Serial Experiments Lain: Navi

Genre: Sci-Fi (Dramatic) Length: 100 minutes (4 OVAs) Audience: 16 Up

Opinion: No one can deny this series' beauty on virtually all levels.

This is a review of the subtitlede VHS release.

©1998 Triangle/Pioneer LDC, Inc.
Released in the U.S. and Canada by
Pioneer Entertainment (USA) L.P.

There are a lot of junior high kids that are suffering from a disturbing experience. A girl who recently committed suicide is sending them e-mails. Lain, an extremely introverted girl, was included on this mailing list. Unlike her classmates who consider these letters to be a cruel trick, she is intrigued by the message that death is only leaving your body since the soul can now be transferred on the Wired network.

Lain's technology crazed father decides to buy her the most state of the art Navi computer, so she can investigate this new world. This becomes an exciting and addicting experience for our main character as this world of the Wired seems to already know her. Not to say that Lain had a great sense of reality, but her deity like status in this network can only further blur her perceptions.

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Production Credits:

Planning and original story by: production 2nd. Storyboard and Director: Ryutaro Nakamura. Original Character Design: Yoshitoshi Abe. Character Design: Takahiro Kishida.Series Structure and Screenplay: Chiaki J. Konaka. Direction: Ryutaro Nakamura (01, 02), Johei Matsuura (03), Akihiko Nishiyama (04). Animation Directors: Masahiro Sekiguchi (01), Yoshihiro Sugai (02), Yuichi Tanaka (03), Yuji Takahashi (04) . Art Director: Masaru Sato. Setting: Akihiro Hirasawa, Yoshinori Shiozawa. Color Key: Michiyo Iriomote. Editor: Takeshi Seyama. Director of Photography: Takashi Azuhata. Sound Director: Youta Tsuruoka. Music: Reiichi "Chabo" Nakaido in association with Tatsunosuke. 2nd unit sound & design: Akira Takemoto, Koji Kasamatsu. Music Production: 7th Mother, Koyousha, J-WORKS. Animation Production: Triangle Staff. Co-produced by: GENCO. Produced by: Pioneer LDC.