Can we have a Lain thread? I just finished watching and I'd like to know your thoughts on it.
I'd fuck her. Would you fuck her?
>>139765482
Probably
>>139765482
What would a half human half Lain baby be?
>tfw you walk in on Nii-chan brushing Karen-chan's teeth
>>139765482
Do not sexualize the Lain
The worst anime of all time.
>>139765633My daughteru
>>139765482
No I'd rather adopt.
>>139765830
Are you trying to make me cry?
>>139765830
the worst taste of all time
>>139765318
Lain's incoherence isn't coherent to the average watcher, that the reason I can't really see this shit. But the SEL's design is an artistical accomplishment
> mfw I'm actually trying to give my opi ion
>>139765318
I wouldn't have finished it if Lain wasn't cute.
>>139765771
Shut up, you're not my real dad
>>139766384
Not trying to start an argument, but what was so hard to understand? What I took away from it was that the things humans do, the thoughts we have and the things we create aren't worth anything unless we share them with other humans, if something exists in a void it's like it doesn't exist at all.
That and it's immature to constantly hide yourself away from the real world, even though it can be scary going outside and interacting with the world and forging social links are what give life meaning. That is more subjective though, I never had a very good social life IRL and tend to try and fill that void online. So I don't know if that's something many other people would take away from it.
>>139765482
DO NOT SEXUALIZE THE LAIN
>>139766690
So much to discuss right here.
But let's get back to Lain and its meaning.
SEL is fully deconstructed, most of the time you wont find any obvious logical connection between two footages of a same episode notably because Lain is based on symbolism.
I'll keep it short, but for this reason, more than for the others anime, what you get from Lain is what you interpret of it.
What you think of it is not everything Lain has to offer (well at least IMO).
>>139767860
Yeah, I mean art is subjective so everyone will take away their own meaning from what they watch. I really don't think it's that hard to understand though, the plot flows along like any other show and you can follow it if you're paying attention. There weren't any points where episodes did not flow along logically.
I'm on episode 6. I don't have any idea of what's going on.
>>139766398
"real" "dad"
>>139769412
>Tripfag is stupid
Shocking!
Waiting for ayyy lmao guy
>>139769412
its about tripfags realising how retarded they are
edgy and tries too hard to be "deep"
>>139769774
>Lain knows when you jerk your ween to her
Why is this so hot
>>139769838
Don't sexulised the Lain
how's the PS1 game?
>>139765771
>>139767681
>>139769881
>>>lainchan
How can anyone find Lain sexual?
>>139769935
It's shit, is not even a game.
However, it does expand a bit on Lain as a character, although almost independtly from the anime, it does explain a lot of things.
>>139772081
Some anon said in the last thread that posting lewd Lain should be automatic grounds for banning like with Yotsuba, and I couldn't agree more.
>>139769412
Just pay attention to all the weird things that are happening, don't try to construct a narrative out of it yet. It's not a story where everything is spelled out. They won't do the stuff all the shitty harem anime do where they flash back to a thought or scene from a previous episode to connect the dots for you, you might have to actively think about the clues that are being laid out for you.
There's an episode later on that dumps a bunch of exposition and the story makes more sense, but only if you have paid attention so far. In the mean time, "What's going on?" is part of the fun of the series.
>>139772605
This. You might even want to watch it one more time after you are done with it, that's what I did and everything made a lot more sense to me.
Anyways, the story is more straight forward than you think and full of red herrings, just try the ignore the super weird extra convoluted aspects of the story, that's probably what's confusing you, just focus on Lain and her interactions. Personally, Lain won me over the strong feels I got from it, especially in the last couple of episodes.
>>139772898
>feels
What feels?
>>139765482
Lain is not for lewd
>>139773480
Not him but Lain got me to tear up in the last couple episodes as well.
Lain's eventual rejection despite trying as hard as she did combined with the aftermath where her existence is erased was really sad to me. That combined with the reasoning for her to disappear and this little conversation
>>139765318
not until you play the game and read the LN
>>139769838
>>139765482
I would destroy her tight and cold cunny.
>>139775384
>>139775525
She does herself.
>>139775661
Mean to quote this fucker. >>139765771
>>139765318
Love it.
thought it was quite good, but extremely overrated desu
>>139765318
Why dod't that lain that Serial Experiment Lain SEL's primarchate, the protogenitorain, ANSCANIET the ALTRUISM.
PGTRL (SELs Lain) showing ture altuition, simple take at obserce of her's infractions with altro charchates and introscance.
To fegin the altro, lets obscere her sckull situitation. Very little soschemial effluence is evidenced by Lain's at sckull. Contuning, we sci her A lack the baschemical tectons despite enrite altro charchates high in soschemial effluence and digital taims AND it having been PRESENT DAY should be much higher.
Of matry importants is Lain's ture firend, who is Alisu, to whom Whom Lain's inferences expidate most unfiltered and we obscere her alturistic nature. In become clear of the difficels for Lain in obscere the Q's and scignels scent out of Alisu, hence the lack of humanial space (throught even mastication scene even!). This lack scignels for great Alutrism in Lain. And Then at end's meat we obscere the retreation of ENTIRITY, by Lain not once but twonce in order porvid her's beliefs of porper world for Alisu (like homera) but primary attempt IT WAS NOT what to be wanted Alisu (she cannot obscere, hence Aultuistic), so instead she rerase her owns (like madeka) as God of Arturism.
In we obscere her infractions tanded to Jesus (DEAD), Suicide Girl (DEAD), the Train (calls for silence), black men (when sigling laser, reaction demonstrates it), and THE FATHER (Idenary to Lain, altruistic as well) preprotogenetor, we scee further acts.to confurtate this Lain is a great Altruist.
Qued.
>>139765318
I found it annoying to watch until the end.
Good story tho.
>>139778115
delete this
>>139765318
What is the bear even trying to convey?
>>139779031
Nothing IMO. It's a bit of a red herring, like all the eye imagery
>>139779333
>>139779031
I thought it was like her security blanket.
For a 13 year old autist she definitely looks tired of shit
>>139778287
Holy shit shut the fuck up about this ayy lmao autistic lain shit. You've been doing this for like 3 fucking weeks get a life you fucking autist.
>>139779031
Innocence
![[TheNullNetwork] Serial Experiments Lain OVA [720p].mkv.webm](https://i.imgur.com/OH8nFpE.jpg "[TheNullNetwork] Serial Experiments Lain OVA [720p].mkv.webm")
I just want you and everyone else to have a good day.
>>139765318
ripoff of digimon. like evangelion.
>>139781766
Hey wtf I don't remember this happening in the anime
>>139782275
I believe it's from the ps1 game.
>>139775220
filename/10
>>139782294
Translation never
>>139784322
But that's what's actually happening in that shot.
>>139781869
Part of me feels like Juri's character and her development was inspired by Lain. I mean, between her virtual surrogate, her self-wrought descent into a digital void, her naive type of care for others and desire to erase herself..
>>139779031
A reminder that she's still closely connected to her childhood and the world her family forged for her.
I guess you could say it's another symptom of autism that the child latches on to an inanimate object as a way of showing attachment to someone because they're not sure how to convey love.
So is she really autism?
>>139781869
Chiaki J. Konaka doesn't care.
>>139779031
I don't think that one is trying to symbolize anything in particular. It's just something that makes her feel safe and she like to wear.
>>139781869
>>139789535
Oh shit. She really is a nod to Lain.
>>139786381
>desire to erase herself
That seems hella dark for digimon.
Lain doesn't make any sense until you watch it on a dissociative
I never fully understood until I did that
>>139790694
Or unless you watch it all in one sitting. It makes it a lot easier to see when something is hearkening back to a specific past event in the series.
lain s2 when?
>>139790566
That isn't the half of it for Tamers. Some really Lovecraft shit goes down in that season.
>>139790937
But Lain is already with us forever, anon. We don't need a season 2 when she's right here with us.
>>139791410
I just want to see her once again.
How will I keep living if I can't hear her voice ever again?
>>139791494
Watch her in different languages, then stalk her voice actors' roles. For instance, her English VA shares the same voice actor withJeri from Digimon Tamers :^)
>>139792185
>>139790937
more like
DESPERA
W H E N
H
E
N
>>139794266
I believe.
>>139778115
kys
>>139797395
>KYS
>not Kill Yourself
Kill yourself
>>139779509
Pretty sure. Note how when she's more confident, it disappears for the most part.
Sexualizing Lain should be a bannable offense!
>>139784381
Why do you people keep saying this?
http://psx.lain.pl/
>>139799028
Not sexualizing Lain should be a bannable offense!
>>139799028
She's pure sex though.
>>139802802
Imagine the sensation of her gentle hands around your back, her voice moaning lightly into her ear as you lovingly thrust into her, and the lights above you flickering on and off as you both approach climax.
>>139765482
Yes, with love.
>>139803401
Whenever I picture lewd with Lain I always think of something more mental.
Like plugging yourself into the computer and having a dank trip together with her.
Ordinary, corporal sex doesn't seem right.
>>139803603
>>139803740
Yeah something like that, connecting yourself to the same network and merging your consciousness together.
Becoming one in the literal, truest sense of the word.
It would feel 1000 times better than sex.
>>139803890
>>139803890
Someone didn't watched Expelled from Paradise.I actually remember the same thing form other movies but I don't remember them now.
I'd just like to ejaculate in her for a moment. What you're referring to as Lain is in fact GNU/Lain, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Lain.
>>139804096
Nothing lewd about pure love.
>>139804268
You're right I have not.
>>139803401
Then she looks at you like this
Hello, /a/
>>139804777
>That ugly fucking watermark
Ruins the whole thing
>>139804725
>15 minutes into wired and chill and she give you this look
>Still no Despera anime
I'm Desperated.
>>139769412
filtered
>>139807288
the director died. The anime wont be the same as lain. Ever.
>Yfw Ryūtarō Nakamura directed and did the storyboard for Kino's journey as well
>Tfw season 2 for both never.
Great everything except characters were a bit flat
>>139807834
Flatter than Lain?
Why did her sister go insane?
>>139809661
Lain's not flat, she's introverted and acts like one. Then, when the wired and real life start coming together, her "wired" self, the personality that she'd take online without the stress of meeting people in person comes out, and she shows stress, anger, and determination. Juri and Reika were just generic school girls, Alice was okay.
>>139809828
Knights trapped her between the real and wired worlds. The Mika that's robotic is NOT Mika, but a copy that the Knights use to spy on Lain.
>>139809831
not sure if your being ironic or something but im pretty sure he was talking about her boobs
>>139809899
I was
>>139809895
oh, wait she went back to normal at the end right I don't remember
>>139810007
After Lain fixes everything yes, but Mika didn't turn into a robot, the Knights replaced her
>>139772529
Then why is the show called Sexual Experiments Lain?
>>139810226
>yfw S2 gets approved
>But its a hentai
Please, Japan
>>139765318
>saw lain for the first time like 2 weeks ago
>have the blurays coming in today
>plan on rewatching it again tonight, hopefully in one long marathon
Guys, I really really like Lain. Can someone explain why?She made it so with her god powers didn't she?
>>139772605
>you might have to actively think about the clues that are being laid out for you.
>not "being lain out for you."
Missed opportunity, to be honest with you, senpai.
>>139810703
She's not god though.
>>139797395
fat
>>139810861
At what point do you refer to a being as a god? Being able to alter reality, rewrite events, materialize herself in the future to talk to her friend who's all grown up and married, and generally do anything she wants is damn close to being a god.
The Wired was a mistake
>>139811033
She only has "powers" inside the Wired though.
The reason why she can do weird shit outside of it is because the Wired and the real world are merging together in the anime.
She's still not a goddess, she's just a protocol to interact with humanity.
>>139811175
>she's just a protocol to interact with humanity
You've bought into Eiri's lies. She's not a "goddess", but she's not a program. She's a splinter from the collective consciousness that Eiri gave a human body.
>>139811443
Dunno it's been a long time since I last watched it.
>>139811175
>she only has powers in the "Wired"
>she can alter the "Wired" which translate into the real world
>not a god
>>139811443
As far as I'm concerned, Lain is mai waifu, and doesn't need to be anything more or less.
>>139811728
>>she can alter the "Wired" which translate into the real world
The Wired is not the real world though.
The boundaries between both become increasingly diffuse as the show progresses, but that's still not god, she just happens to be somerthing like a super user of the Wired.
I think that saying she's a goddess is kinda missing a bit the point of her character, seeing how in the end shes still imperfect and still cares about her friend and how the main antagonist is precisely someone that buys into that idea and wants to become a god.
>>139811728
God or goddess connotates a creator or a deity to be worshipped, which Lain really isn't and doesn't want to be. She wants to be loved as a human and have friends.
"Make me sad. Make me mad. Make me feel alright."
>>139811098
no the wired keeps us from mistakes life is a mistake
Why did Lain's sister turn into a shitposting retard?
>>139812226
The Knights used her to spy on Lain and they fried her brain.
That's what people say, generally I couldn't care less about worst girl.
>>139811970
>>139812059
I think you're putting too much emphasis on "a god". When I say "a god" I mean a being far above what normal humans are capable of. Like time traveling, altering reality and rewriting events, being everywhere at once, yet nowhere at all. I don't mean God, the Creator.
>>139812305
That doesn't explain why there were two of her and one was a computer ghost and then she went crazy.
>>139812401
Yeah it does. The ghost one is her real self, that got trapped in the nethers and separated from her body, which was used by the Knights.
>>139812354
>Like time traveling, altering reality and rewriting events, being everywhere at once, yet nowhere at all. I don't mean God, the Creator.
But even then that's debatable.
The Wired is just a mass of information, when it merges with the real world people consciousness gets transformed into more information.
That means that the colloquial definitions of those concepts don't apply her.
To the Wired, time traveling is just going to watch past data, and altering reality/rewriting events is just rewriting that same data.
Practically is the same because that data is precisely the collective consciousness of the world, but conceptually it's not something very divine in my opinion.
I feel it's like saying a calculator is a god because it can do operations far above what normal humans are capable of doing, it's just what she does, it just happens that the shit she operates is the entire humanity.
>>139812582
Well I think it depends on your definition of a god then. If history is just information as humans see it, wouldn't rewriting the information that everyone sees, including their memories regarding it, essentially be rewriting history? Undoing the past?
If she can be the admin on all of humanity and all information regarding humanity, that's pretty godlike. She could erase people from existence, create new people, rewrite history, change events, even influence individual thought and feelings. I'd say she's more or less a god over everything on Earth.
I mean, she's basically a system admin of the world.
I dunno, like I said I think it depends on your definition of a god. If a being can alter reality to the extent Lain did multiple times, and even end the world if she desired, I'd call her a god.
Interesting thought came to mind though. Think of when people colonized space. As soon as they left Earth, Lain would cease to have power over them because they left the Earth's network which she controls. Neat concept.
ＬＥＴＳ ＡＬＬ ＬＯＶＥ ＬＡＩＮ！
>>139815077
why is she so creep tho
>>139806507
>>139772081
Cute leads to beauty
Beauty leads to love
Love leads to sexual
Sexual leads to joy
and joy... leads to suffering
LETS
ALL
LOVE
LAIN
>>139815077
Lets
>>139816696
>>139816696
>>139818097
Lain isn't much a a buddha, IMO she's more of an Aphrodite
