
Serial Experiments Lain(1998)
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.


.hack//Liminality is an OVA series directly related to the .hack video game series for the PlayStation 2, with the perspective of Liminality focused on the real world as opposed to the games' MMORPG The World. Liminality was separated into four volumes; each volume was released with its corresponding game. The initial episode is 45 minutes long, while subsequent episodes are 30 minutes long. The video series was directed by Koichi Mashimo, written by Kazunori Itō with music by Yuki Kajiura. Primary Animation production was handled by Mashimo's studio Bee Train which collaborated for the four games as well as handled major production on .hack//Sign.

Soichiro Hoshi
Masaya Makino (voice)

Sanae Kobayashi
Mai Minase (voice)

Takahiro Sakurai
Tomonari Kasumi (voice)

Masashi Ebara
Junichiro Tokuoka (voice)

Saeko Chiba
Yuki Aihara (voice)
.hack//Liminality is a mystery, action & adventure, drama, animation series that first aired in 2002 exploring themes of cyberspace. Created by Kazunori Ito, it stars Soichiro Hoshi, Sanae Kobayashi, Takahiro Sakurai. .hack//Liminality is an OVA series directly related to the .hack video game series for the PlayStation 2, with the perspective of Liminality focused on the real world as opposed to the games' MMORPG The World. Liminality was separated into four volumes; each volume was released with its corresponding game. The initial episode is 45 minutes long, while subsequent episodes are 30 minutes long. The video series was directed by Koichi Mashimo, written by Kazunori Itō with music by Yuki Kajiura. Primary Animation production was handled by Mashimo's studio Bee Train which collaborated for the four games as well as handled major production on .hack//Sign.
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