I’m 5 episodes in and don’t understand what the fuck is going on does this shit start making sense soon?
Serial Experiments Lain
Zachary Baker
Carson Roberts
The latter episodes turn into an info dump about what's happening, but it still won't make sense the first time through.
Mason Ross
The plot of SEL won't make sense to you until you get to the last episode, and even then some of the episodes aren't really about the plot, they're just their to explore concepts and raise questions.
Nicholas Moore
>he doesn't understand
Cooper Baker
Alright so I’m not suppose to know what’s going on yet got it I thought I was missing something
Explain
Tyler Russell
Don't think, feel
John Williams
what a shame...
But yeah you're fine, at that point in the anime Lain herself doesn't even understand what's going on yet.
Landon Gonzalez
It's normal, just watch until the end and the fog will clear just a little bit, you will get something out of this show, it just varies from person to person.
Josiah Adams
Kevin Hill
There's threads that the author writes in the first few chapters that never go anywhere, and there is no conclusion, just someone hitting the reset button. The author gets so lost with their own story, one entire chapter is just two people expositing at each other.
It has computer fetishism and Murata's lolis-are-sexy character design, so of fucking course Yea Forums is all over it like a bad rash.
Eli Murphy
Let's all love Lain
Asher Carter
This
Jace Wilson
No. It's pretentious 2deep4u crap that only literal teens think is good. If you want the true Abe anime watch Texhnolyze.
Cooper Wilson
Born to feel...
Caleb Lewis
>Mistaking ABe for Murata
Jackson Bennett
Watch it for the atmosphere, don't pretend it makes any sense. Its just a bunch of vague ideas and things that just kinda happen
Hunter Wright
Somebody post the picture.
William Parker
That's what I thought when I first watched it, when I was 17.
Kevin Fisher
explain the alien
Henry Rivera
Boring as fuck
Robert Ramirez
This. Never got the love for Lain. It's a convoluted mess of a show. While Texhnolyze is dreary, it has a tangible story and point to it.
Landon Sullivan
Multiple possible explanations. Maybe it's how Lain's wired persona looks to people who have never interacted with an AI. Maybe it's a visual pun on alienation. Maybe it's a red herring that Konaka threw in just because The X-Files was at the height of its popularity at the time.
Kayden Sullivan
Those "maybe"s is why I don't consider the show worth speculating over in the first place, expect for maybe the few that genuinely just want to obsess over the show
Carter Martinez
You are not the target audience. Lain is basically an exploration of what kinds of stories you can still write when you forgo all certainty or final explanations.
David Young
You don't get it. The creator knew you'd be too dumb to get it so the OP mocks the fact that you don't get it.
Levi Ramirez
Look buddy, I'm not going to hold your hand like a child so you can get this. If it's too hard for you to understand, then that's okay. I know some battle shounen that might be more your speed.
Jason Jones
I know it's an old show, but I'm still waiting for someone to write a good essay arguing that Lain (the anime version) is based on Neoplatonic metaphysics, because I'm pretty sure you could argue that Lain represents a pure first principle who's simple, immaterial, and simultaneously omniscient without being corrupted by matter, and that Eiri represents a second principle that acts as a creative force within the material world...
Ian Lopez
This show is supposed to be like that.
There is the wired and it's basically the internet. More and more computers are connected. Eventually there are more computers than nerves cells in a human brain. The network is able to become self aware, it eventually happens and Lain is born. Lain is also god for some reason.
Lain can't handle the loneliness and so she turns herself into a little girl and wipes her memories. She messes up and the girl ends up with split personality and hallucinations. Shes also autistic and slow.
Jaxon Smith
>Lain is also god for some reason.
Lain is the interpersonal communication between people. Lain always was before the Wired, but she did not exist as Lain until Eri created her a body and put her in it, in order for her to learn human emotions and thinking in order to properly manage the Wired. This primordial part of mass human unconsciousness is Lain, being more than a simple Goddess of the Wired, a literal deus ex machina, but also something more primal and simple as the very essence of human connection.
Lain is also pure sex.
Nicholas Russell
>Lain is the interpersonal communication
This is where I think most people get confused - Lain herself is not god, she is but a manifestation of the godhead in different forms - and the form that Eiri sets in motion is a corrupt form that ultimately collapses when faced with the real thing. There is a shared consciousness (the true Wired, the one that the KIDS system tapped into, not the physical proto-internet), but that's something more like the World Soul from Plato's Timaeus, and it comes about as a result of the actions of higher principles.
Angel Watson
>Lain is also pure sex.
Wrong.
Carson Nelson
user, you do not understand how badly I want to physically love Lain.
David Baker
Lain is for hugs not fugs
Carter Cruz
Lain is a poorshit that doesnt have any flatscreen monitors
Samuel Long
>poorshit
Not with the electric bill that house gets every month
Hunter Lopez
Lain is for hugfugging.
Easton Smith
>hugfugging
Thats way too lewd to talk about on this imageboard and you know it. Stop you degenerate.
Bentley Ross
let's all love Lain
Wyatt Peterson
t. dishonest man
Lincoln Rivera
I feel, but i feel dead inside
Landon Cox
nonce detected
John Taylor
someone didn't get it
James Jones
A shame you seemed an honest man
Luke King
>Human communication personified is autistic
checks out
Nathan Fisher
Juan Parker
Just enjoy the ride, brah. It only gets more weird.
Daniel Rivera