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Volume 1
Navi
serial_lainWe're all Connected... There is a world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation and culture. There is a wired world, inside the computer, of images, personalities, virtual experiences, and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, lain, a thirteen year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an e-mail from the dead girl: I just abandoned my body. I still live here... Has the line between the real world and the wired world begun to blur?
Volume 2
Knights
Who are you really? Lain delves deeper into the Wired World and is confronted by the men in dark suits. They know something about the Knights and the rash of kids who seem to be committing suicide, yet they ask Lain, 'Are those people who you live with really your parents? Are you Lain of the Wired?'
Volume 3
Deus
There are rumors that Lain is stealing people's secrets and spreading them in the wired. Her friends, including Arisu, start to leave Lain. Lain finds that her other self in the wired is the one revealing these secrets. Which is the real me? Even her parents leave Lain, telling her that they were not her real parents. Lonely Lain then encounters Masami Eiri, who calls himself God in the Wired...
Volume 4
Reset
Who am I? The question is asked over and over again throughout the noise. Lain destroys her own creator and loses her best friend, now Lain must decide what to do - should she delete herself from everyone's memory! If she does, the real world should remain exactly the same, but if no one remembers her, did Lain ever really exist?
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Commentary
SE Lain is visually stunning and very well executed. Lain is an ordinary (well, not really) and rather dull school girl and the last person to jump head first into the information super-highway. Everything changes when Lain receives an e-mail from a dead classmate. Suddenly, Lain is surrounded by secrets, lies, conspiracies, and strange people. SE Lain is dark and creepy. If you're interested in something different then SE Lain is well worth looking into.
I used to have two volumes on subtitled VHS and two volumes on DVD. I enjoyed the series so much that I repurchased the entire series on DVD. As it turned out, it was actually cheaper to get the DVD box set rather than just the two DVD volumes that I needed to finish to series.