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Serial Experiments Lain
- Score
- 8.1/10 (358,613 votes)
- Rank
- #590
- Popularity
- #230
- Type
- TV
- Episodes
- 13
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Season
- Summer 1998
- Studios
- Triangle Staff
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 bas…
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Key facts
- Genre
- Cyberpunk Psychological horror Techno-horror
- Created by
- Yasuyuki Ueda
- Directed by
- Ryūtarō Nakamura
- Produced by
- Yasuyuki Ueda Shōjirō Abe
- Written by
- Chiaki J. Konaka
- Music by
- Reichi Nakaido
- Studio
- Triangle Staff
- Licensed by
- AUS : Universal / Sony NA : Funimation UK : MVM Films
- Original network
- TXN ( TV Tokyo )
- English network
- CA : G4techTV ( Anime Current ) US : KTEH , TechTV , Funimation Channel ZA : Animax
- Original run
- July 6, 1998 – September 28, 1998
- Developer
- Pioneer LDC
- Publisher
- Pioneer LDC
- Platform
- PlayStation
- Released
- November 26, 1998
- Published
- May 1999
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 24
- Official website
- www.geneon-ent.co.jp/rondorobe/anime/lain
Show 5 more facts
- title
- serial experiments lain
- number of episodes
- 13
- start time
- 1998-07-06
- end time
- 1998-09-28
- Commons category
- Serial Experiments Lain
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Article
Serial Experiments Lain is a Japanese anime television series created and co-produced by Yasuyuki Ueda, written by Chiaki J. Konaka and directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura. Animated by Triangle Staff and featuring original character designs by Yoshitoshi Abe, the series was broadcast for 13 episodes on TV Tokyo and its affiliates from July to September 1998. It follows Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl in suburban Japan, and her relation to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the internet.
Lain features surreal and avant-garde imagery and explores philosophical topics such as reality, identity, and communication. The series incorporates creative influences from computer history, cyberpunk, and conspiracy theories. Critics and fans have praised Lain for its originality, visuals, atmosphere, themes, and its dark depiction of a world fraught with paranoia, social alienation, and reliance on technology considered insightful of 21st century life. It received the Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 1998.