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Serial Experiments Lain

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

serial experiments lain

1998 · 1 season, 13 episodes · 24m episodes · Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · TV Tokyo · Japan · Rated TV-14 (US)

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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.

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Kaori Shimizu, Yoko Asada, Ayako Kawasumi, Ryusuke Ohbayashi, Rei Igarashi, Sumi Mutoh

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