8.2/105 votes#1 - Layer:06 – KIDS
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/10/1998
Young children are acting strangely, arms outstretched and silently staring at the sky. A shocking vision suddenly appears in the skies; it looks like Lain! Determined to get to the bottom of this, Lain's investigations finally bring her to the creator of KIDS -- but what she discovers is not what she hoped for.
Director: Ryutaro Nakamura
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
8.1/1014 votes#2 - Layer:13 – EGO
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/28/1998
The world is crumbling, people are dying and Alice's sanity is threatened. To save humanity, there is only one thing Lain can do; she must make the ultimate personal sacrifice.
Director: Ryutaro Nakamura
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
8.0/105 votes#3 - Layer:02 – GIRLS
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/13/1998
Classmates Alice, Julie, and Reika wonder if that was Lain they saw at the nightclub Cyberia. To find out, they invite Lain to go with them to the club.
Director: Ryutaro Nakamura
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
8.0/101 votes#4 - Lucid Dream
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/2007
Tarou is having his usual dream of him flying around and then ends up in a room where he sees his sister, who doesn’t wake up, however his dream ended when a girl spots him. It’s the start of a new school term and there are more transfer students, with one very peculiar one, Masayuki Nakajima. Tarou ends up falling asleep in class and this time he begins to remember more of his traumatic experience, 11 years ago.
Director: Ryutaro Nakamura
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
7.8/105 votes#5 - Layer:01 – WEIRD
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/6/1998
Lain Iwakura, a shy, 13-year-old schoolgirl, receives an email from a schoolmate after her suicide. Is it a prank? Lain doesn't feel horror, but curiosity.
Director: Ryutaro Nakamura
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
7.8/1014 votes#6 - Layer:12 – LANDSCAPE
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/21/1998
Troubled by what she saw, Alice decides to visit Lain at home and find out what is going on. Meanwhile, the two MIB agents receive a terrible shock and Eiri reveals his real motive for removing the barrier between the real world and the WIRED.
Director: Ryutaro Nakamura
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
6.9/1010 votes#7 - C: The Inviting Bird will Chant; DECOY
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2002
During a press conference in the previous episode, Superintedent-General Daidō had been publicly threatened by the person known as the Laughing Man. Through an intermediary, the Laughing Man had demanded that Daidō reveal "the truth" or else he would be, "removed from the stage." For six years the Special Investigations Unit, which is part of the Metropolitan Police that Daidō oversees, has been working on this case. It now seems that they have found a possible suspect in Nanao=A, a man with dubious connections. Still acting from behind the scenes, Section 9 continues their own investigation into the Laughing Man incident.
Director: Ryutaro Nakamura
Writer: Junichi Fujisaku
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"Layer:06 – KIDS" is the best rated episode directed by Ryutaro Nakamura. It scored 8.2/10 based on 5 votes. It was written by Chiaki J. Konaka. It aired on 8/10/1998 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Layer:13 – EGO".