Serial Experiments Lain

Name: Serial Experiments Lain
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 1998-07-06T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 8.2

About Serial Experiments Lain

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.

Serial Experiments Lain is an animation, mystery, and science fiction series that ran on TV Tokyo. Its themes are complex, angst, cyberpunk, and complicated.

Its one season of 13 episodes aired between July 1998 and September 1998.

Kaori Shimizu stars as Lain Iwakura (voice), Yoko Asada as Arisu Mizuki - Lain's friend (voice), Ayako Kawasumi as Mika Iwakura - Lain's older sister (voice), and Ryusuke Ohbayashi as Yasuo Iwakura - Lain's father (voice).

Elfen Lied, Psycho-Pass, and Ergo Proxy make useful companions to Serial Experiments Lain, all filed under horror and psychological. TMDB voters put it at 8.2 out of 10 across 665 votes and it carries a TV-14 rating.