Serial Experiments Lain, directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, Serial Experiments Lain aired in Tokyo, Japan, in 1998 and derived from a PlayStation game with the same title. It tackled philosophical concepts such as identity, communication, and reality. It focused on a teenage girl named Lain Iwakura, who was introduced to the Internet and bound to a path that took her into the network of her own thoughts following her discovery of “The God in the Wired.”
