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| This series is a 12 episode anime adaptation of Sonata Arctica's song "Blank File." |
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| Lain has superpower |
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| This is some deep deep stuff, I can't say much more till I fully understand whats actually going on |
| Seems there are multiple Lains (omnipresent?) and the world is actually digital. Interesting... |
  "...fatih, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love." "I began to trust the world [...] to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want." |
| This anime seems to have a bit of a transhumanist feel to it. I feel like the conversation between lain and her father summed it up best, lain is slowly losing her perception of reality because of her interactions in wired. That final scene wasn't what actually happens. When her friends commented on the fact that they thought her personality is changing it is probably because her online persona is blending with her real-life persona. It's similar to perfect blue in that regard. |
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| Still dont really understand it. It seems like she is trying to cross over to the wired permanantly for some reason..... and it looks like she is involved with the suicides..... |
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| Real life and internet have already blended together. People even killing themselves over it. |
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| This episode is called Religion. So it seems that Lain follows the Weird as some sort of religious practice. By doing so, she isolates herself from the real world (friends and family). Quite funny cause this show mirrors our world today (despite it airing in the 90s), and it will only get worse. Her new changing personality is getting interesting. |
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| The OP is so good. And really liking the story so far, kinda reminds me of David Lynch and the blurred lines between what is real and what is fantasy/illusion/digital (in this case). |
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| Lain is becoming more corrupted by this Wired thing. Devices, computers everywhere in her room. And it seems Lain has different personalities, not just 2 but probably more perhaps? I'm starting to know what's going on but there's still some confusing stuff that me mind can't comprehend lol but there's still a lot to discover so. |
| So lain has powers now,her parents know wht is going on....wired is some kind of matrix simulation....lain is changing...onto the next one. |
| Damn Lain got so tech-savvy so quick( her other persona ofc)and she can use telekinesis now. Those men in black suits are probably the government's secret agents and they're after Lain cause she's able to exist in the real world and the Wired. Lain's motives for all this remain unknown. The Phantoma part was confusing.How did the kid enter the game(or was it just an illusion). The real and tbe virtual worlds are merging now and I'm utterly stumped. |
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| I really love psychological anime series but the thing is. this genre really fucks your brain up, like even right now im really intrigued but dont understand anything.. like how did lain get a supernatural powers?? just what is this wired thing?? I thought it's just internet?? |
| Definitely glad this isn't airing right now or something, I can't imagine how much harder it'd be to follow only getting to see one episode a week Alls I can really gather is Lain is changing, has supernatural powers, her parents know what's going on and there's two creepy guys stalking her house? Don't understand the bit with the little girl or that maze thing at all though |
| So she didn't mean it metaphorically |
| هیچوقت بهتر نمیشه |
| Her personality changed or are there's 2 Lain? What exactly is the Wired and that "kid" is not a kid? I'm looking forward for these to be explained later |
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| The fact that this show predicted so much in just this episode alone is outstanding |
znjsensejAug 1, 2022 2:10 PM
| GOTCHA I like how Lain just puts one of your common household fans in front of her computer to cool it down. She's going to need a lot more than fan to cool it down once she goes VR MODE or heck even becomes ONE WITH THE WEB. No amount of water cooling is going to be able to handle the power of Lain While it certainly has its fair share of mind-f*ckery that typically accompanies your so-called 'elitist' (for lack of a better term) titles, I still find it more accessible than Texhnolyze which I finished recently. Perhaps having more of a school setting makes it easier to get into rather than some dark depressing dystopian underground city. Or maybe it's because I had to watch it in the odd resolution of 474p in all of its grainy-effects glory, while I fortunately have been able to watch Lain in a certainly more acceptable resolution of 1080p. Honestly didn't expect the process of Lain assimilating into the internet to go this fast. We're already making major strides in that regard. And then meanwhile we see the dad checking up on Lain, clearly seeing her begin her descent into utter madness, and pretty much just go "eh, whatever I guess" |
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| I wouldn't mind lain haunting me. She do be looking erotic with that one piece on tho nochomo. |
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| though im wondering where lain got all those extra pc parts, monitors and the pipe thingies |
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| that was the best episode so far for me |
| Don't do drugs, kids. I hope the creator recovered and now lives a better life... |
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| Lain's acting completely different throughout the whole episode. What the fuck is going on? |
| So she's going by an adult when she's gathering information. I guess in the end she hacked those guys eye laser and made them go away. Also her dad knows she's beyond recovery. Internet addiction at it's finest. |
| It's intereseting how a 1998 show foreshadowed our actual reality... I mean, not all the NAVI sci-fi stuff, but the metaphorical connections between all of us. It's intriguing how the plot is developing; I'll assume that Lain suffers from schizofrenia (I hypotyze that by seeing how everyone saw another person with Lain's aesthetic but another personality) |
| i like her computer 😏 , i like her code 😏 ; when the outro music starts playing it reminds me of the song Lithum Flower from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex |
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