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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. |
| I've been meaning to watch this for a while now. I'm a huge, HUGE fan of Haibane Renmei and Welcome to the NHK, so I'm hoping this won't disappoint. So far, very mysterious and surreal. I can't wait for things to pan out. Morbid topics like suicide from the start gets me interested. |
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| I could've sworn I never heard about this series until recently, and had a case of deja vu when I saw Lain in that bear suit. Then somehow I recalled a lost memory that I actually watched bits of this show like 10 years ago when it was airing on Tech TV. I'm feeling weird in more ways than one after this first episode... |
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| So I've watched this first episode and i can only say that the definition of weird is now on a whole new level. But that's a good thing. This show was made in the 1998. And the art is pretty damn good for those times. This show might be a good brain-polisher :P |
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| That onesie looked good on Lain. Well... I guess this anime will be a real mindblower... |
Stark700 said: The title of the first episode explains itself. Not too shabby so far. |
 "And if, there were so many people in the world, there had to be someone living an interesting life that wasn't ordinary. I was sure of it. Why wasn't that person me?" - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part V [/center] |
| I went into Lain expecting something strange, but this was way weirder than what I was prepared for. Creepy, too... Not sure if this is something I will like, but I am definitely intrigued. I can already see how this is going to be existentialism all over the place, thanks to the sole existence of the "Wired". Or it’ll just get way weirder, which is what’s probably going to happen. :D |
| That was a good first episode. Lain really is shy, and the whole navi system is interesting too |
| Weird, i wonder about the bit that said that god is in the net. |
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| Been meaning to watch this for years! The episode was quite good, however i was completely mindfucked a majority of the time :) |
| This is one weird anime o.O |
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| what a grim world lain sees with her eyes.. it may be too soon to make comparisons, but tecnology in this first episode reminded me a bit of the feel in dennou coil |
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| I'm re-watching this, and I will be leaving what I think some things means in these chapters This is the first episode, lain a shy girl suddenly start to feel something weird, she starts to notice the wired after getting a mail from the girl who suicide in the first scene. We don't know yet why did she commit suicide but its implied that she started to disconnect from the real world and wanted to stay in the wired ("I dont need to stay in a place like this"). Chisa also mentions something about a god which will be relevant in future chapters. Lain start to get curious about the wired and ask her dad to buy her a new Navi, probably because the old one limit how much she can do to communicate with chisa. Now comes the mindfucking scene that some people don't understand... Lain was in the train and suddenly the train stops, she sees blood in the wires outside and the scene change to the streets and then to another different scenarios where she usually walks home, she see what happened in the rails, there was a girl and watch her dying, after all that she wakes up in her classroom all sweaty and nervous. I think she never left the classroom but that wasn't a dream, she was connected to the wired and she was watching what happened to the girl in the rails. after all that she sees chisa in her way home through the wired and that's the end of the episode.. |
| なんとかなる |
| What the **** just happened? First episode seems promising, I'm hoping this isn't gonna be one of those anime that lets the viewer figure things out. |
| I love stuff like this. Don't know why I've been putting this off so long when I love Texhnolyze and liked Haibane Renmei. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| Wow... not one word wasted. This show has atmosphere. |
| Well,that was weird... But i liked it. |
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