Serial Experiments Lain English Sub & Dub

About Serial Experiments Lain

Serial Experiments Lain arrives as a supernatural anime by Triangle Staff (1998), and the premise is easy to summarize. In short: 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.

Next up: Lain's life is turned upside down as she begins to encounter cryptic mysteries one after another. Peculiar 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.

As a supernatural title, spirits, curses and unexplained forces shape both mood and plot. It will appeal most to fans of eerie, otherworldly settings.

Production & Appeal

Animation is handled by Triangle Staff, so the studio's house style defines how Serial Experiments Lain looks and moves on screen. Because it leans on supernatural, spirits, curses and unexplained forces shape both mood and plot. A community score of 8.0/10 puts it among the better-received supernatural titles. Released in 1998, it competed with that season's other new series for attention.