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Recommended, with some caveats and surely not for everyone, but for those that like it, it'll be a nice relaxing anime.

An important consideration is that one of the main reasons I liked this anime, if not the main reason, was the PT-BR dub, which was really well made.

Overall, and giving a very simplified review, it's a simple, chill and shallow-plotted anime. Battles are lacking, plot is very... eh, shallow and with many holes, really; but wholesome and has great, great PT-BR dub.
It rarely ever swings into ecchi, so it's also safe to watch with children in my point of view.

Besides being obviously outdated, which can't be helped, it feels weak even accounting for that.
It could be nice for an easily impressed kid that loves space exploration, but then the manga format and the length doesn't help much on it being lively for anyone younger than your grandpa.

Manga is well-illustrated and printed in excellent paper (newpop prime PT-BR), and can be a window to the past regarding art style and what people of that time expected for the future. So it could actually be used in art studies/references in some very specific cases.
"Battles" feels off and dead, it doesn't capture the movements too well.
Character ... proportions are off-putting and not constant, to say the least. Sometimes they're ok, in other's a captain has a head-to-body proportion of a young child. I'm not sure if in a particular scene it was on purpose or not, but I imagine it makes more sense just being a mistake.
Plot is weak, which is understandable since the original was a tv show and it focused on action and speech, which weren't properly made impactful in the manga.
Translation was ok, but feels like source material was weak.
Immersion is broken by mixing different units, authors not knowing that in a tridimensional space you need two angles and one distance, extremely generic names for places and technologies (which is a residual from an tv show, understandable).

So not recommended, unless it's a gift for someone that already watched on TV and you want to gift it out of their nostalgia...

Review based on newpop prime's version in Brazilian-portuguese.

So, let me try make this spoiler free.

Serial Experiments Lain doesn't quite follow a pattern, it quite doesn't follow a linear plot, yet it doesn't go back much. It has a unique feeling to it, something that I hardly find in modern animes or any art forms. You can think of it alike Angel's Egg, but even more surreal and subtle, or a trippier version of a Satoshi-Kon's work.
About the content of the plot, it's still relevant up to today, maybe even more so given how the boundaries between real world and the internet are pretty thin.

The characters are puzzling, the designs are simple, and ... exactly because of that they manage to be impactful. The focus is on other body cues, or even lifeless stares, voice tones, emotions and much more. Some are easy to understand, others will invite you to decrypt them. Here the eyes speak louder than voices.

The music is unique on it's own, and fits perfectly into the scenes, gives depth to the whole situation, emphasizing on the character's feelings, or lack thereof.

While I don't like some pseudo-scientific information having been thrown here and there to make some things sound cult or logic, it's understandable. Nothing that ruins it even for a skeptic.

While it's not perfect, and even has enough flaws for me to not rank it 10, there's the most important factor, which from the combination of what I said above: Serial Experiments Lain is unique and impactful.
And you just might remember it for many years or even the rest of your life.

Not bad IMO. Could be better, sure, but I think it's still worth it, if you prefer one shot mangas and aren't petty due to some flaws.

My worst complaint is about the fight scenes in two chapters, it's hard to understand the flow, and doesn't feel impactful. The stories also could use more content to be less shallow, but again, are a good pastimes. Just don't have a lot of expectations when reading it.

Content-wise about 7/10, cover and pages 7.5/10, published by JBC, 4.1/5 in amazon brazil. I'd suggest it for one shot manga fans while it's 25 reais or lower.

First of all, I don't consider the anime bad, or to be taken seriously, but it's worst compared to the other series available on the same genre. Sure, you might enjoy this, but I'd much more recommend other titles.

Overall "plot" doesn't need to exist in slice of life. Granted. But some things really get stale after a couple of episodes, hence it could use more depth. Some things don't add value to the anime in any way, and backgrounds are very lacking. Sonya being an assassin doesn't add anything beyond the fact itself, she could be a grumpy clown with knifes and nothing would change. ...

Humor gets very predictable not long after watching, and even forced just so you remember there are assassin's and ninjas around. The format of the episodes being divided into three mini-scenarios isn't terrible, it was well done in other works. In a good light, there is no linearity, so you can watch whichever you fancy first.

To sum it up, the humor gets bleak, the structure for the humor gets stale really quickly, having only three characters: one nutter, one "straight man" and a Pandora's box, the latter not being present always. There is a 4th teased in the opening and in early episodes as far as I can tell, and sadly it was hardly used. Not to say that the genre needs a ton of characters to be viable, but being the first slice of life I find boring, there might be a correlation to having only three main characters here.

The ending is really catchy though.

So, I remember some years ago LOVING Hellsing Ultimate. The action, the waiting for what was to come, the soundtrack (well, I still really like the soundtrack, but the original can sound much better in some tracks).

Thing is, yesterday I saw the last episode on a whim while browsing Netflix and... dear imaginary reader, I really didn't enjoy it. Surely I changed a lot over those years (feels like about a decade), but still, I can only share my current opinion and try to explain the overall feeling behind it, hoping it will be useful to others. After all, despite not having many episodes they ... are quite lengthy.

For starters, the character's animation feels wonky and overreacted, despite the overall good looks. I really didn't enjoy seeing them going on, regardless of the kind of scene. It pretty much felt like an overdone animation from the manga. Not to mention it feels unrealistic: there is a scene where a literal normal human be barely fazed by the waste of an eye, only twitching their face a bit.

Secondly, the character's personality is shallow, their dialogue is nonsensical both to the scene and the overall plot. Sometimes a character makes a pseudo-philosophical or even philosophical comment that might be claimed as nonsense in sequence, by a much worst train of thought. That combined with the weird animation makes watching it even worst.

So, that was my re-review of Hellsing Ultimate from only the final episode. It might be less worst on the previous episodes? Maybe, maybe not. I really hope it is better, but I'm not going to try and find out.

Personally, if you enjoy something that has the least good logic behind the plot and ending, I'd stay out of this anime. If you're interested in the soundtrack, give it a try in youtube. It's not like the context of the music will make much of a difference anyway, since context and coherence were thrown in the garbage can.

It can be a good anime to enjoy before sleeping, relaxing to an almost drama-free, slow-paced slice of life anime. However, it ends up having more focus on platonic relationships than it should.

Despite that, the nice and relaxing art ensures it a relaxing quality. Plus the overall behavior of the characters is mostly chill too. It's a shame that, despite the good quality, it didn't sell that well means it will hardly get a second season, tough it will be hopefully used as inspiration for other animes.

Personally, what made me not enjoy it so much was the relationship, specially platonic relationships, through the anime and ... specially frequent in the last episodes. Not that it didn't ruin the mood, but IMO it did lower the quality and purpose of said episodes.

So, TL;DR, it's almost drama free, great for chilling, nice characters and a good pick before sleeping or just after a stressful day.