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I've found a very decent review
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnime/comments/42p15p/what_flcl_means_for_me/
According to this, FLCL is an "anti-coming of age story", because it dares to question what adulthood even means.
If you think about it, in the anime, adults behave like children, and children strive to "do adults".
Of course all the anime is told under the perspective a twelve years old boy, but the ending is very symbolic:

Haruko: I lost him again because of you, Ta-kun, we couldn't pull it off. You wanna come along? [pauses] Know what? Forget it. 'Cause you're still a kid, Ta-kun. Save it for next time.

They're just children, and children should only strive to do children.

Yeah, I can see from your favorites that Gainax and Trigger, among some others, are surely your favorite studios. I still can't believe that Lain is only the sixth favorite anime in your list. I guess the other ones resonate with you better. Personally I don't like TTGL that much, maybe it is because I got tired of all its dick jokes. I can see why some people consider it superior to Evangelion, expecially for its cast. I'll try to give KLK another chance soon, since it will be dubbed in italian XD I have already seen the first 3 episodes, but it didn't really resonate with me that much. Speaking about KyoAni, I am not a huge fan, but I will surely give Violet Evergarden a shot. I am currently rewatching FLCL. Well, I can see it is the classic "Journey to maturity", but still I feel that I am loosing so many metaphors and references along the way, maybe primarily because I am not japanese. I'll also try that April Fools' soon

You didn't like much Texhnolyze and FLCL, did you? I think they're both pretty symbolic anime, even if the latter one is way more cartoonish

I see. It's ridiculous how many obscure points there are in this anime.

I am here again! Sorry :P

I just realized that by the time "Lain" kills Karl and the other buddy the Knights were already dead.
Was that anti-Lain or Lain of the Werid being mad, like with the gunman?

I don't know if you are used to 4chan's structure.
There were some pretty good threads, some weeks ago.
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/169440547
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/169471275
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/169757879

There was a pretty good theory on 4chan about Lain being some sort of "terminal" and not the full CU.

>Think of it like this, the world exists as so because everyone perceives it as so. But what if you took the link of everyone's perception and handed it to single human who would embody a sort of master control of all perception?She could control everyone's perception, and her own perception could collectively control reality.

>So by making human lain and having her recursively link herself back into the wired by dissolving all sense of self (Professor Lilly - isolation tank), everyone would be forced to perceive reality like the wired. Eiri was master of the protocol, so in that state of existence he would be god and Lain would simply be the world as she would have suffered total ego death.

> I think they're just meant to be an example of Lain seeing "dead people's information leaking out of the Wired

I love your theories, they always sound so convincing XD

First, I thought people who die in the real world are "lost" forever even in the Collective Unconscious of the Earth.
That's why Lain told at the "snapshot of Eiri" that without a body he could not have understood.

But in the end, Lain re-creates the original Eiri, so it appears that when people die they come back in the CU.
The Eiri who's taunting Lain from the Wired would be just a false image of the original Eiri.
Maybe I've got it all wrong XD

If only we could get that scenario of Lain translated!

I always thought that scene with young Lain talking to the random figures was meant to represent the first meeting between Lain and Eiri.

What is the first most confusing line of SEL to you?

>Eventually having Mika's consciousness lost and replaced by a shamble of her former self that can only mumble computational gibberish, and this psychological damage to someone she cares about causes an adverse reaction within Lain’s emotional state.

https://i.imgur.com/nWyG7FT.jpg
What does she mean here?
Also, it's the same image of Lain Mika saw in the street

> If Lain does change Arisu's age then it's possible that was kind of a parting gift as Lain finally managing to do something nice for her, who knows.

That'd still have been abusing her powers.
Like with the natural Iwakura family (Yasuo+Miho+Mika), I think Lain reset to the timeline where she never entered physical reality (Aka IPv7 does not exist). So the final scene is just after a timeskip.

https://i.imgur.com/mQf9aVu.jpg
He thinks Lain is the scattered god's messenger...I believe, when in reality it's the opposite

Yeah, the english version seems so. In the italian version he says: "I don't know anything about it... With your absurd God"
So he's clearly talking about Eiri.

Speaking about the gunman, again, he recognizes Lain as the "scattered Deity of the Wired", who, allegedly , ordered him to kill those two at Cyberia. Is this the effect of the Knights/Accela? Anti-Lain was made after ep 2, the Lain of the Cyberia was just an "image" of the Lain of the Wired.

Speaking about Cyberia, they're gonna open a Club, called Cyberia, for the 20th Lain's anniversary.

https://twitter.com/teodoro_m9/status/973895465971232768

>B: Lain resets the world to how she thinks it should be and places her family together despite them not previously being family

Speaking of which, according an old theory an anon posted on 4chan last week, it seems that Lain changed Arisu's age in order to ship her with her teacher.
But maybe, that last scene is after a timeskip

She isn't explicitly shown, but I guess she's there...Also Yasuo remembers Lain while he's eating Natto (~Madeleine)