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Serial Experiments Lain was developed by Traingle Staff and was
produced by Pioneer LDC as a television series which aired in Japan on TV Tokyo starting
in July of 1998. It has subsequently been released in Japan on Video Tape, LaserDisc, and
DVD. Pioneer Animiation, in the U.S. is planning to release Lain on Video Tape and
DVD beginning the summer of 1999.
Serial Experiments Lain tells the stylized, frightening, and surreal story of a
meek Japanese Middle School student, Lain Iwakura. Along with her classmates, Lain
mysteriously receives e-mail from a student who comitted suicide a week earlier. Here Lain
begins her journey into the world of the wired. But what is the wired
and what is its connection to Lain?
| Title | Air Date |
| Layer 01: Weird | 07/06/98 |
| Layer 02: Girls | 07/13/98 |
| Layer 03: Psyche | 07/20/98 |
| Layer 04: Religion | 07/27/98 |
| Layer 05: Distortion | 08/03/98 |
| Layer 06: Kids | 08/10/98 |
| Layer 07: Society | 08/17/98 |
| Layer 08: Rumors | 08/24/98 |
| Layer 09: Protocol | 08/31/98 |
| Layer 10: Love | 09/07/98 |
| Layer 11: Infonography | 09/14/98 |
| Layer 12: Landscape | 09/21/98 |
| Layer 13: Ego | 09/28/98 |
| Planning & Original Story | production 2nd |
| Director | Ryutaro Nakamura |
| Original Character Design | Yoshitoshi Abe |
| Series Structure and Screenplay | Chiaki J Konaka |
| Character Design | Takahiro Kishida |
| Storyboard | Ryutaro Nakamura |
| Art Director | Masaru Sato |
| Setting | Akihiro Hirasawa Yoshnori Shizawa |
| Color Key | Michiyo Iriomote |
| Director of Photography | Takashi Azuhata |
| Editor | Takeshi Seyama |
| Sound Director | Youta Tsuroka |
| Music | Reiichi "Chabo"
Nakaido In association with Tatsunosuke |
| 2nd Unit Sound and Design | Akira Takemoto Koji Kasamatsu |
| Music Production | 7th Mother Koyousha J-Works |
| Animation Production | Triangle Staff |
| Co-Produced by | Genco |
| Produced by | Pioneer LDC |