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Serial Experiments Lain (1000) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1000 · 316 mins · Japanese
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- Directed by
- Ryutaro Nakamura, Yuichi Tanaka
- Starring
- Show Hayami, Shigeru Chiba, Jouji Nakata, Ayako Kawasumi, Rei Igarashi, Takumi Yamazaki
After a classmate’s sudden suicide, a quiet teenager named Lain becomes drawn to the Wired, an all‑pervasive virtual network. As she dives deeper, the line between the physical world and the digital realm blurs, trapping her in a maze of hallucinations, fragmented memories, and intertwined psyches, forcing her to confront the nature of identity and reality.
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