
The anime series is licensed in North America by Geneon (previously Pioneer Entertainment) on DVD, VHS and LaserDisc. A PlayStation game with the same title was released in November 1998 by Pioneer LDC. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda (credited as production 2nd) for Triangle Staff. Serial Experiments Lain ( シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン, Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein) is an anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J.

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural Media: Anime, Manga, Game, Guide Book Navis and Macintoshes are both built by companies named after fruit, Tachibana (a type of orange) and Apple, respectively.Serial Experiments Lain Wiki Wiki founding: 4 The HandiNAVI, the handheld computers which both Lain and Arisu used was based off the Apple Newton, the first PDA. The child's Navi that Lain used to use was modeled after the 20th Anniversary Macintosh. The electronic voice heard saying the episode titles is the "Whisper" voice from the MacOS Speech Control Panel, a program that permits text-to-speech. All of the Navis shown in the series use one-button mice as Macintosh computers do. Open the NeXT" is a reference to the NeXT company, founded by Steve Jobs in the late '80s and purchased by Apple Computer in December 1996. Arisu's Navi resembles the original Apple iMac. Navi's operating system has a graphical user interface (GUI) similar to that of MacOS. The Navis use an operating system named Copeland, which was the codename for Apple's MacOS 8.

The Be company was founded by Jean-Louis Guasse, a former Apple executive. This is a reference to BeOS, whose logo has similar coloring. There are numerous references to Macintosh and Apple Computers: The phrase "To Be Continued", with a colored "Be" is shown at the end of most of the episodes.
