Serial Experiments: Lain

The first episode opens with the mysterious suicide of a high-school girl, chisa yomoda. chisa was a classmate of lain iwakura, a quiet, 14-year-old high-school girl. one of the other girls in the class has been receiving e-mail messages from the recently deceased chisa-chan, and lain discovers she also has mail from chisa.

( Chisa )

( From one world.....to the next...............do you believe? )

In the mail she explains lain that she just abandoned her flesh. She assures lain that she still is alive in the 'wired' (which is believed to be a higher state of being, a place where you can live forever almost as a flow of data) *You live in a world parallel to "the" world.

( Lain in the wired )

After getting a new "Navi' ( it's a type of smart-computer) and adding a 'psyche' circuit, (which lets her engage into the "wired") lain spends more and more time in the wired.

( I wish I had all that stuff. O_o )

To add one more twist to the storyline, it seems that Lain has at least 2 personalities, and Lain's first personality is even changing....
She is slowly becoming ruler of the wired...in which she was pre-determined to be....or has already been....

One personality is completely cut off from the other one, so she does not even realize the change in behaviour to a complete extent. One personality did not have a clue how to use a "Navi", and was a quiet loner-like girl. The other one is a club-hopping trance DJ, with an attitude. See the similarities.....I sure don't....

Sooooo...to simply put it.....Lain is a messed up Anime. Can't really be categorized. I watched the first episode and being the type of guy I am...completely enjoyed it! It is so unbelievably unique. Some people might say that this somehow relates to the matrix or some crap like that, but that's only the people who haven't seen much of Lain. It actually made me feel weird when I watched it. The more I watched, the more that I questioned my life and all the things around me.

I was impressed with its willingness to question the meaning of contemporary life, because it depicted the development of the computer and the ways in which real people live. The questions this work brings up are extremely deep."

As an anime lover I enjoyed this series so much, its one of those, "I'm so gonna watch it again!" But for the anime newbies, I think this series may turn some people off, mostly because they won't give it a chance. Also the fact that most people think of anime as, pornographic, or blood and gore...=\

Serial Experiments Lain is a top 5 choice of my favorite anime's, and I suggest any open minded, philosophical person to check it out!

~Jake0bus_

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2002