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A fourteen-year-old girl named Lain Iwakura receives an unsettling email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda, who recently took her own life. Despite being shy and inexperienced with technology, Lain opens the message and is immediately transported to a virtual world called Wired, which functions similarly to our understanding of the internet. As she navigates this new realm, Lain encounters enigmatic men known as the Men in Black who pose questions and seem to possess intimate knowledge about her. The line between reality and cyberspace becomes increasingly blurred, leading Lain to experience surreal and disorienting events that challenge her understanding of identity, consciousness, and perception. Written by Chiaki J. Konaka, Serial Experiments Lain is a psychological thriller series that follows Lain as she grapples with life-altering decisions that will impact both the physical world and Wired. Through her journey, Lain comes to recognize the profound implications of these two domains coexisting.

Serial Experiments Lain won the Excellence Prize in the 1998 Japan Media Arts Festival. It has been subject to commentary in the literary and academic worlds such as the Asian Horror Encyclopedia and The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation by the American Philosophical Society.