lain is not an intelectual deep anime, it's not even pseud, this shit is straight up retardedIf there are options:1. I understand what happened and this work is deep2. I don't understand what happened3. I understand what happened and this shit is retardedthen lain is a 3.
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>>282513695>unironically uses "shit" and "retarded"yeah, this is a zoom zoom chimpout
>>282513695what's retarded about it
>>282513695Go ahead, explain. How is it retarded? How is its message wrong?
>>282513695It might have a meaning but it doesn't matter when the anime is unwatchably boring.
shut up faggot lain is a masterpiece and the most pseudo intellectual thing someone can do is claim something isn't deep merely because you didn't take any meaning from it.
>>282513797You didn't even watch it.
>>282513797there is a place for boring art. i am the target audience for it. lain isn't for everyone. it never should've spiked in popularity because now everyone feels like they have to have an opinion on it.
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>>282513721>>282513784OP had no response to this, and was a fag (again)
>>282513797>If it’s not shonenshit or riddled with western sexual identity bullshit it’s… le boring
First half was goodSecond half was dogshitIf you want to make something weird do so from the very beginning. Don't fuck up an enjoyable show halfway through.Apparently the game is better though, you can play it online.
>>282513695the opening is goated
>>282513980i agree with you. the quality and consistency of the writing took a nose dive after around episode 9, but everything before that makes perfect sense. and ive seen the show over ten times. people often recommend haibane renmei and texhnolyze to people who enjoyed lain because of the abe connection, but i personally think, stylistically, both kino's journey and shinreigari: ghost hound are more spiritually successive, given the atmospheric sound design and avant-garde direction from nakamura ryuutarou (RIP)
lain exists entirely on its impeccable atmosphere alone, all the story and "deep plot" is stuff people attach to its incoherent ramble of random events which is fine if you enjoy that, that's the whole point of the anime, but i get a bit tired of people taking just the one interpretation they got and going I Figured It Out! It's So Deep Guys
>>282514129back before i took evil psychiatrist prescribed schizo pills, i had a ball at deciphering all the color symbolism present in the anime while mildly psychotic and/or manic. was fun. there's definitely a lot to unpack and analyze about lain. (no shit)
>>282513695Lain is just a transbian core anime
>>282514279to elaborate, the color symbolism may not have gone as deep as i thought it did, i could've just been reading into things as a symptom of mental illness, but it mainly revolved around the colors red, white and blue. there was some orange in there too.then again, around this time i also thought the characters in hidamari sketch (particularly miyako) were sentient and aware that they were in an anime themselves, and were being watched. and they were cheering me on to better myself. i held a similar interpretation for pani poni dash, while it was less optimistic and more closely resembling a sort of satanism. anyway, yeah. fun times
>>282514129>impeccable atmosphereThe noir detective and mad scientist tropes felt shoehorned in tho.
>>282514294Hi OP.
>>282513695There are only 2 options and you're clearly in the second.
>>282514046Well Shinreigari was also written by Konaka. That's why it feels Lain-coded. Boogiepop is also closer to Lain than Tex.
>>282514573agreed, boogiepop ironically might be the closest of the three, despite none of the major people who worked on lain having been involved with it (other than the sound director)
So this was just a thinly veiled contrarian thread. Got it kek.
Why do zoomers hate thinking so much?Lain isn't even particularly deep it's /x/ shit.
Lain is about bugs in an update in production software.The fight between dumbian stable and archfags.
>>282514046Haibane Renmei is easily one of the most overrated garbage anime of all time, and not just the early 2000a much nostalgia coreHaibane Renmei is so incredibly full of itself, it’s psuedophilosophical introspections into its own narcissism only fuels the echo chamber of a fanbase who are convinced they are profound and special because of their poor emotional regulation and immaturity Haibane Renmei is by definition, 2deep4u mugnostalgiacore depressionslop
>>282516829die schizo
Why was this show so sexual? Like the nanpa kid or the tension between the hacker woman and the delivery guy. Or opening an episode on shirt buttoning.
>>282516829does this guy have some sort of script that screens /a/ for any mention of HR somhe can have a schizo freak out?
"It made it seem more complicated" was a legit reason to do stuff for '90s artsy fartsy types
>>282517363Because lain is for lewding!
>>282513695You don't seem to understand
>>282513695So what are the top 5 most intellectual anime?
>>282519507I don't know about "intellectual" but Miura definitely knew his Nietzsche and esoterism lore. Puts him apart from 99% of mangakas who only read mangos
>>282513707Zoomer don't use those words. They instead call everything cringe, along with a hundred instances of "literally", "unironically", "honestly", and a thousand different emojis.
>>282519507TTGL
>>282513695Niea Under 7 mogs Lain in every conceivable way.
Lain's objectively deep even if you don't like it. Deep as in you have a high concept show and the narrative is objectively very interested in taking a deep dive into its core idea. Not deep as in "profound".
>>282521091Deep as in your mom's vagina.
>>282520955>Niea Under 7is shit.
>>282513695Are you even playing the PS1 game? No, then go away
>>28251369590s pcgeekfag anime
>>282521485yeah trueif you didn't experience technology in the 90s then you won't be able to relate to Lain
>>282513695Lain is one of the very few anime that I consider actual science fiction, and it's been at least 20 years ahead of its time with its depiction of the internet.
>>282521222Dicklet.
Reminder that SEL takes place in the Hellraiser universe.
>>282514573>That's why it feels Lain-coded. Learn to speak English before you seriously try to use newspeak faggotory in my face.
>>282522779Get with the times boomer.
>>282513695Lain is basically Evangelion if Rei was the main character
>>282513695Her school uniform skirt is red-brown. If you see it as green, then you're still wired in and this is an attempt to contact you from the outside in a way that the system won't automatically filter.
Left or right?
>>282513695Lain isn't complex, it's just contradictory. They explain you exactly what's happening and then in the end go LUL IT WAS THE REAL GOD, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF, ALL ALONG ACTUALLY. Well if it was in fact god all along then you have no story whatsoever because it contradicts everything you said before.
>>282513695pretentious means things you don't understand because they're vague on purpose, like Eva's lore. If you understand what happens then by definition is not pretentious.
>>282521657Is its depiction of the internet really any different from the cyberpunk standards built up in the 80s and 90s? We're still using Gibson's lexicon
>>282513695How do I unsubscribe from your blog?
>>282513695I think you can be expressive without trying to be deep or more in the know on reality than other people. I think sometimes it is just okay or optimal even to just put a form to a feeling and an idea you and others have.
>>282513695>lain is not an intelectual deep animeOP, I'll stop you right here.I know that you picked it up because you saw memes on /a/ that it is super deep intellectual.But Konaka literally wrote the anime for an audience of early teens.
>>282530064>>282521657I'll add that even though I don't think Lain has any particular novelty as sci-fi, I think it excels as a work which is able to make the sentiments of the cyberpunk genre so visceral that it doesn't even need to drone on and on about ideas to force the audience to make the proper associations.
>>282530075
so the ps1 game is about the breaking of her own therapist but told in the most annoying way possible?
>>282516829hi muslime guy
>>282532118holy preddit pic
>>282532118>reddit artist>gay artstyle>monster energy>mischaracterization>FOTM girls>spanish
>>282514279>>282514335I think mentally ill people shouldn't be allowed online even if they're on pills. For their own benefit, of course.
>i need my anime to be intellectual to find it interestingbro it's a mystery anime with a weird presentation. did you think ergo proxy was supposed to solve the meaning of life as well?
Trannycore anime
>>282532603>Trannycore animethe creator is right wing
>>282532631dont look at the Lain fanbase
>>282532647reddit tourists who only like the "heckin aesthetics" and haven't even watched the anime are not fans
>>282532647lain is to troons what all those women were to buffalo bill
>>282532681Why are redditors like this, lain is literally against this.
>231 posts>60% are pinterest images
>>282513695I don't even know why Lain is so jerked off. I watched it once years ago, and it was kinda good- but it easily has the most depressing ending of any anime I've ever watched.Lain is forced to return to her role as the goddess of the wired for humanity's sake, and nobody except for us, the viewers, will ever remember her.How the fuck do Lain fans cope so hard that they make this out to be a happy ending?
>>282532050fuck you bastsrd milk skin, stupid fucking bastard
>>282519507Shimeji Simulation
>>282513707>shit and retarded are zoomer wordsThe more you know, /a/ has been zoomer central since its inception
>>282530233Sus
>>282532397the internet definitely makes it worse. especially since im only ever on it (or sleeping).
