Serial Experiments Lain Series
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Lain seems like your typical schoolgirl, but she is anything but that. One day one of her classmates, Chisa Yomoda,
commits suicide. All of Lain's classmates say that they got a phony email from her, and Lain decides to check it out.
The email says that Chisa is not really gone, but has merely left her body and left for the Wired, a place which is
similar to the internet. "I am gone in body but not in mind" she writes.
Lain does not believe that the email is
a prank, so she decides to investigate. Soon she is not sure of what is real and what isn't, so with the help of a
special Psycho chip mysteriously found in her locker, Lain decides to take action as more and more people are leaving
their bodies for the Wired.
(Synopsis by: Daos)
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There are also homages to various real-life companies, such as BeOS, Apple, Palm, and Copland, among others. These touches solidify it's technological base, even if by today's standards, they're a bit dated. (For example, Lain's original Navi was a version of the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.) It's not product placement per se, but the influences and shout-outs are there, and it adds to the series, rather than detracts from it.
Audibly, it's informative. Oh, it's informative, and this can detract a bit. There's even an entire Layer (episode) devoted to background research, from the Memex to IPv6.
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i found this series wasent the best though it did have a good consept it did not present its self as a very good series it shoed eather the fact of low budget or little effort when it came to shadowing as well as the disign of everything
ghost945 rated 7.50:innovative. having an non "realistic" character in the anime universe made this anime rather realistic. our main is an AI surviving on information on the net. this concept is very advanced back at that time. however, apart from this theme, not sure what the underlying message was or was there one at all?
Emeraldas rated 9.50:
I can't say anything about this that the other watchers haven't already, or that can't be found looking online for more
in depth information about the series. It's just amazing in depth, as well as the amount of information you have to know
beforehand to get much sense out of it. A rare treat with great animation.
I recently picked up Yoshitoshi ABe Lain Illustrations: Ab# Rebuild an Omnipresence in Wired English Limited Edition,
the only reason I haven't contributed it here is lack of quality scanner.
Rewatched twice fully, plus a few random episodes by now. Still not sure what exactly happened in some places, so I'll
rewatch it again~
Very interesting show, although I'd hesitate to recommend it to anyone who wants strong characterisation and a
throroughly explained plot. It's the questions, and not the answers, that are the object of interest in SEL. Maybe if I
answer them all, I'll lose interest.
I think that this was the series that started my semi-obsession with anime. ^_^ No joke. It was visually stimulating, the storyline was a bit slow, but it worked for the story itself. The character development was amazing. I had a great time watching!