First North American DVD cover, featuring Lain Iwakura
Genre
Cyberpunk[1]
Psychological horror[2][3]
Techno-horror[4]
Created by
Yasuyuki Ueda[a]
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
AUS:Universal/Sony
NA:Crunchyroll
UK:MVM Films
Original network
TXN (TV Tokyo)
English network
CA:G4techTV (Anime Current)
US:KTEH, TechTV, Funimation Channel
ZA:Animax
Original run
July 6, 1998 – September 28, 1998
Episodes
13
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 is a Japanese anime television series created and co-produced by Yasuyuki Ueda, written by Chiaki J. Konaka and directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura. Animated by Triangle Staff and featuring original character designs by Yoshitoshi Abe, the series was broadcast for 13 episodes on TV Tokyo and its affiliates from July to September 1998. The series follows Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl in suburban Japan, and her relation to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the internet.
Lain features surreal and avant-garde imagery and explores philosophical topics such as reality, identity, and communication.[6] The series incorporates creative influences from computer history, cyberpunk, and conspiracy theories. Critics and fans have praised Lain for its originality, visuals, atmosphere, themes, and its dark depiction of a world fraught with paranoia, social alienation, and reliance on technology considered insightful of 21st century life. It received the Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 1998.
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^Motamayor, Rachel (November 27, 2019). "'Serial Experiments Lain' Is A Mind-Twisting Sci-Fi Anime About The Horrors Of The Internet". /Film. Archived from the original on January 7, 2023. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
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^Martin, Ian (September 24, 2018). "1998's Serial Experiments Lain Predicted Our Modern Internet Demons". Otaku USA. Archived from the original on January 7, 2023. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
^"FRUiTS October (No.15_1st/Oct./1998)". Cornell Japanese Animation Society. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
^Napier, Susan J. (November 2002). "When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain". Science Fiction Studies. 29 (88): 418–435. ISSN 0091-7729. Archived from the original on June 11, 2007. Retrieved May 4, 2007.
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