Lain’s unsavory behavior within the wired turns her into an outcast at school. When the interrogation hits too close to home, Lain flips from real to wired in the blink of an eye. Her quest leads to a “child-killer” scientist whose devious work is being exploited by the Knights.Ĭovert agents in black suits take Lain in for questioning. When an image of herself appears in the clouds, the “real” Lain enters the wired on a search for answers. Meanwhile, her sister is haunted by mysterious messages demanding that she “fulfill the prophecy”. Lain’s friends suspect her involvement in a series of computer errors that caused a lethal traffic accident. In the cybernetic cocoon that was once her room, she’s hard at work blurring the lines between reality and the wired. The more involved with computers she becomes, the more Lain begins to transform. Some kids at the club say they know all about it – but they want a piece of Lain’s wired wild side.

Lain has questions about a computer chip someone left in her locker, and her Dad’s not talking. Her newfound desire to connect with the dead will lead her into the twisted maze of the “wired world.”Īccela – 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. From then on, Lain is bound to a path which will take her ever deeper into both the network and her own subconscious thoughts and sensations.Lain wasn’t interested in computers until she received her first email from a formerly suicidal classmate. When Lain receives the message at home, Chisa tells her that she is not dead, but has merely 'abandoned her physical body and flesh', and is alive deep within the virtual reality-world of the Wired itself and that she has found the almighty and divine god there.

The first ripple on the pond of Lain's lonely life appears when she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from Chisa Yomoda, a schoolmate who had committed suicide. Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her cold mother, and her computer-obsessed father. The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the Internet. Lain is an avant-garde anime influenced by philosophical subjects such as reality, identity, and communication.

A PlayStation game with the same title was released in November 1998 by Pioneer LDC. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff.

Serial Experiments Lain, is an anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J.

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