Ryusuke Oobayashi

Cursed to turn into a girl whenever splashed with cold water, and unwillingly engaged to the rather temperamental and violent Akane Tendo, 16-year-old Ranma Saotome's life is anything but ordinary.

"Serial Experiments Lain" is not your typical sci-fi/drama anime. A good frame of reference is to think of The X-Files crossed with The Matrix.

This anime revolved around a teenage boy named, Ranma Saotome, who will turn into a girl whenever he is splashed with cold water, a result of falling into a cursed ponds at Jusenkyo ( it means Springs of Sorrow) while he was training in China with his father.

In the future, advanced robotics has created heavy robots ("labors") for use in a variety of functions: construction, fire-fighting, military, and more. However, though the robots are only machines, their operators are also only human-and humans sometimes turn to crime. Since a heavy labor unit can be a dangerous weapon, the police of the future are set to fight fire with fire, using advanced patrol labor units, "patlabors." This is the story of the Second Special Vehicles Division, a motley crew of patlabor policemen and women doing their best to fight crime and live a normal life.