Strange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired".
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Series Cast Summary
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Kaori Shimizu | ... |
Lain Iwakura
(13 episodes, 1998)
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| Bridget Hoffman | ... |
Lain Iwakura
(13 episodes, 1998)
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| Dan Lorge | ... |
Additional Voices
(13 episodes, 1998)
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| Randy McPherson | ... |
Additional Voices
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(13 episodes, 1998)
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Ali Moriizumi | ... |
DJ (Present Day announcer)
(13 episodes, 1998)
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| Ayako Kawasumi | ... |
Mika Iwakura
(12 episodes, 1998)
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Yôko Asada | ... |
Arisu Mizuki
(12 episodes, 1998)
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| Patricia Ja Lee | ... |
Mika Iwakura
(12 episodes, 1998)
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| Emilie de Azevedo Brown | ... |
Arisu Mizuki
(11 episodes, 1998)
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Chiharu Tezuka | ... |
Reika Yamamoto
(10 episodes, 1998)
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Manabi Mizuno | ... |
Juri Kato
(10 episodes, 1998)
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| Lenore Zann | ... |
Reika Yamamoto
(10 episodes, 1998)
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Dari Lallou | ... |
Juri Kato
(10 episodes, 1998)
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Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi | ... |
Yasuo Iwakura
(10 episodes, 1998)
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| Mary Elizabeth McGlynn | ... |
Lain's NAVI
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(9 episodes, 1998)
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Barry Stigler | ... |
Yasuo Iwakura
(10 episodes, 1998)
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Rei Igarashi | ... |
Miho Iwakura
(8 episodes, 1998)
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| Brianne Brozey | ... |
Taro
(8 episodes, 1998)
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| Petrea Burchard | ... |
Miho Iwakura
(8 episodes, 1998)
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Keito Takimoto | ... |
Taro
(8 episodes, 1998)
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Show Hayami | ... |
Deus
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(7 episodes, 1998)
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| Takumi Yamazaki | ... |
Lin Sui-Xi
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(7 episodes, 1998)
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| Kirk Thornton | ... |
Deus
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(7 episodes, 1998)
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Kuniko Yoshioka | ... |
S
(7 episodes, 1998)
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| Jamieson Price | ... |
Karl Haushofer
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(7 episodes, 1998)
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| Jôji Nakata | ... |
Karl Haushofer
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(6 episodes, 1998)
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| Sandy Fox | ... |
Myu-Myu
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(7 episodes, 1998)
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| Bob Buchholz | ... |
Lin Sui-Xi
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(6 episodes, 1998)
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Steve McGowan | ... |
Additional Voices
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(7 episodes, 1998)
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Sora Tôma | ... |
Masayuki
(6 episodes, 1998)
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Yuki Yamamoto | ... |
Myu-Myu
(7 episodes, 1998)
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| Lia Sargent | ... |
Chisa Yomoda
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(5 episodes, 1998)
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Hidetoshi Ito | ... |
Announcer
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(5 episodes, 1998)
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Wasei Chikada | ... |
JJ
(4 episodes, 1998)
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| Steve Blum | ... |
Newscaster
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(4 episodes, 1998)
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| Dorothy Elias-Fahn | ... |
Keiko Yoshii
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(4 episodes, 1998)
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| Eddie Frierson | ... |
JJ
(4 episodes, 1998)
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Heather Ashton | ... |
Additional Voices
(4 episodes, 1998)
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Hiromi Otsuda | ... |
High School Girl
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(4 episodes, 1998)
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Satoshi Komiya | ... |
Boy
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(4 episodes, 1998)
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Sumi Mutoh | ... |
Chisa Yomoda
(3 episodes, 1998)
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| Julie Maddalena | ... |
Child
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(3 episodes, 1998)
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| Steve Apostolina | ... |
Additional Voices
(3 episodes, 1998)
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Michiko Neya | ... |
Keiko Yoshii
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(3 episodes, 1998)
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| Susumu Chiba | ... |
Delivery Man
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(3 episodes, 1998)
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Ty Webb | ... |
Additional Voices
(3 episodes, 1998)
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Haruka Tsunezumi | ... |
Little Girl
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(2 episodes, 1998)
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| Rachael Harris | ... |
Shoko Masatsugu
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(2 episodes, 1998)
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| Paul St. Peter | ... |
Narrator
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(2 episodes, 1998)
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| Tom Konkle | ... |
Additional Voices
(2 episodes, 1998)
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Production Companies
- Pioneer LDC (production)
- Triangle Staff (animation production)
Distributors
- TV Tokyo (1998) (Japan) (tv)
- Pioneer (1999) (United States) (VHS)
- Pioneer LDC (1998) (Japan) (VHS)
- Geneon Entertainment (2005) (Japan) (DVD)
- Another World Entertainment (2008) (Denmark) (DVD)
- Geneon Universal Entertainment (2010) (Japan) (DVD)
- FUNimation Entertainment (2011) (United States) (DVD)
- Animax (Brazil) (tv)
- Animax (Germany) (tv)
- Animax (South Africa) (tv)
- Bandai Channel (Japan) (tv)
- Bilibili (China) (internet)
- Buzz Channel (Spain) (tv)
- Calle 13 Universal (Spain) (tv)
- Canal C (Spain) (tv)
- Canal+ (2001) (France) (tv)
- Canal+ (Poland) (tv)
- Cuatro (Spain) (tv)
- Cultoon (2007) (Italy) (tv)
- Dybex (France) (DVD)
- Dybex (Netherlands) (DVD)
- Dynamic Italia (2002) (Italy) (VHS)
- Dynamic Italia (2003) (Italy) (DVD)
- Dynamic Italia (Italy) (DVD)
- FUNimation Entertainment (2012) (Canada) (Blu-ray)
- FUNimation Entertainment (2012) (United States) (Blu-ray)
- FUNimation Entertainment (2012) (United States) (DVD)
- FUNimation Entertainment (Brazil) (DVD)
- G4TechTV Canada (Canada) (tv)
- Geneon Entertainment (2004) (Canada) (DVD)
- Geneon Entertainment (2004) (United States) (DVD)
- Gong (2009) (France) (tv)
- Hyper (Poland) (tv)
- K3 (Spain) (tv)
- KTEH (United States) (tv)
- Locomotion (Brazil) (tv)
- Locomotion (Mexico) (tv)
- MVM (2017) (Ireland) (Blu-ray)
- MVM (2017) (Ireland) (DVD)
- MVM (2017) (United Kingdom) (Blu-ray)
- MVM (2017) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Madman Entertainment (Australia) (DVD)
- Madman Entertainment (New Zealand) (DVD)
- Pioneer Entertainment (1999) (Canada) (VHS)
- Pioneer Entertainment (1999) (United States) (DVD)
- Pioneer Entertainment (1999) (United States) (VHS)
- Plug TV (2005) (France) (tv)
- Pop & In Entertainment (2000) (Hong Kong) (video) (Video CD)
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) (United States) (tv)
- SP Vision (Germany) (DVD)
- Selecta Visión (Spain) (DVD)
- Selecta Visión (Spain) (tv)
- TV Tokyo (Japan) (tv)
- TechTV Inc. (2002) (United States) (tv)
- XEIMT Canal 22 (Mexico) (tv)
- XL Media (Russia)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- 7th Mother (music production)
- Animaze (produced In association with) (English version)
- Eastman Kodak (film)
- Fuji Pacific Music Publishing (music production in association with)
- Genco (production cooperation)
- Geneon Entertainment (soundtrack) (English version)
- Imagica (film developing)
- Imagica (telecine)
- J Works (music production)
- Koyusha (music production)
- Magnitude 8 Post (recording facility) (English version)
- Maki Production (lithwork)
- Maki Production (title design)
- Mind Meld (dvd menu design) (English version)
- Pioneer Video Manufacturing (dvd authoring) (English version)
- Polystar Co. (music production in association with)
- Production 2nd (planning)
- Rakuonsha (sound production)
- TV Tokyo Music (music production in association with)
- Tokyo TV Center (recording studio)
- Toshiba EMI (music production in association with)
- ZRO Limit Productions (produced In association with) (English version)
- ZRO Limit Productions (translation) (English version)
Storyline
| Plot Summary |
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. |
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| Taglines | Present day, present time! Ha ha ha ha ha... See more » |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | There are numerous references to Macintosh and Apple Computers: The phrase "To Be Continued", with a colored "Be" is shown at the end of most of the episodes. This is a reference to BeOS, whose logo has similar coloring. The Be company was founded by Jean-Louis Guasse, a former Apple executive. The Navis use an operating system named Copeland, which was the codename for Apple's MacOS 8. Navi's operating system has a graphical user interface (GUI) similar to that of MacOS. Arisu's Navi resembles the original Apple iMac. The series slogan "Close this world. Open the NeXT" is a reference to the NeXT company, founded by Steve Jobs in the late '80s and purchased by Apple Computer in December 1996. All of the Navis shown in the series use one-button mice as Macintosh computers do. The electronic voice heard saying the episode titles is the "Whisper" voice from the MacOS Speech Control Panel, a program that permits text-to-speech. The child's Navi that Lain used to use was modeled after the 20th Anniversary Macintosh. The HandiNAVI, the handheld computers which both Lain and Arisu used was based off the Apple Newton, the first PDA. Navis and Macintoshes are both built by companies named after fruit, Tachibana (a type of orange) and Apple, respectively. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture (2005). See more » |
| Soundtracks | Duvet See more » |
| Quotes |
Lain Iwakura:
No matter where you go, everyone's connected. See more » |