| I've watched my fair share of so called pretentious anime like monogatari, evangelion,FLCL durarara, ghost in a shell they are confusing and shoot around the target and don't usually get straight to the point, but this anime there was no target to shoot 😠I need someone to explain this anime to me in layman's term, i'm beggin i tried reading the reviews and it was even more pretentious than the anime itself No honestly read those reviews who talks like that actually I feel so lost and uneducated after this anime, 😂😂 |
Cestlavie_Jun 19, 2022 1:10 AM
| Hey! Don’t worry about it. Serial Experiments Lain is incredibly complex and definitely hard to understand. When I first finished it, I enjoyed it but not as much as I thought I would. Then as the months went by I thought about it more and more and I found that I liked it more and more. I drew my own meanings and interpretations from this anime and found that ultimately it had a ton of meaning to me and that looking back on it, it was really well written and intriguing. Lain is incredibly interesting in it’s theming as it tries to represent a ton of different things. The big one that sticks out to me is the dangers of having an online persona. If you put so much time being someone else on the internet is the internet version of you more real than the real you? Lain represents this through the two different Lains. The “real” and the “fake” one taking over. You also need to keep in mind that Serial Experiments Lain was doing all of this before things like that really existed. In a way this show aged incredibly well with how it predicted the modern internet, with online chat rooms, online classes, online games, ways to connect with people across the world and talk to them face to face. I mean the internet wasn’t even called the “internet” then, it was the World Wide Web (hence the “wired” being the name they came up with). All of this technology comes together to really push this theme of disassociating yourself online and how that can dangerously affect you and the people around you. Is your online persona, the persona that you cut off and only let peruse anonymously the real you, or is the you that friends and family see more real? Is there even a “real” and “fake” you or are they just part of a far more complex person? This show tries to answer these questions through Lains struggle with the wired. At least that’s what I think of after months of reading things and coming up with my own thoughts about the show. Serial Experiments Lain is the kind of show that invites you to interpret it in the way that is most meaningful to you, and maybe you share in the way I interpreted it, or perhaps you needs months like I did to really think it through and come up with your own conclusions. Regardless of what you think of the show and the themes I hope this response somewhat helped you understand this show. :) |
MrRandomGUYS said: Hey! Don’t worry about it. Serial Experiments Lain is incredibly complex and definitely hard to understand. When I first finished it, I enjoyed it but not as much as I thought I would. Then as the months went by I thought about it more and more and I found that I liked it more and more. I drew my own meanings and interpretations from this anime and found that ultimately it had a ton of meaning to me and that looking back on it, it was really well written and intriguing. Lain is incredibly interesting in it’s theming as it tries to represent a ton of different things. The big one that sticks out to me is the dangers of having an online persona. If you put so much time being someone else on the internet is the internet version of you more real than the real you? Lain represents this through the two different Lains. The “real” and the “fake” one taking over. You also need to keep in mind that Serial Experiments Lain was doing all of this before things like that really existed. In a way this show aged incredibly well with how it predicted the modern internet, with online chat rooms, online classes, online games, ways to connect with people across the world and talk to them face to face. I mean the internet wasn’t even called the “internet” then, it was the World Wide Web (hence the “wired” being the name they came up with). All of this technology comes together to really push this theme of disassociating yourself online and how that can dangerously affect you and the people around you. Is your online persona, the persona that you cut off and only let peruse anonymously the real you, or is the you that friends and family see more real? Is there even a “real” and “fake” you or are they just part of a far more complex person? This show tries to answer these questions through Lains struggle with the wired. At least that’s what I think of after months of reading things and coming up with my own thoughts about the show. Serial Experiments Lain is the kind of show that invites you to interpret it in the way that is most meaningful to you, and maybe you share in the way I interpreted it, or perhaps you needs months like I did to really think it through and come up with your own conclusions. Regardless of what you think of the show and the themes I hope this response somewhat helped you understand this show. :) yh thanks I get the themes it gets across more now but now I want to know about the plot like what was happening in those first 7 episodes |
Cestlavie_ said: yh thanks I get the themes it gets across more now but now I want to know about the plot like what was happening in those first 7 episodes Hahahahahahaha. Don’t even get me started on the plot. I think Lain is one of those shows that is much better if you look at it as an art piece trying to share a message and represent some themes rather than a plot driven show. If you zoom out and look at the plot of Lain it’s incredibly incoherent. There are a ton of plot threads that come out of and go nowhere and I feel this is purposely done to further the themes and narrative. View it more as a surreal allegory rather then a cohesive story, at least that’s my take on it. If someone else can explain the entire story of Lain I would love to hear it. |
SawsyMikey said: here's serial experiments lain explained in 2 minutes https://youtu.be/ue2cNfUw1iA But hold up? Durarara was confusing? Well the stand alone episodes until they finally connect everything at the end |
| https://youtu.be/iHZi7Y81G58 https://youtu.be/1lEWn1uFh3U This is the best explanation available online hands down You will appreciate this show way more after watching it It's long but totally worth it |
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| Why are you mentioning mono durarara and GitS mate,They're nowhere near confusing |
_Ace-kun_ said: Why are you mentioning mono durarara and GitS mate,They're nowhere near confusing Well Yh but those are the most confusing shows of my list i've watched so just for comparison but u get the point |
| Yea I got the point but mono and durarara is just confusing because of their chronology they're not complex like lain |
Cestlavie_ said: they are confusing and shoot around the target and don't usually get straight to the point uhm, evangelion gets straight to the point right away tho? shinji is depressed and wants everyone to die if he cant be loved and triggers the 3rd impact. not pretentious, its far from that. |
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