
Splicing in elements of Matrix-style cyberpunk, X-Files conspiracy, and the David Lynch-esque surreal, "Lain" is, like the Wired world it portrays, a synthesis of disparate ideas and personas, all thrown into a blender for the viewer to interpret. Apparently, her consciousness is still on the net.or is it? From then on, things get weird, complicated, and interesting. After a classmate seemingly commits suicide, Lain gets e-mail from the dead girl.

The story is simple at first and seems half-predictable in these post-"Matrix" times. But it goes beyond style and gets into substance. From the killer opening title sequence (with a great opening song, by the way) to the strange "previews" (they only consist of a girl talking and her body parts - I'm not kidding) for the next show, "Lain" certainly has a fairly unique style. It's not godly perfect or anything, but it gets up there.way up there.

Navis and Macintoshes are both built by companies named after fruit, Tachibana (a type of orange) and Apple, respectively. The HandiNAVI, the handheld computers which both Lain and Arisu used was based off the Apple Newton, the first PDA. The child's Navi that Lain used to use was modeled after the 20th Anniversary Macintosh. The electronic voice heard saying the episode titles is the "Whisper" voice from the MacOS Speech Control Panel, a program that permits text-to-speech.
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All of the Navis shown in the series use one-button mice as Macintosh computers do. Open the NeXT" is a reference to the NeXT company, founded by Steve Jobs in the late '80s and purchased by Apple Computer in December 1996. Arisu's Navi resembles the original Apple iMac. Navi's operating system has a graphical user interface (GUI) similar to that of MacOS. The Navis use an operating system named Copeland, which was the codename for Apple's MacOS 8. The Be company was founded by Jean-Louis Guasse, a former Apple executive. This is a reference to BeOS, whose logo has similar coloring. From then on, Lain is bound to a path which will take her ever deeper into both the network and her own subconscious thoughts and sensations.There are numerous references to Macintosh and Apple Computers: The phrase "To Be Continued", with a colored "Be" is shown at the end of most of the episodes.


When Lain receives the message at home, Chisa tells her that she is not dead, but has merely "abandoned her physical body and flesh", and is alive deep within the virtual reality-world of the Wired itself and that she has found the almighty and divine god there. The first ripple on the pond of Lain's lonely life appears when she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from Chisa Yomoda, a schoolmate who had committed suicide. Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her cold mother, and her computer-obsessed father. The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the Internet. Lain is an avant-garde anime influenced by philosophical subjects such as reality, identity, and communication. A PlayStation game with the same title was released in November 1998 by Pioneer LDC.
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It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff. Serial Experiments Lain, is an anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J.
