9.5/102 votes#1 - His Master's Voice
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 6/25/2000
Kari has recurring nightmares and warps into the Dark Ocean, a world separate from the Real and Digital Worlds. The Scubamon ask Kari to free them from Ken's control, and they are attacked by an Airdramon. T.K. enters the Dark Ocean to rescue Kari and destroys the Control Spire, but once the Scubamon are freed, they attempt to abduct her into serving as their queen to their master, Dragomon. The two, along with their Digimon, escape.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
8.4/105 votes#2 - Layer:08 – RUMORS
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/24/1998
Still shaken by the information she received from the Men In Black, Lain discovers that she is being blamed for spreading an ugly rumor in the WIRED. Is what the MIB said is true; is she another person in the WIRED? Or is she doing it herself? Lain must find out or risk losing the one true friend she has.
Director: Yuichi Tanaka
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
8.2/105 votes#3 - Layer:05 – DISTORTION
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/3/1998
Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.
Director: Masahiko Murata
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
8.2/105 votes#4 - 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
8.2/105 votes#5 - Layer:07 – SOCIETY
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/17/1998
As the Knights activities make the evening news, a strange man named Nazumi wanders the city with machines strapped to his body. People on the WIRED are asking: ""Who is Lain"". Meanwhile, the two MIB agents take Lain to the Techibana offices where Lain's identity is challenged by a man; how well does she know her parents, her sister, herself? Can Lain answer him?
Director: Johei Matsuura
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
8.2/105 votes#6 - Layer:09 – PROTOCOL
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/31/1998
A documentary about Roswell gives Lain some valuable information about the pioneers of the WIRED. Later, at the Cyberia, J.J. tells Lain that she left something the day before and hands her an envelop with the Knight's logo on it. The envelop contains a chip. Believing this was the other 'Lain's' doing again, she decides to call Taro's bluff and go on a 'date'. Taking him to her room, Lain demands that he tell her what he knows. Together, with Taro's information and the mysterious chip, Lain finds out more then she expected.
Director: Akihiko Nishiyama
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
8.1/1014 votes#7 - 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
8.0/102 votes#8 - Stranger
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/17/2003
Ichise is currently living his life as a fighter in an underground fighting ring. He is incredibly strong and is rewarded for his efforts with a nice whore. She goes kind of crazy and he throws her off during their 'love making'. As a result, her 'employer', Aida, calls up a member of Organ, Isshii, to punish Ichise. Isshii cuts off Ichise's right arm. At the same time, we see our first sighting of Yoshii, a member of the Class who has come down to Lux for reasons unknown at this point. When he gets to the bottom of the stairs that connect the two worlds, he meets Ran, a girl from the nearby village of Gabe, which is situated on the outskits of Lux. Ran leads him to the Elder of Gabe where they are soon accosted by a couple members of the Alliance. Yoshii protects Ran and the Elder and fights them off. We are also introduced to Oonishi, the leader of Organ.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
8.0/102 votes#9 - Encephalopathy
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/18/2003
Voices are creeping the underground world (the film which Doc and Ichise watched) retelling Lux's history, the surface world of Hades, and many prophetic things about Ichise. Shinji attemps to kill everyone of the Class. A voice sounding like Ran tells Onishi to kill the Obelisk.
Director: Nanako Shimazaki
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
8.0/105 votes#10 - 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
8.0/105 votes#11 - Layer:04 – RELIGION
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/27/1998
Some players of a Wired game called PHANTOMa are dying suspicious deaths. Lain investigates, but her growing interest in the Wired worries her father, as well as classmates Mika and Alice.
Director: Akihiko Nishiyama
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
8.0/101 votes#12 - 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
8.0/101 votes#13 - Act 9 - Chapter of the Egg: Black Shoes ~ Bilder einer Ausstellung: Alten Schloß
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/11/2002
Fakir, having failed to shatter Mytho's heart, wonders what he should do: should he give up, especially now since Mytho wants to restore his heart? Rue has her own demons to deal with, as she tries to convince herself that there is only one of her. But Rue does not want Mytho to change, so she decides to accept her role as Kraehe. Duck finds another piece of Mytho's heart, devotion, possessing a student artist. Princess Tutu removes the heart shard, but Kraehe appears and takes it from her. Mytho comes and Kraehe's resolve wavers when the one she loves stands against her, giving Princess Tutu enough time to restore the heart shard.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
7.8/105 votes#14 - 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#15 - 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
7.7/1014 votes#16 - Layer:10 – LOVE
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/7/1998
Lain struggles with her identity. Is she a human being, or just a hologram? And are the Knights responsible for the Evil Lain? Lain decides to deal with the Knights once and for all.
Director: Masahiko Murata
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
7.6/105 votes#17 - Layer:03 – PSYCHE
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/20/1998
Alice, Julie, and Reika are minor celebrities in their class after they witness a shooting at The Cyberia. Lain is given a black-market chip for her computer, but it seems she is also being followed.
Director: Yuichi Tanaka
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
7.4/1014 votes#18 - Layer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHY
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/14/1998
Alone and frightened, Lain immerses herself in the WIRED, processing the events of the past few weeks and searching for the truth of who she is.
Director: Johei Matsuura
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
7.0/102 votes#19 - Texhnophile
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/2003
We see some flashbacks of Ichise's childhood. His father was tortured and hanged for some crime he committed. A short time later, his mother became very ill and died. He received a vial from the hospital that contained some of her cells and he had kept it with him since. He wakes up in Doc's Lab and he freaks out that he doesn't have the vial. She tells him that she used the contents as part of a new Texhnolyze Unit that will become his new arm and leg. He freaks out, but she knocks him unconscious. Some men from the Alliance attempt to assassinate Oonishi, but fail miserably. We learn that Kimata, the Alliance's leader, is Texhnolyzed, which is strictly against their ideals. We also see Oonishi's wife, Mana, for the first time. She is very unresponsive and almost seems to be off in her 'own world'.
Director: Yasuhiro Matsumura
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
7.0/102 votes#20 - Myth
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 9/25/2003
Ichise and Kano have a showdown. What will become or remain of the city of Lux? More origins of the Lux is revealed.
Director: Takuji Endo
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
7.0/101 votes#21 - Act 18 - Chapter of the Chick: Wandering Knight ~ Egmont Ouvertüre
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/2003
After the drama club asks Fakir to perform in the story of the Phantom Knight, he begins to dream about him.
Director: Yasushi Muroya
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
7.0/101 votes#22 - Act 18 - Chapter of the Chick: Wandering Knight ~ Egmont Ouvertüre (Part 2)
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 1/31/2003
(During the original airing, each season 2 episode aired as a half-episode that premiered weekly. This archives the original air-date of part 2)
Director: N/A
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
6.6/107 votes#23 - The Undead
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2001
Integra Hellsing takes command of a small Hellsing unit in Cheddar after reports of people in the village going missing by a seemingly normal priest reaches the authorities. After D11 teams were deployed to investigate with several deaths, Alucard is deployed. Seras Victoria, a female D11 operator, is fighting her ex-D11 colleagues that turned into zombies after getting into a previous fight with ghouls. Alucard eliminates the ghouls and the priest, who was the vampire, when Seras was wounded in the gunfight. Alucard turns her into a vampire after he bites her neck to save her life.
Director: Yasunori Urata
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
6.6/105 votes#24 - Dead Zone
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/2001
Picking up where Brotherhood left off. Luke and Jan, the Valentine Brothers, lay siege to the headquarters of the Hellsing organization, the Royal Order of Religious Knights. After numerous humans have been killed and eaten by an army of ghouls, Victoria, Walter, and Arucard finally get around to striking back. Victoria and Walter eliminate hundreds of ghouls with a combination of deadly threads and heavy artillery. The lead flies when Arucard and Luke face off, but Luke is devoured by a canine monster Arucard summons up. Jan sets himself afire rather than reveal the mastermind of their plot to Sir Integra Hellsing.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
6.5/102 votes#25 - Forfeiture
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/24/2003
Things just aren't going Ichise's way. In an attempt at blind rage, he gets his left leg cut off by Isshii (in addition to his right arm in the first episode). Oonishi sees his men at the warehouse and scolds Aida for not coming to him first. He then tells Ichise that he won't kill him because he still has the will to live. After this, Ichise drags himself through the streets with his severed limbs tied to his good leg. He eventually fashions a makeshift crutch, but it doesn't help him that much. Yoshii and the Elder have a little chat. Yoshii says that he didn't come down for any particular reason. The Elder doesn't really know if Yoshii's coming is a good or a bad omen. He has Yoshii take the train to Lux with Ran. On the train, we learn that Ran comes to the city alone often and that she sells flowers at the market there. We also learn from the Elder that she has the ability to see into the near future.
Director: Hong Heon-pyo
Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka
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"His Master's Voice" is the best rated episode written by Chiaki J. Konaka. It scored 9.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 6/25/2000 and is rated 1.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Layer:08 – RUMORS".