Lain, a withdrawn girl, becomes fixated on the virtual world of "The Wired", leading to a series of inexplicable events.
Lain Iwakura, a shy 14-year-old, receives a mysterious email from a classmate who recently died. Despite being tech-unsavvy, Lain opens the email and is drawn into the Wired, a virtual world of communication networks. Her life becomes a series of surreal and bizarre events as she encounters cryptic mysteries, strange men, and blurring boundaries between reality and cyberspace.
Aired: Jul 6, 1998People are getting emails from a girl that killed herself last week (Chisa Yo...
Aired: Jul 13, 1998Accela - a designer drug born of nanotechnology - is a big hit with the club ...
Aired: Jul 20, 1998Lain has questions about a computer chip someone left in her locker, and her ...
Aired: Jul 27, 1998The more involved with computers she becomes, the more Lain begins to transfo...
Aired: Aug 3, 1998Lain's friends suspect her involvement in a series of computer errors that ca...
Aired: Aug 10, 1998When an image of herself appears in the clouds, the real Lain enters the wire...
Aired: Aug 17, 1998Covert agents in black suits take Lain in for questioning. When the interroga...
Aired: Aug 24, 1998Lain's unsavory behavior within the wired turns her into an outcast at school...
Aired: Aug 31, 1998A DJ at the club passes Lain a plain brown envelope containing a computer chi...
Aired: Sep 7, 1998Lain encounters a man who call himself the ''god of the wired'', and members ...
Aired: Sep 14, 1998Lain risks a meltdown by uploading a Navi clone into her own brain. Later, th...
Aired: Sep 21, 1998"God" preaches that our bodies are simply an obstacle preventing the evolutio...
Aired: Sep 28, 1998Lain's guilt over the havoc caused by her interaction within the wired provok...
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Current Status: Ended
Network: TV Tokyo
Production Country: Japan
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