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Serial Experiments Lain

Original title: serial experiments lain

Close the world. txen eht nepO.

1998 · TV-14 · 1 season · 13 episodes

8.2

TMDB audience score
674 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

About 5h 12m to watch every episode. An estimate: 13 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 24 minutes.

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Main cast

  • Kaori Shimizu
    Lain Iwakura (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Ayako Kawasumi
    Mika Iwakura - Lain's older sister (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Ryusuke Ohbayashi
    Yasuo Iwakura - Lain's father (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Rei Igarashi
    Miho Iwakura - Lain's mother (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Sumi Mutoh
    Chisa Yomoda (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Keito Takimoto
    Tarō (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Chiharu Tezuka
    Reika Yamamoto (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Manabi Mizuno
    Yūri Katō (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Yuki Yamamoto
    Myū-Myū (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Sora Fujimatsu
    Masayuki (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Show Hayami
    Eiri Masami (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Shigeru Chiba
    Office worker
    13 episodes

  • Jouji Nakata
    Karl Haushoffer - Man in Black 1(voice)
    13 episodes

  • Takumi Yamazaki
    Lin Sui-Xi - Man in black 2 (voice)
    13 episodes

Seasons