Lain

In what type of perspective did you analyze or thought lain the FIRST time you watched it? Sort of a spiritual and a maybe religious way? with the journey of a little girl trying to find herself who she really is, and becoming the messiah that would save the world even though she clearly rejected the title of god afterwards. Or maybe the more technical way of thinking such as the programming and science aspect of the whole world within lain and the data structure of the wired and how the IPV7 would unite everyone in a virtual world through lain abilities to disrupt reality and disrupting the reality of others anywhere near or in the wired. And also rejecting the title of god in the end because there wasn't such thing within the wired and only becaming the only able to travel freely within the two worlds

I know the elaboration of the topic is sort of weak but is really hard to plant it in words what I am really thinking Me the first time i totally ignored all the technical aspect of the anime and paying more attention in the social aspects of lain fighting her ego and struggling to be strong against it. I really feel identified with lain in that aspect and after that I totally fall in love with the anime and the character even through I never gasped all the details until I I rewatched several times.

First time I watched SEL I was thinking of it in a religious way. As in I interpreted lain to be a god, or something like a god, a thing born of and permeating the wired. I'm glad lain still has her dad.

The first time I was just confused and wondering when it was going to start making any sense. I first thought it was a story of a girl with bad depersonalization disorder who forgot that she did things, but as the series progressed I interpreted it as Lain being a program that was written into the Wired that was able to control the world because of the Wired's interconnectedness with the real world.

The first time I watched Serial Experiments Lain (1998), it was a bootleg uploaded to youtube by a channel whose avatar was a picture of a lady. Each epidose was without the opening and closing sequences. It was ~1.5 speed and had cuts from the episode played back at the end of the episode. Each cut seemed to change tint, too. I don't know how the cuts at the end were chosen. I suspect it was random, against copyright detection, but there was something азартful in their reiteration. It did not feel random at the time I watched it. This was at a time when my tastes for avant-garde had lead me to 湯浅政明の『マインド・ゲーム』、『Kick-Heart』、吉浦康裕の『EVEの時間』。 I had thought it part of the show. A benefit of that format was that the bleak sloth of the first episodes that keeps many from the show is mollified. The reiteration at the end of the episode gives an extra chance to catch what you might have missed, rather, that you would forget in the elegance of the exposition, the first time. There was a time when I had felt that the official edition was just wrong. Like it took a masterpiece and slicked out the азарт. I have come to adjust my opinions of the matter. If someone has a copy of this edition, please let me know. The aforementioned channel is gone. I had yet to know that youtube videos could be downloaded. Maybe I'll need to start a restoration project, because that edition was, while using the same frames, a separate artproduct. I don't think either better the other alone.

I thought of lain as a person, foremost, and I really resonated with her. The first scenes, where she's stepping out of the house, and the door jumps, latches shut, and seeing the surroundings blank, except for some salient features like walls, shadows, shrubs, and wires---no extraneous attention. And in those shadows, we see vague impressions of her thoughts; some large and calm, some hot and pointed. Later, when she's just before she hallucinates chisa, her broader thoughts are brighter and more specific.

>>500 (checked) Why is this image only 8.75 KB? Does anyone have the original? Pic related is the two most similar images I could find

Watched it in early 2000s on Tech TV I think. From what I recall I just saw it as a bunch of weird stuff happening from the Wired having unforeseen properties and increasingly becoming intertwined into our world and that Lain experienced it some of the worst due to some special quality to her and her increasing use of the Wired. I am not sure I recall what I thought the other versions of Lain were either imposters from the Wired that are manifestations of the Wired but maybe also hidden sides of Lain herself. I saw it as how beliefs influence reality and how these beliefs can make some people out to be bigger than they are even gods. So essentially Lain became deified and this happened not just in belief but in actuality....or maybe I'm unconsciously playing up what I originally thought to not sound dumb.

>>853 (``Why is >>500 only 8.75 KB?'') cuz he's a not-retard, saved all of us your bandwidths; literally nothing lost

Was very hooked on Twin Peaks and at the time I was searching for something with a similar theme, so as a (sorta) lynch user, I've watched SEL with thet bias in mind. There are some notes for reflection I've made: >what is up with electricity in SEL and how does it relate to Lain? Initially, in SEL, electricity appears to be kind of omnipresent, a constant force, eerie soykaf that's just there making that noise, suggesting something maybe. May represent the source of the "evil" that is present in humanity in modern times. The absolute material dependency on electricity that society produced created an indifferent, degenerate, cold world. >are people in SEL (specially Lain's family) real people or outworldly mysterious entities? Entities/spirits in both Twin Peaks and SEL are not pure mystic ghost or some "ectoplasmatic" spirit, they are like programs that reveals some sort of fabricated illusion happening IRL or stuff from another dimension/world unleashed by scientific/material circumstances. In fact, it's a matter of wondering how paranormal soykaf that goes on in many forms are simply "out there" and we're just too socialized or dumb to perceive that most of existence is made of stuff that's not part of our petty little worldly lives, although very present and under our noses. >the psychic soykaf Lain sees/daydreams (the shadows, weird alien, dead girls, etc.) are fuarrrking real As Arisu sees with her own eyes. Which makes us think about the level of realism of some stuff that's perceived by sensitive people and how different manifestations may be related to the same origin. We've been confused by the forms, soykaf's all the same. Then, I've absorbed a lot of information from lainchan and another sources and currently watching again. I like the "sleepy" pace of SEL, it's the sort of thing that keeps normal users the fuarrrk off, since it's a bitter ride. Bitter rides are the best. SEL just gives me that bad feeling but the details that are missing or implicit in the story makes me consider that higher forces are in control of what's happening there. Like in Twin Peaks, the "dark forces" are always in control, winning, murdering, recruiting people and conspiring against knowledge and liberation. When you know that this world is a soykafstorm of karma, that some real bad things and plans are in progress and most normal users are applauding it all, you just naturally tend to seek for truth/enlightenment/fulfillment or to absolutely hate this clownshow and embrace the hubris.

>>91 >FIRST I was a youngster who expected the idea of cyberpunk being synonymous with criminal drama (Burning Chrome) / law enforcement officer's drama (GitS) / some hot action, as in: * t3h 1337 haxxorz * ha-ha, overridden turrets go brrr * smart guns * some other W. Gibson stuff, like outrunning any possible tracking by switching taxis so I pretty much brushed off SEL back then as "ah! Probably something an adult Japanese can understand, but not me" Watched SEL this year... but that's a different topic

>>1300 Hold on. That was my zeroth time I watched S.E.Lain

>>1381 Watched "Эксперименты Лэйн" on 2x2 in 2008. I think. I missed the beginning, I only watched some of the episodes so I missed the plot. I cannot explain how, but the story felt a bit too mundane to me. Context: 1) my way from school to home included walking under power lines, 2) my older sibling has gone psycho 3) ah screw it, I am not really into talking to people, yet the Internet was *the place to communicate* (that is, until they somehow turned it into a yet another corpo slop despite the fact you still can use Wiby or Geocities)