Serial Experiments Lain

Serial Experiments Lain (Series)

Anxious/ Conflicted/ Melancholic
1 Titles· 1998

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Characters

Lain Iwakura

Lain Iwakura is the 14-year-old protagonist of Serial Experiments Lain.

Kaori Shimizu

Arisu Mizuki

Arisu Mizuki is a skilled angel builder and Kung Fu artist, known for creating strong and agile angels.

Youko Asada

Masami Eiri

Emiru Aisaki is a main character in Hugtto!

Show Hayami

Yasuo Iwakura

Yasuo Iwakura is a male character and the love interest of Sadako Yamamura.

Ryuusuke Oobayashi

Mika Iwakura

Mika Iwakura is Lain Iwakura’s older sister, a 16-17 year old student.

Ayako Kawasumi

Chisa Yomoda

Chisa Yomoda is a 14-year-old student who commits suicide at the beginning of Serial Experiments Lain.

Sumi Mutou

Karl Haushofer

Karl L.

Jouji Nakata

Taro

Taro is Hanako's protective and skeptical lover, characterized by his short black bowl cut and tan hoodie.

Brianne Siddall

J.J

JJ is a minor character in the second season of the Kaiju Girls anime, notable for being the only male character.

Wasei Chikada

Lin Sui-Xi

Lin Su is a female character who first appears in Chapter 55 of the "City of Darkness" manhua.

Takumi Yamazaki

Miho Iwakura

Miho Iwakura is a 38-year-old housewife and mother to Lain and Mika Iwakura in the anime series Serial Experiments Lain.

Rei Igarashi

Reika Yamamoto

Reika Yamamoto is a supporting character known for her maturity compared to her friends.

Lenore Zann

Delivery Man

The Delivery Man is a minor character in Machikado Mazoku who works for an unnamed delivery company.

Susumu Chiba

Detective

Mister Watson is a mute, enigmatic informant for the Yurei Detective Club in the anime Yurei Deco.

Susumu Chiba

Green Shirt Child

Tetra is a mysterious child who hatched from an egg discovered by Kazuto and Narue.

Kenji Nojima

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Synopsis

Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide. Lain has neither the desire nor the experience to handle even basic technology; yet, when the technophobe opens the email, it leads her straight into the Wired, a virtual world of communication networks similar to what we know as the internet. Lain's life is turned upside down as she begins to encounter cryptic mysteries one after another. Strange men called the Men in Black begin to appear wherever she goes, asking her questions and somehow knowing more about her than even she herself knows. With the boundaries between reality and cyberspace rapidly blurring, Lain is plunged into more surreal and bizarre events where identity, consciousness, and perception are concepts that take on new meanings. Written by Chiaki J. Konaka, whose other works include Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain is a psychological avant-garde mystery series that follows Lain as she makes crucial choices that will affect both the real world and the Wired. In closing one world and opening another, only Lain will realize the significance of their presence.