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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.
Layer:01 – WEIRDJul 6, 1998 · 24m · ★ 8.1Lain 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.
Layer:02 – GIRLSJul 13, 1998 · 24m · ★ 8.1Classmates 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.
Layer:03 – PSYCHEJul 20, 1998 · 24m · ★ 7.8Alice, 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.
Layer:04 – RELIGIONJul 27, 1998 · 24m · ★ 8.2Some 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.
Layer:05 – DISTORTIONAug 3, 1998 · 24m · ★ 8.3Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.
Layer:06 – KIDSAug 10, 1998 · 24m · ★ 8.5Young 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.
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.
Kaori ShimizuLain Iwakura (voice)
Yoko AsadaArisu Mizuki - Lain's friend (voice)
Ayako KawasumiMika Iwakura - Lain's older sister (voice)
Ryusuke OhbayashiYasuo Iwakura - Lain's father (voice)
Rei Igarashi
Sumi MutohChisa Yomoda (voice)
Chiharu TezukaReika Yamamoto (voice)
Manabi MizunoYūri Katō (voice)
Show HayamiEiri Masami (voice)
Shigeru ChibaOffice worker
Jouji NakataKarl Haushoffer - Man in Black 1(voice)
Takumi YamazakiLin Sui-Xi - Man in black 2 (voice)
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