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I might be a little coocoo but I truly think I may be the real life version of lain I literally relate to her in every way. her paranoia, hallucinations, depersonalization, interests, looks, school life, personality our therapists even act the same I don't think anybody will ever relate to lain like I do I am literally lain. you are not lain, you are a 30 year old basement dweller

Is that so? Post lair img. Better have modems piled sky-high and a floor-to-ceiling coolant system goin'.

>>43378 you're completely off your mind and don't even get what The Series is about. You can never be Her. If you try to be Her then you're going all in into being a jerk. if you don't get why this is, you probably haven't even watched The Series at all. fuarrrk off, go back to mlp rp server on gmod or smth

>>43381 you are mad that I'm her and you will never be her I'm not trying to be her because I AM her and I don't think anybody gets what the series is about actually stay mad cuz I am literally lain

What is this all about? A thread died because of you, OP

>>43382 Funny that in every fiction there are those who, obsessed over character and story, get consumed by its diegetic. SEL is an art created by people as unassuming and banal as the rest of us, and yet they could still see the Wired. You don't need a show to escape to, just look inside.

>>43378 >i'm lain! tee-hee-hee! No, you're a middle-aged male truck driver from Kansas larping as an anime girl for unknown reasons. Or worse.

>I'm also mentally ill so i must be Her Yeah, and i'm a severe alcoholic so i'm Hemingway.

>>43386 Ok, I laughed. Now I will write some more stuff so this will be long enough to pass the retarded filter.

>>43385 no I'm nowhere close. I am lain. what don't you get?

>>43378 yea so i watched some clips now and i have sadly to inform you, that you have been outlained.

>>43395 I will never be outlained. all these old men on this site wanna be me SO bad

>>43396 you can gladly have this soykaf, please and thank you. tell me how it went for you. But then, try to do a better job than me. here are your instructions (powered by chgpt) *have a series of small shifts *enjoy the quiet relevation of deepest pain *find resilience in brokeness and for the love of god. for the love of everything that is holy and good and lets hope it still somehow exist. dont try to traumabond with pixels, lain. noone should brave the underworld alone.

Do like Lain and shoot yourself :D

"lain is literally me" egirls are unironically closer to the intended interpretation of the show than people who come away thinking of lain as some sort of omniscient cyber-goddess. the character, lain, was supposed to be a stand-in for the viewer. as 1990s japan moved into a new era of techno acceleration, particularly in the wake of WWII some 50 years earlier, the relatively conservative creator of the show felt caution about what he saw as the spread of americanism in terms of technology. every character besides is a message intended by the creator as a caution, in this way the show is in an odd relationship with the iyashikei subgenre and concept that had been explicated a few years earlier - where iyashikei was specifically created in response to the sarin gas attacks of aum shinrikyo (now known as aleph), it drew on broader themes within anime about collectively healing from trauma identified as emergent since the 1970s. this can be seen in the relative simplicity of its style, however, unlike iyashikei lain's message wasn't intended to promote gentle equanimity with the past but rather call for a caution about and suggest rejection of what Ueda saw as a way of life brought to japan by colonizers. A tension within the show is between Ueda's desire to promote community and acceptance and his desire to reject american culture completely which can be seen in the shows attempts at creepiness around the subject of technology.while this feels like something of a footnote the shows reception, i would argue that the themes of unity did play a role in the shows newfound popularity in a way Ueda found surprising and can partly explain why it has cult popularity around those with a familiarity with technology. While this is additionally because Ueda did a fair bit of research into the subject he was attempting to critique and incorporated into the show, as seen by the explicit science fiction and tech references, it gives the impression he wasn't not a nerd for the science fiction genre. the result is a campy soft horror told in an experimental narrative all of which contribute it to having a vibesy, ethereal quality. such things are easy to identify with, and to Ueda's surprise the show became widely popular with western audiences who both shared his caution about technological advancement, and who shared the show (and, more subtly, Ueda)'s fascination with technology.

>>43527 I don't get the impression it is anti technology so much as it just acknowledges the obstacles one faces with always being socially connected yet also disconnected at the same time and the problems that arise from misinformation and disinformation.Lain's mother in the show isn't shown as obsessing over the Wired or anything yet she is the coldest character in the show. If you play the Lain game you see a different woman. To me this seems to indicate infidelity of the father living a double life. I hadn't thought about any anti colonialism, but I get what you're getting at though I feel it's better described as cultural hegemony though this didn't seem that apparent to me in the show. Maybe I missed something the five or so times I've watched it. I do wonder what Ueda thought Americans would interpret the show as, I haven't really seen details going beyond he expected they would see it different.

>>43529 from a critical perspective its not aligned with what are now fairly orthodox schools of analysis, specifically those that argue for death of the author, that there is nothing but the text - it was a statement made by Ueda after the show was released. i think the supposed anti americanism is very subtle to the extent that americans wouldnt catch it, im not sure if many japanese people did either. i think it would make more sense to see in a context where consumer technology like navis with their english voices in conjunction with the english language and grammar being taught alongside math and programming languages was seen as an import from the country that nuked them. i cant think of anything else besides the Knights of Eastern Calculus being named after the MIT group

>>43538 Yes, that's basically what I was wondering if his critiques are real valid critiques or just a misunderstanding of what American culture is actually like.

>>43527 lain is pretty deleuzean

>>43545 oh... sorry for repeating what you said, then. i originally meant that the western audiences lain might attract of cautious dystopians and technophiles might not necessarily overlap, there's a lot of interpretations of the show that identify with the conservativism of it but not necessarily Ueda's nationalism. i agree with you, i think that reservation on tech is something that conservatives would feel all over the world. >>43553 kurt vonnegut talked about power infrastructure as if it were alien spaceships come to colonize earth. i think the reality of colonialism is that you can trace its lineage to points where it doesn't "come from" anywhere. at least not anywhere external. it comes from our own darker natures, and is enabled by circumstance

Lain is just the average internet dwelling addict, except there's no pulling us away from it now.

>>43396 Sorry, months in and I strongly and confidently confirm (once more) im the lainest of them all.

>>43378 >looks Do you have the Lain haircut? Also have you watched Texhnolyze?

>>45636 Anon I'm sorry to say but I don't believe you; not only are you not Lain but I bet you've never even met her. t. Has met Lain

>>45650 im so much lain, i have unfolded and turned the inside out, wrapped my skin around my bones of cables and electric gut and they have scrapped off their insulation and the fibers and the copper rod melted and sticked out in spikes to become something like peach fuzz on my neck that stood up when i looked in the miror -and i saw my empty eyes and no reflection in them whatsoever, but a strand in my eye that hurt and thats when i knew i am human. lain.

>>45829 If that were true, how are you still typing with us then

>>43378 I'm literally lain too!

>>45829 Well, I could hardly find it in me to deny you that. More importantly, are you well? That doesn't sound like a pleasant experience at all, how are you holding up?