Serial Experiments Lain
serial experiments lain
“Close the world. txen eht nepO.”
About
Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.
Cast
Kaori Shimizu
as Lain Iwakura (voice)
Yoko Asada
as Arisu Mizuki - Lain's friend (voice)
Ayako Kawasumi
as Mika Iwakura - Lain's older sister (voice)
Ryusuke Ohbayashi
as Yasuo Iwakura - Lain's father (voice)
Rei Igarashi
as Miho Iwakura - Lain's mother (voice)
Sumi Mutoh
as Chisa Yomoda (voice)
Keito Takimoto
as Tarō (voice)
Chiharu Tezuka
as Reika Yamamoto (voice)
Manabi Mizuno
as Yūri Katō (voice)
Yuki Yamamoto
as Myū-Myū (voice)
Sora Fujimatsu
as Masayuki (voice)
Show Hayami
as Eiri Masami (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
as Office worker
Jouji Nakata
as Karl Haushoffer - Man in Black 1(voice)
Takumi Yamazaki
as Lin Sui-Xi - Man in black 2 (voice)
Seasons
Episodes
Season 1
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Similar Shows
Shows like this one
Recommended for You
Based on this series
