Watch Serial Experiments Lain

TV-14
1998
1 Season
8.1 (14,560)

Serial Experiments Lain is a complex anime series that follows the story of the main character, Lain. Lain is a completely normal girl, living an average, relatively boring, life. She has never had much to do with technology, although her dad is a computer enthusiast. That all changes, however, when Lain learns that girls at her school are receiving computer messages from a fellow classmate, Chisa, who committed suicide. Before Long, Lain gets her own message from Chisa, and is soon in contact with the girl, who is supposed to be dead. Chisa

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Seasons

13. Ego

September 28, 1998

Lain's guilt over the havoc caused by her interaction within the wired provokes her to take drastic - and irreversible - action.

12. Landscape

September 21, 1998

"God" preaches that our bodies are simply an obstacle preventing the evolution of mankind. An exhausted Lain appears willing to sacrifice her own flesh and blood until Alice convinces her to take a stand against the digitalized deity.

11. Infornography

September 14, 1998

Lain risks a meltdown by uploading a Navi clone into her own brain. Later, the border between reality and the wired is threatened when Lain forces the world forget a secret that never should have been revealed.

10. Love

September 7, 1998

Lain encounters a man who call himself the "god" of the wired, and members of the Knights all across the world log on to participate in a cryptic mass suicide.

9. Protocolo

August 31, 1998

A DJ at the club passes Lain a plain brown envelope containing a computer chip of unknown origins. Hoping to learn more about the clandestine technology, Lain abducts a young boy for a "date."

8. Rumors

August 24, 1998

Lain's unsavory behavior within the wired turns her into an outcast at school. Confused and alone, Lain investigates her own cyber-lifestyle only to be shocked by a voyeuristic incarnation of herself.

7. Society

August 17, 1998

Covert agents in black suits take Lain in for questioning. When the interrogation hits too close to home, Lain flips from real to wired in the blink of an eye.

6. Kids

August 10, 1998

When an image of herself appears in the clouds, the "real" Lain enters the wired on a search for answers. Her quest leads to a "child-killer" scientist whose devious work is being exploited by the Knights.

5. Distortion

August 3, 1998

Lain's friends suspect her involvement in a series of computer errors that caused a lethal traffic accident. Meanwhile, her sister is haunted by mysterious messages demanding that she "fulfill the prophecy".

4. Religion

July 27, 1998

The more involved with computers she becomes, the more Lain begins to transform. In the cybernetic cocoon that was once her room, she's hard at work blurring the lines between reality and the wired.

3. Psyche

July 20, 1998

Lain has questions about a computer chip someone left in her locker, and her Dad's not talking. Some kids at the club say they know all about it - but they want a piece of Lain's wired wild side.

2. Girls

July 13, 1998

Accela - a designer drug born of nanotechnology - is a big hit with the club kids, but what's that got to do with Lain? Only a madman who painted the dance floor with blood can answer that question - and he's dead.

1. Weird

July 6, 1998

Lain wasn't interested in computers until she received her first email from a formerly suicidal classmate. Her newfound desire to connect with the dead will lead her into the twisted maze of the "wired world."

Description

Chisa

Serial Experiments Lain is a series that is currently running and has 1 seasons (13 episodes). The series first aired on July 6, 1998.

Where to Watch Serial Experiments Lain

Serial Experiments Lain is available for streaming on the TechTV website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch Serial Experiments Lain on demand at Apple TV and Crunchyroll.