
From then on, Lain is bound to a path which will take her ever deeper into both the network and her own subconscious thoughts and sensations. When Lain receives the message at home, Chisa tells her that she is not dead, but has merely "abandoned her physical body and flesh", and is alive deep within the virtual reality-world of the Wired itself and that she has found the almighty and divine god there. The first ripple on the pond of Lain's lonely life appears when she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from Chisa Yomoda, a schoolmate who had committed suicide.

Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her cold mother, and her computer-obsessed father. The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the Internet. Lain is an avant-garde anime influenced by philosophical subjects such as reality, identity, and communication. A PlayStation game with the same title was released in November 1998 by Pioneer LDC. This game is the US English version at exclusively. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. Serial Experiments Lain (Disc 1) ROM download is available to play for Playstation. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff.


not even Lain herself.Serial Experiments Lain, is an anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the Wired, where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems to be. Plot Summary: Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary girl, with almost no experience with computers. The Serial Experiments Lain video game was released for PlayStation on Novemby Pioneer LDC and was designed by Konaka and Yasuyuki, and made to be a "network simulator" in which the player would navigate to explore Lain's story. It shows characters who were included in the PS game but not in the TV series (like the psychiatrist), but also determinant characters from the anime who didn't appear in the video game (like Deus). It's a bonus story which apparently isn't related with either the anime nor the PS game. The 18 page short story can be found in the Lain Omnipresence in Wired artbook. Is a drawn full-color manga from Yoshitoshi Abe. Serial Experiments Lain: The Nightmare of Fabrication (One Shot)

It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. Serial Experiments Lain (シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン, Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein) is an anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Original/Anime Character Design by Kishida Takahiro
