Serial Experiments Lain

8.11Finished Airing1 watching here

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I doubt anyone will ever succeed, however.
Is it something to do with the obvious reference to the thing that plays at the beginning of every episode? "NOT FOR PRESENT DAY... PRESENT TIME!"

Reviews good. But i thought the message was pretty straight forward in the anime, but you gotta pay attention to it all very closely or else you might miss it, specifically the first episode and the last 2 episodes.
Alienation, depersonalization, societal disconnect, meaninglessness of the message(or philosophy in general) and suicide. The message is in how it makes you feel and how the events relate to you.

6 months later

I rather like Lain but I don't disagree with your observations and analysts. I really enjoy your reviews, sorry to bump your thread. I just wanted to get the point across that even you just not being afraid to speak your mind from a somewhat subjective and objective standpoint I really respect that. It makes me want to read through your other reviews even more . I should confess though I still say PRESENT DAY PRESENT TIME HAHAHA quite regularly tbqh.

4 months later
3 months later

What was it like, watching SEL in the 90s? Being a 2000s kid I kind of missed the boat on that.

None_At_All wrote

Huh, I guess I'll have to lower my expectations for this anime, then.

No. You don't have to lower your expectation. Just don't forget that SEL is not anime for mainstream audience.

a month later
bpseudopod wrote

What was it like, watching SEL in the 90s? Being a 2000s kid I kind of missed the boat on that.

I'd imagine it was like being an explorer in 15th century. It must've been really cool then, but being born in the age where everything on Earth apart from the depths of the oceans has been explored, we kinda missed the boat on that as well. Nothing we can do.

bpseudopod wrote

What was it like, watching SEL in the 90s? Being a 2000s kid I kind of missed the boat on that.

I'd wager that it was roughly the same experience as watching it now, except we might be able to relate to the setting more since we live in a world where the internet and reality and now very deeply intertwined. I do like that it was originally aired at 1:15 in the morning since I couldn't think up a more perfect environment for viewing SEL than being alone during the wee hours of the morning with nothing but the pale glow of the television as a source of light.