Watched Serial Experiments: Lain

[RAJ GHRANDHICK]

watched serial experimets lain

very good anime
9/10
it might be a lil hard to understand
but very good
its opening is my favourite
i also like lain (girl) very much now

it might seem weird in the starting but if keep up with u will find out thats its good

 

[Looksmax Refugee]

It was one of the boringest anime I ever watched. Haibane Renmei better

 

[Alatrist]

i like the intro song but the anime seems gay

 

[Zangano1]

I didnt understand shit but the girl was cute

 

[Saito]

I didnt understand shit but the girl was cute

And you don't seem to understand

 

[hikikomori]

never seen it but i always thought lain was a guy ngl

 

[Lain]

I've always found it strange that people that are almost a caricature of what Lain meant to convey, didn't like Lain or found it boring. People even call it pseudo intellectual when the themes are very clear, it's about our relationship with technology and how it influences our reality with ourselves and others and the future impact of becoming essentially technological gods with technology and reality being inseparable.

Lain is stumbling through a variety of virtual spaces, putting on personas depending on the group, when she's forced back to reality, she's weird. She's introverted. She has little to say and she's in her own mind. What you see is an example of a fractured human being, a person at the same time connected to everyone but simultaneously painfully alone. When I first watched Lain, I was a hikkineet, going weeks, sometimes months, without chatting with my own family. No friends, not even online friends, yet I'd put on a kind of persona and anonymously post on 4chan and other places. I was connected at all times but never in the real world, it's in part why Lain resonates with me.

It's a weird anime, the creators like the cyberpunk psychedelic schizo aesthetic and I like it too, but the basic themes are only more true now than when it aired, which was just around the time I was being born actually. I bet my parents had a lot more technological optimism for the future than they do now...

 

[Lain]

It was one of the boringest anime I ever watched. Haibane Renmei better

Haibane Renmei is kino, I like all of the works that Yoshitoshi Abe worked on, have you watched Texhnolyze? Maybe you wouldn't like it if you didn't like Lain, it's a very slow anime, it's nihilism personified. A meaningless world, a meaningless life, a bleak and dreary walk to the void, no flashiness, no rush to get there, just taking its time to immerse the watcher in misery.

 

[Looksmax Refugee]

Haibane Renmei is kino, I like all of the works that Yoshitoshi Abe worked on, have you watched Texhnolyze? Maybe you wouldn't like it if you didn't like Lain, it's a very slow anime, it's nihilism personified. A meaningless world, a meaningless life, a bleak and dreary walk to the void, no flashiness, no rush to get there, just taking its time to immerse the watcher in misery.

I watched that for about 10 minutes and it was just people heavily breathing. And I was like what the fuck is this gay ass shit nigga and turned it off. It might have actually turned out to be a masterpiece had I been more patient.

 

[λ-calculus]

I watched the first four episodes a long time ago when I was like 15, but couldn't get into it. i suspect now that I have been a loser that is addicted to the internet, I could probably relate more and enjoy it more.

 

[epidermis]

It was one of the boringest anime I ever watched. Haibane Renmei better

By a long shot, too. Sure, Serial Experiments Lain had an almost precognitive insight into what the internet would become today, but predicting something like that wasn't difficult, considering they already had email, online forums, and so on. Haibane Renmei tells a story of salvation and redemption, with an emphasis on symbolism. The crows, halos, cocoons, blackening of wings, and bells set the scene as the characters go through a process similar to embryonic development, but it's more focused on the spiritual side of things rather than the physical. Also, the soundtrack outshines anything that came out during that time.

 

[Looksmax Refugee]

By a long shot, too. Sure, Serial Experiments Lain had an almost precognitive insight into what the internet would become today, but predicting something like that wasn't difficult, considering they already had email, online forums, and so on. Haibane Renmei tells a story of salvation and redemption, with an emphasis on symbolism. The crows, halos, cocoons, blackening of wings, and bells set the scene as the characters go through a process similar to embryonic development, but it's more focused on the spiritual side of things rather than the physical. Also, the soundtrack outshines anything that came out during that time.

This was my favorite scene. Especially at 1:44

Almost had me shed a tear. Almost (stoic sigmas don't cry).

 

[epidermis]

This was my favorite scene. Especially at 1:44

Almost had me shed a tear. Almost (stoic sigmas don't cry).

And to think all of this took place in a closed-off room painted by Reki. I hated how this was her last chance to be saved because she spent every day consoling and taking care of the younger ones, neglecting her own mental health. She was basically their mother, and even though her actions were the closest to benevolent you could get, it almost didn't work out for her. Her actions were good, but her intentions weren't, which is why she almost went to "hell." But honestly, I object to the idea that someone can't be considered ethical if their "mindset" or outlook on life is dubious. She was making the conscious choice to be ethical, and that's all that should matter. All in all, the show does a great job of highlighting the dynamics between older and younger, morality, and "true" personal development, as much as it is subjective.

Thinking about it now, Reki and Hitomi from Welcome to the N.H.K have similar cases. Both are ultimately suffering by choice even if they're hesitant to consider the possibility because it shatters their justification for wallowing in sorrow secretly. They're no longer the tragic, irrecovably broken, lonely but not alone characters they self-identify as.

 

[kosharycel]

It was one of the boringest anime I ever watched. Haibane Renmei better

FUCKING KILL YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[RAJ GHRANDHICK]

I've always found it strange that people that are almost a caricature of what Lain meant to convey, didn't like Lain or found it boring. People even call it pseudo intellectual when the themes are very clear, it's about our relationship with technology and how it influences our reality with ourselves and others and the future impact of becoming essentially technological gods with technology and reality being inseparable.

Lain is stumbling through a variety of virtual spaces, putting on personas depending on the group, when she's forced back to reality, she's weird. She's introverted. She has little to say and she's in her own mind. What you see is an example of a fractured human being, a person at the same time connected to everyone but simultaneously painfully alone. When I first watched Lain, I was a hikkineet, going weeks, sometimes months, without chatting with my own family. No friends, not even online friends, yet I'd put on a kind of persona and anonymously post on 4chan and other places. I was connected at all times but never in the real world, it's in part why Lain resonates with me.

It's a weird anime, the creators like the cyberpunk psychedelic schizo aesthetic and I like it too, but the basic themes are only more true now than when it aired, which was just around the time I was being born actually. I bet my parents had a lot more technological optimism for the future than they do now...