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Serial Experiments: Lain (TV Series 1998)

24 min  -  Animation | Mystery | Sci-Fi
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Strange events begin to occur as a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with interconnected virtual realm of "The Wired".

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Bridget Hoffman, Shô Hayami and Kotomi Muto
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Season:

1

Year:

1998
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Cast

Series cast summary:
Bridget Hoffman Bridget Hoffman ...
Lain Iwakura (13 episodes, 1998)
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Storyline

A week after Chisa committed suicide, her classmates begin to receive emails from her. Hearing rumors fly at school, a quiet withdrawn girl named Lain goes home that day, turns on her dusty Navi computer for the first time and has a conversation with the dead girl. Chisa's message reads that she killed herself because she didn't need her body anymore, and she now exists in The Wired. When Lain asks why someone would do something like that she gets a response: "Because God is here". Written by Anonymous  

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Plot Keywords:

Computer | Suicide | Child Suicide | Tech TV | Anime  | See more »

Genres:

Animation | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Geneon Entertainment, Inc. [Japan] | Geneon Entertainment [United States] | See more »

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

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Laín See more »

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Pioneer LDC, Triangle Staff See more »
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Trivia

The girl in the "Devices" segments is the voice of Lain herself, Kaori Shimizu. Also, Lain's character design was based in part from Ms. Shimizu's physical appearance. See more »

Quotes

Lain Iwakura: [gasp]
Miho Iwakura: The wired might actually be thought of as a highly advanced upper layer of the real world. In other words, physical reality is nothing but an illusion, a hologram of the information that flows to us through the wired.
Lain Iwakura: But ma...
Miho Iwakura: This is because the body, physical motion, the activity of the human brain is merely a physical phenomenon, simply caused by synapses delivering electrical impulses.
Lain Iwakura: But mom, I...
Miho Iwakura: The physical body exists at a less evolved plane only to verify one's existence in the universe.
[...]
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Connections

Referenced in "Cowboy Bebop: Brain Scratch (#1.23)" (1999) See more »

Soundtracks

"Duvet"
Composed by Paul Turrell
Lyrics by Jasmine Rodgers
Performed by Boa
Courtesy of Polystar Records See more »