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Serie · Animation · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Mystery · 1998 · 1 season · 24 min/ep

Serial Experiments Lain.

serial experiments lain

EndedAnimationDramaSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

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.

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Kaori Shimizu

Lain Iwakura (voice)

Yoko Asada

Arisu Mizuki - Lain's friend (voice)

Ayako Kawasumi

Mika Iwakura - Lain's older sister (voice)

Ryusuke Ohbayashi

Ryusuke Ohbayashi

Yasuo Iwakura - Lain's father (voice)

Rei Igarashi

Miho Iwakura - Lain's mother (voice)

Sumi Mutoh

Chisa Yomoda (voice)

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TV Tokyo

TV Tokyo

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Pioneer LDC

Pioneer LDCTriangle Staff

Country

🇯🇵Japan

Languages

Japanese

Serial Experiments Lain - Anime Classics - Available Now - Trailer

Season 11998· 13 episodes★ 8.1

Best:E8 · Layer:08 – RUMORS8.6

Worst:E11 · Layer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHY7.5

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IMDb

8.0 /10

22k votes

Rotten Tomatoes

89 /100

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Metacritic

Metacritic took the day off

TMDB

8.2 /10

631 votes

Weighted average

8.4/10

IMDb8.0
RT89
TMDB8.2