Lain also receives an email like this, and Chisa reveals to her in real time via the Wired that she did not die, but only put her body down and found God in the Wired. Most consider the mail as just a regular Interned-based hoax. After eighth grader Chisa Yomoda committed suicide, several of her class still receive e-mails from her. The shy 13-year-old girl Lain Iwakura lives in a suburb of Tokyo with her tech- and computer-obsessed father, her cool mother and her expressionless older sister Mika Iwakura. The anime had a video game spin-off released in 1998 for the PlayStation console, and also a manga title, The Nightmare of Fabrication, which was published in May 1999. The series explores deep philosophical questions such as the essence of our reality, communication, memory and even identity, foreshadowing our relationship with social media, that exploded about a decade later. The series is a typical example of cyberpunk’s “hi-tech/lo-life” paradigm and portrays a society where people are more reliant on their online avatars with which they “live” inside the Wired.
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