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| *sigh* -__- What a boring first episode. |
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| The name of episode suits for anime. I hope next episodes would be more dinamic, more weird and more mysterious. |
| Having seen the show, this is probably my favorite episode of them all. The shots in this episode are just incredible -- Lain stepping out of thin air is a great shot. In some weird way, I think that this is the easiest episode to understand in the whole show. It makes way more sense on a rewatch though. |
| TRIPPY. Also, I knew something had to be up with the amt of shots of electrical wires we were getting. I mean yes I know those things are background essentials but they were getting way too much screentime LOL |
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Purpleguide said: Man, I've heard of Lain for a long time now (and also been wanting to watch it for a long time now), and now, I've finally got to watching it after years! =D Anyway, this is a lot like The Matrix, in many ways. Does anyone else get this same feeling? It is VERY much like The Matrix. Especially the ending. |
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol |
| Storytelling slightly reminded me Boogiepop and that's good, will definitely continue to watch it. |
| I've tried to watch this anime 4 times already. The first and second episode are just too much to bear. Lets hope this time will be better. Even though its not looking so good since i've already xed out my browser in the middle of episode 2 twice. |
| What is this I don't even |
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| This is so oldschool. I kind of love it. Been meaning to watch this for years. This is definitely really effing weird. |
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| I thought it was an interesting episode, but of course it doesn't make much sense unless you watched through the whole series. It begins with Chisa Yomoda being the first one called out of the real world by the God of the Wired. The idea was, she began to disconnect more and more from the real world as she got more involved with the Wired. Lain has energy perception, and is in fact a psychic. She sees the psychic energy from her aura through her shadow. And has a psychokinetic effect on electrical devises. One might say she has EHS. Lain begins seeing that the real world is not as real as it seems. She begins losing touch with reality, including the reality of herself, from the very beginning. Her experiences with reality is a lot like derealization. Lain is not very good with computers, but after recieving Chisa's e-mail, she begins connecting more with the Wired, and becoming more technologically inclined with computers. You see that there are certain places on the streets that are obscured in colour. These symbolize the energy by which everything material is made from. One of Lain's first psychic experiences is when she sees blood dripping from the telephone powerlines. This is after the train crashes into a girl who deliberately jumps infront of the train as a suicide. Then in school, Lain has a vision of the girl who died by the train tracks. Overall, I loved this episode! So deep, mysterious, and entertaining! ^^ |
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| ---------------------------------- -- -- this anime is scary T_t...... creepy............. weird<<< T_t. |
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| To put it bluntly: This anime is not for kids. ... - Even though the DVD I bought said "Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over", Serial Experiments Lain is so deep that no 12 year old would get it. |
Naratchi said: To put it bluntly: This anime is not for kids. ... - Even though the DVD I bought said "Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over", Serial Experiments Lain is so deep that no 12 year old would get it. hey motherfucker when i first saw this anime i was 12 years old no joke that was like 2 years ago im 14 now... i loved it and it has been my favorite anime ever since and i understood everything(well not EVERYTHING i had to go to thought experiments lain.com to answer just a few questions i had) |
BLeakXBuRSTX19 said: Yeah, and there ya have it, I'm sure you're not the only one. Let me rephrase what I said: It's not likely that any person below 12 would get the picture, understand what's going on in Lain. Or even *how* the things happen. I'm also a kid, yet I'm saying that this anime is not for kids. Why is that, you think? It's a sensible statement.Naratchi said: To put it bluntly: This anime is not for kids. ... - Even though the DVD I bought said "Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over", Serial Experiments Lain is so deep that no 12 year old would get it. hey motherfucker when i first saw this anime i was 12 years old no joke that was like 2 years ago im 14 now... i loved it and it has been my favorite anime ever since and i understood everything(well not EVERYTHING i had to go to thought experiments lain.com to answer just a few questions i had) |
| I really, really like this, but I can tell it's going to be a difficult watch...that episode was intense and painful in such a subtle way...I can't even describe it. (oh god I sound so pretentious xDD) Why did this all make so much sense to me?! xD I mean..not ALL of it made sense, and it was weird and screwed up as fuck, yeah, but I didn't think it was that confusing, really. Although it is 3am in the morning where i'm at. Logic can get pretty screwed in the early hours of the morning. I love Lain. So, so much.<3 |
| One word: shit is fucked up |
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| I love it. One of my first animes I've ever watched. :) |
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.~ |
| It's the first episode and I already have no idea what the hell's going on. This is more confusing than paranoia agent. But I still want to keep watching. |
| Wow. That was...weird. I'm intrigued. |
 If you don't remember something, it never happened. If you aren't remembered, you never existed. <3 |
| What a nice and refreshing thing in anime that they don't talk too much. But because of that I'm a bit confused. |
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| Extremely weird. But I MUST finish this for no reason. I just feel attracted to it. The OP is great. I love it. |
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| Been putting off watching this for ages now. First ep is certainly unique from my experiences... |
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| What a twisted anime. Nothing happened but still there's something getting on my nerves. I totally can't predict what's going to happen next. |
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| Confusing as hell, kinda stale and boring. I'll watch more but this is just not that interesting... |
Solkiskey said: Confusing as hell, kinda stale and boring. I'll watch more but this is just not that interesting... Drop it, if you're confused already there is no way in hell you're going to understand the later episodes. |
| That was a really good mindfuck, and so very interesting. |
| Hmm. I'm not sure what exactly to think just yet. A little weird, but I like that. Maybe I'll be able to piece things together better as I go on. |
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| Surprisingly the quality isn't as bad as I expected from a 1998 anime! Maybe it didn't bother me that much because the atmosphere was so good... So was everything that happened in this episode actually just a dream/hallucination that Lain saw during the class? Or was did the action just change from the train to the classroom? If it was real, then the situation in her family is quite sad: mother who doesn't care about her daughter and father who is addicted to computers =/ Anyway, will most likely continue watching this, because I finally started after 3 years of planning :) |
| what i got from that is lain either left her body and went home and crap or she ahd a dream about the future >.> |
| Does anyone else need a doctor to confirm that someone without a head is dead? |
| At first I thought it was interesting. Then the more I thought about it, (when Chisa wrote 'God is here' and when Lain saw her in front of the train) the more creeped out I got...the more I had to finish watching this... |
| Lain has been one of those shows that I've known for a long time, but never got around to watching it. One of my friends from middle school had this on VHS and he was telling me how good it was. I just finished college and someone was telling me about some of their favorite anime and Lain popped up. From what I've seen, this show is very interesting. Lain doesn't seem to talk much and we don't get to hear her thoughts a lot of the time while she just stares at what is happening around her. I kind of like that, it's almost as if we are experiencing what is happening before her personally as well since we don't get her insight on it. I'm glad I gave this show a watch now. Should have watched this on VHS back in middle school lol. |
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| SO MUCH QUESTIONS! Damn that doesn't happen much where I really have a bunch of questions floating in my mind o_O really weird but mysterious start, I like it for a specific reason, it's weird and I like it :D |
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| Her eyes... they're looking into my soul Dx |
| Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.. |
| The title of the first episode explains itself. Not too shabby so far. |
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| Good first episode, I liked it. Very interesting indeed. =p |
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| Damn I always see Stark and OriginANIME on every anime I start. Pretty decent so far. I like the artstyle. |
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| Sorry I just thought this was boring |
| I don't know what's going on xD....hope some episode hooked me up |
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Purplephaze said: Man, I've heard of Lain for a long time now (and also been wanting to watch it for a long time now), and now, I've finally got to watching it after years! =D Anyway, this is a lot like The Matrix, in many ways. Does anyone else get this same feeling? yeah definately the same feeling |
arnxx said: Sorry I just thought this was boring It kind of was. Slightly intriguing though. |
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