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Who made it

Lain was planned as one idea told across several media at once: a TV series, a PlayStation game and a run of art and text in a magazine. These are the people and companies behind it. What they said about it is on Interviews.

Yasuyuki Ueda 上田耕行

Original concept and producer (credited as 'production 2nd'); main author of the PlayStation game's text and data

Ueda was a producer in Pioneer LDC's original-projects section who, by his own account, grew tired of making ordinary titles and wanted something personal and risky. He picked the team himself: ABe from his homepage, Konaka because he loved his writing, and Junji Nakahara from the Noel game, which Ueda had worked on at Pioneer and later left after clashes with its producer. 'production 2nd' is simply his old section name used as a label. Konaka calls him more than a producer: the original author, main concept maker and a kind of overall director. He shot most of the reference photos of power lines on a Leica, made many digital effects cuts himself and, for the game, typed the keyword links into Excel by hand. He says Lain's dark streak comes from him and ABe. He later produced NieA_7, Haibane Renmei and Texhnolyze with ABe, stayed at Geneon and NBCUniversal Japan, oversaw the 2010 Blu-ray restoration in person, and supervised the 2023 AI lain service. He has said he would approve a good fan-made sequel.

also: Noel series (PlayStation; Ueda involved in the first game, 1996?) · Hyper Doll (producer, 1995?) · NieA_7 (2000) · Hellsing (2001) · Haibane Renmei (2002) · Texhnolyze (2003) · Shigurui (2007) · Danganronpa 3 (producer) and Golden Kamuy (executive producer), per 4Gamer 2018

Sources: en.wikipedia.org archived · ja.wikipedia.org archived · en.wikipedia.org archived · 4gamer.net archived · lawmune.net · 4gamer.net archived · 4gamer.net · konaka.com archived · gigazine.net · lain.wiki

Chiaki J. Konaka 小中千昭

Series composition and all thirteen TV scripts; game setting and the game's animated-part scenarios; AX text serial; some live-action and digital footage

Konaka came to anime from live-action horror video and special-effects TV, and calls himself a horror writer first. He grew up making 8mm films with his younger brother, director Kazuya Konaka, and lists 1970s films such as The Exorcist and Videodrome as his influences. For Lain he wrote all thirteen scripts between September 1997 and April 1998 with no overall plot, writing the first four in a rush, pausing, and then steering by Nakamura's storyboards; the series composition credit, he says, was only contractual. He coined the word Wired, named COS after Apple's abandoned Copland, filled the scenario book with technical footnotes, and personally shot and processed footage such as Layer 09's documentary. He ran a personal Lain page from 1998 to 2001 with dolls he sculpted, and in 2018 began the memoir blog welcome back to wired. With Nakamura and ABe he later developed Despera, serialized in Animage from 2009. He reused Alice, Reika and Juri across several works.

also: Armitage III (1995) · Ultraman Tiga (1996-97) and Ultraman Gaia · Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (1998) · The Big O (1999-2003) · Digimon Tamers (2001-02) · Hellsing (2001-02) · Texhnolyze (2003) · Marebito (2004) · Ghost Hound (2007)

Sources: en.wikipedia.org archived · konaka.com archived · konaka.com archived · konaka.com archived · lawmune.net · yamaki-nyx.hatenablog.com · gigazine.net · lain.wiki

Yoshitoshi ABe 安倍吉俊

Original character design (anime and game), NAVI and device design, game illustrations, AX graphic+text serial

ABe barely drew until after high school, then learned as an assistant to a manga-artist friend and entered the Japanese painting department of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1994, winning an Afternoon Shiki award that year. He had a homepage from early 1996, where Ueda found his work and emailed him in the winter of his senior year; he joined the project after his graduate exams. Lain was his first professional job. He describes the design as a loop of meetings and sketches until the team recognized Lain, credits Ueda with the asymmetry and himself with the X clip, and designed every NAVI as a machine he wanted to own. He drew about 46 illustrations for the game, plus an unrequested rough of Lain's father that became the father's design in the game. Ueda calls him a painter rather than an illustrator, because mood shows in his line. The 1999 artbook an omnipresence in wired collects his Lain work. He later created Haibane Renmei and held a 30th career anniversary exhibition, Enkan Kiten, in July and August 2025.

also: NieA_7 (2000) · Haibane Renmei (doujinshi 1998, anime 2002) · Texhnolyze (2003) · Welcome to the N.H.K. (2006, character design) · RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time (2018) · Despera (with Konaka and Nakamura, serialized from 2009)

Sources: en.wikipedia.org archived · ja.wikipedia.org archived · archived page · archived page · lawmune.net · 4gamer.net · gigazine.net · lain.wiki · kai-you.net

Ryūtarō Nakamura 中村隆太郎

Director (anime); also some CG art for visual experiments lain

Born in 1955, Nakamura drew at Madhouse, worked on titles such as The Rose of Versailles, and went freelance as a director in 1986. His first film as director, Chibi Neko Tom, took about five years and was finished in 1992 but went almost unseen; his public debut was The Life of Guskou Budori in 1994. He was chosen for Lain only after Konaka had started writing, and Konaka admits he and Ueda were nervous because Nakamura barely spoke in meetings, until his storyboards won them over. He made Layer 01 a very personal film with Kishida, invented the red speckles in shadows, defended the bear pajamas as Lain's shield and nudged the story toward a human ending; Konaka sees traces of Osamu Dezaki in his first episode. Ueda praised him for welcoming game people and digital effects into a cel production. The show's 1998 Media Arts Festival prize was awarded in his name. He also directed game animation for Breath of Fire IV and Noel 3. He died of pancreatic cancer on 29 June 2013, aged 58, while working on Chibi Neko Tom again.

also: The Life of Guskou Budori (1994) · Crystania (feature) · Futago no Hoshi (feature) · Game animation for Popolocrois Monogatari and Noel 3 · Sakura Wars TV (2000) · Kino's Journey (2003) · Ghost Hound (2007) · Chibi Neko Tom no Daibouken (made around 1992, revived later) · Despera (planned, frozen around 2010)

Sources: en.wikipedia.org archived · konaka.com archived · gigazine.net · animenewsnetwork.com · konaka.com archived · archived page · gigazine.net · archived page

Takahiro Kishida 岸田隆宏

Animation character design; chief animation director in practice; Layer 01 layouts; animation director on Layer 12

Kishida adapted ABe's illustrations into model sheets, but Konaka stresses that his real role was far larger than his credit. According to Konaka, Kishida agreed to join after reading the first four scripts, spent about a month and a half on the layout of Layer 01's scene of ectoplasm rising from Lain's fingers, drew it himself, and through many nights quietly corrected other animators' key drawings to keep the cel animation ahead of the digital parts. For Layer 12 he called in star animator friends. He invented Lain's bear pajamas, which Konaka at first opposed; Nakamura explained them by noting that Kishida himself always wears sunglasses as a shield. Ueda found the bear childish but accepted it. Konaka calls him a genius who would never let poor work go out under his name. He went on to a long career as a character designer.

also: Yamato Takeru (1994) · Durarara!! (2010) · Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011) · Haikyu!! (2014-) · JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (2018)

Sources: ja.wikipedia.org archived · animenewsnetwork.com archived · en.wikipedia.org archived · konaka.com archived · lawmune.net · lawmune.net

Reichi "Chabo" Nakaido 仲井戸"CHABO"麗市

Music; ending theme 'Tooi Sakebi' (遠い叫び, 'Distant Scream')

Nakaido is a veteran Japanese rock guitarist, born 9 October 1950, best known as a member of RC Succession alongside Kiyoshiro Imawano from 1979, and as a solo artist and with his own band since. He was an unusual choice for a late-night anime. He wrote and sang the closing song, Tooi Sakebi, whose lyrics speak of being punished for no crime and of outlaws drifting through the night, and he recorded the soundtrack album with keyboard player Tatsunosuke from his band. Much of the ambient sound heard within episodes, though, came from Akira Takemoto's sound team rather than from Nakaido. One of his songs also plays over the post-reset morning in Layer 13. Outside Lain his anime work is rare; lain.wiki notes the opening song of Akagi (2006).

also: RC Succession (from 1979) · Glad All Over with Kiyoshiro Imawano (1994) · Solo albums such as My R&R (1999) and Time (2002) · Akagi opening song (2006)

Sources: ja.wikipedia.org archived · ja.wikipedia.org archived · animenewsnetwork.com archived · lain.wiki · lain.wiki archived

Akira Takemoto 竹本晃

Sound and background music (anime); music for the game, including the music-box theme

Takemoto worked with Kasamatsu as the show's second sound unit. Ueda explained at Otakon 2000 that TV sound is normally built from a palette made before the series and reused, but that Takemoto, a friend, came to the director's room and reworked sound for each episode, which is why the hum of wires and city noise feel so specific. He appeared at the 1999 talk live as sound staff, and his in-show score was finally released in 1999 on the BOOTLEG set. For the game, Ueda asked him for the music-box theme; his first version with existing samples sounded thin, so Ueda had real music boxes built by a maker in Nagano and sampled them. 4Gamer notes that Takemoto earlier composed game music at Data East under the name RAIKA.

also: Data East game music as RAIKA, including Death Brade and Wolf Fang (Kuhga 2001), per 4Gamer · serial experiments lain BOOTLEG (1999)

Sources: ja.wikipedia.org archived · vgmdb.net archived · lawmune.net · 4gamer.net · archived page

Bôa ボア

Opening theme 'Duvet'

Boa is a London alternative rock band; its 2000 lineup at Otakon was Jasmine Rodgers (vocals), Steve Rodgers (guitar), Paul Turrell (keyboards), Alex Caird (bass) and Lee Sullivan (drums). Jasmine and Steve are children of singer Paul Rodgers. Duvet was not written for Lain: the band had signed with the Japanese label Polystar, and that connection plus a friendship between people around the two producers brought the existing song to the show. Ueda says he chose it for the sound and the translated lyrics, then learned Jasmine is half Japanese. Rodgers says the lyrics are about expectation, hope and depending on others. The band played Otakon 2000, later stopped releasing music, and re-formed after Duvet went viral on TikTok around 2021; the song was certified Gold by the RIAA in 2023 and Platinum in 2024.

also: The Race of a Thousand Camels (1998) · Twilight (2001) · Get There (2005) · Whiplash (2024) · Songs for Armitage: Dual-Matrix (Jasmine Rodgers)

Sources: en.wikipedia.org archived · en.wikipedia.org archived · archived page · beneaththetangles.com · lawmune.net · palatinate.org.uk

Triangle Staff トライアングルスタッフ

Animation production studio

Triangle Staff was a small Tokyo studio founded in 1987 by 浅利義美 (Asari) that animated Lain, and its site later hosted Ueda's 'stories I can tell now' interview. Konaka recalls a script meeting in its small studio where he and Ueda had a shouting match over what a network protocol is, with ABe present. Ueda remembers returning from abroad to find work behind schedule and faxing a furious three-page letter at night, which arrived blank because he fed it upside down. Ueda also says bringing outside digital staff into a cel studio was awkward for its animators, and credits Nakamura for making it work. The studio also made NieA_7 with Ueda and ABe in 2000. It did not stop in December 2000 as often stated: in December 2000 it was recruiting production assistants to start in January 2001, its site posted news until March 2001 and its top page carried mid-2001 news, and by late September 2001 the site was cut down to a bare list of works. No closure notice or primary account of the reason has been found. The company itself was never formally wound up: Japan's National Tax Agency assigned 有限会社トライアングルスタッフ a corporate number on 5 October 2015 and still lists it with no closure.

also: Macross Plus (co-production) · Catnapped! (1995) · Junkers Come Here (1995) · NieA_7 (2000) · WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (begun there?)

Sources: en.wikipedia.org archived · gigazine.net · archived page · lawmune.net

Pioneer LDC パイオニアLDC

Planning, financing and release of the anime, soundtracks and books tie-ins; developer and publisher of the PlayStation game

Pioneer LDC was the LaserDisc and software arm of the electronics maker Pioneer, and by the 1990s an important anime and music producer. Lain was planned in-house by Ueda's section, and Pioneer also published the game. According to 4Gamer, Pioneer's first game was the Super Famicom title Bounty Sword (1995); a colleague's team there led Ueda to Nakahara and the Noel series, made by a team called SR-12W that visual experiments lain says Nakahara headed. Lain's game team was about four people in a rented apartment. Ueda recalls that Pioneer, as an AV maker, cared about video sales, though he concentrated on the broadcast. The US arm, Pioneer Entertainment, released Lain in English from 1999. The company became Geneon after Dentsu bought it in 2003, and later NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan, which in 2019 published guidelines allowing fan derivative works of Lain.

also: Tenchi Muyo! · Armitage III · Bounty Sword (1995 game) · Noel series (games) · Hellsing · Haibane Renmei · Texhnolyze

Sources: en.wikipedia.org archived · en.wikipedia.org archived · 4gamer.net · konaka.com archived · animenewsnetwork.com

Junji Nakahara 中原順志

Director of the PlayStation game; COS and CG work and subtitle programming on the anime

Nakahara directed the Noel games and the Lain game, and on the anime he is credited for creating COS and doing CG and subtitle programming. Konaka's HK interview names him as one of the four core members. Konaka recalls that Nakahara first conceived a standalone console that behaves as if it were online, which raised the question of what a network is. Ueda describes him as someone who always aimed for the very best, a reader of science fiction and interface theory for whom interface was a kind of philosophy, and also as maddening: he switched the game's persona to a full-body figure less than six months before mastering and refused to show players a map of the database. He was so taken with Nakamura that game work slowed while he did anime CG, and he and Ueda filmed the Layer 12 ghost with a blanket. In 2010 he upconverted the opening and ending for the Blu-ray from his own backups. In 2018 the staff said they had lost touch with him.

also: Noel: Not Digital (1996) and the Noel series (director, per 4Gamer) · SR-12W team head (per visual experiments lain, via 4Gamer) · Digital graphics for 'Magical Tai!'? (per Konaka in HK)

Sources: ja.wikipedia.org archived · 4gamer.net archived · konaka.com archived · konaka.com archived · 4gamer.net · gigazine.net · gigazine.net

Tetsuya Endo えんどうてつや

Director of the PlayStation game's animated segments (resolves the earlier '?')

Konaka's 2018 blog makes Endo's role clear: Konaka wrote the scenarios for about thirty minutes of animated parts in the PlayStation game, and Endo was the director who turned them into film. This fits Japanese Wikipedia listing him as the game's 監督 alongside Junji Nakahara as director. Endo's own filmography also credits him on lain BOOTLEG (1999). He is an anime director and sound director known for music-centered series. Konaka describes his own part in the game as little more than a go-between from Ueda's plot to Endo's film, so Endo should be credited for how those game movies look. The game's own staff list settles the split: it credits Junji Nakahara as Director and Endo as Director & Storyboard of the MOVIE part, so Endo did not direct the whole game.

also: Hana no Mahotsukai Marybell (1992-93) · Saiyuki Reload (2003-04) · Master of Epic The Animation Age (2007)

Sources: ja.wikipedia.org archived · ja.wikipedia.org archived · yamaki-nyx.hatenablog.com · animenewsnetwork.com

Full credits of the series

Every credited role, as the opening and ending credits and Pioneer's own page give them.

Planning / Original concept 企画・原案	production 2nd. On-screen the opening card reads 'Planning: production 2nd.' Japanese Wikipedia links the name to producer 上田耕行 (Yasuyuki Ueda). ANN lists both 'Planning' and 'Original Concept' as production 2nd.
Executive producer エグゼクティブ・プロデューサー	Taro Maki 真木太郎
Executive producer エグゼクティブ・プロデューサー	Akihiro Kawamura 川村明廣
Series composition / screenplay (all 13 episodes) シリーズ構成・脚本	Chiaki J. Konaka 小中千昭 Credited on screen as 'Series Structure/Screenplay'. The official data page lists him only as 脚本 (script).
Original character design オリジナル・キャラクターデザイン	Yoshitoshi ABe 安倍吉俊
Character design (animation character design) キャラクター・デザイン	Takahiro Kishida 岸田隆宏
Art director 美術監督	Masaru Sato 佐藤勝 Conflict: the official data page and anime.eiga.com write 佐藤浩 instead of 佐藤勝 (?). The on-screen English credit is 'Masaru Sato', which matches 勝.
Art setting 美術設定	Akihiro Hirasawa 平沢晃弘 Credited on screen as 'Setting'.
Art setting 美術設定	Yoshinori Shiozawa 塩沢良憲 Credited on screen as 'Setting'.
Color design 色彩設定	Michiyo Iriomote 西表美智代 Credited on screen as 'Color Key'.
Director of photography 撮影監督	Takashi Azuhata 安津畑隆
Editing 編集	Takeshi Seyama 瀬山武司
Sound director 音響監督	Yota Tsuruoka 鶴岡陽太 On-screen spelling: 'Youta Tsuruoka'.
Music 音楽	Reiichi "CHABO" Nakaido 仲井戸"CHABO"麗市
Music support 音楽 supported by	Tatsunosuke たつのすけ Opening card: 'Music: Reiichi "CHABO" Nakaido, supported by Tatsunosuke'.
2nd unit music & sound design 2nd UNIT MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN	Akira Takemoto 竹本晃 Official page lists him under 'support music & effect' with 光遊社 (Koyousha).
2nd unit music & sound design / sound effects 2nd UNIT MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN	Koji Kasamatsu 笠松広司 Official page gives only the surname 笠松 (楽音舎).
Opening theme "DUVET": music and performance オープニングテーマ「DUVET」作曲・歌	BOA (bôa) bôa On-screen: 'Music by BOA, Performed by BOA (POLYSTAR)'.
Opening theme "DUVET": lyrics オープニングテーマ「DUVET」作詞	Jasmine Rodgers
Ending theme "Toi Sakebi" (遠い叫び): lyrics, music, performance エンディングテーマ「遠い叫び」作詞・作曲・歌	Reiichi "CHABO" Nakaido (Toshiba EMI) 仲井戸麗市
Insert song "Kodoku no Signal" (孤独のシグナル), Layer 13: lyrics, music, performance 挿入歌「孤独のシグナル」	Reiichi "CHABO" Nakaido 仲井戸麗市
Producer プロデューサー	Yasuyuki Ueda (credited 'ueda yasuyuki' in Japanese credits) 上田耕行 English opening card spells it 'Yasuyuki Ueda'.
Producer プロデューサー	Shojiro Abe 安部正次郎
TV programming (TV Tokyo) 番組担当（テレビ東京）	Makiko Iwata 岩田牧子 The English opening card misprints the name as 'Kiko Iwata (TV Tokyo)'.
Director 監督	Ryutaro Nakamura 中村隆太郎
NAVI layout supervision (Layers 04 to 13) NAVIレイアウト監修	Tomokazu Tokoro ところともかず（所智一）
Special effects 特殊効果	Takashi Maekawa 前川孝
Assistant editors 編集助手	Keiko Mizuta, Megumi Uchida, Kaoru Saito 水田経子、内田恵、斉藤かおる
Casting キャスティング	Suguru Matsuoka 松岡超 ANN gives the reading 'Wataru Matsuoka' (?). The dub credits read 'Suguru Matsuoka'.
Recording engineer 録音調整	Shoji Hata はたしょうじ
Recording assistant (from Layer 03) 録音助手	Fumiaki Tanaka 田中文章
Effects assistant (from Layer 03) 効果助手	Nono Ishizaki 石?野乃 (second character not legible in the source page)
Recording studio 録音スタジオ	Tokyo TV Center 東京テレビセンター
Sound production / sound effects 音響制作 / sound effect	Rakuonsha 楽音舎
Music production 音楽制作	7th Mother (Emi Ito), Koyousha, J-WORKS 7th Mother 伊藤恵美、光遊社、J-WORKS
Music production in association with 音楽制作協力	Toshiba EMI, Polystar, Fuji Pacific Music Publishing, TV Tokyo Music 東芝EMI、ポリスター、フジパシフィック音楽出版、テレビ東京ミュージック
Music marketing / publicity desk 音楽宣伝デスク	Akinori Ito (as credited in the dub; ANN reads 'Tetsunori Itō') 伊藤哲範 Reading of 哲範 uncertain (?).
Laboratory / telecine 現像・テレシネ	IMAGICA
Film stock フィルム	Eastman Kodak イーストマン・コダック
Video editing ビデオ編集	Kumio Onaga, Mari Kobayashi (Active Cine Club); Yasumi Morimitsu (SUPLEX Inc.) 小永組雄、小林真理（アクティブ・シネ・クラブ）、森満康巳（SUPLEX INC）
Title logo / lithwork タイトル&リスワーク	Maki Production マキ・プロ
Digital effects デジタル・エフェクト	Raretrick, SR-12W, Active Cine Club レアトリック、SR-12W、アクティブ・シネ・クラブ
Graphic operation グラフィック・オペレーション	Mitsuru Sugiura 杉浦充
Main title logo design メインタイトル・ロゴデザイン	Akihisa Okuda (BALANCE of PROPORTION, Inc.) 奥田晶久
Subtitle programming & CG works SUBTITLE-PROGRAMMING & CG works	Junshi Nakahara, Masahiko Takai, Satoru Takahashi, Koji Yamagiwa 中原順志、高井政彦、高橋吏、山際浩二 Per-episode extras: Chiaki J. Konaka also listed on Layer 10, Johei Matsuura (松浦錠平) on Layers 12 and 13 (SSW; Matsuura seen on screen in Layer 13).
Nezumi vision (Layer 07) ねずみヴィジョン	Chiaki J. Konaka 小中千昭
Document-part footage (Layer 09) ドキュメント・パート映像	Chiaki J. Konaka, Hiroyuki Kakudo 小中千昭、角銅博之
Photography in association with (still photos) 写真協力	Arito Yukawa 湯川有人
Setting in association with 設定協力	Hitoshi Kagiyama 鍵山仁志
Assistant producer アシスタント・プロデューサー	Mie Ide 井出美恵
Setting production 設定制作	Kazuharu Sato 佐藤和治
Production desk 制作デスク	Takashi Hirokawa 廣川隆志
Promotion 番組宣伝	Junya Ito 伊藤淳也
Serialized in 連載	AX (Sony Magazines) AX（ソニー・マガジンズ）
Production cooperation 製作協力 / 制作協力	GENCO
Animation production アニメーション制作	Triangle Staff トライアングルスタッフ
Production 製作	PIONEER LDC The current official page credits the later company name ジェネオン・ユニバーサル・エンターテイメント.
Background art studio (Layers 01, 05, 09, 13 and OP/ED) 背景	Studio Biho スタジオ美峰
Background art studio (Layers 02 to 04, 06 to 08, 10 to 12) 背景	Baku Production 獏プロダクション
Photography studio 撮影	Azuhata Production アズハタ・プロダクション Layer 05 adds Ace Creation (エース・クリエイション); the dub credit spells it 'YS Creation' (?).
Inbetweening and paint (odd-numbered Layers) 動画・仕上	Sung San Animation Production 星山企劃
Inbetweening and paint (even-numbered Layers) 動画・仕上	Buyu, with White Line 武遊、WHITE LINE The dub credit reads 'WHITE LINE' on Layers 02, 04, 06 but 'WHITE LION' on Layers 08, 10, 12 (?).
Opening/ending key animation OP・ED原画	Koichi Arai, Noriyuki Matsutake, Hidenori Matsubara, Akihiko Yamashita, Hirofumi Suzuki, Toshiyuki Tsuru, Tomokazu Tokoro 新井浩一、松竹徳幸、松原秀典、山下明彦、鈴木博文、都留稔幸、ところともかず
Opening/ending inbetween check OP・ED動画チェック	Masato Ujibe, Tomoko Miyata 宇治部まさと、宮田知子 The dub card labels this 'Paint Checkers'; the Japanese credit says 動画チェック.
Opening/ending art OP・ED美術	Studio Biho スタジオ美峰
Opening/ending digital operation OP・EDデジタル・オペレーション	Raretrick, SR-12W レアトリック、SR-12W
Opening/ending editing OP・ED編集	Tsuyoshi Imai (JAY Film) 今井剛（ジェイ・フィルム）
Broadcaster 放送局	TV Tokyo (and others) テレビ東京ほか First broadcast 1998-07-06 to 09-28 in the Monday 25:15 slot (dated 07-07 to 09-29 by calendar day on Japanese Wikipedia).

The English version

Read from the dub's own ending credits. The cards list the actors but not their parts, so which actor played whom comes from Anime News Network's cast list; names are spelled as the credits spell them, pseudonyms included.

English version produced by	Pioneer Entertainment (USA) L.P. (Layers 01 to 13)
In association with	ZRO Limit Productions & Animaze, Inc. (styled 'ANIMAZE.. iNC' on screen) (Layers 01 to 13)
Production coordinators	Osamu Maseba and Kei Onishi (Layers 01, 03, 04, 08, 09, 10)
Production coordinators	Osamu Maseba and Kenji Nakamura (Layers 02, 05, 06, 07)
Production coordinator	Osamu Maseba (Layers 11, 12, 13)
Translation	David Fleming, ZRO Limit Productions (Layers 01 to 13)
Director (ADR director)	Lia Sargent (Layers 01 to 13)
English ADR script writer	Quint Lancaster (Layer 01)
English ADR script writer	Gavin Glennon (Layers 02 to 13)
Recording facility	Magnitude 8 Post (Layers 01 to 13)
Digital ADR tracking	Michael McCarty (Layers 01 to 13)
Final mix	Les Claypool III (Layers 01 to 13)
Online facility	VDI Media West (Layers 01 to 13)
General manager	Carl Segal (Layers 01 to 13)
Online editor	Keri Winthers (Layers 01 to 13)
Executive producer	Hideki "Henry" Goto (Layers 01 to 13)
Producers	Hiroe Tsukamoto, Yutaka Maseba, Haruyo Kanesaku (Layers 01 to 13)
Produced by	Pioneer LDC (Layers 01 to 13)

Voices

Alexis A. Edward	Julie (Juri Kato) (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Bebe Elam	Additional voices (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Carol Stanzione	Voice on WIRED (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Celeste Burch	Miho Iwakura (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Christy Mathewson	J.J. (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Devon Michaels	Cop (Layer 03) (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Dorothy Melendrez	Masayuki; Teacher (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Dylan Tully	Delivery guy (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Elliot Reynolds	Additional voices (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Emily Brown	Alice (Arisu Mizuki) (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
George C. Cole	Narrator; Voice on WIRED (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Gil Starberry	Yasuo Iwakura (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Gracie Poletti	Additional voices (IMDb: Layer 04) (likely) (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Heather Ashton	Secretary (Layers 07, 10) (inferred) (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Horace Muckle	Panicked Man (Layer 04) only; 'WIRED Freak (ep 7)' cannot come from this card (inferred) (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Ian Hawk	Taro (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
James Lyon	Light-haired Man in Black (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Jimmy Theodore	Additional voices (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Katie Ashley	Little girl (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Lenore Zann	Reika Yamamoto (replaces 'Lain's friend 1') (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Lia Sargent	Chisa Yomoda (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Marie Danielle	Myu-Myu (Layers 02-03) (likely) (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Melissa Williamson	Lain's NAVI (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Paul Stephen	Additional voices (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
PJ Lee	Mika Iwakura (ANN lists the actor as Patricia Ja Lee) (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Robert Wicks	Dark-haired Man in Black (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Rona Bellini	Additional voices (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Ruby Marlowe	Lain Iwakura (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Sean Mitchell	Voice on WIRED (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Susan Chavez	Additional voices (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04)
Syd Fontana	Suicidal Man = the Accela-using young man at Cyberia (Layer 02; Japanese 'Young Boy', Satoshi Komiya) (likely) (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Ty Webb	Additional voices (Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Arnie Hanks	Additional voices (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Fish Gomez	Additional voices (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Jackson Daniels	'Cheshire Cat poser' (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Julie Maddalena	Knight Member's Son = Shou Masatsugu, the child (Layers 07, 10) (inferred) (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Luaylon Akers	Additional voices (likely) (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Mike D'Gand	Totem (ANN spells the actor 'Mike D'Gard') (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Rachael Harris	Female Knight = Shoko Masatsugu, the young mother (Layer 07) (inferred) (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Richard Plantagenet	Tachibana Employee (Layer 07; probably the Tachibana man voiced in Japanese by Eiichiro Suzuki, not the Office Worker) (likely) (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Trixie Wood	Voice on WIRED (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Sparky Thornton	Masami Eiri (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Michaline Babich	Additional voices (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Remo	Additional voices (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Danny Boy	Additional voices (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Zan	Reika Yamamoto (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07, Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Michael McCarty	Additional voices (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Dale Lee	Additional voices (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Alfred Thor	Dr. Hodgeson (Layer 05, Layer 06, Layer 07)
Anne Sherman	Hand (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Florence Nighty	Additional voices (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Bob Marx	Eye (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Richard George	WIRED informant (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Bebe Egam	Additional voices (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
David Lucas	Male teacher; Newscaster (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Wayon Akers	Additional voices (likely) (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Frank Buck	Additional voices (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Alexis A. Edwards	Julie (Juri Kato) (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Harold Muckle	Additional voices; possibly the 'WIRED Freak' ANN credits to Horace Muckle (inferred) (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Buck James	Additional voices (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10)
Sandy Fox	Myu-Myu (Layer 08, Layer 09, Layer 10, Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Billy Regan	Additional voices (Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Lynn Fischer	Additional voices (Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Tom Charles	Additional voices (Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Bambi Darro	Additional voices (Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)
Dan Marin	Additional voices (Layer 11, Layer 12, Layer 13)