DO NOT discuss the source material beyond this episode. If you want to discuss future events or theories, please use separate threads.
DO NOT ask where to watch/download this episode or give links to copyrighted, non-fair use material.
DO NOT troll/bait/harass/abuse other users for liking or disliking the series/characters.
DO read the Anime Discussion Rules and Site & Forum Guidelines.
DO NOT ask where to watch/download this episode or give links to copyrighted, non-fair use material.
DO NOT troll/bait/harass/abuse other users for liking or disliking the series/characters.
DO read the Anime Discussion Rules and Site & Forum Guidelines.
 This anime in an image macro. |
ZadionNov 12, 2020 6:32 AM
 ☩ Discord: the.path.to.pathos ☩ RateYourMusic ☩ last.fm |
| Awesome anime, it was a really fun watch, 10/10 Lain is still Lain, she's God now, watches over humanity. Arisu is pretty. |
| Anime is fun. |
| Holy shit was this anime complicated as fuck. I hate finishing something and not completely understanding it so I literally ate the wiki in search of information to understand the anime. After understanding the anime, my point of view changed on it that my rating changed from 7 to a 9. I suggest that if you didn't understand the anime (which is most likely) go read a little on it and your opinion will drastically change |
SouthRzVa said: The dark and oppressive atmosphere was perfectly executed and the fact of this series being so ahead of its time is truly impressive. To think that being able to connect with different people without the necessity of physical closeness as well as having our own separate personas/avatars on a separate plane from our tangible world were already foreseen by a series created when internet was only giving its first steps... This is what shocks me the most about this show, it's date of release considering where internet was at that time, a lot of what this show attempts to take on and portray can be deemed accurate to this day; Struggling with one's identity along with many other challenges society faces psychologically due to the internet. Despite leaning towards the ambiguous side at certain aspects of the story, this series provided a chilling, dark, and mind numbing ride that I won't be able to forget. |
Celest__Jan 22, 2021 3:23 AM
 |
| It felt like a load of nonsense put together. How can she reset everything? is she really a software? what the fuck? I'm lost. |
| This was a very question rising ride till the very end. I'm satisfied by the way it ended but also sad that Lain had to go. It really was an unique anime with phenomenal atmosphere, memorable as hell OP and great pacing at certain parts. Even if it felt very confusing and sometimes there was this feel of not wanting to watching next episode I still have no regrets watching it and making it till the end, even if that took me more than a month to do. I can safely say we won't be seeing anything like this ever again (probably) and this goes on the same tier of confusion like Evangelion. If theres an anime that has similar atmosphere as this I really would like to know and watch it but for now I can this is one of the best Sci-Fi / Supernatural anime out there |
| I don't know what to say, I just felt nothing while watching the whole thing and didn't really care about what exactly happened to lain. oh well... Score: and you don't seem to understand/10 |
| Ok. So honestly,I wasn't able to wrap my mind around this show. After the first 2-3 episodes, I lost track of the show for the entirety of its run. Having said that, I can't really say that I got bored while watching it. Though I think some of the things that were shown were completely unnecessary time-waste , for example the part where the entire history of science and computer is explained or the first half of an episode where an unnecessary recap is shown in the most bizzare way possible.... Anyways, keeping all that aside, the final episode was easily the best episode. Having watched this , I don't regret watching it. Though unlike others I won't give this a perfect score just coz the final episode was great. 6/10. |
 |
| Watching some ep at 3am was not a good idea because I was confused as hell. Other than that it was pretty decent nothing mind blowing |
| If there's a hole there's a goal-Master Oogway |
| It's always frustrating to see anime with great potential with such bad endings. |
| My 14th completed series chronologically. For the record, I extended it a 10/10 rating. |
| Really disappointing the outcome of this anime, but at the very least it was entertaining. |
  |
| In conclusion, Lain is either God or an advanced software :o The ending makes me a bit sad. Lain reset everything and was depressed without a physical body, she eventually becomes a "memory of the future"(?) and regains her physical body. Lain loved Arisu, like in a gay way, but didn't get to end up with her ;( at least they were able to meet again... I will say I have to applaud the creators - this anime came out in 1998 and was way ahead of its time. All the themes are still relevant now. |
| I am still very confused about a lot of things, but I understand the whole picture now, at least. I liked this last episode the best, most of the other episodes made no sense at the time of watching it so I got really bored of this anime and it took me a long time to complete it. I was going to give this a 4/10 but this episode changed my mind. I gave it a 5/10. |
 |
| Reading an analysis for extra input definitely helped me as a guide, but most of my enjoyment actually stemmed from directing and atmosphere. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| A solid anime for sure, like ngl I was fairly confused and lost during the overly surreal parts in the mid but it all came together pretty well as the final episodes played out. I liked the overall character development for Lain & Arisu and the regain of the separated real world and the Wired was also done pretty well. The entire thing did feel like a fever dream lowkey but it was still something that left a pretty strong impression on me for having felt so boring and unnecessarily confusing at times. All in all, I liked it quite a bit, a whole lot more than I thought I was going to so a 10/10 for meee ^_^ P.S. I'd definitely go for a rewatch sometime later after researching some explanation stuff to get the entire thing better. |
MiraseOct 9, 2021 7:24 AM
 |
| Oh well... It either you understood the show and enjoyed it or found it confusing and tedious. Well, I'm the second one. Well, now it's time to search for a full explanation for this series (I just finished watching it. it all makes sense now). Not a bad show, just not my type. |
 Status: On A MAL Break _____________________________________________  ＤＯ ＮＯＴ Ｃʟɪᴄᴋ Ｔʜᴇ Ｌɪɴᴋ Ｂᴇʟᴏᴡ: 👉 ʜᴛᴘs://ᴍʏᴀɴɪᴍᴇʟɪsᴛ.ɴᴇᴛ/ᴅᴏ-ɴᴏᴛ-ᴄʟɪᴄᴋ-ᴛʜɪᴤ-ʟɪɴᴋ 👈 _____________________________________________________ |
| Stupidest anime I've ever seen. Should've quit out after episode 3 or something. If I wanted to solve puzzles I'd play sudoku not watch anime. |
riniraxOct 29, 2021 6:52 AM
 |
| Loved this series. Definitely will rewatch sometime soon, I think it'll have a totally different impact now that scenes from the beginning which were confusing got some kind of explanation on later episodes. |
 |
| loved it, definitely one of my favourite anime. i really like the different themes they talked about, and contrary to some other comments on here i really like that there's much to interpret, but i understand that this anime might not be everyone's cup of tea. i certainly won't be able to stop thinking about lain the next few weeks, the anime really left an impact on me. the last episode was even sadder than the rest of the episode, but tbh i don't see how there could have been a happier ending. like the sad atmosphere though! i'll probably rewatch it some other time, to understand even more. :] 10/10 |
| Took me a while to complete it....so lain is in wired now forever,after resetting it.....it makes sense now what was lain....good show overall. |
| Serial Experiments Lain be like: Internet (Proceeds to harass a character for 3 episodes until they go insane) OMG DATS SO DEEP |
| شقایق، اینجا من، خیلی غریبم |
| That was pretty good. Bittersweet ending ;). 8/10 Could've been a 10/10 but due to my own dumbness and lack of apprehension skills. There were some plotlines I missed or didn't caught on. |
 |
| That was something. Def need to let that marinade in my noggin for awhile before making a final assessment, but I really liked that. I still have a billion questions though. |
 |
| Third time finishing it and it just gets better and better the more you rewatch it |
 |
| This was one of the best things i've seen (well lately i'm watching a lot of things ending up in my faves, very happy about that). usually when i like a series after finishing it i may feel like rewatching some specific scenes and moments, listening the soundatrack or whatever, and if the show isn't totally straight-forward (like it's Lain case, although i think it's BY FAR less confusing than what people make it out to be, but that's typical, Evangelion isn't that complicated either) i may want to rewatch in a not too distant future. In this case i feel the urge to rewatch this immediately after finishing it, thing that i may actually do in some hours or tomorrow, depending on what i have to do 10/10 P.S. Continuing the NGE parallel: People say EoE ending is depressing, then WHAT THE FUCK is this good sir? This was so fucking sad despite the nice music and imagery |
| damn this ending is really sad for lain.. like I know she just came back to where she originally belong but damn.. like she did all of this, for her friend arisu.. and what makes it worse is she erased all of their memory, so it seems like she never existed in the first place.. it's so sad yet so beautiful.. |
| well that was definitely a mindfuck of an anime honestly, I just didn't feel anything for most of the anime, like none of it really made me sad or anything. Just didn't do it for me ig It was kinda boring at times too, and a bit too confusing, but I'm glad I watched it atleast. Overall probably like 5 or 6/10 |
| As the beginning of the opening which says "and you don't seem to understand": they probably predicted that the watchers wouldn't get a single thing of what is going on. I definitely need to rewatch this at some point. So let's just give it a 6 for now. |
| <plot theory> Present day... Present time... Before playing that, "You cannot rewrite the record." "Really?" Lain has been Rewriting the record the entire show. Perhaps this is depicting Lain was always in control from the beginning. The entire show is Lain's own narrative. <> This show was just a foolish depiction on a girl hallucinating normal things and what goes on in the mind. Made in the era were the internet was introduced and could be thought of as a new reality. I may just be to naïve at this time, but I do not see any deep meaning within this show. This just seems like the author took a concept and kept on spitting on it to make it more dense and less understandable, Adding layers to something simple to make it seem complicated and make the viewer feel like an intellectual after watching it. will likely re-watch this properly later and not binge several episodes at 1 AM |
c51Jun 14, 2022 1:30 AM
 |
| So it's kinda funny how watching this anime and finishing it has been a long process... To preface: I knew the intro by Bôa way before knowing what this anime was, and I bonded with a very special person in my life about the intro, which was how I was introduced to the anime. :') Now to talk about episode 13.. I thought the ending was amazing and I really like how Lain erasing herself from everyone's memories wrapped up the whole anime. I think that it also tied into the butterfly effect- where every action has a consequence. Even though the anime isn't based on time travel (where the butterfly effect is mostly used in animes/shows/movies), I think Lain reversing her actions and erasing herself was like a time travel in a way, which I found really fascinating. I wish her and Arisu could've stayed friends :( I've seen a bunch of talk about if lain was a good person or bad and I think she genuinely was a good person who just made mistakes like the rest of the world- which is also kinda funny considering she wasn't suppose to be "real" just a body. But, I think when Lain tried to fix everything for Arisu and then realized her mistakes, erasing herself was how she fixed that. It felt like an act of selflessness in my opinion. I loved this anime so much and I had to give it a 10/10 especially for all the way it can be interpreted!! I <3 Lain :D |
 |
"In The Wired, no matter where you go, everyone's connected." Brilliant Although having poor quality production and a very messed up direction, SEL not only captures the dark sides of the internet but also predicts its potential and harmful effects, from VR glasses, social media growth, hackers, information leaks, blackmail, etc... from the time when the internet was just a concept and no one expected it to be as big as it is today. The psychological aspects are also must to mention, human identity in the age of technology, where personalities in real life and online are mixed lead to the true self being forgotten. SEL also addresses the problem of human insensitivity, the feeling of loneliness and betrayal, not only showing it right, but SEL also shows this very surreal and shockingly. despite the crappy animation duo to the poor quality production, the camera shots and the ambiance sound/music still provoke a trembled creepiness atmosphere. Overall 9/10, an unforgettable experience, a timeless classic that goes ahead of times  |
 |
It never happened if there is no memory of it. |
More topics from this board
Poll: » Serial Experiments Lain Episode 5 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 )aero - Mar 16, 2009 |
194 |
by Serhiyko
»»
Oct 7, 1:39 PM |
|
Poll: » Serial Experiments Lain Episode 9 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 )aero - Mar 16, 2009 |
192 |
by xeter
»»
Sep 13, 10:47 AM |
|
» Serial Experimental LainTorianne - Jan 1, 2016 |
11 |
by Absurdo_N
»»
Sep 1, 5:20 AM |
|
Poll: » Serial Experiments Lain Episode 12 Discussion ( 1 2 3 )cureroyale - Jan 27, 2009 |
142 |
by Erquint
»»
Aug 19, 8:01 PM |
|
Poll: » Serial Experiments Lain Episode 11 Discussion ( 1 2 3 )aero - Mar 16, 2009 |
148 |
by Erquint
»»
Aug 19, 7:23 PM |