I only own the first tape, and I'm gonna order another from amazon later today to have a 2/4 for the collection, and all of the versions I've seen sold online are these dubbed versions, which makes me wonder if the subbed ones even exist in the first place.
Konaka, whose other works include Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain is a psychological avant-garde mystery series that follows Lain as she makes crucial choices that will affect both the real world and the Wired. I know the sides of the tapes say 'Dubbed version' but that's all I really know.
With the boundaries between reality and cyberspace rapidly blurring, Lain is plunged into more surreal and bizarre events where identity, consciousness, and perception are concepts that take on new meanings. Strange men called the Men in Black begin to appear wherever she goes, asking her questions and somehow knowing more about her than even she herself knows. Lain’s life is turned upside down as she begins to encounter cryptic mysteries one after another.
It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff. Lain has neither the desire nor the experience to handle even basic technology yet, when the technophobe opens the email, it leads her straight into the Wired, a virtual world of communication networks similar to what we know as the internet. Serial Experiments Lain ( Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein) is a science fiction anime series directed by Rytar Nakamura, with character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J.
Synopsis: Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda-the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide. Buy 'Serial Experiments Lain Blu-ray Box - Restore (Blu-ray) (First Press Limited Edition) (English Dubbed) (Japan Version)' - GNXA-1001 at with Free International Shipping Here you can find products of Mizuno Manabi, Kawasumi Ayako, Geneon Universal Entertainment & popular Anime in Japanese.
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.Watch Serial Experiments Lain full episodes online English dub kisscartoon. 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. Serial Experiments Lain, is an anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J.