#SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN INTRO TPB SERIES#
Part of the draw was the adult nature and feeling like I was getting away with something.Ī month or so ago I finally watched the Neon Genesis Evangelion series after hearing about it for more than 20 years. Though honestly I don't see myself censoring everything from my kids. Where else are you going to get a gorgeously rendered cyberpunk-horror series?Ġ: Probably at a younger age than I should have been allowed to. It was something you tolerated because there wasn't anywhere else to go. Coming from a small town, it felt like a secret that nobody else knew about and I loved immersing myself in this grim, beautiful, foreign worlds.Ī lot of anime has a lot of gross "fan service" that objectifies their female protagonists, and that is something I was never a fan of. This was before Game of Thrones or The Expanse or any number of other amazing science-fiction or fantasy media we have today. I did not think anything could be cooler than Vampire Hunter D. Today, people are spoiled with their options for genre fiction. They don't want to ever end, and they do not want to tell a story, they want to make more episodes. Even today, adult American cartoons are almost entirely "sitcom" format. Adult genre fiction was not well represented in American media. In summary: ADULT.Īnime tells stories in a visual format that for years and years you simply could not get anywhere else. After a while Mika seems to care and show more interest and became obsessed, leading to her downfall where she later loses her sanity.Serial Experiments Lain is everything wonderful about anime. After the chat, Chisa appeared before Lain two times but disappeared each time before having a conversation with her.Īt first, Mika seems to be judgmental and rude towards her younger sibling, Lain. This chat sparked Lain's interest of the Wired.
Lain responded to the mail and started to chat with Chisa about the Wired. After her suicide, Chisa sent mail to her entire school including Lain. She is confident about what she knows, playing a guide trying to convince Lain to embrace her godly nature.Īffiliations (Relationships) Alice Īlice is the first to attempt to help Lain socialize by taking her to a nightclub, and from this point always tries to protect and take care of her.Ĭhisa went to the same school as Lain and both were in the same grade. She appears more serene than the other personas. It's not clear if she is another one of Lain's personas or her own entity. Some clues in the series may lead viewers to think that she was her own entity created by the Knights to cut from the original Lain anything that could make her want to stay in the real world.Īppearing in the final episode. As she only appears to torment Alice and Mika in the series, she's shown as a more vicious, ill-intentioned persona than the others. Her half-lidded eyes and casual posture demonstrates a new more laid-back persona of Lain. She exudes self-confidence and thrives on facts over emotion.Īppearing in the fifth and the eighth episodes. She has an offensive attitude, an erect posture, and she's all wide-eyed and alert. She's no longer the introverted person that she usually is. She's a different persona of Lain that appears most of the time when Lain is investigating the Wired. Konaka said that this means that she's mentally ill. At one point she thinks that steam is coming out of her hands, during an interview director Chiaki J. She often hallucinates and sees things that aren’t real. Her eyes are soft and naive and her posture is slumped depicting her introverted personality. Lain is quiet and doesn't talk much, which leads to her being a bit of a social outcast in contrast to the rest of her classmates, always dissociating herself from big crowds and is shown to be rather shy, and doesnt seem to talk as much as her other classmates while overall being a very genuine and kind person. Some characters in the Cyberia club have also mentioned that she dresses like 'an innocent schoolgirl'. When she is not in her school uniform, she either wears her pajamas, which are stylized to look like a bear or plain clothes. Throughout the show, Lain could be seen in her school uniform, which consists of a grey blazer, with a blouse and a red tie underneath, a green skirt and white indoor shoes accompanied by black socks.
The hair-clip is 'X' shaped and wraps the entire lock of hair securely. She wears a yellow hair-clip throughout the show. Her hair is short, left slightly above the shoulders and a long lock of hair on the left side of her face. She has pale skin, brown eyes and brown hair.
Lain appears to be a 14-year-old girl and stands at a shorter height than most of the characters in the show.
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