Serial Experiments Lain (TV)

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Alternative title:

Lain

Wirtualna Lain (Polish)

Серийные эксперименты Лэин (Russian)

Эксперименты Лэйн (Russian)

シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン (Japanese)

Genres: drama, mystery, psychological, science fiction, supernatural

Themes: computers, cyberpunk, virtual reality

Objectionable content: Significant

Plot Summary: Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary girl, with almost no experience with computers. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the Wired, where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems to be... not even Lain herself.

User Ratings: 4058 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 764 votes (sub:492, dub:223, ?:9, raw:5, edit.dub:3, others:32

10 Spanish subtitled
5 Portuguese subtitled
5 French subtitled
4 Russian subtitled
3 German subtitled
2 Russian dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Russian edited dub

)

Excellent: 1070 votes (sub:768, dub:237, ?:7, edit.dub:3, raw:3, others:52

18 Spanish subtitled
7 Portuguese subtitled
7 French subtitled
4 Italian dubbed
3 Spanish dubbed
3 Russian subtitled
3 Polish subtitled
1 Catalan dubbed
1 Italian subtitled
1 Russian edited dub
1 Korean subtitled
1 Dutch subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 French dubbed

)

Very good: 891 votes (sub:583, dub:251, ?:8, edit.dub:4, raw:3, others:42

9 Spanish subtitled
6 Russian subtitled
4 Portuguese subtitled
3 Polish subtitled
3 German subtitled
3 Italian dubbed
3 French subtitled
2 Spanish dubbed
2 German dubbed
1 French dubbed
1 Russian dubbed
1 Dutch subtitled
1 Turkish Sub subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
1 Italian edited dub
1 Italian subtitled

)

Good: 639 votes (sub:438, dub:158, raw:9, ?:5, edit.dub:2, others:27

8 Spanish subtitled
6 Spanish dubbed
6 Portuguese subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Russian dubbed
1 Dutch subtitled
1 Russian edited dub
1 Italian dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Russian subtitled

)

Decent: 263 votes (sub:161, dub:83, ?:3, raw:3, edit.dub:1, others:12

2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Spanish dubbed
2 Spanish subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Finnish subtitled
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Czech subtitled
1 Italian dubbed

)

So-so: 186 votes (sub:114, dub:57, ?:2, edit.dub:2, others:11

3 Spanish dubbed
2 Portuguese dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled

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Not really good: 67 votes (sub:55, dub:8, ?:1, edit.dub:1, others:2

1 French dubbed
1 German dubbed

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Weak: 93 votes (sub:59, dub:27, ?:1, edit.dub:1, others:5

2 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled

)

Bad: 50 votes (sub:31, dub:15, ?:1, others:3

1 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Italian subtitled

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Awful: 21 votes (sub:13, dub:7, raw:1)

Worst ever: 14 votes (sub:9, dub:5)

Seen in part or in whole by 7289 users, rank: #60 (of 5699)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.897 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.8949, rank: #631 (of 5691)
Weighted mean: 7.810 (Very good−), rank: #621 (of 5691) (seen all: 7.98 / seen some: 6.80 / won't finish: 4.10)
Bayesian estimate: 7.810 (Very good−), rank: #437 (of 4347)

Running time: half hour per episode

Number of episodes: 13

Episode titles: We have 13

Vintage:

1998-07-06 to 1998-09-28

2004-01-18 to 2005-07-30 (Latin America - Locomotion)

2004-07-02 (K3 - Televisió de Catalunya)

2006-04-25 (Spain, Cuatroº)

2007-07-21 to 2007-10-13 (G4TechTV Canada - Anime Current)

2013-04-13 (Mexico - XEIMT Canal 22)

Release dates: We have 15

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