I haven't seen Lain in like a decade. The theme got stuck in my head and I finally started watching it again. It's both oddly dated and timely as hell.
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Aiden White
I forgot how much of a horror and ghost story the thing is. It's as much horror as it is sci-fi and cyberpunk.
Robert Flores
Also there's a fucking Minecraft level in it. Okay. More of some kinda dungeon crawler, but I can't help but laugh at the idea of complaining about grade school kids getting hooked on some online game that looks like this. Plus there is a bit of a Battle Royale element to one of the other games with kids hunting each other.
Leo White
I love Lain.
Kayden Walker
>minecraft
I love lain but stop being a shit
Julian Phillips
Let's all love Lain.
Thomas Johnson
90s 3D games in Japan had those elements, it's pretty interesting for a glimpse at a bygone era
Logan Sanders
When I first saw it, I probably thought of Quake 1 with those textures. Even in like 2001 or 2002 those graphics weren't that dated. Now stuff like Minecraft tries to be "retro" and kids today somehow like that look.
Hunter Hughes
90s games in America did too. Though I was more into fps games than RPG stuff like Evercrack.
Julian Ross
Not really, people like it cause it's a timeless sandbox, similar to gmod
Jason Anderson
Speaking of CG, this is some Berserk 2016 shit right here.
Heh. I almost feel bad for finding shit like that cutting edge back in the day. Though this whole series seems pretty budget, so I find it kinda quaint. For a weird slice of life / cyberpunk / horror anime in the late 90s, this was pretty well done. I don't know if it aged well or if I have some nostalgia for anime of the time. Though even for its time it wasn't a high budget show.
Ryan Hall
>gmod
Andrew Gray
I like the show and I also like how it inspired the creation of the imageboard Lainchan.
It is definitely a must watch. I also am trying to learn more about the PS2 game based upon it.
Jordan Wilson
>I can't help but laugh at the idea of complaining about grade school kids getting hooked on some online game that looks like this
I don't think you understand how popular the Wizardry series was at the time
Games like Etrian Odyssy and Mystery Dungeon are still imitating it to this day
Jacob Gutierrez
The tech is near future... so it's like a speculated present. It's oddly not far off. They have teens being hooked to their mobile devices and being absorbed in their online status. The tech just looks slightly different. They have side tablets with stylus touch instead of pure touch screens. Given what was big in development at the time, I'm not surprised they had that. A friend of mine at the anime club we showed it at had an ASUS tablet. A friend who was an artist had a tablet that hooked up to his monitor.
Isaiah Thomas
Hey! Did you know that Lain is steampunk?
Zachary Thomas
Big deal, she's on the internet. Yuck.
Gavin Jones
It is timeless though, like touhou
Alexander Morris
Amazing how some photos and some Photoshop filters seemed cutting edge in the 90s.
Colton Davis
dude electric wires humming
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Jayden Clark
>" The Wired is full of nonsense-spouting anarchists and idiots who think pranks are a revolution."
Wow. Lain sure had user's number, even before user was a thing.
Dominic Allen
phantasy star was one of the first to have dungeons laid out like this in first person iirc. And because it came out in the late 80s it was super impressive for the time
Samuel Lee
I confess I was blown away when my uncle let me on his PC to play Wolfenstein 3-D. I was used to side scrolling stuff on my NES.
Caleb Sullivan
>but I can't help but laugh at the idea of complaining about grade school kids getting hooked on some online game that looks like this
You're forgetting one thing user. Present Time (heh). Present Day AHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Josiah Howard
Biggest thing Lain got wrong is how the online and offline selves for a lot of people have merged into one in the era of social media. The anonymity depicted in Lain is dying out outside of a couple hold outs like Yea Forums.
Connor Martin
or have people's horrible online selves just replaced their fleshy human selves?
Dylan Rodriguez
Michael Morris
What was lain even about? What was going on? Why did Taro leave his gum in her mouth?
Jack Wilson
[*distant AYYYY LMAFOing*]
Wyatt Hall
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Luke Long
and then Lain was an episode of X-Files
Aiden Carter
now literally ECCO the dolphin
Eli Miller
So you're saying you wouldn't stick your tongue in the mouth of a Japanese schoolgirl?
Kevin Cooper
now literally an Apple ad in the middle of a clipshow
Carson Richardson
The shit about Protocol 7 reminds me of all the conspiracy shit about 5G Networks going up.
Henry Bennett
tfw it's almost 4am and you're up rewatching lain
Andrew Jackson
Lains absent stare is a great way to extend the playtime of each episode.
Nolan Gonzalez
Anime truely is an artform.... an art of making the tiny budget last a whole episode.
Carson Martin
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