Serial Experiments Lain
A psychological science-fiction story about 14-year-old Lain Iwakura, whose email from a deceased classmate draws her into the collapsing boundary between the real world and the Wired.
- Genre:
- SF / サイコロジカル / サイバーパンク / ミステリー
- Medium:
- Anime
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Serial Experiments Lain — Timeline12 events
An email arrives from the deceased Chisa
After classmate Chisa Yomoda dies, messages bearing her name reach students, and Lain Iwakura reads one on her home NAVI.
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Lain visits the Cyberia nightclub
After hearing that a girl resembling her was seen there, Lain visits Cyberia with Alice and the others and becomes caught in a shooting.
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Lain receives a mysterious component and modifies her NAVI
After the Cyberia incident, Lain examines a delivered component, asks her father about it, and begins modifying the NAVI in her room.
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Lain investigates the link between PHANTOMa and a series of deaths
Using her upgraded NAVI to enter the Wired more deeply, Lain investigates rumors connecting the PHANTOMa game to real-world incidents and the Knights.
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Mika is overwhelmed by inexplicable instructions
Lain's sister Mika repeatedly encounters disturbing messages and instructions around the city, then returns home to face another figure with her own appearance.
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Lain traces the recreation of the KIDS experiment
Investigating abnormal behavior among children, Lain contacts Professor Hodgeson and learns of the Kensington experiment fifteen years earlier and the leaked KIDS plans.
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Lain is taken to Tachibana Laboratories
The black-suited men monitoring Lain take her to Tachibana Laboratories and question her about the Wired Lain and the Knights.
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Lain deletes memories of the rumor about Alice
After Alice's secret spreads through the Wired, Lain denies responsibility and attempts to erase both the rumor and people's memories of seeing it.
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Lain learns about Masami Eiri and Protocol Seven
Lain learns that Tachibana researcher Masami Eiri inserted a Schumann-resonance factor into the seventh-generation Wired protocol.
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The Knights are exposed and the Iwakura household collapses
A leaked list exposes Knights members and deaths follow, while Yasuo tells Lain that his role in their supposed family has ended.
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Alice visits Lain and Eiri takes physical form
Alice enters the devastated Iwakura home and finds Lain joined to her NAVI, before Masami Eiri forms a body and attacks them.
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Lain removes herself from everyone's memories
Lain removes memories and events concerning herself from the world, then meets an adult Alice on a pedestrian bridge years later.
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