This cocky new self may not be enough to protect her from what she discovers. (Aren't all of us a slightly different person behind the pseudonymous safety of a keyboard?) And Lain herself undergoes a mutation: where before she barely moved her mouth, now she smiles freely - maybe a little too freely - and speaks in the all-knowing, confrontational tones of a grandmaster amused at all these upstarts around her. Her room becomes a hikikomori's cave of computer towers, columns of liquid coolant bubbling like potions. The amateur who could barely open her email now traverses digital back alleys in search of clandestine clues. But Alice has problems of her own, as she's entangled in a relationship with one of her teachers and fears her life would be ruined if word got out.Īs Lain goes deeper into the wired with her Navi, she changes. Only Alice, from her circle of friends at school, offers her something like emotional support. She finds herself drawn into the wired's underworld with remarkable and traumatizing haste, as when she visits a local c-punk-ish hangout ("Cyberia") and witnesses a digital drug-fueled freakout that ends in death. Or maybe she can find answers to why she's now being plagued with visions of Chisa and images of horror. Maybe this way, he reasons, she'll make some more friends.
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Lain's father is only too happy to upgrade her to something more modern. Including, as she discovers to her stupefaction, emails from the dead Chisa.
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All Lain knows of such things is the "Navi" (this world's version of a PC) in her room, which she doesn't know how to do much with except read her email. "God is here." Evidently her soul has taken up residence in what Lain's characters call "the wired" - not just the Internet, but the whole galaxy of connectivity that girds our world. One day Lain learns a classmate, Chisa, who threw herself from a building is now apparently sending her classmates emails: "I have only given up my body," she writes. At home, she zips herself into a bear-shaped sleepwear costume and stares at the ceiling, while her father tinkers in his study with his computers and his mother and sister studiously ignore everything except themselves. She has friends, but most of her life is spent alone in a solitary fog. The Lain of the title is Iwakura Lain, a wide-eyed, timid girl in what appears to be her first year of high school. © Geneon Universal Entertainment Unassuming Lain, unaware of the meaning of the "wired". But now we live what amounts to a dystopian post-cyberpunk lifestyle, and all the things about Lain that seemed like druggy rambling then, now seem barely ahead of the facts. It also plays far better than it has any right to, since any "cyberpunk" work old enough to drink should be obsolete. Heady stuff, to be sure, and Lain is one of the headiest of all anime - one of a smattering of them produced by Geneon in a bid for late-night broadcasting slots, like Ergo Proxy and Texhnolyze. Assuming, that is, you had a self to begin with, and were not just also the manifestation of an information process. Serial Experiments Lain is less about such things than it's about a state of mind - about the way it feels to discover your world is not made of atoms but information, yourself included. Most of what we call cyberpunk is about the gritty details, emphasis on "gritty": information warriors this, dystopian digital landscape that.
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