

Serial Experiments Lain
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Description
Yoshitoshi ABe (Texhnolyze) brings to life this existential classic that paved the way for films like The Matrix. After the suicide of a classmate, fourteen year old Lain logs on to the Wired and looses herself in a mess of hallucinations and memories.
Episodes
Weird
Season 1: Episode 1TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
Lain wasn’t interested in computers until she received her first email from a formerly suicidal classmate. Her newfound desire to connect with the dead will lead her into the twisted maze of the “wired world.”
1. Weird24 Min7/6/1998$2.99
Girls
Season 1: Episode 2TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
Accela – a designer drug born of nanotechnology – is a big hit with the club kids, but what’s that got to do with Lain? Only a madman who painted the dance floor with blood can answer that question – and he’s dead.
2. Girls24 Min7/13/1998$2.99
Psyche
Season 1: Episode 3TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
Lain has questions about a computer chip someone left in her locker, and her Dad’s not talking. Some kids at the club say they know all about it – but they want a piece of Lain’s wired wild side.
3. Psyche24 Min7/20/1998$2.99
Religion
Season 1: Episode 4TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
The more involved with computers she becomes, the more Lain begins to transform. In the cybernetic cocoon that was once her room, she’s hard at work blurring the lines between reality and the wired.
4. Religion24 Min7/27/1998$2.99
Distortion
Season 1: Episode 5TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
Lain’s friends suspect her involvement in a series of computer errors that caused a lethal traffic accident. Meanwhile, her sister is haunted by mysterious messages demanding that she “fulfill the prophecy”.
5. Distortion24 Min8/3/1998$2.99
Kids
Season 1: Episode 6TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
When an image of herself appears in the clouds, the “real” Lain enters the wired on a search for answers. Her quest leads to a “child-killer” scientist whose devious work is being exploited by the Knights.
6. Kids24 Min8/10/1998$2.99
Society
Season 1: Episode 7TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
Covert agents in black suits take Lain in for questioning. When the interrogation hits too close to home, Lain flips from real to wired in the blink of an eye.
7. Society24 Min8/17/1998$2.99
Rumors
Season 1: Episode 8TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
Lain’s unsavory behavior within the wired turns her into an outcast at school. Confused and alone, Lain investigates her own cyber-lifestyle only to be shocked by a voyeuristic incarnation of herself.
8. Rumors24 Min8/24/1998$2.99
Protocol
Season 1: Episode 9TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
A DJ at the club passes Lain a plain brown envelope containing a computer chip of unknown origins. Hoping to learn more about the clandestine technology, Lain abducts a young boy for a “date.”
9. Protocol24 Min8/31/1998$2.99
Love
Season 1: Episode 10TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
Lain encounters a man who call himself the “god” of the wired, and members of the Knights all across the world log on to participate in a cryptic mass suicide.
10. Love24 Min9/7/1998$2.99
Infornography
Season 1: Episode 11TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
Lain risks a meltdown by uploading a Navi clone into her own brain. Later, the border between reality and the wired is threatened when Lain forces the world forget a secret that never should have been revealed.
11. Infornography24 Min9/14/1998$2.99
Landscape
Season 1: Episode 12TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
“God” preaches that our bodies are simply an obstacle preventing the evolution of mankind. An exhausted Lain appears willing to sacrifice her own flesh and blood until Alice convinces her to take a stand against the digitalized deity.
12. Landscape24 Min9/21/1998$2.99
Ego
Season 1: Episode 13TV Parental Guidelines SystemHD
Lain’s guilt over the havoc caused by her interaction within the wired provokes her to take drastic – and irreversible – action.
13. Ego23 Min9/28/1998$2.99
Additional information
Networks
Crunchyroll, LLC
Duration
13 Episodes (5 H 14 Min)
Audio
English
Released year
1998
Genres
Anime