The show is about a little unemotional 14-year-old girl named Lain. I was pleased with the autism of the character since I haven't seen any anime with autistic characters and I am also autistic. And the show begins well, but began to stumble during episode 3 and picked back up at 5, but then gone downhill towards the end at episode 8 and I decided to stop watching it at nine. It was very confusing and random.
Lain's character change from a shy girl to an obsessive secretive girl was annoying. I also didn't care much for her love interest, Arisu.
Some of the dialogue can be talky and the characters may seem interesting as well as the story at the start but none of them were very appealing as the show went on, which is hard to do once a show approaches its end.
I liked the English dub better, the voice actors for Japanese were okay, the girl who voiced Lain was around 14 or 15 at the time. While the intro and the music is nice, the music for the ending theme didn't seem very fitting.
The art had some problems here and there.
I first heard of Lain at 15 and I was a little bit skeptical about it but decided to try it anyway since Evangelion had an interesting story and premise but didn't quite reach its potential. I was hoping it wouldn't be as bad as Evangelion but it is anyway, just like Evangelion, it stumbled during the last 6 episodes.
