8.324 minSeason 1 • Episode 13
LatestThe world is crumbling, people are dying and Alice's sanity is threatened. To save humanity, there is only one thing Lain can do; she must make the ultimate personal sacrifice.
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.
Direction
Nakamura's fragmented visual language predicts TikTok dissociation.
Sound
Bôa's 'Duvet' OP still lives rent-free in millennial trauma.
Writing
Every line of dialogue is a riddle wrapped in static.
Kaori Shimizu
Lain Iwakura (voice)
Yoko Asada
Arisu Mizuki - Lain's friend (voice)
Ayako Kawasumi
Mika Iwakura - Lain's older sister (voice)
Ryusuke Ohbayashi
Yasuo Iwakura - Lain's father (voice)
Rei Igarashi
Miho Iwakura - Lain's mother (voice)
Sumi Mutoh
Chisa Yomoda (voice)
Chiharu Tezuka
Reika Yamamoto (voice)
Manabi Mizuno
Yūri Katō (voice)
Show Hayami
Eiri Masami (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
Office worker
Jouji Nakata
Karl Haushoffer - Man in Black 1(voice)
Takumi Yamazaki
Lin Sui-Xi - Man in black 2 (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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