Serial Experiments Lain

[Famous Actor]

What is it with trannys loving this anime so much? I never understood it, the message the show gives is pretty anti-trans. And if I’m not mistaken the writer is a right-wing conspiracy theorist.

My guess is that the anime hipsters and skids who were 100% of the fanbase pre-2016 happened to be concentrated in places that were hit really bad by transgenderism in 2016~17.

 

[LOLurtranz]

Present day, present time. Ahahaha

 

[BrunoMattei]

 

[cactus]

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I don't get it.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

I watched this about 20 years ago. I have since forgotten most of the show aside from some key moments, but I did enjoy it at the time ... Though I think that being an "edgy" teenager had something to do with that too. lol.

The theme song is great though. It's so 90's.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I don't get it.

I think it's supposed to be a sort of 90s Nick Live Action style look for the scene where

Spoiler: lain

watches her classmate

 

[Mr.Neutron]

I forgot to add:

>This chick would cut her hair like Lain and declare Lain was her favorite show to masturbate to.

I am ashamed to say I would have fallen into the trap. Good survival skills sir.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Straightest interpretation of the programme:

Lain is a schizophrenic lesbian who got really into tech, then started having delusions over the girl she liked the most in her class and also delusions of grandeur, in thinking there's a massive conspiracy of gangstalkers obsessed with her because she is a Goddess. She got the internet at age 14 and started reading all the /x/ stuff and absorbed it and thought it was all real.

The series ends with Lain in a psychiatric hospital and her still obsessing over Alice.

 

[cactus]

Anyone else happen to watch this on TechTV when it was still a thing?

I think Lain is a created god, like so many people on the Wired started just randomly worshipping this diety they made up online and she became real through belief and she kind of just took on a mind of her own.

 

[Mr.Neutron]

Anyone else happen to watch this on TechTV when it was still a thing?

I think Lain is a created god, like so many people on the Wired started just randomly worshipping this diety they made up online and she became real through belief and she kind of just took on a mind of her own.

That was the idea I think. The computer scientist who sudoku'd himself created the tools to create Lain, who is an amalgamation of conscious thought from input uploaded by users.

He then tries to manipulate her into fulfilling his plans, but it falls apart when she realizes she can choose her own path.

She is very much a God, a personification of everyone's combined experience.

 

[cactus]

That was the idea I think. The computer scientist who sudoku'd himself created the tools to create Lain, who is an amalgamation of conscious thought from input uploaded by users.

He then tries to manipulate her into fulfilling his plans, but it falls apart when she realizes she can choose her own path.

She is very much a God, a personification of everyone's combined experience.

I'm gonna have watch it again, maybe my older brain will be able to pick up on more stuff.

I watched a video on one of the games by Dungeon Chill I think, and it shows another time this kind of thing happened to Lain, before the events of the show (but that computer scientist wasn't involved, it might have been Lain willing herself into a physical body on her own?).

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I watched a video on one of the games by Dungeon Chill I think, and it shows another time this kind of thing happened to Lain, before the events of the show (but that computer scientist wasn't involved, it might have been Lain willing herself into a physical body on her own?).

It's still up in the air if the video game actually leads into the anime itself, though it sounds like they're two different timelines with connecting threads between them. Honestly wouldn't be shocked if there's some quantum theory involved.