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Region：Japan
Type：TV
English name：Serial Experiments Lain
Official name：Serial Experiments Lain
Chinese name：玲音
Other names：铃音 / シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン
Premiered：July 6, 1998
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Science fiction / Suspense / Story / Source original
Director：中村隆太郎
Scenario：小中千昭
Storyboard：中村隆太郎 / 角銅博之 / 仁賀緑朗 / 佐藤卓哉 / むらた雅彦
Co-director：松浦錠平 / 中村隆太郎 / うえだしげる / むらた雅彦
Studios：トライアングルスタッフ
Family：Serial Experiments Lain
Rating：16+

Serial Experiments Lain

The first episode opens with the mysterious suicide of a junior high school girl, Yomoda Chisa. She was a classmate of Iwakura Lain, a quiet, 14-year-old junior high school girl.

One of the other girls in the class has been receiving e-mail messages from Chisa, and Lain discovers she also has mail from Chisa.

She explains in the mail to Lain that she just abandoned her flesh.

She assures Lain that she still is alive in the 'wired' world.

After getting a new 'navi' and adding a 'psyche' circuit, Lain spends more and more time in the wired.

It seems that Lain has at least two personalities, and Lain's first personality is changing even now.

Who is Lain?

Who are the 'knights'?

Can the wired influence the real world with a prophecy?

Is the real world nothing but a hologram of the information in the wired?

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EP1 - Layer:01 – WEIRD

Lain Iwakura, a shy, 13-year-old schoolgirl, receives an email from a schoolmate after her suicide. Is it a prank? Lain doesn't feel horror, but curiosity.
EP2 - Layer:02 – GIRLS

Classmates Alice, Julie, and Reika wonder if that was Lain they saw at the nightclub Cyberia. To find out, they invite Lain to go with them to the club.
EP3 - Layer:03 – PSYCHE

Alice, Julie, and Reika are minor celebrities in their class after they witness a shooting at The Cyberia. Lain is given a black-market chip for her computer, but it seems she is also being followed.
EP4 - Layer:04 – RELIGION

Some players of a Wired game called PHANTOMa are dying suspicious deaths. Lain investigates, but her growing interest in the Wired worries her father, as well as classmates Mika and Alice.
EP5 - Layer:05 – DISTORTION

Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.
EP6 - Layer:06 – KIDS

Young children are acting strangely, arms outstretched and silently staring at the sky. A shocking vision suddenly appears in the skies; it looks like Lain! Determined to get to the bottom of this, Lain's investigations finally bring her to the creator of KIDS -- but what she discovers is not what she hoped for.
EP7 - Layer:07 – SOCIETY

As the Knights activities make the evening news, a strange man named Nazumi wanders the city with machines strapped to his body. People on the WIRED are asking: Who is Lain . Meanwhile, the two MIB agents take Lain to the Techibana offices where Lain's identity is challenged by a man; how well does she know her parents, her sister, herself? Can Lain answer him?
EP8 - Layer:08 – RUMORS

Still shaken by the information she received from the Men In Black, Lain discovers that she is being blamed for spreading an ugly rumor in the WIRED. Is what the MIB said is true; is she another person in the WIRED? Or is she doing it herself? Lain must find out or risk losing the one true friend she has.
EP9 - Layer:09 – PROTOCOL

A documentary about Roswell gives Lain some valuable information about the pioneers of the WIRED. Later, at the Cyberia, J.J. tells Lain that she left something the day before and hands her an envelop with the Knight's logo on it. The envelop contains a chip. Believing this was the other 'Lain's' doing again, she decides to call Taro's bluff and go on a 'date'. Taking him to her room, Lain demands that he tell her what he knows. Together, with Taro's information and the mysterious chip, Lain finds out more then she expected.
EP10 - Layer:10 – LOVE

Lain struggles with her identity. Is she a human being, or just a hologram? And are the Knights responsible for the Evil Lain? Lain decides to deal with the Knights once and for all.
EP11 - Layer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHY

Alone and frightened, Lain immerses herself in the WIRED, processing the events of the past few weeks and searching for the truth of who she is.
EP12 - Layer:12 – LANDSCAPE

Troubled by what she saw, Alice decides to visit Lain at home and find out what is going on. Meanwhile, the two MIB agents receive a terrible shock and Eiri reveals his real motive for removing the barrier between the real world and the WIRED.
EP13 - Layer:13 – EGO

The world is crumbling, people are dying and Alice's sanity is threatened. To save humanity, there is only one thing Lain can do; she must make the ultimate personal sacrifice.