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Episode Progress
Complete13 / 13 episodes aired
All 13 episodes available on Crunchyroll
TV13 / 13 epsFinished8.10
Triangle Staff·Summer 1998
- Premiered
- Summer 1998
- Aired
- Jul 6, 1998 – Sep 28, 1998
- Broadcast
- Tuesday · 01:15:00
- Duration
- 23 min
- Time to Complete
- 4h 59m
- Rating
- R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Studio
- Triangle Staff
Alternative Titles
jaシリアルエクスペリメンツレイン
enWirtualna Lain
Synopsis
Serial Experiments Lain won the Excellence Prize in the 1998 Japan Media Arts Festival. It has been subject to commentary in the literary and academic worlds such as the Asian Horror Encyclopedia and The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation by the American Philosophical Society.
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Platform Scores
MAL
8.10
Rank #579Votes 354.1K
AniList
80 / 100
Trend 6Popularity 227.8K
Kitsu
80 / 100
Rank #815Users 54.7KRuntime 4h 59m
AniList Trend
269
Episode Guide
Aired so far: 13 / 13
Main Story
13 / 13
100%
Latest Aired
Episode 13
Remaining
Fully available
Aired so far
Theme Songs
Status Breakdown
227,816users
Completed97,82142.9%
Planning97,29542.7%
Watching17,0657.5%
Paused9,9704.4%
Dropped5,6652.5%
Tags
Shows how closely each tag relates to this animeOther5
Denpa
96
Philosophy
94
Religion
67
Meta
65
Drugs
41
Universe1
Augmented Reality
89
Main Cast2
Female Protagonist
84
Primarily Female Cast
61
Traits3
Artificial Intelligence
83
Amnesia
59
Zombie
20
Sci-Fi1
Cyberpunk
83
Drama3
Conspiracy
76
Suicide
67
Bullying
20
Scene2
Urban
65
School
28
Technical1
POV
46
Vehicle1
Trains
40
Show spoiler tags17
Universe2
Virtual World
94
Afterlife
55
Traits4
Dissociative Identities
90
Gods
78
Orphan
50
Aliens
33
Other5
Memory Manipulation
84
Software Development
80
Cosmic Horror
79
Adoption
54
Death Game
20
Organisations1
Cult
75
Game1
Video Games
63
Drama1
Tragedy
61
Main Cast1
Anti-Hero
43
Romance2
Yuri
43
Age Gap
20
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Information
- Type
- TV
- Status
- Finished
- Premiered
- Summer 1998
- Aired
- Jul 6, 1998 – Sep 28, 1998
- Broadcast
- Tuesday · 01:15:00
- Episodes
- 13 / 13
- Duration
- 23 min
- Time to Complete
- 4h 59m
- Rating
- R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Studio
- Triangle Staff
Alternative Titles
jaシリアルエクスペリメンツレイン
enWirtualna Lain
Score Distribution
8.1
Score Distribution
AniList
weighted average
73,938
voters
Score Distribution
10
21.3%
15,7249
27.4%
20,2888
23.4%
17,2957
14.2%
10,4656
6.2%
4,5945
2,500 · 3.4%
4
1,376 · 1.9%
3
761 · 1.0%
2
399 · 0.5%
1
536 · 0.7%
8.0
Score Distribution
Kitsu
weighted average
20,586
voters
Score Distribution
10
26.1%
5,38310
160 · 0.8%
9
17.3%
3,5669
283 · 1.4%
8
20.3%
4,1728
202 · 1.0%
7
16.9%
3,4717
81 · 0.4%
6
6.8%
1,3996
30 · 0.1%
5
658 · 3.2%
5
19 · 0.1%
4
553 · 2.7%
4
25 · 0.1%
3
157 · 0.8%
3
4 · 0.0%
2
170 · 0.8%
2
3 · 0.0%
1
250 · 1.2%