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Layer:01 – WEIRD

Lain Iwakura, a shy, 13-year-old schoolgirl, receives an email from a schoolmate after her suicide. Is it a prank? Lain doesn't feel horror, but curio...

7.9 Jul 06, 1998

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Layer:02 – GIRLS

Classmates Alice, Julie, and Reika wonder if that was Lain they saw at the nightclub Cyberia. To find out, they invite Lain to go with them to the clu...

8 Jul 13, 1998

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Layer:03 – PSYCHE

Alice, Julie, and Reika are minor celebrities in their class after they witness a shooting at The Cyberia. Lain is given a black-market chip for her c...

7.6 Jul 20, 1998

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Layer:04 – RELIGION

Some players of a Wired game called PHANTOMa are dying suspicious deaths. Lain investigates, but her growing interest in the Wired worries her father,...

8.1 Jul 27, 1998

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Layer:05 – DISTORTION

Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal....

8.2 Aug 03, 1998

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Layer:06 – KIDS

Young children are acting strangely, arms outstretched and silently staring at the sky. A shocking vision suddenly appears in the skies; it looks like...

8.3 Aug 10, 1998

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Layer:07 – SOCIETY

As the Knights activities make the evening news, a strange man named Nazumi wanders the city with machines strapped to his body. People on the WIRED a...

8.4 Aug 17, 1998

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Layer:08 – RUMORS

Still shaken by the information she received from the Men In Black, Lain discovers that she is being blamed for spreading an ugly rumor in the WIRED. ...

8.6 Aug 24, 1998

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Layer:09 – PROTOCOL

A documentary about Roswell gives Lain some valuable information about the pioneers of the WIRED. Later, at the Cyberia, J.J. tells Lain that she left...

8.4 Aug 31, 1998

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Layer:10 – LOVE

Lain struggles with her identity. Is she a human being, or just a hologram? And are the Knights responsible for the Evil Lain? Lain decides to deal wi...

7.9 Sep 07, 1998

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Layer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHY

Alone and frightened, Lain immerses herself in the WIRED, processing the events of the past few weeks and searching for the truth of who she is....

7.5 Sep 14, 1998

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Layer:12 – LANDSCAPE

Troubled by what she saw, Alice decides to visit Lain at home and find out what is going on. Meanwhile, the two MIB agents receive a terrible shock an...

8 Sep 21, 1998

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Layer:13 – EGO

The 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 ul...

8.3 Sep 28, 1998