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Serial Experiments Lain

An award-winning series (checking up on exactly which award it was), Serial Experiments Lain (or simply Lain) opens up a whole world of science-based philosophy and history of both the real and alternate sort.

The show follows a shy junior-high-school girl as her world collapses around her after receiving an email from a friend; only this email was sent after the friend committed suicide. Intrigued by the timing, and part of the message itself, Lain gets a new "Navi" online computer and begins upgrading it for better access to the "Wired", the world of the Internet. There she seems to be often confused with another Lain, an extroverted, take-no-pity girl who looks, but certainly doesn't act, just like her.

It's pretty normal these days to have a "Wired" personality that's not exactly the same as the face-to-face one, but here the two seem complete opposites, until some changes are seen in the "real" Lain as she gets more comfortable being online and upgrading her computer components. Soon she finds herself in a race against this other Lain as the confusion deepens about which Lain is the "real" one.

Bring in a couple Men-in-Black observers, a mixed history/fantasy lesson about Roswell alien-ship technology and the invention (and future) of the Internet, and the ever-present 60Hz hum of electrical wires. Mix well with spirits roaming bewteen the "real" and the "Wired" and the freakiest shadows ever, and prepare to be glued to the screen.

Serial Experiments Lain
Distributed by Pioneer Entertainment

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