Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
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.
Release date: 1998-07-06
User rating:
8.22 / 10
575 votes
Orginal language: 日本語
Screenwriter: Chiaki J. Konaka
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Main cast
Kaori Shimizu
as Lain Iwakura (voice)
Yoko Asada
as Arisu Mizuki - Lain's friend (voice)
Ayako Kawasumi
as Mika Iwakura - Lain's older sister (voice)
Ryusuke Ohbayashi
as Yasuo Iwakura - Lain's father (voice)
Rei Igarashi
as Miho Iwakura - Lain's mother (voice)
Sumi Mutoh
as Chisa Yomoda (voice)
Manabi Mizuno
as Yūri Katō (voice)
Show Hayami
as Eiri Masami (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
as Office worker
Jouji Nakata
as Karl Haushoffer - Man in Black 1(voice)
Takumi Yamazaki
as Lin Sui-Xi - Man in black 2 (voice)
Rest of the main cast - click here to expand
Keito Takimoto - Tarō (voice), Chiharu Tezuka - Reika Yamamoto (voice), Yuki Yamamoto - Myū-Myū (voice), Sora Fujimatsu - Masayuki (voice)
Crew - click here to expand
Chiaki J. Konaka - Screenplay, Chiaki J. Konaka - Series Composition, Yasuyuki Ueda - Original Series Creator, Yasuyuki Ueda - Original Story, Reichi Nakaido - Original Music Composer, Paul Turrell - Theme Song Performance, Ben Henderson - Theme Song Performance, Lee Sullivan - Theme Song Performance, Alex Caird - Theme Song Performance, Steve Rodgers - Theme Song Performance, Jasmine Rodgers - Main Title Theme Composer, Jasmine Rodgers - Theme Song Performance, Toshiyuki Tsuru - Opening/Ending Animation, Tomokazu Tokoro - Opening/Ending Animation, Tokuyuki Matsutake - Opening/Ending Animation, Akihiko Yamashita - Opening/Ending Animation, Hidenori Matsubara - Opening/Ending Animation, Hirofumi Suzuki - Opening/Ending Animation, Kouichi Arai - Opening/Ending Animation, Yoshitoshi ABe - Visual Effects, Yoshitoshi ABe - Character Designer, Yasuyuki Ueda - Producer, Masaru Sato - Art Direction, Tsuyoshi Imai - Editor, Takashi Azuhata - Director of Photography, Taro Maki - Producer