Serial Experiments Lain - Information

Synopsis: Lain Iwakura, a strange and introvert child, is one of the many girls in her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda-A Chisa who recently committed suicide. Lain has no desire or experience of dealing or basic technology; However, when Technophobe opens the email, it takes it directly to Wired, a virtual world of communication networks similar to what we know as the internet. Lain's life is turned upside down when she begins to find enigmatic mysteries after another. Strange men called men in black start to appear wherever she goes, asking questions and somehow knowing more about her than she knows herself. With the limits between reality and cyberspace rapidly blurring, Lain is plunged into more surreal and bizarre events, where identity, consciousness and perception are concepts that assume new meanings.

Written by Chiaki J. Konaka, whose other works include Texhnolyze, Lains series experiences are a series of psychological vanguard mystery that follows Lains, while she makes crucial choices that will affect the real world and wire. By closing one world and opening another, only Lain will realize the meaning of his presence.