One day Lain Iwakura's class receives an email presumingly from one of their late classmates, after she had committed suicide. Usually she wouldn't even use the Wired network but suddenly she starts using the network, believing she would receive more messages even though everyone thought it was just a prank. Not long later, she finds herself caught up in a series of strange events. She finds herself being followed, being able to see other humanoid shapes around her and even another person that looks just like her appearing at a club. Before long, she is sent a mod chip known as the "Psyche" that is rumoured to be created by a group known as the "Knights" and allows someone to merge with the virtual world, blurring it with reality and even allow them to affect the real world.

I watched this because of the hype. Even though the show's from the late 90s I still often see it pop up on my Twitter timeline every now and then. Art and animation probably isn't this show's best points because there isn't a lot of detail and for most of the episodes the first few minutes are the same. Eery sound effects on the other hand are really well done and something like the prominent low hum of powerlines throughout the show goes well with the dark gloomy colour choice and atmosphere. It's dark but I wouldn't call it a horror.

The overall pacing feels slow like you're just waiting for something to happen most of the time and when something does, it doesn't seem to have much impact so it's not very good at building up to events. By the time something does happen you just think, "Oh, something happened. Who cares." It's one messy show. One episode even resembles a fan made music video with a collage of scenes from the series.

If you can keep yourself awake for half the series then it's worth a watch when it kind of starts to get interesting but, it shouldn't really have taken that long to develop.