We’ll try to keep it as simple as possible.Ī young girl, Lain, becomes interested in computers after receiving emails from her dead classmate who claims to still be alive in ‘The Wired’. Like Evangelion, people have discussed and debated the plot and the ending for years.
SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN INTRO MUSIC SERIAL
Serial Experiment Lain is one of those shows that’s vague to begin with, and as it crawls on, it only gets more mystifying. While details aren’t too clear, Yoshitoshi ABe and the band Boa had made some kind of connection in the mid-90s, which led to Duvet being used as Serial Experiment Lain’s unforgettable opening. It’s sort of funny in retrospect, but back when the anime first came out, before there was Wikipedia, and the internet, like in the show, was still a growing new frontier, anime fans had no idea who Boa was! People weren’t sure if ‘Duvet’ was performed by BoA, the popular singer who originally hailed from Korea, but way before the K-Pop boom was successful all over Asia. Honestly, we could probably do a whole feature-length article on this song. Perfect for a show like Lain that has no equal.Īll you need to hear its signature opening line, ‘And you don’t seem to understand…’ and you are instantly transposed to the hazy, surreal intersection of reality and the internet that is Serial Experiments Lain. There wasn’t, and there still isn’t, another OP out there that sounds anything like this. We’re not saying ‘Duvet’ by the English band Boa is the best anime opening of all time, but we’re not saying it isn’t either. The Iconic Serial Experiments Lain Opening Where does the show go from the first episode? You’ll have to watch. This pushes Lain, a girl previously not so interested in technology, to learn more about how computers work and the internet, which seems to be growing larger every day. Supposedly this girl’s still alive inside ‘The Wired’, which is the internet, and that it turns out God’s also there! What a bargain. A week later, her classmates start receiving emails from her. To get into Episode 1 more specifically, the entire show starts off with a high school girl flinging herself off a building. Thankfully, the story has plenty to offer on its own too. With three all-time greats, the show was destined for greatness.įrom the very first episode of Serial Experiments Lain, you know you’re watching something completely unique.Įvery single component of the show is bringing something strong to the table: from how inhabitants of the anime like the titular Lain Iwakura and her best friend Alice Mizuki ooze visual style to the show’s bleak everyday surroundings, the at-the-time groundbreaking subject about the internet’s assimilation with society, and the expert direction that brings all these elements together.įrom the desolate shots of hanging wires in suburban Japan to the visual depictions of the early internet, if you’re broadly into ‘aesthetics’ you won’t be able to take your eyes off this show. Finally, the late director Ryutaro Nakamura put the show together, who also manned the original Kino’s Journey. Konaka screenwriting this one, making it siblings to other out there works like The Big O and Digimon Tamers. Maybe most notably is the involvement of illustrator Yoshitoshi ABe, who later went on to create the also quite good Haibane Renmei, whose striking character designs and illustration work are unmistakable. It’s no wonder Serial Experiments Lain was such a success when it was the meeting of several icons at exactly the right time. It is one of the last few shows to come out of the 90s experimental period in anime (no pun intended) and we think it’s absolutely required watching for anyone that has an invested interest in going through all the classics. Everyone on the OTAQUEST team adores this 1998 anime gem that largely predicted just how intertwined the internet would become in our daily lives.
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