InfluenceLOW
The Call of Cthulhu influenced Serial Experiments Lain
Added by Media Influence Map · 6 October 2026
The influence
The Call of Cthulhu
Short Story · 1928
The work it shaped
Serial Experiments Lain
Animated Series · 1998
The evidence
Writer Chiaki J. Konaka has named Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos as one of his inspirations; Lain's Wired hides a vast, indifferent intelligence that reshapes the minds of those who glimpse it.
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