Setting the background masami eiri, chief engineer at tachibana laboratories, worked on protocol 7 and added code from his own initiative that introduced. The show takes an informationrich dive deep into the nature of reality and truth, and in the process leads the viewer to come to his or. Konaka, with original character designs by yoshitoshi abe. Masami eiri, in his desire to conquer reality, uses her as a pawn.
Coming facetoface with the digital strength of the knights. Serial experiments lain insists its happening nowpresent day, present timeand the world of 2018 can feel eerily similar to the fragmented, confused, disassociated, unreal life that lains characters drift through. This is my attempt to explain the story of the anime serial experiments lain. A couple of our faithful readers pointed out after episode four that its difficult to tell whats real and whats not in lain, what the truth is and what isnt. Read more information about the character mika iwakura from serial experiments lain. After lain erased herself from all memory mika continues to live on in the world. She is a sentient computer program designed to sever the barrier between the material world and the wired, introduced as a shy japanese girl in middle school at the beginning of the series. Serial experiments lain is a very dense series, one packed with provocative ideas and images. Nothing is lost on the wired as the web is called in lains world. Lain lives with her middleclass family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister mika, her emotionally distant mother, and her computerobsessed father. This anime is a hitormiss philosophical cesspool that could either captivate or disgust. Religion, like real world and the wired, is a consensual hallucination. It is also very confusing, and can be interpreted many ways.
Theres a bunch of lain theories this one is my favorite, which claims its all aliens out there, whole websites dedicated to it, so go searching a bit if you want. In the second layer, mika is curious of lains newfangled interest in navis and the wired, at first commenting on lains vocal interactions with her navi as talking to her imaginary friend. Although serial experiments lain does not attempt or pretend to offer a totally new vision, it succeeds wildly as a new and wonderfully constructed synthesis of older elements. Its hardly a surprise that in a country where shinto temples and belief in kami run alongside buddhist precepts and practical atheism that the concept of god as presented in lain is very different from that of a christocentric view. Toplist the leaderboard where all anime are listed according to their overall ranks. Follow along as fourteen year old lain driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate logs on to the. In that sense, lain the anime has a distinct postmodern identity, the type of identity that lain the character is searching for. A cyberpunk multimedia project including an anime series by triangle staff, a playstation game by pioneer lcd, plus a. Personality across all the works in the serial experiments lain series, lain is portrayed as introverted, shy and quiet. Lain is still not convinced that the men in black are innocent, and karl states again that it was the work of the knights. Serial experiments lain 1999 tv show behind the voice. Perhaps the most important character to lain, alice is the one that gives the viewer a way to measure reality within serial experiments lain. Its clear at the beginning of the series that lain suffers from some kind of mental health issue.
Lain intends to help mika change her life for the better before something horrible happens to mika. Lains guilt over the havoc caused by her interaction within the wired provokes her to take drastic and irreversible action. Serial experiments lain fanfiction archive fanfiction. Distortion, fulfil the prophecy, fulfil the prophecy, fulfil the prophecy. Perhaps her changed character is supposed to be the modem that connects lain even further into the wired. In serial experiments lain, the knights were used by eiri masami, who needed them to believe in him so he would be perceived as a god. Lains god of the wired is omniscient, but not omnipotent. Serial experiments lain shiriaru ekusuperimentsu rein is a 1998 japanese anime television series produced by yasuyuki ueda and animated by triangle staff the series focuses on lain iwakura, an adolescent middle school girl living in suburban japan, and her introduction to the wired, a global communications network that is similar to the internet. Find the latest news, discussion, and photos of mika iwakura online now. More importantly shes the one who loved lain without worshipping her.
Chizumatic too many words about serial experiments lain. She reminds her sister that she will be late for school, and later watches her father set up lains new navi, but feigns disinterest when he notices her eavesdropping. Serial experiments lain is a 1998 japanese anime television series produced by yasuyuki ueda and animated by triangle staff. Serial experiments lain question spoilers anime and manga other titles this is a split board you can return to the split list for other boards. At the beginning of the anime, she is a regular teenage girl who often stays out late. Lain iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteenyearold, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate chisa yomodathe very same chisa who recently committed suicide. A full explanation of serial experiments lain forums. Why was that alien spying on her in that one episode. Whatwho causes lains older sister mika to go insane.
Serial experiments lain bddvd box delayed 4 months nov 2, 20 universal sony home pictures to release anime in australia. The series is about an introverted girl named lain, who after the suicide of a classmate, acquires interest in the nexus an advanced internet browser, and goes into this virtual world, losing contact with reality. After numerous watchings and searching the web for explanations i think i have figured it out. It is revealed in a later episode this behavior is the result of lain being an artificially created program. Serial experiments lain is an avantgarde anime series directed by ryutaro nakamura, with character design by. Her preferences are also quite childish, and she possesses a large number of toys and other childthemed objects. Get info on mika iwakura, played by ayako kawasumi on serial experiments lain jp. Serial experiments lain is an anime series directed by ryutaro nakamura, original character design by yoshitoshi abe. Serial experiments lain 1999 tv show behind the voice actors. At myanimelist, you can find out about their voice actors, animeography. Explanation of serial experiments lain anime thoughts.
But the wire lain still exists and threatens to end mikas life. Mika visits lains room, only to find her sister tinkering very adeptly with computer hardware and wearing nothing but her underwear. Read the topic about a full explanation of serial experiments lain on myanimelist, and join in the discussion on the largest online anime and manga database in the world. When i watched it the first time, i came away intrigued, confused, challenged but i did not feel cheated. Mika iwakura bio, photos, listings, quotes, episode screenshots. This is a community website about the avantgarde 1999 anime series written by chiaki j konaka and directed by ryutaro nakamura. Serial experiments lain obviously does not take place in the present day and present time, it takes place in some sort of weird alternate scifi variant, so it was saying this show takes place. A dvd compilation named serial experiments lain dvdbox esurrection was released along with a promo dvd called lpr309 in 2000. It was directed by ryutaro nakamura and written by chiaki j. What if lains parents were really just fosterparents for tachibana labs experiment, and mika would be the more or less unknowing sister who was just told not to talk about lains origin. Looking for information on the anime serial experiments lain. Can anyone explain the ending of serial experiments lain to me. Serial experiment lain, wtf even happened spoilers for whole. The series episodes were originally broadcast on tv tokyo from july 6 to september 28, 1998, and explore themes such as reality, identity and communication through philosophy, computer history, cyberpunk literature and conspiracy theory.
Serial experiments lain is a work of art for an anime show. Index a freely organisable overview on all anime listed on anisearch. Shiriaru ekusuperimentsu rein is a 1998 anime series broadcast by tv tokyo. As the character of professor hodgeson discovers, theres no dark secret that cant be dragged. Her hands where greenish and she was really short, why. Serial experiments lain all the tropes wiki fandom. Although she dotes on mika, she is indifferent towards lain.
Personally i think that the knights drove mika insane in hopes of drawing lain even further into the wired. At first, she doesnt seem to mind her family away from home and spends all day talking with them. After a while she seems to care and show more interest and became obsessed, leading to her downfall of later on losing her sanity. Serial experiments lain fanfiction archive with over 248 stories.
Lain accuses the men in black of the act but karl tells her that they planted a parasite bomb in her coolant system. Find out more with myanimelist, the worlds most active online anime and manga community and database. Serial experiments lain season 2 episode 5 youtube. Pics of the serial experiments lain voice actors show. I interpreted it as trying to set the scene, and then mocking its own attempts to.
See over 380 serial experiments lain images on danbooru. Storyif the purpose of serial experiments lain is to get your mind whirling, it succeeds. At mikas bewildered response, lain happily welcomes her sister home. Strange events begin to occur as a withdrawn girl named lain becomes obsessed with interconnected virtual realm of the wired. Mika, before all of this stuff happened to her, was followed by these prophecy messages, so it becomes pretty apparent that masami eiri and the knights are. This wiki is a collaborative resource that anyone, including you, can edit. Visually, she is characterized by her short, brown, asymmetrical hair, one lock of which is secured by a hairclip.
Mika iwakura serial experiments lain jp characters sharetv. As this box set is now discontinued, a rerelease was made in 2005 called serial experiments lain tvbox. Can anyone explain the ending of serial experiments lain. Shonen has neon genesis evangelion, shojo has revolutionary girl utena, and seinen has lain. Lains father projection tells her how prophecy is a way of deus to interfere in the real world, and mika seems to be a target of these actions, aimed to make her doubtful about her perceptions and, later, causing her dissociation. Its visual style is unlike any other animated work, western or eastern, and constantly evolves through the course of the. Lain and its deceptively ordinary title character redefined an entire generations concept of the world wide web, prompting us all to suspiciously take note of humming power lines and central processing units. Popular the mostrated anime on anisearch during the current season. There are many visual representations like the typography to the perspective angles. To me mika always seemed kind of out of place compared to lains parents, who always seemed to know about more than just the surface. The men in black depart, leaving lain speechless and shocked.
An erudite, confusing and chilling anime from the late 1990s, serial experiments lain is creepy cool seinen cyberpunk, as well as a notable mind screw in the genre. Lain iwakura is the main protagonist of serial experiments lain. Lain says that she heard that she had to look out for static electricity, so she decided to take her clothes off. Like when she told alice that she could erase what everyone heard on the rumors that another lain told. Its a tricky series, one that keeps you guessing and, if we didnt already know how acclaimed the show is, at times makes you wonder read more serial experiments lain revisited. She is female, 14 in the anime, 1114 in the game, and of an unknown age in other works. Serial experiments lain about what happened to mika.
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