Serial Experiments Lain
serial experiments lain
We're all connected... There is the world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the wired world, inside the computer, of images, personalities, virtual experiences, and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, Lain, a 14-year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an e-mail from the dead girl: I just abandoned my body. I still live here... Has the line between the real world and the wired world begun to blur? (Source: Geneon Entertainment)
Serial Experiments Lain is a tv with 13 episodes, from Summer 1998, produced by Triangle Staff, rated 8.0/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
We're all connected... There is the world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the wired world, inside the computer, of images, personalities, virtual experiences, and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, Lain, a 14-year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an e-mail from the dead girl: I just abandoned my body. I still live here... Has the line between the real world and the wired world begun to blur? (Source: Geneon Entertainment)
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- Denpa — Works that feature themes of social dissociation, delusions, and other issues like suicide, bullying, self-isolation, paranoia, and technological necessity in daily lives. Classic iconography: telephone poles, rooftops, and trains.
- Philosophy — Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
- Virtual World — Partly or completely set in the world inside a video game.
- Dissociative Identities — A case where one or more people share the same body.
- Augmented Reality — Prominently features events with augmented reality as the main setting.
- Female Protagonist — Main character is female.
- Memory Manipulation — Prominently features a character(s) who has had their memories altered.
- Artificial Intelligence — Intelligent non-organic machines that work and react similarly to humans.
- Cyberpunk — Set in a future of advanced technological and scientific achievements that have resulted in social disorder.
- Software Development — Centers around characters developing or programming a piece of technology, software, gaming, etc.
- Gods — Prominently features a character of divine or religious nature.
- Conspiracy — Contains one or more factions controlling or attempting to control the world from the shadows.