Serial Experiments Lain
serial experiments lain
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 MAL Rewrite]
Staff

Abe, Shoujirou
Producer

Ueda, Yasuyuki
Producer, Original Creator, Planning

Ide, Mie
Assistant Producer

Nakamura, Ryuutarou
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Tsuruoka, Youta
Sound Director

Matsuura, Johei
Episode Director

Murata, Masahiko
Episode Director, Storyboard

Nishiyama, Akihiko
Episode Director

Ueda, Shigeru
Episode Director

Konaka, Chiaki
Script, Special Effects, Series Composition

Kakudou, Hiroyuki
Storyboard

Satou, Takuya
Storyboard

Bôa
Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Composition

Nakaido, Reichi
Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Lyrics, Music

Rodgers, Jasmine
Theme Song Lyrics

ABe, Yoshitoshi
Original Character Design, Key Animation

Andou, Masahiro
Key Animation

Arai, Kouichi
Key Animation

Azuhata, Takashi
Director of Photography

Emoto, Masahiro
Key Animation

Gotou, Arihiro
Key Animation

Gotou, Takahiro
Key Animation

Hata, Shouji
Recording Engineer

Hirasawa, Akihiro
Background Art

Honda, Osamu
Background Art
Opening & Ending Themes
Openings
- "Duvet" by Bôa
Endings
- "Tooi Sakebi (遠い叫び)" by Reichi "CHABO" Nakaido (仲井戸"CHABO"麗市)
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