Serial Experiments Lain

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   E1. Layer:01 – WEIRD

   Jul 6, 1998 · 24m

   Lain Iwakura, a shy, 13-year-old schoolgirl, receives an email from a schoolmate after her suicide. Is it a prank? Lain doesn't feel horror, but curiosity.

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   E2. Layer:02 – GIRLS

   Jul 13, 1998 · 24m

   Classmates Alice, Julie, and Reika wonder if that was Lain they saw at the nightclub Cyberia. To find out, they invite Lain to go with them to the club.

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   E3. Layer:03 – PSYCHE

   Jul 20, 1998 · 24m

   Alice, Julie, and Reika are minor celebrities in their class after they witness a shooting at The Cyberia. Lain is given a black-market chip for her computer, but it seems she is also being followed.

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   E4. Layer:04 – RELIGION

   Jul 27, 1998 · 24m

   Some players of a Wired game called PHANTOMa are dying suspicious deaths. Lain investigates, but her growing interest in the Wired worries her father, as well as classmates Mika and Alice.

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   E5. Layer:05 – DISTORTION

   Aug 3, 1998 · 24m

   Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.

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   E6. Layer:06 – KIDS

   Aug 10, 1998 · 24m

   Young children are acting strangely, arms outstretched and silently staring at the sky. A shocking vision suddenly appears in the skies; it looks like Lain! Determined to get to the bottom of this, Lain's investigations finally bring her to the creator of KIDS -- but what she discovers is not what she hoped for.

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