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Lain Iwakura (Japanese: 岩倉 玲音, Hepburn: Iwakura Rein)^[a] is the title character and protagonist of the Japanese anime television series Serial Experiments Lain.

Lain Iwakura
Serial Experiments Lain character
First appearance	6 July 1998[citation needed]
Created by	Yoshitoshi Abe
Voiced by	Kaori Shimizu[citation needed]

Creation and conception

The character design for Lain was the responsibility of Yoshitoshi Abe, a newcomer to the industry who would later continue his career in works such as NieA_7, Haibane Renmei, and Texhnolyze.^[2]

Appearances

Lain Iwakura is the title character and protagonist of the 1998 Japanese anime television series Serial Experiments Lain. She also features in the subsequent interactive-fiction game of the same name and is depicted in several art books.

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Reception

Anime scholar and critic Susan J. Napier compared Lain to Alice, the title character of the 1865 classic novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, seeing similarities in how both characters descend to a surreal world and possess godlike abilities. Nonetheless, Napier contends that the characters ultimately diverge when Alice recognizes the Red Queen and other inhabitants of her dreamworld as mere material objects, whereas Lain embraces immateriality and vanishes.^[3]

Legacy

As of 2022, the character has become a popular subject of surrealist

Sources

Bibliography

• ISBN 1-4039-7052-1
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• ISSN 0091-7729
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• ISBN 978-1-61172-018-1
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• Brown, Steven T. (2010). Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture (1st ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 161–185.
  ISBN 978-0-230-10360-3
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