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Summary: love lain and the rest will follow
Review: Well let me start by saying I'm a huge anime fan, and nothing even comes close to the pure love I have twords this series. I think it all startes in 1999 I rented some anime dvd's nothing big mostly thing's I've seen before and at the last min. grabed a copy of this I remembered seeing it at the rental place times before but never even thought of renting it. Well any way I got home around 10:00 on a lonly sat. night and poped the usall into the disc player Akira, then Ghost in the shell, then I remember geting board around two in the morning so I switch over to the new metirial serial experiments lain I put the disc in and was atimaticley in love for the next week I watch nothing but this series. So in short I would highly recomend this for any one board of the same old storys and ready for the series that will permenantly change your life and always keep you thinking nothing is real. I would give this series 5,000 stars if I could but I cant so just get the cd or you'll regret it later when all your friends are talking about it.
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Summary: Typical Review
Review: There's only so much you can say about an anime like this one. If you're only into cute, funny, and very upbeat shows like Sailor Moon and Card Captor Sakura (not that there's anything wrong with them), then I doubt you'll like Serial Experiments Lain. It's creepy, slow and confusing, but probably the best anime I've ever seen. It really makes you think. If you like animes like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell there's a good chance you'll like this too. Although I recommend it for people 16 and up.
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Summary: Lain Rules!!!
Review: i have no idea what a review is suppsed t' be, but if it has anything to do with opinions.. then i must say Serial Experiments Lain is the best anime show ever to come on the face of this earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: The other side
Review: While "Card Captor Sakura" is sweet, or "Slayers" in funny, "Seria Experiments Lain" is just magnificent. It's a breath-taking, mind-boggling meld of cyberland, ghost stories and everyone's real emotions. The series is definitely spooky, but no in the goofy, "Scooby Doo" way that you might expect from a "cartoon." There is nothing goofy about "Lain." In fact, it's very serious, dark, and deeply thought-provoking. I, personally, walked away from my first "Lain" veiwing thinking, 'What do I really know?' It's a sad and dysfunctional world where parents don't speak to their children and technology has advanced to a place that none of us can comprehend... Yet it's just modern-day Tokyo, and maybe, if we look closer, we can realize that things aren't as mundane as they seem, and the shy little girl walking to school is really something much, much more.
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Summary: Great Anime
Review: This is a great Anime, I'd compare it to alot of the other greats. Like many series, weird things happen before you get answers. Very good series, Definately comparable to Neon Genesis Evangelion or Ghost in the Shell. I highly recommend it if you have time on your hands to contemplate many things.
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Summary: Begginings
Review: The beginning of this series starts off slowly, classic literary descent into the world of Lain. It all begins with an email from a dead girl, something easily faked, and it just gets wierder from there. This first disc sets a lot of the background and is refered to a lot in the ending, so pay attention to this one.
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Summary: Lain: Leaves you begging for more
Review: After reading most reviews I felt optomistic purchasing this title. As the Editorial review says, "You either love Serial Experiments Lain or hate it". Well, after watching the first three episodes, I decided I would be one who hated this Anime. The director uses the same cuts over and over throughout the first three episodes and you soon become sick of seeing the same animation so many times. The plot seemed boring and straigh-up confusing and so I soon began to hate it. Then I came to the fourth episode. This is where everything molds together to create a great movie. The past three episodes begin to make sense and the repitition of cuts become worthwhile. The end of the fourth episode leaves you begging for more, and so I look forward to seeing the rest. I recommend you rent this title or borrow it before you purchase it though for you'll either love it or hate it. I plan on renting the next disc before buying it for I am not sure if it truely worth it. Buying series is risky for it may become very boring in the last episodes. If you really want a good series though, go check out Macross Plus. It will not disappoint.
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Summary: For the Present Day...Present Time!
Review: I borrowed Lain from my friend. I didn't know what to expect from it. Well, I still don't know what to expect. So far it's a great series. I'm up to DVD 3: Deus. The animation looks like it can be played in a very hi-tech night club. The storyline is very slow, but like Mononoke Hime, you must look at every action, for not much dialogue is not used in the Lain series and then you will most likely be satisfied. And if you can stand the pain stakingly long fights in DBZ like me, you can stand Lain. And one more thing, don't watch it alone like I always do, I feel that the Lain experiance should be shared with a friend to discuss and debate.
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Summary: Beyond Beyond
Review: Serial experiments lain is in a league of its own, one of the greatest anime I have ever viewed, both visually pleasing, and mentally pleasing. Nothing else compares. This truly is an impacting anime.
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Summary: Lain is great. Really great.
Review: Having watched the entire series of 13 episodes back to back (from midnight - 5:30am), I have come to the conclusion that serial experiments lain is absolutely the best series of any genre ever produced. It's just so good.Having read other reviews of the series, I feel the most problems people have with the series exist in the "Knights" and "Deus" episodes (the 2nd and 3rd installments). However, I found they served well as an excellent (if extremely weird) build-up to the simply sublime "Infornography", "Landscape" and "Ego" of the last tape, "Reset". And although the pace of the story (and everything in the series, really) is extremely slow, I feel it is perfectly suited to the events that take place. Also, both the intro and outro themes are excellent (the main in-series music consists of the ever-present power lines, and the frankly terrifying cyberia tunes (people who have seen lain will know what i mean)). The only downside i can see is that i now feel quite depressed i will never see anything better again. (maybe a bit overdramatic) And it was so good when lain smiled......
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