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シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン (Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein)
Serial Experiments Lain
North American cover of the first DVD volume from Pioneer featuring titular character Lain Iwakura.
Genre	Cyberpunk, psychological^[1]
Created by	production 2nd.
Anime television series
Directed by	Ryūtarō Nakamura
Produced by	Yasuyuki Ueda Shōjirō Abe
Written by	Chiaki J. Konaka
Music by	Reichi Nakaido
Studio	Triangle Staff
Licensed by	Universal/Sony
Original network	TV Tokyo
English network	G4techTV (Anime Current) KTEH, TechTV, Funimation Channel
Original run	July 6, 1998 – September 28, 1998
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Game
Developer	Pioneer LDC
Publisher	Pioneer LDC
Platform	PlayStation
Released	November 26, 1998
Manga
The Nightmare of Fabrication
Written by	Yoshitoshi ABe
Published	May 1999

Serial Experiments Lain (Japanese: シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン, Hepburn: Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein) is a science fiction anime series directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura, with character design by Yoshitoshi ABe and screenplays by Chiaki J. Konaka, that was produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff.It was originally broadcast in Japan on TV Tokyo from July to September in 1998. Serial experiments lain is an anime which begs to be interpreted (read my review for a basic description of the show). While the story gives us a lot of hints as to what. Serial Experiments Lain. Acclaimed artist Yoshitoshi ABe (Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze) brings to life the existential classic that paved the way for blockbuster films such as The Matrix.

Serial Experiments Lain (Japanese: シリアルエクスペリメンツレインHepburn: Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein) is a science fictionanime series directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura, with character design by Yoshitoshi ABe and screenplays by Chiaki J. Konaka, that was produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff. It was originally broadcast in Japan on TV Tokyo from July to September in 1998. The series explores themes such as reality, identity and communication^[2] through philosophy, computer history, cyberpunk literature and conspiracy theory.

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Plot[edit]

The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescentmiddle school girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network which is similar to the Internet. Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her emotionally distant mother, and her computer-obsessed father; while Lain herself is somewhat awkward, introverted, and socially isolated from most of her school peers. But the status-quo of her life becomes upturned by a series of bizarre incidents that start to take place after she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from a dead student, Chisa Yomoda, and she pulls out her old computer in order to check for the same message. Lain finds Chisa telling 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, where she has found the almighty and divine 'God'. From this point, Lain is caught up in a series of cryptic and surreal events that see her delving deeper into the mystery of the network in a narrative that explores themes of consciousness, perception, and the nature of reality.

The 'Wired' is a virtual reality-world that contains and supports the very sum of all human communication and networks, created with the telegraph, televisions, and telephone services, and expanded with the Internet, cyberspace, and subsequent networks. The series assumes that the Wired could be linked to a system that enables unconscious communication between people and machines without physical interface. The storyline introduces such a system with the Schumann resonances, a property of the Earth's magnetic field that theoretically allows for unhindered long distance communications. If such a link were created, the network would become equivalent to Reality as the general consensus of all perceptions and knowledge. The increasingly thin invisible line between what is real and what is virtual/digital begins to slowly shatter.

Masami Eiri is introduced as the project director on Protocol Seven (the next-generation Internet protocol in the series' time-frame) for major computer company Tachibana General Laboratories. He had secretly included code of his very own creation to give himself absolute control of the Wired through the wireless system described above. He then 'uploaded' his own brain, conscience, consciousness, memory, feelings, emotions – his very self – into the Wired and 'died' a few days after, leaving only his physical, living body behind. These details are unveiled around the middle of the series, but this is the point where the story of Serial Experiments Lain begins. Masami later explains that Lain is the artifact by which the wall between the virtual and material worlds is to fall, and that he needs her to get to the Wired and 'abandon the flesh', as he did, to achieve his plan. The series sees him trying to convince her through interventions, using the promise of unconditional love, romantic seduction and charm, and even, when all else fails, threats and force.

In the meantime, the anime follows a complex game of hide-and-seek between the 'Knights of the Eastern Calculus', hackers whom Masami claims are 'believers that enable him to be a God in the Wired', and Tachibana General Laboratories, who try to regain control of Protocol Seven. In the end, the viewer sees Lain realizing, after much introspection, that she has absolute control over everyone's mind and over reality itself. Her dialogue with different versions of herself shows how she feels shunned from the material world, and how she is afraid to live in the Wired, where she has the possibilities and responsibilities of an almighty goddess. The last scenes feature her erasing everything connected to herself from everyone's memories. She is last seen, unchanged, encountering her oldest and closest friend Alice once again, who is now married. Lain promises herself that she and Alice will surely meet again anytime as Lain can literally go and be anywhere she desires between both worlds.

Characters[edit]

Lain Iwakura (岩倉玲音Iwakura Rein): Voiced by: Kaori Shimizu (Japanese); Bridget Hoffman (English); The titular character of the series. Lain is a fourteen-year-old girl who uncovers her true nature through the series. She is first depicted as a shy junior high school student with few friends or interests. She later grows multiple bolder personalities, both in the physical world and the Wired, and starts making more friends. As the series progresses, she eventually comes to discover that she is, in reality, merely an autonomous, sentientcomputer program in the physical and corporeal form of a human being, designed to sever the invisible barrier between the Wired and the real world. In the end, Lain is challenged to accept herself as a de facto

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