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Summary: A Conclusion Which Eliminates Some Confusion
Review: Many people have expressed confusion over Lain. This is completely understandable, for just as the episodes are named, this is a series with many layers to it. In the beginning, it tricks you into thinking it's something it's not, then confuses you in the middle, and wraps it all up in the end. And that's precisely what we have here: the end.Lain has been criticized for its animation. The series was underbudgeted and doesn't have the quality of, say, most OVAs and movies, but the style is clean and actually rather nice. I'll try not to say a whole lot, because here is where you begin to wrap the story up, and it should answer some questions when you watch it. All I can say is that this series really makes you think, and that's not a bad thing, now is it?
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Summary: Cereal, Expletives - Laim ...
Review: Mush, @#$!, Lame : any television viewer sick of pretentious overhyped storylines will say these three things after viewing this DVD. Lain continues to be ponderous, confusing, under animated, faux cyber punk, adolescent, neophilisophical mush. Waiting 12 episodes to get to a lazy finishing punch line is rather dry. The lead character is another hollow pubescent asian female who is as fascinating as stale bread. The situations are tediously slow, and due to the turtle's pace the 'MYSTERY' (wwwooooooo...) garners disinterest and apathy from the average viewer. People who will find this series interesting must have very calm lives in order to find this gentle disaffected series influential, or entertaining. The lack of visuals is a rude cheat on the average anime fan. Staring at listless young girls with pin hole pupils becomes aggressively annoying by the last episode of the DVD. The tired, over used self searching by the main character to find his/herself in the world and define their position in life never makes for stimulating entertainment. Over indulgent adolescent philosophy shortly becomes immaterial when the viewers disbelief isn't suspended due to sloppy pacing and plotting. I recommend this DVD only to the tamest, artsiest, pretentious anime fanboys. Trust me ....
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Summary: Can't wait for the last Disk to be released!!
Review: Release me from this world!! I'm so addicted to Lain! I LOVE dark anime! Why couldn't they release the entire series at the same time? I guess it is the suspense. Love Lain, Be Wired.
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Summary: Life, Death, and Lain
Review: Some have taken the notion that this OAV is "prepubescent neophilosophical mush" plagued by infantile animation. Those critics, I believe, are in too much of a rush to use their gratuitously large vocabulary that they have overlooked the inner genous within Lain. Or, even more shamefully, are desperately trying to cover up the fact that their mind cannot grasp the content. Serial Experiments Lain, if you give it a chance, is an artfully arranged tapestry of philisophical elements shrouded behind a dark curtain of intended ambiguity and mystery. It is a puzzle in itself, to be taken apart layer by layer and never all at once. Each moment is a silent epiphany, bringing you ever closer to the moment of cinematic nirvana. The animation, though sadly underbudgeted, is beautiful and commands attention. It is bright and sterile, but conveys a sense of enveloping darkness, decomposition, death. There is never much movement, each scene like that of a painting - but it still commands your attention. There are no firefights, no guts (I don't recall, anyway), no desgustingly large weapons of war; your attention is grabbed in a more sophisticated way than simple adrenline enducing shoot-em-ups. It makes you uneasy about yourself (especially these rather desturbing episodes) and about the world, it is life and death all wrapped up in a dark enigma. It is true that Neon Genesis Evangelion (still my favorite) has pioneered this neophilisophicsal "dissolution, death, and glorious rebirth of the self" idea, Lain takes it to new heights.
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Summary: Serial Experiments Lain
Review: The series only gets better as it goes along, and "Deus" is no exception. Be forewarned, though, when saying that "Lain" gets better, that also means it gets weirder. I recommend watching each volume twice. Usually I figure things out after the second viewing.
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Summary: In the thick of it now!
Review: This 3rd DVD in the Lain series continues the insanity. Some of the answers about who Lain is and just what da heck is goin on are revealed finally. Very satisfying Eps in the haunting, deliberate style that is Lain. One to go...
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Summary: Here is the best part of the series
Review: This is the point where a great series reaches its climax, the story can get no better as in this DVD. After this only the conclusion on the fourth disc follows; IMHO this three chapters are the best of all the series, a hard task to accomplish since all of them are great. Do not doubt it and enjoy the best anime in years!
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Summary: Lain of the Wired
Review: This series is simply the best. I have all four DVDs and a special edition, but this one remains my favorite. Everything begins to make more sense. If you havent seen the series from the beginning, DONT buy this DVD and start with it. You'll be so confused you'll get a headache. You might want to find a resident computer nerd to have handy though for some questioning.
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