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The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

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Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

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Post by 14_lain_88 »

anthk wrote: post #106
14_lain_88 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please delete this.

Follow your leader and delete yourself.

Please elaborate on your statement. That is, who is my leader and why did she delete herself?

update: I am flagged. Someone informed me this is due to the numbers in my name. I was 14 years old when I first watched Lain and I was born in 1988. This number apparently has an association that is less than positive. Dear mods: feel free to change it to something else, I simply wanted to inform this user that I did not want them to link our website. Thank you and have a nice day.

Remember: It is rude to issue statements of self harm and that those afflicted with mental health problems may be in even the most unexpected of areas. Please be mindful of your words.

Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

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Post by baybal2 »

honkycat wrote: post #35

Serial Experiments Lain is everything wonderful about anime. It is violent, dark, scary. In summary: ADULT. Anime tells stories in a visual format that for years and years you simply could not get anywhere else. Adult genre fiction was not well represented in American media. Even today, adult American cartoons are almost entirely "sitcom" format. They don't want to ever end, and they do not want to tell a story, they…

I watched one Japanese cartoon once in my childhood.

There was a flying robots flying killing everybody. Do you know its's name? I always wanted to rewatch it, but have no idea what's its name.

I'm trying to piece together what I watched in childhood.

Since a few years ago, people who are more into cartoons cued me on that:

Blue alien who shoots lasers from its bra is Guyver, and that it's not an alien, and is a guy.

A communist coup in space is Ryvius, and on a closer look, communists were actually high class cadets with parents in high up places, and not the other way around.

Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

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Post by anthk »

astrange wrote: post #109
anthk wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Westerners Avoid placing Americans as "westerners", because we the Europeans already finished Dragon Ball by 1994 for sure.

But what were you pirating in 2003?

One Piece maybe, but I had the manga readily available in Spain as early as 1997-8. Translated, not pirated.

Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

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Post by livueta »

m4rtink wrote: post #101
riskable wrote: post #93

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> The isekai genre is definitely overused at this point Yet somehow we can't get enough of it! I mean, I know I'm a sucker for isekai. Some of it is poorly animated with terrible stereotypes (for anime) and far too much fan service but it's not isekai that's cliche it's the story that's being told inside of it that could be. I'd argue that isekai is one of the best and truest forms of sci-fi: Instead of just "drama,…

The Isekai genre goes deep, very very deep . Anime adaptations only really cover the often good and/or mainstream series. If you start digging into Isekai manga, there at least one order of magnitude more works to choose from. Then if you look into light novels, there is even more stuff, again with just a fraction getting manga adaptations. But the real breath of Isekai are web novels - that's where most of the curre…

> Aegis cruiser

Destroyer! But thanks, I laughed really hard at the realization that Zipang is indeed an isekai of sorts.

Thanks to that show, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daqing_Oil_Field is one of my favorite historical counterfactuals.

Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

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Post by wcarss »

trentnix wrote: post #47
honkycat wrote: post #35

Serial Experiments Lain is everything wonderful about anime. It is violent, dark, scary. In summary: ADULT. Anime tells stories in a visual format that for years and years you simply could not get anywhere else. Adult genre fiction was not well represented in American media. Even today, adult American cartoons are almost entirely "sitcom" format. They don't want to ever end, and they do not want to tell a story, they…

A month or so ago I finally watched the Neon Genesis Evangelion series after hearing about it for more than 20 years. After slogging through a few episodes of predictable awkard-teenagers-pilot-giant-robots-to-save-the-world it finally reveals itself as a stunning exploration into the minds of troubled youth who are, effectively, subjected to a barrage of traumatic crises. It's a deep, rich world with complex charact…

So many recommendations, but no Trigun yet. Starts off very silly, but goes to some good places over its single season run. At least, I sure felt it did when I was 13.

It's a western/sci-fi set in a vast desert-dwelling society, focusing on the legend of the mysterious criminal Vash, with a 60 billion dollar bounty on his head, usually called by the nickname "Vash The Stampede", who wreaks destruction and mayhem wherever he turns up.

We follow around a goof who looks just like him.

Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

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Post by baybal2 »

entropicdrifter wrote: post #58
trentnix wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A month or so ago I finally watched the Neon Genesis Evangelion series after hearing about it for more than 20 years. After slogging through a few episodes of predictable awkard-teenagers-pilot-giant-robots-to-save-the-world it finally reveals itself as a stunning exploration into the minds of troubled youth who are, effectively, subjected to a barrage of traumatic crises. It's a deep, rich world with complex charact…

If you liked Robotech and Evangelion, you might want to check out some of the Universal Century timeline Gundam shows. Mobile Suit Gundam and Zeta Gundam are the classics, but for something with gorgeous modern animation, check out Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, it's a prequel series that follows the main rival character from the original through his childhood and up to the start of the war that's the setting for th…

> Legend Of The Galactic Heroes

I only recently found that it was a cartoon originally.

I read it as a novell like 20 years ago.

Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

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Post by freeflight »

trentnix wrote: post #47
honkycat wrote: post #35

Serial Experiments Lain is everything wonderful about anime. It is violent, dark, scary. In summary: ADULT. Anime tells stories in a visual format that for years and years you simply could not get anywhere else. Adult genre fiction was not well represented in American media. Even today, adult American cartoons are almost entirely "sitcom" format. They don't want to ever end, and they do not want to tell a story, they…

A month or so ago I finally watched the Neon Genesis Evangelion series after hearing about it for more than 20 years. After slogging through a few episodes of predictable awkard-teenagers-pilot-giant-robots-to-save-the-world it finally reveals itself as a stunning exploration into the minds of troubled youth who are, effectively, subjected to a barrage of traumatic crises. It's a deep, rich world with complex charact…

Welcome to the N.H.K is an interesting exploration of the hikimori phenomena.

Mushishi is a bit "standard anime fare" but I found it surprisingly wholesome and emotional.

Samurai Champloo is a very well drawn, animated, and stylish show with an amazing soundtrack by nujabes.

Fullmetal Panic! is very mecha shonen, but probably my favorite of the genre without having to delve into the more massive franchises like Gundam with it's bazillion different shows.

Also: Check out Satoshi Kon's stuff like Perfect Blue or Paprika.

Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

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Post by teekert »

trentnix wrote: post #47
honkycat wrote: post #35

Serial Experiments Lain is everything wonderful about anime. It is violent, dark, scary. In summary: ADULT. Anime tells stories in a visual format that for years and years you simply could not get anywhere else. Adult genre fiction was not well represented in American media. Even today, adult American cartoons are almost entirely "sitcom" format. They don't want to ever end, and they do not want to tell a story, they…

A month or so ago I finally watched the Neon Genesis Evangelion series after hearing about it for more than 20 years. After slogging through a few episodes of predictable awkard-teenagers-pilot-giant-robots-to-save-the-world it finally reveals itself as a stunning exploration into the minds of troubled youth who are, effectively, subjected to a barrage of traumatic crises. It's a deep, rich world with complex charact…

I also enjoyed Ergo Proxy, Texhnolyze and Planetes. Ghost in the Shell is still the only movie I revisit every now and then (out of all movies ever). They are all slow, I want to take the time to watch them again some day.

Very different but I also enjoyed Naruto as I grew up myself. It's long (but you can skip all fillers) but sometimes very deep. I enjoyed Kenshin but never finished it.

As mentioned below Samurai Champloo is also nice and Steins Gate (nice, strange atmosphere) and Death Note: very psychological: He thinks that I think that he thinks and I'm smarter so... Love that. And One Punch Man, puts a smile on my face.

If you want weird: FLCL. What was that about?

Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

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Post by freeflight »

vladTheInhaler wrote: post #97
nerdponx wrote: post #91

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> It's a deep, rich world with complex characters, all with Herculean responsibilities and human weaknesses.* Planetes was recommended in the recent HN thread about space junk, and I ended up watching the whole series over the course of 4 days. It's similar to Evangelion, in that the first few episodes are goofy and awkward (except they're in their early 20s instead of teens). But by the end of the show I was blown a…

Cannot recomment Planetes enough! I'm watching it again with my girlfriend, and after some initial skepticism, she was very much onboard. And we haven't even gotten to the really good stuff yet.

I really should get around finishing that.

That series was done dirty by the fansubbing community: When it originally aired back in 2003 only the first couple of episodes were translated, then it was dropped and no other group stepped up to keep translating it.

Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

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Post by Rhinobird »

wcarss wrote: post #115
trentnix wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A month or so ago I finally watched the Neon Genesis Evangelion series after hearing about it for more than 20 years. After slogging through a few episodes of predictable awkard-teenagers-pilot-giant-robots-to-save-the-world it finally reveals itself as a stunning exploration into the minds of troubled youth who are, effectively, subjected to a barrage of traumatic crises. It's a deep, rich world with complex charact…

So many recommendations, but no Trigun yet. Starts off very silly, but goes to some good places over its single season run. At least, I sure felt it did when I was 13. It's a western/sci-fi set in a vast desert-dwelling society, focusing on the legend of the mysterious criminal Vash, with a 60 billion dollar bounty on his head, usually called by the nickname "Vash The Stampede", who wreaks destruction and mayhem wher…

The bit towards the end with Millie and Wolfwood makes me cry.
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