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Serial Experiments Lain

Name: Serial Experiments Lain
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery
Rating: 8.2
Cast: Kaori Shimizu, Yoko Asada, Ayako Kawasumi, Ryusuke Ohbayashi, Rei Igarashi

serial experiments lain

19981 season13 episodes24 min★ 8.2 (672 votes)Rated TV-14

Animation Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy Mystery TV Tokyo

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Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

Seasons

Season 11998 · 13 episodes

Cast

Kaori ShimizuLain Iwakura (voice) · 13 ep.

Yoko AsadaArisu Mizuki - Lain's friend (voice) · 13 ep.

Ayako KawasumiMika Iwakura - Lain's older sister (voice) · 13 ep.

Ryusuke OhbayashiYasuo Iwakura - Lain's father (voice) · 13 ep.

Rei IgarashiMiho Iwakura - Lain's mother (voice) · 13 ep.

Sumi MutohChisa Yomoda (voice) · 13 ep.KKeito TakimotoTarō (voice) · 13 ep.

Chiharu TezukaReika Yamamoto (voice) · 13 ep.

Manabi MizunoYūri Katō (voice) · 13 ep.YYuki YamamotoMyū-Myū (voice) · 13 ep.SSora FujimatsuMasayuki (voice) · 13 ep.

Show HayamiEiri Masami (voice) · 13 ep.

Shigeru ChibaOffice worker · 13 ep.

Jouji NakataKarl Haushoffer - Man in Black 1(voice) · 13 ep.

Takumi YamazakiLin Sui-Xi - Man in black 2 (voice) · 13 ep.

Crew

Directing
Ryutaro Nakamura (Director), Masahiko Murata (Director), Akihiko Nishiyama (Director), Yuichi Tanaka (Director), Johei Matsuura (Director), Shigeru Ueda (Director), Shigeru Ueda (Assistant Director)

Writing
Yasuyuki Ueda (Original Series Creator), Yasuyuki Ueda (Original Story), Chiaki J. Konaka (Screenplay), Chiaki J. Konaka (Writer), Chiaki J. Konaka (Series Composition)

Production
Yasuyuki Ueda (Producer), Taro Maki (Producer), Hitoshi Chosokabe (Production Assistant)

Sound
Paul Turrell (Theme Song Performance), Steve Rodgers (Theme Song Performance), Alex Caird (Theme Song Performance), Lee Sullivan (Theme Song Performance), Reichi Nakaido (Original Music Composer), Ben Henderson (Theme Song Performance), Jasmine Rodgers (Theme Song Performance), Jasmine Rodgers (Main Title Theme Composer)

Camera
Takashi Azuhata (Director of Photography)

Editing
Tsuyoshi Imai (Editor)

Art
Masaru Sato (Art Direction), Ryutaro Nakamura (Storyboard Artist), Osamu Honda (Background Designer), Yuka Ohashi (Background Designer), Riko Shinohara (Background Designer), Kazuki Higashiji (Background Designer), Shinji Takasuka (Background Designer), Takamasa Masuki (Background Designer)

Visual Effects
Yoshitoshi ABe (Visual Effects), Akihiko Yamashita (Opening/Ending Animation), Hidenori Matsubara (Opening/Ending Animation), Toshiyuki Tsuru (Opening/Ending Animation), Tokuyuki Matsutake (Opening/Ending Animation), Hirofumi Suzuki (Opening/Ending Animation), Tomokazu Tokoro (Opening/Ending Animation), Kouichi Arai (Opening/Ending Animation)