Serial Experiments Lain Wiki is a wiki focused on the 1998 anime series Serial Experiments Lain and its derivatives, including official artbooks, the PS1 game, interviews, and other related media. The series was written by Chiaki J. Konaka and directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura, with character designs by Yoshitoshi ABe.
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Serial Experiments Lain is an anime series directed by Nakamura Ryuutarou, original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Konaka, and produced by Ueda Yasuyuki (credited as production 2nd) for Triangle Staff. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998 and has 13 episodes. A PlayStation game with the same title was released in November 1998 by Pioneer LDC.
Lain is influenced by philosophical subjects such as reality, identity, and communication. The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the Internet. Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika Iwakura, her cold mother Miho Iwakura, and her computer-obsessed father Yasuo Iwakura. The first ripple on the pond of Lain's lonely life appears when she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from Chisa Yomoda, a schoolmate who committed suicide. When Lain receives the message at home, Chisa tells her (in real time) that she is not dead, but has just "abandoned the flesh", and has found God in the Wired. From then on, Lain is bound to a quest which will take her ever deeper into both the network and her own thoughts.
- March 2025
- 16th - The Serial Experiments Lain authorized spin-off game "//signal." was announced, an occult RPG set to release on April 30 for Windows and macOS. (source (en), (jp))
- December 2024
- 21th - Wasei "JJ" Chikada releases his 6th album, "Cyberia Layer:06" with new art by Yoshitoshi ABe. (source)
- December 2023
- 18th - Wasei "JJ" Chikada releases his 5th album, "Cyberia Layer:05" with new art by Yoshitoshi ABe. (source)
- April 2023
- 1st - A producer of the anime series releases a countdown website that lasts 24 hours. It's an April Fools Joke for the 25th anniversary of Serial Experiments Lain. (source (en), (jp))
- December 2022
- 17th - Wasei "JJ" Chikada releases his 4th album, "Cyberia Layer:04" with new art by Yoshitoshi ABe. (source)
- January 2022
- 9th - Wasei "JJ" Chikada announced he will release his next record "Cyberia Layer:04" around April, 2022. (source)
- November 2021
- 11th - Launch of Yoshitoshi ABe's Patreon account. (source)
- March 2021
- 29th - Released of the fan project lainTSX recreating Serial Experiments Lain PS1 game in English and playable on web browser (source)
- February 2021
- 24th - Wasei "JJ" Chikada launches his weekly music streaming show Club Cyberia Wired. Every Wednesday at 10 p.m. JST. (source)
- June 2020
- 20th - Release of the remix album Cyberia Layer:03 "After Hours" (source)
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Despera is a planned anime series. It was announced that the project reunited many of the staff who worked on Serial Experiments Lain and it will work as its spiritual sequel.
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