Serial Experiments Lain
Strange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired".
- Rated
- TV-14
- Runtime
- 24m
- Released
- 1998
- Country
- Japan
Details
Release year: 1998
Storyline
Strange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired".
Top credits
- Kaori Shimizu — Lain Iwakura
Bridget Hoffman — Lain Iwakura
Randy McPherson — Additional Voices, Various voices (English Dub), Voice on Wired
Dan Lorge — Additional Voices
Did you know
• The two MIBs actually have names. The name of the short, Asian MIB is Lin Sui-Xi. The name of the tall, Caucasian MIB is Karl Haushofer. His character was the only one to be addressed by name during the series.
• In Layer:04, the boy playing Phantoma asks Lain if she's a PK. A PK is a "player killer", a term originating from the early days of online MUD (Multi User Dungeon) games. A PK is a player who kills other players.
• The Psyche processor is pronounced as "psukhe", the original Greek form of the word.
Episodes
13 episodes – 1 seasons
User reviews
You may not understand it, but sure as hell feel it.
An experiment it is
A cult work: a philosophical and psychological complexity behind the world of the internet and computers.
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Stereo
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1, 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Color
