Serial Experiment Lain

[Wolf Kanno]

My coworkers and I are doing an anime watch book club sort of deal and we decided Lain would be our first series. Despite apparently being up my alley and being well aware of its existence back when it was a hot IP, I've never seen is before. I am hoping it doesn't disappoint.

[Spuuky]

It was one of my final attempts to watch anime, since it should be right up my alley, but disappointed.

[Wolf Kanno]

Well anime is not for everyone. I may start this tonight.

[Wolf Kanno]

Well the opening theme is quite good. The show itself is also a bit more surreal from the get go than I was expecting. It has a very Boogiepop Phantom vibe to it. I've only watched the first two episodes.

[Wolf Kanno]

Due to one of the people I'm watching this show with being super lazy about doing anything they are told, I'm only four episodes in still, but I'm liking what I'm watching. Very mind screwy, which is how I like some of my shows. Helped that the main writer is Chiaki J Konaka, who also wrote my beloved Big O and the best season of Digimon that is Digimon Tamers. So it's interesting to watch him go a bit more all in compared to those shows.

I'm really liking some of the art direction here with the way shadows looked pencil in and the use of everyday telephone/power lines to give this sense of connection and claustrophobia. I will say, I'm not expecting a clear answer here. Like this show has started off surreal and I'm just going to assume it will stay that route until the end. I'm not expecting a sensible and thorough info dump by a character or some a-ha moment that is going to really make the first couple of episodes suddenly make more sense in hindsight. So it should be interesting to see where this goes.

Man, they don't make anime like they used to. I miss when the majority of it felt weird because I was gazing into another culture I only tentatively understood.

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