if you think lain is pseud garbage you are media illiterate and should probably rewatch it four times. and whether you know it or not, you are instilling anti-art values in peoples minds by holding similarly negative-minded false-beliefs about it and other artistic anime. and thus i see you as my enemy.

ok nerd

>media illiterate
Lain would kill you

>>281397386
no she wouldn't lain is isn't violent.

>>281396743 (OP)
>media illiterate
>anti-art
so true. art is when story is unfinished and no one knows what actually happened

>>281397539
sometimes yeah, but lain isn't even that hard to understand

>>281397399
She called multiple people to commit suicide

i would even go as far as to argue it has a perfectly coherent and tight plot, it just isn't always apparent on the first (or first few) viewings. i would encourage anyone who doesn't understand it to watch it under the influence of some form of psychoactive/psychedelic drug. or don't.
>>281397607
when? the guy in the club? he did that of his own volition. the only person lain ever killed directly was herself.

>>281396743 (OP)
Wholeheartedly agree with you. There are reasons why Lain remains a forever certified classic like Evangelion, only a few anime can obtain this status. A true Art-nime.

>>281397617
The girl at the start, numbnuts

>>281397628
okay. let's not jump to un-called for remarks. she didn't kill herself because of lain either, i dont know why you even came to that conclusion.

>>281397623
>There are reasons why Lain remains a forever certified classic like Evangelion
and that is pseuds are amazed by that which they don't understand, as the great Terry Davis says, an idiots admires complexity, but a genius simplicity

>>281397657
lain isn't complex. and i perfectly understand it. and i think it's better than the vast majority the medium has to offer.

>>281397673
it's so simple that not one individual can come up with the same plot summary

>>281397684
not my fault. i think there is a correct plot interpretation, but all good art is able to be interpreted from multiple layers.

>>281397634
It's pretty directly stated that lain caused her to kill herself so she could be apart of the wired directly. She did this because she was lonely and didn't realize the pain she was causing. The girl told her at the end, "there's nothing easy about dying"
Lain felt immense guilt over it, like she felt over her other actions like spying on arisu. Everything she does in the show is because she's trying to understand people, not because she's malicious or violent, incase you're thinking that I think lain is a bad guy or something. I don't. Lain both is misunderstood and misunderstands others and the world around her. Her choice to separate and isolate herself at the end is done out of love for others because she still, at that point, doesn't know how to interact without hurting them

>>281397692
>able to be interpreted from multiple layers.
so is a random piece of shit on a floor. no one knows where it came from, why it's there

>>281397724
okay thank you for clarifying. ive not finished rewatching it, i plan to finish it tomorrow, so i haven't gotten to that part yet.

>>281397737
are you actually comparing lain to a piece of shit on the floor? what would you call the rest of anime then? the mona lisa? what's your idea of artistic integrity anyway? y

>>281397737
It was me
I did it
poop's funny

>>281396743 (OP)
>please validate [insert anime] as a thing for adults so i don't feel insecure about having only discovered it this summer
no, go away and never come back

>>281397737
you seem to be the type of media illiterate retard i was referring to in the OP.

>>281397755
yeah, i prefer when someone doesn't half-ass their story with a cop out ending

>>281397775
nice way to engage with what i'm actually saying, NOT. stereotypical deflection by somebody who doesn't want to actually engage in an argument, but just get a jab in and then disappear from the thread.

>>281397778
go continue attending your contemporary art museum

What else is there to watch that'll keep me held over until Despera?
I've seen Haibane, Texnohlyze, and Ergo Proxy. What else is there in this subgenre? I can watch neiA_7 and welcome to the nhk by abe, i guess, but are those similiar at all to the previous set I mentioned?

>>281397793
as long as you dont get actual art confused as something beyond human comprehension, just plain "shit on the floor" simply.... simply. because (you) were too dumb to understand it, or even attempt a rewatch.

>>281397840
go suck on a banana strapped on a wall

>>281397833
i would love to recommend you some live action films in the same vein as lain, but i dont think that would be on-topic for /a/ unfortunately. not really a rec-thread either, but i suggest watching ghost hound by the same director/writer/producer(s) as lain.

>>281397859
>no argument
concession accepted, retard.

>>281397863
Don't worry bro, I wont report you for giving a rec if you dont report me for asking for one
The jannoids need not know of our behavior

>>281397887
>westoid trash
HAHA

>>281397899
dont care, it's merely a reaction image.

>>281397905
>not even trying to deny it

>>281397912
it is completely off topic to the thread. nice attempt at a derail. i do not care, again.

lain people have the same brand of autism as the fnaf, undertale, scp communities of loving to find dots to connect where there are none
which is fine, not here to take away your fun but consider that not everyone feels the way you do yeah? that the rest of the world finds it a bit cringe so you probably shouldn't be acting high and mighty like this because it opens you up to ridicule
must I remind you of that ridiculous lain larp cult

>>281396743 (OP)
lain is pseud tho

>>281397757
You are funny

>>281397833
Kino, Witch Hunter Robin, Tatami Galaxy and Sonny Boy.

>>281397657
Eva is simple and complex at the same time

>>281396743 (OP)
Lain is the seinfeld of scifi anime.
Watching it now it doesn't seem very interesting, a common shallow take on the internet and modern society.
Then you look at the airing date, 1998, and understand just how insane is must have been back then.

>>281396743 (OP)
I like Lain, what are you griping about?