Anime Serial Experiments Lain

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Overview

Close the World. Open the Next. Decades before the internet was something people carried around in their pockets, these words introduced anime fans to a surreal existence where computer monitors served as portals to brave new worlds. Serial Experiments: Lain and its deceptively "ordinary" title character redefined an entire generation's concept of the world wide web, prompting us all to suspiciously take note of humming power lines and central processing units. Follow along as fourteen year old Lain – driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate – logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches. Close the World. Open the Next. It's as simple as the flip of a switch.

Original Air Dates:
Country: Japan
Genre: Thriller, Anime, Sci-Fi
Network: TV Tokyo
Watched by: 9 302 1 003 472
Total running time: 4 hours 46 minutes
Episode duration:
Episodes: 13
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Episode Guide

13
Ego
28.09.1998
12
Landscape
21.09.1998
11
Infornography
14.09.1998
10
Love
07.09.1998
9
Protocol
31.08.1998
8
Rumors
24.08.1998
7
Society
17.08.1998
6
Kids
10.08.1998
5
Distortion
03.08.1998
4
Religion
27.07.1998
3
Psyche
20.07.1998
2
Girls
13.07.1998
1
Weird
06.07.1998

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28 Aug 2016, 13:56 #
And here I liked the stories about experiments in the past. I still haven't found any information about Masami Airy earl. But it's a pity - I thought it was partially based on real events (like the same John Tytor from Stein's gate). Of course, I may be wrong.
The creation of a common neural network is very similar to the human complementation project from Evangelion - "let's unite all of us into a collective conscious!". Here with the help of Schumann resonance (as dolphins communicate with ultrasound, humans can also resonate in this field), and there through the third impact.
The plot here is very good, although sometimes there are too many phrases that do not carry a plot meaning - as if they were trying to increase the duration of the series. It was possible, as it seems to me, to fit into 12 episodes.
But things are interesting - the seventh protocol, fusion, pseudo-gods existing at the expense of people (hello, noragami!), rewriting events, the network and the real world. It's pretty good.
It seems to me that this is the anime, after watching which people then Google "Experiments Lane plot sense" :3 Because without a gradual understanding of what is happening, it will be like in Evangelion: "What, what, what angels, where did Adam come from, what is this cunning Gendo plotting, who are all these dark people, what happened in the end?" And then you watch it a second time and...
oh, by the way, Lane's phrases like "I am me, Lane is Lane" are just like Shinji. He was also constantly talking.
28 Aug 2016, 13:37 #
"And instead of the soundtrack, let's make a guitar wash for half the episode, where we show footage from the previous 10 episodes?"
18 May 2016, 00:39 #
Damn, I watched it all the time with professional voice acting and I really like it at the beginning of "Our time is Our days ahahahh"
26 Apr 2018, 00:51 #
aaaaaaaaaaaaa. I've been watching the whole anime and I don't understand what's going on.
(well, it seems clear now... more or less)
06 Aug 2015, 15:00 #
98 years old, and they already have Apple laptops and problems in social networks. networks appear. And the problems are very urgent, serious and hurtful. Lane's experiments are not so much interesting in plot as immersive in their own atmosphere, dark and with a sepia effect. It's like you've already seen it and lived in it. This is a different world, like a dream, during which it seems that this is reality.
I love Lane. How wildly I wanted to reconsider *___* But it's already full of holes. I found something supposedly "similar." I hope you like it.