![]() ![]() Language: English Words: 1,882 Chapters: 1/1 Kudos: 2 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 15 She could almost taste the blood on her tongue. She just learned to smile as the dread choked her insides. Her grade changed, her hair shortened, and slowly, her room grew warmer and she could look her parents in the eye without dread. Lain screamed into her pillow and cried for weeks on end, until the emptiness settled within her, too. ![]() Her body felt like it belonged to some other girl. It was the feeling one got when lost in an abandoned mall or an empty parking lot, and slowly, she came to view her surroundings as equally-alien. It followed her as if it was a corset tying itself tighter and tighter, until it was hard to breathe. A deep, intangible unease that strangled her chest and never seemed to let go. Some moments of the show come off unintentionally funny when it's trying to be serious and I found this very entertaining.ThrobbingMissile Fandoms: Serial Experiments Lain It's telling us to be careful with technology, to not get overly integrated with the internet and become way too caught up with social media - basically don't lose ourselves in the Web. The show can come off kind of pretentious, but the way it executes its ideas and concepts make it so it's not. It tackles topics like evolution, identity, humanity, society, philosophy, suicide, mental disorder and the integration of the internet. It's kind of an emo show lol, but thankfully it doesn't get too edgy. The ideas that they came up with are ahead of its time. The concept of the internet, or The Wired, in this show is very interesting. It's shrouded in mystery and confusion and it's up to us, the viewer, to try to figure out what's going on and piece things together. Serial Experiments Lain is a mind-bending hallucinatory and somewhat schizophrenic experience unlike anything else. She's a pretty weird girl, but I love her bear pajama lol! Seeing her room become more cluttered with technology and witnessing her become more integrated within the Wire was pretty uneasy to watch. Lain's eyes are petty freaky and unsettling. It's sort of like psychological horror in this sense. The show is weird in the sense that there's this awkward and uneasy feeling in the air that lingers throughout. The visual storytelling in this show is amazing and the pacing is immaculate - they don't waste any time with unnecessary stuff, they get right to the point and build everything up beautifully. The music beautifully compliments the tone and mood of the show. The sounds elevate and heighten whatever feeling the scene is trying to convey. All the intricacies like the low humming drone sound that the power lines/generators make are very well done. I love how experimental the sound design is in this show. The soundtrack and sound design is incredible. It's very fascinating right from the start. This show has an unsettling, unnerving and creepy vibe to it that I haven't really experienced before in an anime. After all, this anime did come out in the late 90's so it's inevitable. The animations and art, although amazing, do definitely show their age. The way they draw shadows and implement all these intricate details and art within the shadows is something I haven't seen done before. ![]() It reminds me a bit of Satoshi Kon's style in Perfect Blue. It's very distinct, unique and looks a bit unsettling. I love how experimental and weird this show is - it's not afraid to be as weird or experimental as it wants to. ![]()
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