Thread 717491645

>>717491645 (OP)
it's a vn played out of order with tedious extra steps to access new content

>>717491645 (OP)
I dont know, but I liked it

>>717491645 (OP)
Is the only translation still for that version you can play in your browser? Why no one translated the original psx rom? I want to play it on my psp.

>>717492475
finally checking out lain and learning of this game was unironically one of the main reasons for me to expedite my japanese learning
gambatte anon-kun

>>717492475
lack of interest probably, playing it on psp would be pretty cool

>>717491645 (OP)
It means it totally shredds dudaciously and is gnarly radical bro.

>>717492702
I がんばります, 2 month into Anki and 600 words in, but I'm afraid I'm nowhere near being able to play this game. I tried shin chan natsuyasumi recently and even that was too hard for me. It's just kinda weird to me that translation have been sitting there at laingame.net for a while now but nobody though about patching it into original rom.

Somehow, the //Signal. game is getting Kaori Shimizu to voice Lain in a later update according to a review from a backer of the game.

>>717491645 (OP)
maybe it makes more sense in japanese

>>717493847
That game looked liked complete ass

>>717494401
Yeah most people thought so

>>717491645 (OP)
you aren't lainpilled enough to understand

>>717491645 (OP)
reminds me of imsim

>>717494635
Wait it's out? I thought it had a kickstarter for development and they got like 100000 bucks? Did they just rugpull it lmfao

Watched this show for the first time recently, liked it overall but still a bit confused about why it has such a cult following to this day. Outside of wanting a crazy computer gf of course. Anyway, AND YOU DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAAAAAND

>>717495958
It was one of the better shows on Anime Unleashed. So it's very memorable for nascent weebs of a specific era. It's a damn sight better than trash like R.O.D. the TV.

>>717491645 (OP)
its a VN made pseud japs that think too much of themselves, dw about it

>>717495925
There is no way that game got 100k

>>717496262
Yeah it got 110k (16,000,000 yens) actually https://camp-fire.jp/projects/840556/view

>>717495958
Because it's genuinely good. It has excellent tone and multiple layers of story you can dive into to try and make sense of. I wrote a 3 post long essay about it. Basically, it's good. One of the best.

What's great about Lain is that at the end of the day, apart from the aesthetics and the idea of bluring the lines between the real and digital and how dangerous it can be, the character side of Lain is actually and extremely simple but beautiful story about human connection and love. Alot of it gets lost under the weight the esoteric plot and style, but there are several small moments that are very impactful. The important imagery is that of touching hands. After the incident at the club, when talking to the police, arisu goes up to lain and apologizes for putting her in that situation. The shot lingers on their hands as arisu covers lain's. Lain is staring down and unsure what to feel. Atleast once more later on this happens, when arisu is worried about lain and goes to comfort her towards the middle of the story on the roof of the school. Lain had always been a weird one. She had always had trouble making frens and connecting with others. We know, of course, by the end why that is, because she's not exactly human, but for the moment let's pretend she is. We see a few times where Lain's sister tries to connect with her and fails. We see lain seemingly not have a relationship with her parents, as they don't care at all what troubles her or when she leaves the house or if there is a literal explosion in her room. We see that the only place she can really connect with others is through the wired, BUT we also see that even THERE she struggles to understand why others are on. She questions why others play games or what they do for fun, she doesn't even understand that there are some things as important as privacy that need to be kept in order to connect with others. All of this comes to a head when she is fully immersed in the wired and is about to collapse the wall between the worlds. She had been spying on others, calling peoples to commit suicide, literally altering reality all because she wanted to connect with people.
(1/3)

>>717495958
Dude, Lain was based as fuck.

>Paranoid atmosphere
>Deliberate pacing
>Transhumanist themes before they became dumb downed for the lowest common denominator
>Well researched references to real life parapolitics

Texhnolyze is almost as good, by the way.

In the end, it was arisu who connected with her. Again, through the hands. She held lain's hands and even placed her hands on her heart. She confessed that she was terrified about what was happening, to which lain said, "but you're smiling?" Neither of them understood what was happening in that moment, but lain said it earlier. "It's because I love you"
After this moment, we're confronted again with the imagery of the hands, only this time, it is eiri - "the god in the machine" who manifests a digital hand for lain to take. Instead of this, though, due to the lessons she learned from arisu, she rejected his hand, and went as far as to give him an ego (a parallel of what he had done to her, when he gave her a body) only to destroy it immediately and wipe away his satanic infulence (yes, satanic. There's not much Christian imagery in this story, but the idea of "becoming god" is satanic in nature. In the Bible, lucifer literally says "I will ascend my throne above the highest heaven".) Anyways. Lain rejects this idea and outright rejects the proposition of her herself becoming a god. She literally tells that part of hersel to "stfu bitch" and vaporises it. She does this because she realised that all of her attempts at connection ended in tragedy and misery, even with arisu, she ended up being traumatised by what she experienced. Probably the worst emotion lain felt was the guilt of calling people to suicide. Again, she did that all because she was lonely, but the girl from the start ended up telling her, "there's nothing easy about dying". In the end, in a way, she did become a god, but as a watcher, a gondola-esque experiencer, forbidding herself from touch, all because she still at that point doesn't know how to connect without causing pain. The dramatic climax of the show was definitely the incarnation of eiri, but in the emotional climax was lain conjuring up an image of her and her "father" eating and having tea together,
(2/3)

>>717496497
>arisu
Kill yourself.

Where she breaks down in tears at the word she's, in a way, saying to herself
>because you love them
Lain deeply loves others doesn't know how to show that love to them without boundaries, which is what ends up hurting, traumatizing, killing them. For this reason, despite the connection that arisu was able to make with her, by her reaching out, Lain removed herself from reality because, atleast for now, it's better for her not to be there, which is a brilliant and beautiful tragedy. We see at the end that lain was able to eventually create another "avatar" to try and connect with arisu, but are left to wonder how this will turn out. I, for one, hope that Lain found a happy ending.
All of this to say, that when you strip away the aestheics, the tone, the style, the vibe, when you strip away the esoteric lore and the grand story, you're left with a very human and very real picture of a person who wants to love others and doesn't know how. It's a beautiful story about human connection, humility, loss, and, in the end, hope
That's why I love Lain
(3/3)

did you order one?

>>717496502
>Haibane Renmei > Lain > texhnolyze > ergo proxy
They're all very close though

was there even a SINGLE ONE (1(one)) game adaptation of a classic thing that wasn't absolute dogshit, a cashgrab or whatever else trash buzzword?
>madoka
>lain
>love live
>macross
>opm
>snk
and so on so forth
just leave my classic anime alone and fuck off, please

>>717496551
>his satanic infulence (yes, satanic. There's not much Christian imagery in this story, but the idea of "becoming god" is satanic in nature. In the Bible, lucifer literally says "I will ascend my throne above the highest heaven".)
It's a story from Japan, they don't have the Christian cultural baggage we do in the west. Becoming a god isn't necessarily sacrilegious in a culture that accepts many gods and spirits.

>>717496921
>>madoka
doesn't the psp game add new lore?

>>717496921
Dragonball has some okay games. People like that old Capcom Jojo fighter too.

Just post the sexy girl

>>717497000
>new lore to a complete story that doesn't need anything new
Yeah and it's dogshit

>>717491645 (OP)
pedo thread

>>717497093
if you insist

Kinda crazy fifth and sixth gen had all the good stuff. Oh well, hope I can catch up.

>>717491645 (OP)
Lain my beloved turbo autism daughter

>>717491645 (OP)
Cringe edgy and trying too hard.

>>717496741
NieA_7 is the best out of all of them btw

>>717497379
The doujin is fine but the anime is WAY too long, there wasn't enough story for a 1 cour show.

>>717496348
shame that this is the most interesting thing we'll get because of the Time To Live thing, it expires in 2028

>>717491645 (OP)
what would make a good lain game? should it be an arena fighter?

>>717498231
No game

>>717491645 (OP)
i don't know and i don't care, judging by the type of gigantic faggots who post that gay shit, lain must be the great faggot magnet because every single nigger who posts lain shit is an insufferable retarded faggot

>>717498231
Lain kart racing

>>717498327
I am sorry anon, hopefully you can reconcile your believes and find inner peace.

should really try to play it someday
but I'm really not a fan of VNs

>>717498327
did someone ask

>>717499053
more of an audio book

>>717497703
The story was there, NieA disappeared to say goodbye to her past (mothership), the same was happening to Mayuko with her childhood (bathhouse) and she panicked as she was projecting her fading childhood to NieA, she was content in the end as NieA's return showed that things changes but never disappear.
Only NieA cared about mothership as she was a social outcast emotionally dependent on her past (collecting junk near the mothership), just like Mayuko who's also a social outcast that emotionally depended on her childhood (sheltering herself in her old home).
Absolute kino writing for a short story but it's hard to get that at a first viewing as the show expects you to observe the character and deduce the story from there, despite the show starting out as a dumb comedy.

>>717500085
I know the story was there, I'm saying it's way too stretched out, on contrary to the og manga which has way better pacing. The anime ends up feeling empty because of shit pacing.

>>717495958
>Great and distinctive art direction
>Lain herself is a 10/10 design
>Really good soundtrack that feels straight out of the 90s in the best way
>Basically requires you to watch it more than once to actually catch everything
>Abstract and artsy but in a way that isn't Worker and Parasite-tier
>Great pacing
>Doesn't pull any punches or treat the audience like they're mouth breathing retards
>Basically predicted the entire modern state of the internet and how it blurred into reality
It basically has all of the ingredients to be a cult hit anon. Hell it probably would have been a mainstream hit far earlier if it actually held back some of its weirdness, but then it wouldn't be Lain.

>>717493820
Anki is a tool to support learning, not a way to actually learn. You're going to burn yourself out like this, the same as many useless, assmad DJTers before you.

>>717493604
You've got a promising future as a localizer

>>717500346
Anime gave you time to provide all these context, and subtle hints though. Manga is easier to read sure but it treated her disappearance as just another episode, even though NieA's disappearance is the core part of what the story is trying to tell.
Manga is a well-paced slice of life comedy, and decent adaptation of anime but I don't think it really told a story which anime offered.

>>717498231
Arena fighter? Nah, Lain deserves something way weirder. Make it a psychological horror ARG/metroidvania hybrid where the UI glitches out in real time and half the game exists in fake operating systems. You uncover lore through broken emails, crashed forum boards, and corrupted hard drives while piecing together Lain’s fragmented consciousness across different server hubs. No punch buttons-just creeping dread and digital schizophrenia.

>>717491645 (OP)
is this the only psycho-stretch-ware?

>14 year old in 2001

I have bad news guys.

>>717496741
Ergo Proxy wasn't designed by Abe.
>>717491645 (OP)
The game's message is very different from the Anime, I prefer the Anime message to be honest.

>>717503568
pixels dont age retard

>>717503568
>Lain is 38 now

I still would.

>>717491784
/thread

>>717503568
Top-right clearly says 2022, she's 17

>>717498231
battle royale

What distro does Lain use?

>>717507290
all of them mixed together in a big pot

>>717491645 (OP)
>"Psycho-Stretch-Ware"
they mean its an /x/ tier schizo shitpost

>>717507290
make OS of her own like temple OS

>>717507290
anime lain or game lain?

>>717509390
Anime

>>717493820
>It's just kinda weird to me that translation have been sitting there at laingame.net for a while now but nobody though about patching it into original rom.
If you know anything about this scene, then you'd know that you're basically asking "they have like 5% of the work done, why hasn't someone else done the other 95%?"

tranime

>>717497703
This show was so boring I couldn't even get past a couple episodes.

>>717491645 (OP)
>What the hell does that even mean?
what is it that you don't seem to understand?

>>717498231
I'd play PHANTOMa. It's supposed to be a dungeon crawler MMORPG, I think. Basically Wizardry Chronicle but online and with cyberpunk bullshit.

>>717496502
I like everything about Lain except for the character

>>717495958
>first time recently
it's probably not going to hit the same way it did back then, since the depiction of the internet it dreamt up is normal now.

>>717509542
Here's the mixed blood sharty poster, although it's a thread about a thing I'm not familiar with it pisses me off still

>>717491645 (OP)
90s thing

Semirelated but I saw Boa live earlier in the year. I actually heard their first album long before I knew about Lain, around the early 2000's, so it felt weird being a 30 year old surrounded by zoomers who probably only know Duvet because of TikTok kek

>>717512263
As someone basically the same age I think it's been kind of reaffirming seeing a bunch of things I personally liked in the 90s and 00s being rediscovered and celebrated by Gen Z. I don't mind it.

>>717512263
Had the exact same experience when I went to their show, though I didn't mind it much since most people there were still very much passionate about the anime.
Still, I feel kind of bad for the band as the crowd was basically dead until they played Twilight and Duvet (which were the last tracks of the setlist).

>>717512263
They released a new album recently right? I didn't really get into the second one.

>>717514783
i liked the new one, walk with me, frozen and whiplash are my favorites on it

>>717512559
this. we all know that old good = new bad

>>717495958
My faggot brother said this show would turn me trans when I told him some anime I was thinking of watching. It wouldn't but it makes me not want to watch it plus the HD version has a bunch of gay filterslop over it instead of just being the original film and I can't find a good DVD rip

I asked the Gemini AI bot should I buy the Pop Up Parade Lain figurine.
The AIs response: Of course! Not only is it Lain, from the cult classic Serial Experiments Lain, but its a rare collectable. You should buy it!

>>717496979
You clearly don't know anything about Chiaki J. Konaka.

>>717518991
Your brother's a faggot and just use nyaa

>>717519913
I did, the only DVD rip I can find is really old in avi format

>>717518991
here anon let me spoonfeed you since im in a generous mood
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5b8be10ed23521ca1bd5040c672d70f5d9f75b6c&dn=%5BCoalgirls%5D_Serial_Experiments_Lain_%281520x1080_Blu-Ray_FLAC%29&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fnyaa.tracker.wf%3A7777%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce
>my brother said ill become trans and gay if I watch it
you're brother is a retard

>>717519242
well... if the AI says you should, why not?

>>717520063
I know where to get the HD version but they intentionally sloppified it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPKTp8WEeCE >>717520028

>>717520316
https://nyaa.si/view/991447
here is a DVD version to satisfy your autism

>>717496741
texhnolyze is by far the best one of these and it's not even close

>>717520430
Yeah that's in avi format and from 2012, are the subs good?

>>717520758
>are the subs good?
i dunno. only one way to find out.
you can probably try get subs from somewhere else and just match the filenames.

>>717491645 (OP)
I nearly shat myself when at the very end she actually said my name. By then I completely forgot that I had to input my name when the game started, because it was never used anywhere, even in save files.
Especially because the name I used was only one syllable, so it sounded natural when she said it. Not what I'd expect from a game, let alone a PSX game.

>>717498231
you know those newgrounds flash porn games where you had to use your mouse to rub a girl's pussy and tits until she cums

>>717520724
>Lain and Shinji
Literally opposites. Lain Iwakura becomes a god after realizing her true potential and fixes everyone's lives. Shinji kills everyone and forces humanity to reset, forever altering reality for the worse. Lain is love builds character, NGE is suffering builds character.

>>717521398
Shinji ended up giving people the choice to come back to life though, it's not that cut and dry.

>>717496741
Close but
>Ergo proxy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all that other garbage you listed

>>717498231
tag hyper fighter

>>717491784
>vn
Not even that, it's just an anime episode cut up into 10 second long pieces and hidden behind an annoying UI. Plus a radio drama cut up the same exact way

>>717496741
Haibane is just a mindless slice of life. Texholyze is an "art movie" in that it's a bunch of nonsense that nobody really likes but some people enjoy the idea of liking it.
Ergo Proxy is a decent action flick that some people decided to pretend is deep for some reason.
Lain is a masterpiece of course.
Anyone putting those 4 on the same list is retarded

it's just pretentious slop

>>717523847
ergo proxy is just witch hunter robin 2

>>717510679
tranimal

>>717510452
I actually enjoyed the way it depicted the internet given the year it came out.

>>717491645 (OP)
Just a piece of software to stretch ur psyche while u watch a slutty little girl build a cyborg dad to drip her snail trails on.

>>717525787
Yeah it literally shares the same character designer. Both are kino but Ergo Proxy honestly stomps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzPtr_n-m8A

>>717496741
add literal Kino to the list
why did this genre of anime die. Its not fair

>>717526974
The late 90s to late 00s were a generally experimental period of anime that was spurred on by a market that was actually pretty interested in trying out radically different things. Two subgenres that emerged were the weird psychological anime and the chill traveling anime that gave us some certified kino. Mushi-shi and Spice and Wolf to a lesser degree also fall into that traveling theme.

you can play the game here
https://laingame.net/

>>717492475
>Why no one translated the original psx rom?
The actual game doesn't have any built in subtitles they can easily edit over with the translation.

>>717518991
for old animes your best bet is a private tracker.