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'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''' is an anime series directed by [[Ryutaro Nakamura]], original character design by [[Yoshitoshi ABe]], screenplay written by [[Chiaki J. Konaka]], and produced by [[Yasuyuki Ueda]] (credited as ''production 2nd'') for Triangle Staff. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. [[Serial Experiments Lain (game)|A PlayStation game]] with the same title was released in November 1998 by Pioneer LDC.

'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''' is an anime series directed by [[Ryutaro Nakamura]], original character design by [[Yoshitoshi ABe]], screenplay written by [[Chiaki J. Konaka]], and produced by [[Yasuyuki Ueda]] (credited as ''production 2nd'') for Triangle Staff. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. [[Serial Experiments Lain (game)|A PlayStation game]] with the same title was released in November 1998 by Pioneer LDC.

''Lain'' is influenced by philosophical subjects such as [[Reality|reality]], [[Identity]], and [[Communication|communication]]. The series focuses on [[Iwakura Lain]], an adolescent girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to [[The Wired|the Wired]], a global communications network similar to the [[Internet]]. Lain lives with her middle class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister [[Iwakura Mika]], her cold mother, and her computer-obsessed father. The first ripple on the pond of Lain's lonely life appears when she learns that girls from her school have received an [[E-mail|e-mail]] from [[Chisa Yomoda]], a schoolmate who committed [[Suicide|suicide]]. When Lain receives the message at home, Chisa tells her (in real time) that she is not dead, but has just "abandoned the flesh", and has found [[God]] in the Wired. From then on, Lain is bound to a [[Quest|quest]] which will take her ever deeper into both the network and her own thoughts.

''Lain'' is influenced by philosophical subjects such as [[Reality|reality]], [[Identity]], and [[Communication|communication]]. The series focuses on [[Iwakura Lain]], an adolescent girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to [[The Wired|the Wired]], a global communications network similar to the [[Internet]]. Lain lives with her middle class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister [[Iwakura Mika]], her cold mother, and her computer-obsessed father. The first ripple on the pond of Lain's lonely life appears when she learns that girls from her school have received an [[E-mail|e-mail]] from [[Chisa Yomoda]], a schoolmate who committed [[Suicide|suicide]]. When Lain receives the message at home, Chisa tells her (in real time) that she is not dead, but has just "abandoned the flesh", and has found [[God]] in the Wired. From then on, Lain is bound to a [[Quest|quest]] which will take her ever deeper into both the network and her own thoughts.