Serial Experiments Lain
Serial Experiments Lain streams on Crunchyroll. The seminal cyberpunk headtrip about identity dissolving into the network somehow predicted the internet age decades early — and it's still unlike anything else in anime.
About
Quiet, awkward Lain Iwakura barely touches computers — until a dead classmate emails the school days after her suicide, claiming she isn't gone at all, just relocated into the Wired, the all-connecting network. Lain's tentative first steps online spiral quickly: strangers in the Wired seem to know her, versions of her appear in places she's never been, and the boundary between her bedroom and the network grows thinner by the episode. It's less a plot than a slow, hypnotic unraveling — a meditation on identity, memory, and what 'being present' means when everyone is connected.
Information
- Japanese
- serial experiments lain
- Premiered
- July 6, 1998
- Episodes
- 13
- Duration
- 23 min per ep.
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Studio
- triangle staff corp.
- Source
- Original
- Themes
- primarily female cast, angst, drama, female protagonist, japanese production, present
FAQ
It streams on Crunchyroll.
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