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| the lack of sound and the annoying way these characters talk are driving me insane. i'm also getting the feeling this show would have been something i would have enjoyed more when i was an edgy 15 year old. i'll stick with it for now since i've only seen 2 episodes but man i hope this gets better. |
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| Little less confusing than the first episode, but I still understand nothing. |
| came to the forums to figure out whats happening in the show, glad to see im not the only one being confused lmao |
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| I don't think Lain really went to the Party. the way she wanted her dad to set up her computer for her makes me doubt she would go outside after that,it's the internet addicction kicking in. what I think happened to her here was that she couldn't cope with rejecting her friends so she's imagining this scenario on the internet I think. But why are the friends saying the girl looked like Lain? I don't get it.Or it could be the Accela Supplement,anyway it was a very confusing episode. |
| This anime is an absolute fever dream but not necessarily in a bad way- I’ve heard good things about it, so I’ll keep going…. It’s weird, but strangely intriguing. |
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| Lain is the bad guy?.... na i dont think so but interesting. Refered to her as God..... interacting with Real World and the Wired..... what a fever dream this anime is like other posters have said. I like this anime so far... |
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waalex11Jul 25, 2023 1:51 AM
| Definitely some 90s internet talk with some weird scenes that happen suddenly. I’m guessing the dead girl possessed Lain and started to control her |
| rewatching lain and god this episode's climax still gives me chills, still holds up as one of the best episodes of lain |
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| That took an interesting turn, and grim turn real quick. Still loving this so far. |
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| Present day, present time hahahahaha. Another weird but good episode of Lain. |
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| this shit sizzles like a high voltage wire |
| Very eerie and uncomfortable to watch. Can't name shows like this, it's quite unique. Everything is.. off if it makes sense, people don't act like people do, pauses are uncomfortably long. The way Lain looks at people is also yucky, she doesn't even blink. I already watched the show like 15 years ago, don't remember a thing, but so far it's not that hard to understand as people make it... at least to me and now, when I am not 15 yo. Also I don't think everything should be clear from ep.1, it's a mystery that slowly unravels, you don't want to know who's the murderer in mystery novel in the second chapter. You work your way up, collecting the clues and connecting the dots. |
TheMangaManiacAug 25, 2024 1:39 PM
| Lain’s dad creeps me out tbh |
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| really intriguing and creative. i liked her catatonia. |
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| Animation style, especial slowness, lack of music i guesss it should make an atmosphere but unfortunately now it only makes me feel sad lol fine intro tho |
| Ahmm, I have so many questions, that at this point I'm just watching this anime for the vibes, because I have 0 idea what's going on. So far, what I've managed to understand is that the Wired they all talk about must be some online world, that people spend some time off, like Lain's dad suggested last episode. It also explains why Lain's dead friend wanted to meet her in the Wired since it's the only place they could meet again (since apparentaly she's still connected to the Wired). Also, it's clear Lain is hiding her true identity, because she acts like she doesn't know about Wired, but she clearly knew what it was last episode. Also, she really wanted for her father to set up the PC, for a good it might be. It also seems like Lain is important in this Wired, related to some kind of "God", which I suppose might be a cult. It seems this "God" has a lot of power in the Wired, and is blackmailing people into doing things in the real world, like the guy that shot those 2 girls, for some reason. And that same guy recognized Lain, saying she can no longer make him do stuf if it's in the real world, to which she replies "We are all connected", and then the guy kills himself. Also, her way of being completelly changed that moment. This might explain why her friends saw "her" the day before, maybe it really was a version of Lain. The opening highly suggests that Lain is trapped/part of this Wired dimension, and that she's an important character there. I don't know what Lain is plotting behind our back, but it's not something good, since it seems she's getting visits by the blue eyed guy and that girl with the creepy faced that got hit by the train last episode, that appeared as a hallucination this episode. Lain's sister seems to be the only one to suspect and care to what Lain is doing, although we still don't know what Lain is doing. This anime is so confusing and creepy, that you end up kinda wanting to watch it more to see if you can start understanding whatever is happening. Also, hearing the opening for the 2nd time, and the song really is good, and it's by a english band, I wasn't expecting that. Anime from 90s were crazy. More important question: how were 14 year old girls entering the club? I don't know how things were in 1998, but it's kinda crazy Lain is just chillin' at the club. Also, what was that drug about? Is it going to be important in the future? |
PokefanPTFeb 25, 2025 2:55 PM
| I would be lying if i said i understood what was going on... |
| This episode was way better than episode 1. I thought that episode was too slow and stuff. I really liked how the other schoolgirls came back into the picture. The reading of the text off the screen was annoying at the start, but now that I'm getting kinda into it I don't mind it so much. This episode has people doing things instead of things just happening. It was really annoying how hard the first episode was trying to be mysterious, but episode 2 has characters with agency, like girls who want to go to a club or a mom who wants her daughter to clean. It's not just Lain being delirious for 5 minutes, but she was actually just sitting at her desk. More importantly Lain actually does stuff like ask questions and have a small moment with her dad, where she's excited for him to setup her new computer. I like that Lain started to actually seems to care and think on her own in this episode. The animation was better in this episode. The first episode the animation looked really flat and boring like they just didn't have the money. But this episode the animation felt not just cheap, but intentionally simplistic. It made the complicated drawings, like the man in the street watching Lain, stand out and be more impactful. The contrast between complicated and simple drawings makes it feel like there's some meaning to the simpler drawings, but I'm not sure yet (maybe the innocence of not knowing the mystery). The drawings also had interesting angles, and I like the way objects are drawn into the whitespace, like Lain's front door. The dude buying drugs and the club scenes were really good. I like the part about Lain's doppelganger it was really interesting. I can't wait to see where it goes! |
| This is Deepy, Signing off! |
| More engaging than the first episode. Structures are being developed. |
| The narrative structure of this episode was a bit more comprehensible. The girls who invited Lain to Cyberia were written with some finesse too; they could've easily been written as archetypical bullies if the series wanted to take a more uninspired approach. Instead, without sacrificing their outgoing, headstrong personalities that clearly still contrast with Lain's, they're actually amiable enough — the "peer pressure" factor comes across as being simply another inadvertent, yet classic aspect of adolescent socialisation. |
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