Lain is one of the weirder anime, mixing a lot of stuff from cyberspace and virtual reality to drugs that are far more effective than speed to philosophies of existence between the physical and the spiritual/cyber planes. The story is about a girl, Lain, who starts as what appears to be a quiet and possibly shy school girl, and follows her as she delves deeper into the world of the "Wired" (think virtual reality internet) and comes to terms with herself and her existence. As she learns more about the Wired, she becomes more open and confident, and more distracted. People come up to her claiming they saw someone who looked just like her, only with a totally opposite personality, the "wild" Lain. Her online and offline personalities start to blur so that her friends in the real world think she’s changed as she tries to figure out what is real.

Imagine a place where the 60s psychedelic drug culture meets techno rave and you’ve discovered Cyberia. Cyberia is the place where people go to escape their real world lives, to gain incredible amounts of data, to "hack the planet" (so to speak), and to gain a better understanding of themselves. Cyberia is interconnected to everything, almost like Atlantis reconstructed in modern times, where people communicate seamlessly through the Wired without the need for bodies or adapters or anything in the physical realm. It’s the next step in human evolution. To tap into the frequency of the Earth, connect thoughts of all human beings, and evolve to the level of the consciousness of Earth. Everything is data – patterns, subatomic particles, photons, DNA – and those patterns of data hold information that has been passed on from generation to generation since the beginning of time. Imagine if there was an entire silo that could store everything that was ever known, information that anyone could access at any time. Data that anyone could query and interpret and learn from. Human existence would learn from its mistakes and evolve.

Opening Theme:
    "Duvet" by Boa
Ending Theme:
    "Tooi Sakebi" by Nakaido "Chabo" Rei’ichi