This is the point where Chisa's classmate Lain Iwakura - a shy, reclusive teenage girl who looks younger than her actual age - enters the story. The emails claim that she has not died, but simply abandoned her body for an existence within " The Wired", a pervasive computer network very much like the Internet as first envisioned by William Gibson (with some touches of The Matrix). Several days after her suicide, Chisa's friends receive emails purporting to be from Chisa herself. The story begins with apparently-normal schoolgirl Chisa Yomoda throwing herself off a building without warning. The setting for Lain is a place that appears to be contemporary Japan - albeit with a few telling differences.
The show takes an information-rich dive deep into the nature of reality and truth, and in the process leads the viewer to come to his or her own conclusions about the meaning of the show, the meaning of reality, and even what actually happens in both. Shonen has Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shojo has Revolutionary Girl Utena, and seinen has Lain.
An erudite, confusing and chilling anime from the late 1990s, Serial Experiments Lain is creepy cool Seinen Cyberpunk, as well as a notable Mind Screw in the genre.
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