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| Better than the first episode but that's not saying much. Lain seriously needs to get some better friends, most of their conversation consist of talking shit about her RIGHT IN front of her. |
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| WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?? Tyestor said: This series is fucking retarded. I second that. |
| Eh I don't like how the tech looks. In the first place, I'm not a tech person. But it can't be helped, it's an old series. Only a year older than me. Man the characters are annoying me already. Lain is always staring at stuff, too. That bothers me, tho she's still better than others. Lol that reminded me that I need to upgrade my pc soon, too. As slow as ever. I just hope I remain interested in it until it gets a bit more exciting. I don't like Lain's friends. The last few seconds were interesting. Also I hate the ED song, the singer sounds dead. |
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| I essentially have no idea what's going on, but the presentation and surreality is strangely attractive. It draws you in somehow. |
| Multiple personality or is Lain a clone? |
 Novels I have read/am reading pending approval: since November 10 2022 |
| Even more freaked out by Lain that's for sure. I'm wandering if it really was her, thou it wouldn't make any sense (is it useful or even possible to talk about sense within this series?) it was her cause i don't think she's dealing with memory loss issues. Still, loved how out of everything she was when compared to her friends, kinda reminds me of myself in a sense. I can't believe the last minutes of this episode, i was like WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?!? MOOOOVE!?!?! i was so worried and having the guy commit suicide was wicked. On to the next one. |
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| Still so many questions but I think I understand more than I did after ep 1. Lain is somehow connected to the Wired and she seems to be unaware of the fact. These Accela pills also are related to the Wired. Maybe it allows you to see how everyone is connected like Lain said at the end of the episode. Lain seems to have two different personalities and may be the same person their friends saw. I'm really interested. I hope I'll be able to understand it without looking it up. |
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| What was I supposed to be doing writing all that? ... Was he "chatting" with "someone" ... maybe with his "imaginary friend"?  Or maybe it was just the computer trying to find Mails. (Although he was heard typing) |
FireCrauterApr 2, 2018 1:25 AM
| Wow what an episode! Lots of mind fuckery. Some of the animation really does remind me of the original Ghost in the Shell. Lain getting that top of the line Navi at that time. It's like getting a GTX 1080ti in current days. It's amazing how technology has evolved in the last 20 years. So now Lain may have unconsciously doing stuff?! Could it be that by the end of this show. She will be the goddess of the net world! Lots of speculations!! Can't wait for the next one! |
| Probably the most weird show i've ever seen and will see... But first i've to finish the season. |
| This episode was so strange and ambiguous that it left me with the intrigue to know what will happen later. This series shows that it will be a bit difficult to understand, but still I will continue to see it. Strangely it catch me. |
| amongst everything, Lain is sure cute in her bear suit. |
| I don't seem to understand this anime, just like the OP song xD Everyone are connected indeed, but he died though.. Does this mean he's still connected like the first episode girl who suicided? |
Rayl1ghtApr 14, 2019 3:49 AM
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| Liking this episode better than the first. Still not sure what is going on, but the wired world seems to have an AI or something that is affecting the real world...maybe? 4/5 |
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| No idea what the f**k is going on still ;w; but sticking with the series in hope of a plot revelation soon. |
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| I.am.so.confused. Lain's eyes were quite creepy. And that guy hiding in the pole is scary. So the girl that looks like Lain, is another person pretending to be her or is it really Lain? Lain's mother and sister are very odd. |
  ★━━─ 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵? 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺? |
| She's being followed by strangers and her first visit to Cyberia was a very unpleasant one indeed but at least she has her own top-of-the-line Navi to enjoy her virtual experience in the Wired even more now. It's really weird how she just casually talked to that guy who's probably mistaken her for her lookalike even when he had a gun pointed at her head like that. It somehow worked though so it's good kek I agree with how strange Lain's mother and sister acts towards her. It's as if they don't want to have anything to do with her most of the time. It's probably because of how aloof she is but they're not helping in improving the situation by doing the exact same thing on purpose. |
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| "No matter where you go, everyone is connected." Disturbingly accurate. Well, things sure didn't take their time in getting confusing already. Still a rather intriguing episode tho. Particularly wondering how relevant this Accela "drug" will be for the plot. Guess by now that Lain has become some sort of "bridge" between the real world and the Wired and that's why those creepy-ass men in suit are following her. Pretty sure she was also at that club the night before but for some reason (her entering the Wired and being a different persona there, maybe?), she can't remember having gone. |
| why so quiet? why so serious? |
| “Life is a constant process of dying.” |
| "HE'S GOT A GUN" ( everyone panics ) Those last few minutes went straight Walmart Avoid-Deny-Defend training. Lain evidently never paid attention despite having to do the training every 3 got dang months. And yeah, I still have no idea what's going on. |
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| I guess Lain is an A.I the on the Internet |
| Anime is fun. |
| This feels like watching some confusing psychological horror, Lain is a very interesting character to follow around but its still so much mysteries surrounding her and Wired Also we all wish we could so easily convince our dad to buy us a new PC like Lain did |
| This series is weird as heck. |
| What the hell is this |
| Lain seems to know more than she's letting on. Or some kind of conscious inside her knows more than she does herself. |
"I wanted you to be Kira." - L Lawliet |
| What the hell is happening? This is so weird and creepy! |
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| Confusing. Well, it's only episode 2, and I don't expect much to be explained. |
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| Well that was a mindfuck and I really feel clueless about what has transpired. Did Lain see another dead student who is connected to the Wired? Lain sounded so robotic when she said "no matter where we go we are all always connected"(she must be connected to the Wired). On a side note, Juri's such a good friend. There was a guy with a gun, but she nevertheless tries to save Lain. |
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| Lack OSTs just make this even more eerie. This one was better than the first episode . That tone change in Lain's voice, holy shit lol. There's definitely something wrong with her. |
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| Bro even I dont understand anything, but damn It's so uncomfortable everytime lains just look at characters and stare at them.. maybe she got some sort of mentall illness?? or those are really ghosts?? |
| I really don't understand anything about this anime, definitely doesn't help I'm watching this at 1am Also so far its really not what I expected when starting this, but not complaining. |
| This looks still weird. I don't understand for what reason did she got the mail in 1st episode. |
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