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Shots and sequences, usually situated in the real world, are intentionally repeated across episodes, contributing to an uncanny emptiness. The series’ mise en scène is comprised of half or three-quarter drawn backgrounds with abundant amounts of either white space, or ominous dark shades. This anime’s directorial style shapes most of its appeal.
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This pervading impersonality gives the viewer isolated feelings appropriate for the series’ style.
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Nonetheless, there are plenty of freaks, crooks, and dodgy characters featured in this strange tale. Even while writing this review it is difficult to explain the specifics of any other character in terms of their biography or their goals. Lain’s sister is vapid, her mother distant, and her father obsessed with computers. She exists on the fringes of her ‘friend’ group, confiding only in her friend Alice. Lain is a tacit and awkward girl who occasionally lounges around in her bear pajamas.
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Not this time! That’s not to say that Serial Experiments Lain is devoid of characters, but the focus is almost always on Lain’s endeavors.
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It’s normal for widely regarded animes to contain a colorful cast of characters who add zest to the series and possible side-plots. The pure trippiness of the series and its abstract direction begs the series to be watched more than once because there is always more rabbit hole to explore. Coincidentally, both works happen to make many allusions to Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. From this reality, both series attempt to dissolve our understanding of reality by introducing a simulation or alternate world that suggests that there is something more. It appears that the Wachowskis and the creators of this cult classic had their heads on the same Jungian wavelength when the internet became a reality. The viewer is subjected to Lain’s evolutionary progression in exploring the mysteries of the Wired, the result of which is a surprisingly colossal transformation over the course of thirteen short episodes.ĭoes this sound vaguely like The Matrix? Serial Experiments Lain was The Matrix before The Matrix…one year before actually. The following episodes detail Lain’s mysterious involvement in the Wired, the presence of supposed deities, and the people who structure their lives around interactions in the Wired (e.g., hackers, ravers, gamers, shady businessmen). The eeriness is validated when all of the students in Lain’s class are emailed by a student who committed suicide the week prior, beckoning them to come to the Wired. The eerie opening shots that introduce us to Lain, her family, her classmates and her surroundings (e.g., power lines) already give off the vibe that something’s not quite right. Serial Experiments Lain is an anime about a young girl named Lain who is searching to find her place in the Wired (the series’ equivalent to the internet/Matrix). Genres: Science-Fiction, Cyberpunk, Conspiracy, Psychological Thriller, Psychedelic, Drama Dive with me into one of the most abstract, confusing, yet impressionable animes ever made: Serial Experiments Lain (sometimes shortened in America to Lain).