch it twice to fully understand what had happened. So, the opening scenes confused me, I still don't really understand much about the IP's, other than that somehow, they are the way in which people in the wired are able to exchange information, and Tachibana General Labs is trying to sabotage the implementation of the 7th protocol. After this we see a scene of Lain asking her parents about the remarks of them not being her real parents. When she enters the room, neither of her parents move at all or make eye contact, and it is eerily similar to the behavior of her soulless sister. The only response she gets to her questions is a stare, similar to the one she gets from the entire school farther on in the episode. I'm not quite sure of the meaning of this, but the behavior of most of the people in this episode seems more like that of dolls than that of humans. Somebody else in this thread remarked that the school stare scene has a dreamlike quality about it, and i would say the same of this scene. In the next scene we learn that Wild Lain has done something to upset Arisu and the rest of her friends, which we later learn is telling everyone about Arisu's fantasies of sex with one of her teachers. One of her friends motions to Arisu that a teacher is arriving at the school, and this is something i did not pick up on during my first watch, but this is the same teacher that Arisu was fantasizing about. We cut to lain sitting in class, on her navi-phone thing. She enters the wired, and it is unclear to me whether she does this intentionally through her phone or whether she is pulled into the wired by another force. We see her walk down a hallway suspended in darkness, with rows of people (the only visible part of which are their mouths) on either side, gossiping, apparently about other things that Wild Lain has told the wired. At the end of the hallway, she meets a being that claims to "exist everywhere in that other world." The being then reveals itself to be Lain herself, and says that real world Lain is just a body, a hologram. Lain refuses to believe this, and wakes up in the classroom. I believe that this next scene is very important, as it seems to imply that the "real world" may not be so real as we think. The entire scene is very dreamlike. Upon Lain's awakening, she looks up to find that everyone, including the teacher, has ceased all activity and are staring at her, motionless. She leaves the classroom to find the rest of the entire school doing the same. This screams "dream" to me, as suddenly the whole world seems to be revolving around Lain, and playing to her fears. The entire scene is very creepy, yet the music, which thus far in the series has tended to match the eerie tone, is very calm and again, dreamlike. Afterwords, we see Lain crying outside of the school, and receiving a text from Arisu attempting to comfort her, after which an orb of destruction erupts from her body and destroys the supply closet she was sitting outside of. This, i believe, is the moment at which Lain of the Wired takes over Lain of the real world's body. Next, we see Wild Lain witnessing another of Arisu's fantasies about her teacher, and tormenting her about it, essentially destroying Lain's only real friendship. This scene points to the remarks of 'god' about lain existing everywhere being true. Wild Lain did not somehow sneak into Arisu's bedroom and seat herself on the bed unnoticed. She appeared there. Now we see Lain lying in bed, terrified while the wires around her spark and crackle. A short shot of cyberia, and Lain floating away from powerlines, which shortly dissapear, leaving Lain suspended in darkness. This scene I am not sure what to make of. It could be any number of things, to lain experiencing being everywhere, to a dream, to the plain of existence that Lain now resides on after having been forced out of her own body by Wild Lain. A bed appears in the blackness, and with it, the other Lain. There are some lines in this scene that seemed important to me. "Why are you acting like the part of me that i hate?" Lain admits that there is a part of her like Wild Lain, even after her statements of "you're not me". Then, when Lain attempts to strangle Wild Lain, WL laughs, and says "I'm committing suicide!" Both of these statements seem to me like the point to Lain and WL being more two sides of the same coin, rather than completely different people. Lain asks a question: "Why do i have to feel your body heat?" She does not want to feel WL's body heat, because she does not wan't to admit that Wild Lain is a real person, as much as she is, or perhaps more than she is. The answer she receives is "Hey, I'm Lain, aren't I?" We cut back to the hallway, but now, instead of just mouths, the rows of people all have Lain's face. But they are obviously not human, not real. 'God' tells Lain that they are all her, because like him, she is omnipresent in the wired. Lain is in denial of his words, and says "everything that you say is a lie". "As long as I am aware of myself, my true self is inside of me!" But Wild Lain is aware of herself as well, no? 'God' says that what Wild Lain did was right, and that "The Wired's information should be shared, shouldn't it?" And yet he makes no attempt to persuade her not to undo what she did. She succeeds in erasing the memories of her friends, only to discover that WL has taken over her body and her friends cannot see or hear her. "Lain is Lain, and I'm me" WL says, further cementing the idea that they are both parts of Lain. The end of the episode is Lain at her navi, asking "I'm me, right? There's no other me but me, right? But most of the evidence in this episode points to that being incorrect. |
| looks like the 2nd Lain is unable to stop the 3rd Lain. After all, they are herself, and the Wired world IS reality without a body after all. Is there even a fine line that segregates both worlds in the first place? |
| Just kidding. |
| Well, at least we know her parents are total weirdos. |
| In this episode we learn about how Tashibana laboratories are trying to control the next-gen protocol for the wired since the 6th gen is reaching its limit. Later on we see how lain is looking for information in the wired and we heard again about the small child-like person with a red/green stripped sweater, probably related with the bug in the protocole 6, this was mentioned before in the episode 3 in some random conversation in the wired. Kami-sama (god) speaks to Lain, he explains that he's everywhere and only has slight influence in the wired, he also says that Lain is just a part of him, as some kind of extension from the wired, lain don't believe this, but it could explain why sometimes there is another lain in other places. After that lain receive an email from "peeping Tom?" and starts , lain's reality is imploding in some weird way, she is doubting if she's real or not and she's looking for Arisu, probably the only one she sees as a friend. From what I understand, the other lains are part of kami-sama in the wired and the lain we know is also part of him but with less knowledge of what or how they work. The problem for the lain we know is now that she knows who is she and also knows about the existence of the other lains and about kami-sama as a whole, she can't be part of that life she was before. She's contemplating about deleting the memories of her from the people she knows, but I don't think she haven't do it yet as we see in the final part of the episode, We don't know if all this is actually true, because there is also the possibility that this "kami-sama" is lying and he's doing this just to confuse lain for some reason. |
| なんとかなる |
| Splendid episode. I'm creeped out. Lain's world is a riddle wrapped in an enigma where nothing is what it seems. Or is it? |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| Awesome. It definitely takes a couple watches to catch the details in this episode, and even then it's difficult to fully understand. It's also pretty interesting how everything's being revealed "from the inside-out." |
| Now that im starting to understand the message of the anime's theme, it seems to be the epitome of Facebook in a way. |
| Beautiful episode. It was perfectly unsettling. The transition from endless accusing stares to the absolute isolation of being left behind was especially poignant. It’s rather depressing… because I have the feel Lain will stop existing if everyone forgets about her. |
| Now that im starting to understand the message of the anime's theme, it seems to be the epitome of Facebook in a way. I was actually thinking how applicable this anime is to the world we have today...all of our social media outlets; the 'rumors' we spread; the voyeurism; the pretension of cyber personalities... This anime is ingenious in asking the question of 'who we are'. It also makes sense in the way that our online lives can interrupt or'take over' our irl selves. I'm starting to see the bigger picture and the pieces are making sense here. Overall, I am curious to see how this story plays out. |
| Wow, I didn't even realize 9mos past since I watched the last episode. I like thinking of this as a horror series more than anything. Just a nightmare for Lain. |
| Such junk... |
| Beautiful episode. It was perfectly unsettling. The transition from endless accusing stares to the absolute isolation of being left behind was especially poignant. It’s rather depressing… because I have the feel Lain will stop existing if everyone forgets about her. |
| man, lain looks pale af. |
| this shows meta is messed up |
| "Urushibara Ruka. The mannerisms and voice of a woman... No... More feminine than any woman. But he's a guy. Taller than Mayuri, but so very thin... But he's a guy. Looks great in a miko outfit... But he's a guy. It's already twilight And yet, it's so hot. The cicadas are crying. But... He's a guy." |
| Lots of development in this episode. - It was true that Lain is omnipresent in the wired in some form of her or another - There are not 3 but tons of different Lain's that exist within the wired - This could all just be a metaphor for how people act differently online because there were tons of different kinds of Lains, there were business Lains and little girl Lains and all different kinds. The metaphor also symbolizes how those personalities sometimes consume them and change how they are in real life -Lain's alternate wired version took over her body. - The whole fight between Lain and Arisu could have been between their wired versions of themselves and nothing happened in real life. It could also all just be in Lains head or the wired or both. If either of these are true, then the real versions of them probably made up with each other and went back to how it was and that's when the wired version of Lain took over. |
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Enter Layer 09: Protocal , the welcome return of the bear suit, and an episode with a lot of very important information.
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Layer:08 - Rumors is the eight episode of the anime series Serial Experiments Lain. The episode was written by Chiaki J. Konaka and directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura. It was broadcast in Japan on August 24, 1998. A sword slices across the screen. A digitized image of a boy is the user of the sword. He is Taro. He is disposing a digitized foe. The foe is defeated and the sword is sheathed. Taro is ...
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Layer 08: Rumours Last episode we saw Lain W's first real human interaction in the analog world, as she made a concerted effort to take temporary control of Lain's body. This is the first time we see anything of the sort outside of the implied Cyberia Lain (the details of which are still pretty unclear) but this episode picks up where things left off - vague analysis and another little piece ...
19.2G. All 13 Serial Experiments Lain episodes English dubbed in order. Download the Matroska (.mkv) files for the best quality. "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.
Looking for episode specific information Serial Experiments Lain on episode 8? Then you should check out MyAnimeList! Lain's family has been acting weird lately, much to her surprise. Upon further investigation, Lain disbelieves that she is omnipresent in the Wired, while she is merely a body, more or less a projection of herself, in the real world.
Stream and watch the anime Serial Experiments Lain on Crunchyroll. Acclaimed artist Yoshitoshi ABe (Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze) brings to life the existential classic that paved the way for ...
Aired August 23, 1998 8:00 AM on TV Tokyo. Runtime 24m. Directors Yuichi Tanaka, Shigeru Ueda. Writer Chiaki J. Konaka. Country Japan. Languages Japanese. Genres Drama, Anime, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery. Still shaken by the information she received from the Men In Black, Lain discovers that she is being blamed for spreading an ugly rumor ...
Serial Experiments Lain - Season 1, Episode 8. Lain's distasteful behavior within the wired turns her into an outcast at school; confused and alone, Lain investigates her own cyber lifestyle ...
Rumors: Directed by Ryûtarô Nakamura, Shigeru Ueda, Lia Sargent. With Kaori Shimizu, Ayako Kawasumi, Yôko Asada, Chiharu Tezuka. 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.
Where to watch Serial Experiments Lain · Season 1 Episode 8 · Layer:08 - RUMORS starring Kaori Shimizu, Yoko Asada, Ayako Kawasumi and directed by Yuichi Tanaka.
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 experience to handle even basic technology; yet, when the technophobe opens the email, it leads her straight into the Wired, a virtual world of ...
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Serial Experiments Lain is a 1998 psychological anime directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura that first aired on TV Tokyo.
Serial Experiments Lain: Created by Yasuyuki Ueda. With Kaori Shimizu, Bridget Hoffman, Dan Lorge, Randy McPherson. Strange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired".
Serial Experiments Lain (1998) Serial Experiments Lain. Original Title: serial experiments lain. 87%. 8.1 (18k) TV-MA. 25min. Where to watch Watch for free Episodes Synopsis Trailers Similar titles.
S1.E6 ∙ Kids. Mon, 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. 7.5/10 (454) Rate.
Where to watch Serial Experiments Lain · Season 1 starring Kaori Shimizu, Yoko Asada, Ayako Kawasumi. Strange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired".
on TV Tokyo | Row 8 info = 13 | Row 8 title = Episodes}} Serial Experiments Lain is a thirteen-episode anime miniseries written by Chiaki J Konaka and directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura. It tells the story of Lain Iwakura as she finds her way through The Wired. The series was originally broadcast on TV Tokyo from July 6 to September 28, 1998, and ...
In the cybernetic cocoon that was once her room, she's hard at work blurring the lines between reality and the wired. 22 min · May 31, 2017 TV-14. EPISODE 5. Episode 5. Lain's friends suspect her involvement in a series of computer errors that caused a lethal traffic accident.
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Enter Layer 09: Protocal, the welcome return of the bear suit, and an episode with a lot of very important information. Please note that people who haven't watched Lain before will be following the rewatch, so put references to future episodes in a spoiler tag. This does not mean you shouldn't reference future episodes however.
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Episode Count . Years . 8.1/10 . 7.4/10 . Two . ... Serial Experiments Lain has you covered. It begins when middle school student Lain Iwakura receives an email from a dead classmate. When strange ...
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