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Amazing...
This series has got to be the best anime I've ever watched, better than Akira, better than Ghost in the Shell. Although you need a lot of patience to watch this series you'll love it when it's all said and done. I would definetly recommend this to anyone that has a love for storytelling. But be warned it's extremely boring and takes forever to take off and make sense and when it does it sends you back into confusion, the artwork is very different, the characters in certain scenes are very simplistic but the backgrounds are compelling and very complex. The music (which there is few of) is very depressing especially the opening theme which would be the perfect song to commit suicide to. But after finishing up the series I was sad to see it end and felt mixed emotions on "where" Lain (the character) ended up and she might just be the cutest (brand new baby kinda cute) character in anime history. This series is definetly not meant for the younger crowd.

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Amazing! Totally terrific series!
After watching all of the Lain DVDs I can confidently say that this series has soared to my #3 favorite anime series of all time. Lain is basically a show of metaphores concerning the Internet, so if you don't have a firm grasp over the concepts of computers and the Internet or "wired" (as the series terms it) world such as what hackers, chips, etc. are you may not enjoy it. The art is really different and beautiful - every frame looks like a painting, with interesting use of colors and negative space. These episodes really need to be watched in order, so make sure you start with the first volume. The last episode literally had me crying! Lain's world is totally absorbing and not just a little bit creepy, and although you don't get all the answers at the end of this series, the last volume has a sufficiant wrap-up, leaving a jumping off point for the viewer's imagination. I reccomend this to everyone who can stand a little intelligence in their anime!

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Catharsis Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Recently I remarked that I keep imagining alternate outcomes to this series. Too many, in fact, to count. It presents a reality whose boundaries with the web keep degrading until, for those like Lain the separation is completely lost. In Lain's world, history can be erased and rewritten, and identity is a matter of perception. And the vision is deeply disquieting.

The underlying structure of Lain's life has eroded. She has no place at school, her parents have left her, and secret agents spying on her confess their love. Against this backdrop Lain persistent questions her own identity - innocent waif or adolescent hoyden. She hopes against hope that she is the true persona.

One can read this as a coming of age story. The powerless Lain of the first episodes gradually coming into a power that is nearly impossible to control. In the previous DVD, Lain attempted to kill God, now she must seek for it among a kaleidoscope of visions. Can she stand the answer? Or will the truth wash her away.

Serial Experiments Lain presents an interior apocalypse. From the chaotic opening sequences of this DVD to the hollow victory of its conclusion the world changes - not with a bang, but a whimper. The Wired is a place where closure is elusive, and loose ends the rule of the day. Where there is no existence without memory.

It is fair to remark that this series gets progressively stranger and stranger. It creates its atmosphere by testing the borders or our own minds. And it doest a pretty remarkable job of carrying it off. The artwork remains capable to producing striking images. Episode 11 'Infornography' is a striking attempt at an e-visualization of the erosion of Lain's well-being. Indeed, the whole series will remain imprinted on the minds of its viewers for some time.