Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~24 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 13 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-14
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.
- dementia
- computer
- internet
- cyberpunk
- cyberspace
- angst
- seinen
- anime
- virtual world
- complex
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Production
- Rating
- 8.2 / 10 · 652 ratings
- Network & studio
- TV Tokyo, Pioneer LDC, Triangle Staff
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
