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Serial Experiments Lain

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Serial Experiments Lain	comment	"It seems that there is a rumor in school that this is a prank. But I want you to know it's not."This line is from an email sent to multiple students from Chisa Yomoda, a high school girl that recently committed suicide. "Chisa" says that she isn't truly dead, she just transferred her consciousness to the Wired, a virtual world mainly used for communication.Fourteen-year-old Lain Iwakura isn't interested in the Wired or anything to do with computers. A quiet introvert, she has to practically be forced into social activities by her best friend, Alice Mizuki. It isn't until she's urged to check her email by Alice and the rest of her kind-of friends that Lain sees the mysterious message. Not only does "Chisa" claim to still be alive, she also says that God exists and that He lives in the Wired.Her curiosity piqued, Lain has her tech-obsessed father buy her a new NAVI system. While Lain's mother and sister are both indifferent to her, her father is eager to help her out. He urges her to log onto the Wired, a sentiment underscored when "Chisa" leaves a similar message on Lain's classroom's blackboard. When she finally does enter the Wired to start searching for answers, everything Lain knows about herself, her family, the Wired, the world, and even God Himself will be upended by one undeniable truth: nothing and no one are what they seem.Serial Experiments Lain is an anime original created by Yasuyuki Ueda and written by Chiaki J. Konaka. The characters were designed by Yoshitoshi ABe, and the animation was made by Triangle Staff with direction given by Ryutaro Nakamura. All 13 episodes of the series aired on TV Tokyo from July 1998 to September of that same year. The English release was originally handled by Geneon in 1999. When that company shut down, the series was left in limbo until Funimation rescued and re-released it in 2012.Part cyberpunk, part psychological-horror, the series is famous within the anime community for its unconventional storytelling, surreal visuals, and stellar sound design. While there is a plot, any progression thereof is usually implied to be happening in the background, whereas the concepts the creators are exploring remain front and center. A lot of questions the series brings up as to its characters and setting is left up to the viewer, so expect plenty uses of "left up to interpretation" and variations thereof in the examples listed below.A video game for the PlayStation was developed concurrently alongside the anime, and was released shortly after the the anime's conclusion. It takes place in a different continuity while still sharing several themes, but mostly contains its own plot and characters. Tropes specific to the video game should go on its dedicated page.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Serial Experiments Lain / int_1439161f	comment	Alice's Heroic BSoD is what inspired Lain to Retcon herself out of existence.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Serial Experiments Lain / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Starts off as a technology focused J-horror story akin to something like Kairo, but gradually becomes a cyberpunk Conspiracy Thriller with strong elements of Psychological Horror.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_1811566c	type	Roswell That Ends Well
Serial Experiments Lain / int_1811566c	comment	Roswell That Ends Well: There is a discussion on the Roswell incident and conspiracy theories, and implies that the Wired might have been created using alien technology. Whether that's true, and how relevant it is to the story, is left entirely open.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Serial Experiments Lain / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: The "Present day, Present time!" dateline that opens each episode, close-but-not-exactly-true, which oddly enough sets the tone quite well.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
Serial Experiments Lain / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Who are the sinister, reality-hacking powerful Knights of the Eastern Calculus, you ask? An executive, a fat nerd and a housewife who plays videogames with her son.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Serial Experiments Lain / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: Lain and Alice do this a lot, especially in Layer 12 and 13.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_1ba5dc68	type	The Greys
Serial Experiments Lain / int_1ba5dc68	comment	The Greys: A Grey appears as a mysterious vision, in an episode which also references the Roswell incident. It is referenced in other episodes as well. Unlike the usual nudist Greys, it is wearing a red and green striped sweater. In Layer 11, Lain is wearing the same sweater, and her limbs are greyed out, as she checks in on Alice.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
Serial Experiments Lain / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: People on The Wired start out as this but over time become The Unintelligible as Lain becomes more and more "connected" to The Wired and thus able to "understand" posts on The Wired on a level the viewer can't. Or something like that.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_1ce1cfd8	type	all lowercase letters
Serial Experiments Lain / int_1ce1cfd8	comment	all lowercase letters: the series' title is stylized like this.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_1da3a484	type	Alice Allusion
Serial Experiments Lain / int_1da3a484	comment	Alice Allusion: Lain's best friend, Alice, is named after Lewis Carroll's Alice.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
Serial Experiments Lain / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: Lain is some kind of artificial being that just so happens to look and (mostly) act human. Exactly what kind of artificial being she is is never made clear.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_1ee9819e	type	Scary Shiny Glasses
Serial Experiments Lain / int_1ee9819e	comment	Scary Shiny Glasses: Lain's dad has them frequently.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_207e000c	type	Reveal Shot
Serial Experiments Lain / int_207e000c	comment	Reveal Shot: There are several shots where Lain or her friends have a Reaction Shot followed by a Reveal Shot — the camera moves out to show the horror they just saw.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_217b2c84	type	Little Miss Almighty
Serial Experiments Lain / int_217b2c84	comment	Little Miss Almighty: Lain.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_22e5329e	type	Ordinary High-School Student
Serial Experiments Lain / int_22e5329e	comment	Ordinary High-School Student: Lain starts as an ordinary middle school student, grounding the series. She proceeds to become somewhat less ordinary.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_234073a4	type	Your Mind Makes It Real
Serial Experiments Lain / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: Probably one of the most true to form examples, to the point where you can resurrect people or erase people them from existence simple by manipulating people's collective memories. In scientific or practical terms it's not clearly explained how the barrier between the wired and the physical world can become blurred in very real terms (though there is some reference to humans having a sort of latent sensitivity to electromagnetic frequencies), but the audience can infer that the story works on such a strongly idealistic world view that it just kind of can.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_24c6f22e	type	Trash of the Titans
Serial Experiments Lain / int_24c6f22e	comment	Trash of the Titans/Trash the Set: Lain's house gains a worrying amount of mess and a nasty brown fog near the end of the series.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_2593d18f	type	Anime Theme Song
Serial Experiments Lain / int_2593d18f	comment	Anime Theme Song: The song used for the anime's opening is "Duvet" by BÃ´a, notable for its forlorn lyrics and mellow, or even melancholic, atmosphere.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_2639dbf3	type	Power Echoes
Serial Experiments Lain / int_2639dbf3	comment	Power Echoes/Power Floats: Masami Eiri.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Serial Experiments Lain / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Lain's parents turn out to be adoptive, because Lain is an Artificial Human They then abandon her after their "role" in her life is over, though her father at least disobeys enough to say goodbye to her and tell her he loved her.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_2afd9e69	type	Adjective Noun Fred
Serial Experiments Lain / int_2afd9e69	comment	Adjective Noun Fred: The title of the series is formatted as "adjective noun name". The name used is the main character's, but what the "serial experiments" are is never directly addressed (at least not within the show itself).
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Serial Experiments Lain / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Accela is a powerful nanomachine-powered stimulant that causes Bullet Time, heightened senses, and delusional thoughts. It also seems to physically link the user to the Wired, and become susceptible to its more esoteric phenomena.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Serial Experiments Lain / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: Lain herself.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Serial Experiments Lain / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Lain is supposedly the same age than Alice and her friends, but she looks sustantially shorter and less physically developed than them. Summed to her rather childish attributes, like her bear clothes and lack of social skill, it makes it seem that she is much younger than them.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_31bbd6d7	type	A Darker Me
Serial Experiments Lain / int_31bbd6d7	comment	A Darker Me: Lain has two alter-egos that are both far more assertive than she is in the real world, but one of them is downright unhinged. Nicknamed Evil Lain, this version of Lain is cruel, sadistic, and doesn't have any regard for life.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Serial Experiments Lain / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Dr. Hodgeson, the man who created the KIDS program (an attempt to collect information on the use of psi energy). Sound familiar?
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_35d9ca8b	type	Informed Loner
Serial Experiments Lain / int_35d9ca8b	comment	Informed Loner: Lain seems to be fairly popular at her school (at least many people know her by name) despite believing she has no friends.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_36d0d1ba	type	No Shirt, Long Jacket
Serial Experiments Lain / int_36d0d1ba	comment	No Shirt, Long Jacket: Eiri's form in the Wired.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
Serial Experiments Lain / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: Subverted by later making them split unpersonalities.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Serial Experiments Lain / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: The traffic-and-telephone-lines montage that opens every episode, with some philosophical commentary pertaining to the episode. This is played with in the last episodes. For instance, Layer 10, Love, has absolutely no introducing commentary, just the sounds of the traffic and static, and the usual opening montage only shows up about half-way into Layer 13, Ego.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_379dcdf2	type	Cowboys and Indians
Serial Experiments Lain / int_379dcdf2	comment	Cowboys and Indians: The online shooter game PHANTOMa gets crossed with a bunch of kids playing tag in the real world.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Serial Experiments Lain / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: Lain, in cyberspace. Thanks to Eiri's Protocol Seven, the Knights are able to hack reality itself.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_3f3498f1	type	The Team Wannabe
Serial Experiments Lain / int_3f3498f1	comment	The Team Wannabe: The Knights fanboy who wanders around the streets wearing a virtual reality headset and begging them to let him join their group.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Serial Experiments Lain / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Eiri is defeated, but Lain decides to reset the human world anyway by erasing her own presence. This means everything bad that happened thanks to Lain's existence and actions will be erased, but so will Alice's memories of Lain. Alice grows up to live a happy and peaceful life, as do most of the other characters, while Lain herself decides to be the barrier keeper between reality and the Wired.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Serial Experiments Lain / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: If one chooses to interpret Lain as an AI. She was created to merge reality into the Wired, but turns on "God" instead and chooses to erase herself rather than assimilate humanity into the Wired.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_43ffa398	type	Uncanny Valley Girl
Serial Experiments Lain / int_43ffa398	comment	Uncanny Valley Girl: Lain of course, seeing as she is very pretty, quiet, and seemingly normal at first, except she's not a normal girl. This is played with in earlier episodes by deliberately using Off-Model animation techniques so that she appears out of place with her surroundings. This is is used to full effect in Layer 08, where we see a glimpse of the Wired where each user has her face... on their own bodies. She freaks out and knocks the head off of one, but that just makes it even creepier.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_465780af	type	Facial Markings
Serial Experiments Lain / int_465780af	comment	Facial Markings: The God of the Wired is depicted with a vertical red stripe on each of his cheeks.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_47dc2eeb	type	Everyone Owns a Mac
Serial Experiments Lain / int_47dc2eeb	comment	Everyone Owns a Mac: Anyone who's anyone within the world of Lain owns some form of tech from the Tachibana Corporation. (Tachibana itself is loosely based on Apple.)
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Serial Experiments Lain / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Closeups of telephone lines and stylized shots of city traffic at night. One repeated bit of footage is rather poignant: Lain walking under telephone lines casting creepy shadows: in the last episode the same footage is shown without Lain after she erases herself from existence.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Serial Experiments Lain / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: As said before, Lain vs. the gun-toting junkie.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_4a0ec47a	type	Cheshire Cat Grin
Serial Experiments Lain / int_4a0ec47a	comment	Cheshire Cat Grin: One of Lain's alter-egos (frequently referred to as Evil Lain by fans) seems to wear a cruel, almost sadistic, grin at all times.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_4a57732a	type	Friendless Background
Serial Experiments Lain / int_4a57732a	comment	Friendless Background: Downplayed, since Lain has friends, but she appears to have almost no actual connection to them except for Alice.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_4abc2ca9	type	Virtual Ghost
Serial Experiments Lain / int_4abc2ca9	comment	Virtual Ghost: Chisa, Eiri and others. Maybe even Lain herself in the end, depending on how far she took the "erasing herself from existence" thing.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Serial Experiments Lain / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The God of the Wired's attempt to physically manifest is very grotesque; he's a mass of flesh, eyes, and a mouth. He grasps hold Lain and Alice with a fleshy tentacle-arm-thing, all while screaming and ranting in rage. Alice's reaction to this sight- mainly screaming bloody murder- is quite apt.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_50f848cc	type	Technology Porn
Serial Experiments Lain / int_50f848cc	comment	Technology Porn: Depending on who you ask, this is slightly more literal than in most cases.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_546e23f6	type	Evilutionary Biologist
Serial Experiments Lain / int_546e23f6	comment	Evilutionary Biologist: Masami Eiri is an odd example, being a computer scientist who believes that humans have reached the pinnacle of evolution physically and that- in order to continue evolving to more perfect forms- humanity has to give up their bodies for a digital existence. To that end, he secretly puts code into the latest version of the protocol that controls the Wired that would connect humans together on a subconscious level through the network. He also created a physical body for Lain to aid in this effort.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_5535272c	type	Coolest Club Ever
Serial Experiments Lain / int_5535272c	comment	Taro, Myu Myu and Masayuki hang out at the Cyberia, a cyberpunk nightclub mostly attended by people twice their age who goes in cyber-drugs and party hard all the time.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_58bec5a6	type	Digitized Hacker
Serial Experiments Lain / int_58bec5a6	comment	Digitized Hacker: The God of the Wired turns out to be a rather nutty scientist who worked out how to upload himself onto the Wired.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_5b84f2a	comment	Transhuman: Lain, certainly; Eiri, almost; perhaps the whole city or more, if you take the view that the post-reset world is a Lotus-Eater Machine.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_5c3206a	type	Ransacked Room
Serial Experiments Lain / int_5c3206a	comment	Ransacked Room: Lain's house after her parents leave.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
Serial Experiments Lain / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: The series can be interpreted this way; a number of Lain's experiences resemble symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, including visual and auditory hallucinations, loss of perception of time, paranoid delusions, and inappropriate emotional reactions. In fact, one of the symptoms of schizophrenia is the delusional belief that everything is connected and is somehow directly relevant to the believer, no matter how innocuous or unimportant. One might call it an inability to tell signal from noise...
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Serial Experiments Lain / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Only Lain takes a more... shall we say... 'active' role in Alice's life even after this...
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Serial Experiments Lain / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: In Layer 03, Lain glares at Taro when he suggests she go on a date with him. He quickly tries to play it off as joke. It's notable for being the first time Lain shows something akin to an active emotional response.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_62f9ee25	type	Nanomachines
Serial Experiments Lain / int_62f9ee25	comment	A teenager hopped up on nanotech goofballs shoots up a nightclub with a laser sight-equipped handgun. Just before he commits suicide, there is a camera shot where all you can see in the dim lighting are his teeth, and the laser dot on the roof of his mouth — a very striking image.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
Serial Experiments Lain / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: Images of power lines are often accompanied by an ominous humming sound, phone or data lines by a faint babble of voices. It's implied that Lain is the only one who hears it when she tells the voices to "shut up" in Layer 01, startling the man beside her on the train.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_657f77e4	type	Caught with Your Pants Down
Serial Experiments Lain / int_657f77e4	comment	Caught with Your Pants Down: Alice is caught pleasuring herself by an alternative version of Lain, one who is far more callous and cruel than the Lain Alice knows.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_66c58f09	type	Starts with a Suicide
Serial Experiments Lain / int_66c58f09	comment	Starts with a Suicide: The series kicks off when middle schooler Chisa Yomoda jumps off a building. It then follows up with the girl's Internet conversation: "How does it feel to die?" "It really hurts :-)"
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_66ce8a39	type	Fake Memories
Serial Experiments Lain / int_66ce8a39	comment	Fake Memories: Lain's memories of her family life were all created so she wouldn't question who the strangers living in her house are.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Serial Experiments Lain / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: Layer 05 centers mostly around Mika and her Mind Rape by the Knights, with passages in which Lain engages in esoteric philosophical conversations with a Creepy Doll and phantom versions of her mom and dad. Layer 09 contains a lot of Info Dump about the history and development of the Internet and the World Wide Web mixed in with scenes involving Lain trying to understand who or what she is exactly, which all leads up to The Reveal that the "God" Lain has been conversing with in the Wired is Masami Eiri. And he's decided to pay her a visit. Layer 11 is split in half between being a budget saving recap episode and revealing that Lain isn't actually human, just some software given a human form.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_6991bb9	type	Oracular Urchin
Serial Experiments Lain / int_6991bb9	comment	Oracular Urchin: Lain is an extreme variation on this type.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_6a85e9e1	type	Dub-Induced Plot Hole
Serial Experiments Lain / int_6a85e9e1	comment	Dub-Induced Plot Hole: The Spanish dub changes the line said by one of The Men in Black to Lain from "...but I love you. Love is a strange emotion, isn't it?" to "...I can't help but feel pity for your fate. You are a very special young lady." This opens the question of how he could know about her fate when they're unwitting pawns who later die without understanding the situation.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_6c87dbef	type	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration
Serial Experiments Lain / int_6c87dbef	comment	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: Alice has a Precocious Crush on her teacher, which she deals with by masturbating in secret. Unfortunately for her Evil Lain catches her doing it and spreads it all over school, which causes Lain's friendship with Alice to break down.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_6f7bffad	type	Cool Code of Source
Serial Experiments Lain / int_6f7bffad	comment	Cool Code of Source: Lain apparently does all her hackery in Lisp. Specifically, she's implementing Conway's Game of Life, with code from the CMU AI repository.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_715704e5	type	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
Serial Experiments Lain / int_715704e5	comment	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: The story is complex and we get disparate pieces of it during each episode.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Serial Experiments Lain / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: One interpretation of what happens to Mika in Episode 5.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
Serial Experiments Lain / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: This anime makes the idea of going on the internet an H. R. Giger nightmare, physically representing it as another layer of reality. Unlike other shows which would display a friendly, clean cyberworld, this one portrays it as disorienting and bizarre. Add in hallucinations and the blending of the real world and the Wired and several scenes get quite intensely strange. Even the more mundane stuff has a surprisingly unsettling atmosphere.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_74810fda	type	Aspect Montage
Serial Experiments Lain / int_74810fda	comment	Aspect Montage: The Once an Episode opening scene establishes its city location by a montage of power lines, crowds crossing roads, and the familiar Japanese "don't walk" sign. The montage also links back to the opening narration before the theme song since the location and aspects of it are set in a relatively recognizable modern-day city.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_76dc3807	type	Alone in a Crowd
Serial Experiments Lain / int_76dc3807	comment	Alone in a Crowd: There are several times where Lain stands in one place while those around her go about their day, completely ignoring her.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_77473d35	type	God Is Evil
Serial Experiments Lain / int_77473d35	comment	God Is Evil: The God of the Wired is the Big Bad. Subverted as Eiri isnâ€™t really God, Lain is.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_77480c5e	type	God Is Good
Serial Experiments Lain / int_77480c5e	comment	God Is Good: Lain, when she resets the world to give everyone (especially Alice) a happy ending.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Serial Experiments Lain / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Taro, Myu Myu and Masayuki hang out at the Cyberia, a cyberpunk nightclub mostly attended by people twice their age who goes in cyber-drugs and party hard all the time. Alice, Lain, Reika, and Julie all frequent the Cyberia as well despite only being 14. The other Lain has apparently organized raves there. Mika, a high schooler, is implied to be having sex with a man who's at least in college.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_79372d59	type	The Game Come to Life
Serial Experiments Lain / int_79372d59	comment	The Game Come to Life: The online shooter game PHANTOMa gets crossed with a bunch of kids playing tag in the real world. It goes very, very awry.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Serial Experiments Lain / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Lain delivers one to Eiri/God himself in Layer 12. He... doesn't take it well.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Serial Experiments Lain / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Lain reveals the identities of the Knights, and is horrified by the consequences.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_819deed9	type	Paranoid Thriller
Serial Experiments Lain / int_819deed9	comment	Paranoid Thriller: Easily the most famous example of this genre in anime. The show has its protagonist uncover a transhumanist conspiracy using the internet, all while leaving it ambiguous as to how much of the plot is her schizophrenic delusions.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_81a1960f	type	Silence Is Golden
Serial Experiments Lain / int_81a1960f	comment	Silence Is Golden: The series often has long scenes without dialogue, including montages of Lain walking around the city or in her room. The minimalist soundtrack fits as well.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Serial Experiments Lain / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Comes off as a mild example. The series is chock-full of philosophical and technological esoterica that all plays a factor in the ending, meaning that anyone who isn't paying attention to that is going to be rather confused. The fact that it's also a somewhat Ambiguous Ending doesn't really help.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_8370a793	type	Mature Work, Child Protagonists
Serial Experiments Lain / int_8370a793	comment	Mature Work, Child Protagonists: Lain Iwakura is a girl in middle school who still wears teddy bear pajamas. During the course of the series, she visits a night club where a man on a mind accelerating cyber drug shoots someone else and then himself, inadvertently causes her older sister to suffer a brutal Mind Rape that leaves her a blank slate, sees a young man playing a VR game mistake a young girl for a monster in his game and shoot her, and has her become involved with a couple of Men in Black who murder all the members of a rival faction. She catches a friend of hers masturbating while fantasizing about a teacher, and then witnesses the same friend have a complete breakdown when they're confronted with a self-styled "God of the Wired".
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
Serial Experiments Lain / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: Despite being in the eighth grade, nobody really seems to care what Lain and her classmates get up to at night, including her own parents.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_85fc8aa3	type	Reset Button Ending
Serial Experiments Lain / int_85fc8aa3	comment	Reset Button Ending: Features a rare variation which gives the series a sense of closure: the fact that it wasn't a complete reset definitely helps.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Serial Experiments Lain / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Chisa is practically forgotten after the first few episodes, only getting a basically inconsequential mention in Layer 10, though she is shown to be alive in the rebooted post-Lain world. The fate of Mika and Lain's fake parents is not revealed, although after Lain hits the Reset Button, we see a scene where all three of them formed an actual family, at Lain's behest one would imagine.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
Serial Experiments Lain / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: Lain has dark brown hair and reveals herself to be a very fast learner when it comes to understanding how to use, build, and modify computers.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
Serial Experiments Lain / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name With An S: Is the first name of Lain's friend "Arisu" or "Alice"? It's intended to be Alice, as you can see her name written clearly when Lain receives emails from her. It's also been confirmed by Word of God to be an Alice Allusion. However, Pioneer used "Arisu" in their subtitles, hence the confusion. The production notes booklet included with a Blu-ray/DVD set also lists her name as "Arisu".
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Serial Experiments Lain / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: What the Knights do to Mika in Layer 05. "Beep... Beep... Beep..."
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Serial Experiments Lain / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Arguably one of the most depressing example in media. As much as Karl means Lain no harm and in one case he is particularly interested in her safety (which may explain at least in part his earlier stalking), his subsequent declaration of love to her still comes out as absolutely cold and contorted, and the fact that he won't even wait for or expect a response from Lain suggest that he is perfectly aware of that. Worse part, he will die shortly after.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_8c5b8f0b	type	Salaryman
Serial Experiments Lain / int_8c5b8f0b	comment	Salaryman: Lain's father, who is kinder to her than her mother but still rather distant.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
Serial Experiments Lain / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone: The series ends with Lain doing this to herself. Mostly.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_9350a0b9	type	The Tape Knew You Would Say That
Serial Experiments Lain / int_9350a0b9	comment	The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Or so it would seem in the first episode when Lain has a conversation with Chisa's e-mail. Justified in hindsight: Lain really was conversing with her e-mail.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Serial Experiments Lain / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: God/Masami Eiri has one, complete with This Cannot Be!, when Lain decides to stand up to him.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Serial Experiments Lain / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The self-proclaimed God of the Wired is trying to merge all of humanity's consciousness with the Wired and rule above them as a God. To this end, he created an artificial being that bridges the gap between reality and the Wired, and tries to urge said being to do his bidding.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_9723e2cd	type	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?
Serial Experiments Lain / int_9723e2cd	comment	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Lain's computer setup. It's made vaguely plausible in that her father seems to work as a computer engineer of some sort, but by Layer 4 she has entire racks of servers and several monitors in her bedroom.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_97d63115	type	Matrix Raining Code
Serial Experiments Lain / int_97d63115	comment	Matrix Raining Code: Lain's computers do this at times.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_99208bf0	type	Eye Motifs
Serial Experiments Lain / int_99208bf0	comment	Eye Motifs: Most people grounded in reality in the anime have fairly large pupils in relation to their irises. Lain's massive irises compared to her tiny pupils suggests much of her psyche is submerged in the Wired.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_9922bb09	type	Subways Suck
Serial Experiments Lain / int_9922bb09	comment	Subways Suck: The train Lain takes to school.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_99dce181	type	Hacker Collective
Serial Experiments Lain / int_99dce181	comment	Hacker Collective: The KNIGHTS are a group of mysterious hackers on The Wired. A list of them is eventually leaked online, leading many to commit suicide. Those who weren't were assassinated.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_9a8dee13	type	Fictional Video Game
Serial Experiments Lain / int_9a8dee13	comment	Fictional Videogame: PHANTOMa is an In-Universe multiplayer video game that's assecible through the Wired.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Serial Experiments Lain / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: The God-like vision of Lain in the clouds is naked and smooth all over.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Serial Experiments Lain / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: Lain does this to herself.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_9fe18440	type	Whip Pan
Serial Experiments Lain / int_9fe18440	comment	Whip Pan: Used when Lain is conversing with her "friends", to show that even though she and her friends are separated only by a few feet, the emotional distance is unfathomable. Alice is even seen walking from the friends frame to the Lain frame a few times in Layer 02, to show that she honestly cares.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_a01c2d36	type	Practical Voice-Over
Serial Experiments Lain / int_a01c2d36	comment	Practical Voice-Over: In the initial episodes, people on The Wired can be heard talking to each other about current events that affect the story and give us insight into the world outside of Lain. It even provides some Foreshadowing! That said, there are also a lot of Non Sequiturs (as is the case with the real-life Internet), so this is something of a Subversion.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Serial Experiments Lain / int_a2dd3c5	comment	My Death Is Just the Beginning: Masami Eiri throws himself under a train to discard his body and live in the Wired as "God".
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Lain's mother doesn't seem to care at all about her, ignoring her daughter's clear emotional distress after going through multiple traumatic events. This is because she's not her real mother.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_a823fa03	type	The Un-Smile
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_ab3b6852	type	The Most Dangerous Video Game
Serial Experiments Lain / int_ab3b6852	comment	The Most Dangerous Video Game: PHANTOMa. It's pretty invasive as-is, but once it starts leaking into the real world...
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Serial Experiments Lain / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Midway through Layer 13, an upbeat pop song starts playing as life in Lain's town starts going back to normal because she erases everyone's memories of her.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Episodes are called a layer and a two-digit number, for example the first episode is "layer 01". Each episode title is a single word of English.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_addc723c	type	Neuro-Vault
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_ae062852	type	Feeling Your Heartbeat
Serial Experiments Lain / int_ae062852	comment	Feeling Your Heartbeat: Alice puts her hand on Lain's cheek, then puts Lain's hand over her own heart to try and remind Lain of her own humanity after she is nearly consumed by the Wired.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_aed59f28	comment	Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Subverted. Lain pretty much ignores the collection on her windowsill and bed, and the former are usually lit from behind as creepy silhouettes.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
Serial Experiments Lain / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: Or at least very unusual.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_b77c5ecb	type	"End of the World" Special
Serial Experiments Lain / int_b77c5ecb	comment	"End of the World" Special: At the end of the series, Lain decides to reset the world but without her existence.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Serial Experiments Lain / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Lain, Alice, and Julie's names stick out in a cast full of otherwise normal Japanese names. There's also Karl, but he's implied to be German.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_b9db28ab	type	Emotionless Girl
Serial Experiments Lain / int_b9db28ab	comment	Emotionless Girl: Lain is introverted to the point where she doesn't show any strong emotions, content to keep to herself. This becomes less the case after engaging with the Wired and developing alternate personalities: when Lain is possessed by her self from the Wired, she becomes more assertive, even snarky.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_bb0f28ce	type	Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics
Serial Experiments Lain / int_bb0f28ce	comment	Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics: Lain's desk goes missing and everyone, including the teacher, starts acting as if she doesn't exist right when she's questioning her own existence.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
Serial Experiments Lain / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: Lain and her house.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
Serial Experiments Lain / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: When we first meet Lain she has a wide-eyed befuddlement when faced with a social situation, to the point where she is almost mute. Her friends' bubbly interchanges are juxtaposed with an odd — troubling gap where a response should be. She develops some skills as the series progresses: it is uphill work and Lain is never a normal girl. Eventually revealed to be due to "our" Lain being but one aspect/avatar of the instrumentality that is Lain.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Serial Experiments Lain / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Lain disappears from Earth after deleting herself from everybody's memories.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_beccd0d7	type	Cyberpunk Is Techno
Serial Experiments Lain / int_beccd0d7	comment	Cyberpunk Is Techno: The equation of "cyberpunk = techno music" is played with within the show's soundtrack: the opening and ending themes are rock while the general background music is dark electronica, and whenever a scene takes place in the cyber night club, Cyberia, techno plays.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Serial Experiments Lain / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The best way to describe Serial Experiments Lain is to throw paranoid schizophrenia and depression in a blender, along with a heavy dose of philosophy (specifically Timothy Leary's). After blending on the "puree" setting, add a dash of conspiracy theories, horror and Apple Computers, to taste. As mentioned in the introduction to this page, Serial Experiments Lain is like this because most of the plot developments are implied, and most of the explicit ones are obscured. You're probably going to understand it up until around episode 4. After that, it just gets progressively weirder and avant-garde; the series is much closer to an arthouse movie than a typical sci-fi anime.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_bf2412a1	type	Recap Episode
Serial Experiments Lain / int_bf2412a1	comment	Recap Episode: Sort of: Layer 11 features images from previous episodes during the first 15 minutes.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_c38afac1	type	Otaku
Serial Experiments Lain / int_c38afac1	comment	Otaku: In one episode, a fat, unshaven computer nerd is seen hacking away pathetically. Though not so pathetically, because he is one of the Knights.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_c4d4d3cc	type	Digital Avatar
Serial Experiments Lain / int_c4d4d3cc	comment	Digital Avatar: Most people have an avatar that they use when they're in the Wired. It's a sign of Lain's power that her avatar is herself.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_c605da88	type	Establishing Shot
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_c63e5338	type	It Runs in the Family
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_c8862f75	type	Open the Iris
Serial Experiments Lain / int_c8862f75	comment	Open the Iris: Quite a bit of the Reaction Shots.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_c91dcba1	type	Perma-Stubble
Serial Experiments Lain / int_c91dcba1	comment	Perma-Stubble: The Men in Black; it makes them look dangerous and makes it obvious that something is very, very wrong.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Serial Experiments Lain / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The series can be very creepy during the long periods when we know something is very wrong, but there is no immediate horror on-screen. When Mika keeps seeing messages written in red ink telling her to "fulfill the prophecy", without any idea where they're coming from or why she's received them. In Layer 12, Alice visits Lain at home and is very unnerved to find her house ransacked and nobody home until she comes across Lain in her room. However, the biggest and probably scariest example is during the penultimate episode when The Men in Black end up "receiving final payment for their services". First, Lin, the shorter man with the black ponytail, sees... something that we never do and immediately starts to have a really bad seizure of sorts, with his body starting to lurch and twist around in a way that almost seems inhuman. His partner Karl tries to figure out what's wrong with him before he eventually falls limp, dead with foam dripping from his mouth. Afterwards, Karl then sees whatever it was his partner saw, causing him to let out a scream that's absolutely bloodcurdling, especially considering how stoic Karl is during the rest of the series. This is the last we hear or see from them before the world is reset at the end. The fact that we never see just just what in the world they saw when they met this fate which leads us to only imagine what it could have been arguably makes this scene one of the most terrifying in the entire 13 episode run.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
Serial Experiments Lain / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: The girl from Layers 01 and 02 who was supposedly hit by a train. One word: Holes.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_d235c199	type	Sky Face
Serial Experiments Lain / int_d235c199	comment	Sky Face: This happens in Layer 06. Lain's face appears in the sky and freaks everyone out.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Serial Experiments Lain / int_d33456e7	comment	Improbable Age: Taro is a Knight apprentice at the age of ten.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_d35d77e0	type	Hacker Cave
Serial Experiments Lain / int_d35d77e0	comment	Hacker Cave: Lain turns her room into one over time, completely with a wall of monitors.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_d63f8a53	type	The Alternet
Serial Experiments Lain / int_d63f8a53	comment	The Alternet: The Wired is something like a giant chatroom or MMORPG where you can "see" other people. It's visually represented as a mass of swirling images and holograms or as a physical space that strange beings inhabit.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_d820f28	type	Reaction Shot
Serial Experiments Lain / int_d820f28	comment	Reaction Shot: Often one after another.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_d8b3412b	type	The Singularity
Serial Experiments Lain / int_d8b3412b	comment	The Singularity: A major theme of the show, though the phrase "technological singularity" is never used explicitly in the dialogue. The show revolves around the relationship between humans and technology, and the ontological problems presented by Brain Uploading and the information overload in a world that relies on the The Internet. It depicts the possible result of a world in which the lines between the organic and the mechanical become so blurred that it becomes impossible to tell the difference.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_d93c5989	type	Stepford Suburbia
Serial Experiments Lain / int_d93c5989	comment	Stepford Suburbia: Lain's neighbourhood, which is glaringly bright and white everywhere.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
Serial Experiments Lain / int_d9c4365c	comment	The fate of Mika and Lain's fake parents is not revealed, although after Lain hits the Reset Button, we see a scene where all three of them formed an actual family, at Lain's behest one would imagine.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Serial Experiments Lain / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Masami Eiri believes himself to be God, having transcended his physical body and become one with the Wired (and, by extension, reality).
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Serial Experiments Lain / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: The deliveryman who drops off a package for a housewife with a top-of-the-line Navi. Although he's almost as interested in her computer as he is in her, the camera still pans slowly over her body from his perspective. The corporate bigshot (who is also one of the Knights) takes definite interest in his female cohort crossing and re-crossing her legs.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Serial Experiments Lain / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Lain often wears a bear pajama onesie.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_e384c244	type	Phone Call from the Dead
Serial Experiments Lain / int_e384c244	comment	Phone Call from the Dead: The anime does this with e-mail in the very first episode, kicking off the whole plot of the series.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_e4d5e4c0	type	Five Rounds Rapid
Serial Experiments Lain / int_e4d5e4c0	comment	Five Rounds Rapid: When confronted with the Creepy Child in PHANTOMa, the player shoots her several times with a Finger Gun, not realizing it will have tragic consequences in the real world.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Serial Experiments Lain / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: They're "Layers", not "episodes".
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
Serial Experiments Lain / int_e63228a7	comment	Layer 09 contains a lot of Info Dump about the history and development of the Internet and the World Wide Web mixed in with scenes involving Lain trying to understand who or what she is exactly, which all leads up to The Reveal that the "God" Lain has been conversing with in the Wired is Masami Eiri. And he's decided to pay her a visit.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_e640b487	type	Infodump
Serial Experiments Lain / int_e640b487	comment	Infodump: The aptly named eleventh episode, "Infornography", is essentially a half-hour long infodump culminating in The Reveal of the show's villain, Masami Eiri.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Serial Experiments Lain / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: The appropriately named KiDS experiment, the project of a scientist who tried to tap the psychic energy of hundreds of children, apparently draining them and leaving them in a deep coma. There seemed to be a some sort of explosion caused by an overflow of psychic energy, dissolving the children's bodies, trapping them forever in the Wired. The scientist comments how no matter what he does, bringing them back to real world is impossible.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_e92841f	type	Talking the Monster to Death
Serial Experiments Lain / int_e92841f	comment	Talking the Monster to Death: Lain does this to Eiri.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Serial Experiments Lain / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Myu-Myu gets very jealous when Taro gives Lain attention.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_ebee7b3a	type	Parking Garage
Serial Experiments Lain / int_ebee7b3a	comment	Parking Garage: Where The Men in Black meet their ultimate fate.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_ecafe646	type	Information Wants to Be Free
Serial Experiments Lain / int_ecafe646	comment	Information Wants to Be Free: A central tenet of the Knights.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_ece07747	comment	Bright Is Not Good: Lain's neighborhood, school and most other places she visits in the real world are frequently bathed in a bright white light. The effect is more creepy than reassuring.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: One of Lain's alternate personalities is a malicious being who derives pleasure from causing other people misery.
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Serial Experiments Lain / int_f6507695	comment	Everything Is Online: Lain almost gets run over by a car because of a failure in the citywide car guidance system. Considering that the first scene depicts someone uploading their consciousness to the internet by committing suicide, conventional electrical gadgets being connected to the internet isn't far-fetched by comparison. The premise is basically this (minus the psychokinetic powers also present): human brains have electromagnetic vibrations in them as part of the neurons' functions. Planet Earth has ubiquitous electromagnetic resonance (called Schumann Resonance), which according to the series subtly affects the functions of the human brain. Thus, the Wired is really humanity's collective unconsciousness. Eiri's Protocol 7 manipulates the Schumann Resonance in a way that connects all people's minds subconsciously without necessarily even relying on machines, which naturally are also affected. Lain appears to be the first person capable of easily switching between the two, while Chisa and Eiri took one-way trips to the Wired.
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