Serial Experiments LAIN intro

[OjaysReel]

Nothing comes close to this anime. In terms of the opening track, brilliant and quite reflective of how doubt feeds solitude and pushes the bounds of how meaning and existence are perceived. If I hadn't watched Ergo Proxy, this would definitely be my all time fave anime, though a close second to the former is nothing to be ashamed of! Beautiful music!

[Zhollamychalis]

My first anime on DVD. My first DVD ever. Memories. Arigato gozaimasu.

[mistylear19]

I really need to start watching this again...

[hotelmario510]

Theeee fuck just happened?

[CruseControl11]

WHAT THE HELL AM I WATCHING

[mistylear19]

@CruseControl11

One of my favourite animes.

[nikiwonoto]

Someone please tell me if there's other similar great anime like this one today?

I miss this kind of 'deep, mind-boggling' psychological/philosophical kind of anime..

it's not just an "anime", in fact, I would say it's truly a true work of ART.

[mistylear19]

@nikiwonoto

It wasn't made in present times, but if you haven't checked out Kino no Tabi, it's a great anime. It never really caught on in America, though, which is a shame. It's also a more philosophical anime, but in a different way than this.

[WildDevices]

@nikiwonoto Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. So perfect.

[khosrow]

@nikiwonoto i heared Boogiepop Phantom is similar. You should also look up Haibane Renmei and everything by Satoshi Kon.

[LoganBonify]

This song makes me feel okay about being lonely.

[CurtisWidow]

It's so, so sad...

[RaizerZ]

Shame most animes today pander to perverts and pedophiles. Nothing,but moe shit nowadays.

[YorkJonhson]

@RaizerZ This.

[tOOzinhO]

I watched that series twice and still dont know what was that all about

[silenthillvictim]

my personal favorite anime of all time!!!

[MatasTGvideo]

Lain is god!

[Spideysenses67]

amazing series criminally underatted

[ruthlesspopper]

one of the best animes of all time

[tjf588]

This comment posted: Present day.

[ScrewAttackEurope]

Is it me or does song remind anyone else of the Dido song, "Here with me"?

[Colton5]

Poor lain, her powers were used and abused and then she disappeared. Fucking companies and A.I.s ruin everything. lol

[Lythya]

My favorite anime of all time. Nothing is even close to beating it.

[Jecht111]

AHAahAhhaAHhahahAHAaHAHhAHAhaa­

[SnowmanDrugoBoy]

I love it, too...

[Shintaka9009]

Why does the brain hurt.

Why was the alien watching-

God I love this series and I don't know why.

[kittenkraze13]

present day... heh... present time. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[SarronTan]

Dude, me and my friend watched this whole series one time and we woke up her brother 'cause we kept going, "Present day... heh... present time. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"

[zouhairone]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[chenalos]

Damn I love this series.  I'd not be afraid to call it downright prophetic. Back in the late 90's, just before the e-boon this show already had a bead on exactly where networks would take us. The way the show laid out how an information culture would structure itself was uncanny.

[AeronPrometheus]

@chenalos I remember hearing that SEL mentions on an in-show news blip that the human genome had been successfully mapped by scientists not long before it actually happened in real life. Prophetic indeed.

[SimonaNeko]

Wonderful ....

[123tam000]

lol, this is the show is all about the human shift in consciousness :)

if you find it depressing you are missing the entire premise - heh, I AM GOD !! :D

[TheBackseatJesus]

SPOILERS You don't find it depressing that Lain had to erase herself from peoples minds? END SPOILERS

[Azotadeth]

It does sound depressing, but then again, Lain surpasses and trascends her mere human form, and her intra-web form and purpose as well.

She returns to where and what she should be, and becomes potentially eternal and one with humanity, that doesn't sound shabby enough to be sad, does it ?

[nagual2012]

yeah

anyway its a beauty sad end jijiji XDDD,

[dzlilb0i]

Serial Experiments Lain and Paranoia Agent are 2 anime shows that gave me the biggest mindfucks ever.

[DameEater]

I suggest to watch this anime dubbed(even if you prefer sub) They actually do a fairly good job on it, but the main reason you should is because SEL is a very VISUAL anime, and having to read subtitles the whole time excludes you from taking in the anime as a whole.

Thanks for the upload. :]

[ShiftyKapone001]

if you enjoyed the deepness and the little things that seem meeningless but are very relivant in this show then watch haibane renmei.

[flyingkittencow]

it makes you think, that doesn't make it depressing and terrible.

[Weakenedasiam]

God, I love this anime so tremendously much.

It's so complex and intricate, I still don't completely understand all its subtleties.

Moreover, I adore this song. Let's hope my teacher lets me use it for the AP Lang assignment...

[hurricanecroniclesXD]

it's dubbed and it's preety wet.

[patriciocio]

this anime speaks about the freedom that offers the Internet, the worldwide web communication. we are all connected, we choose, we can do lot of things that on real society cant do. we feel free surfing, talking and saying anything we want... we can express ourselves... and the imagination, happens all only on our heads, with no real interlocutors, has no bandages.

you can miss between those two worlds.

but is not a real freedom... if u depend on this virtual state, the flesh becomes slave.

[markowhisper]

I certainly agree on this, but further i think this anime shows the identity crisis/issue that exists on lain iwakura and her questionings about what it's real in her life, and talkin even further, when lain becomes god, it's what someone can call: when she loses her ego, she becomes nothing and everything for every human alive.

[AZURA888]

And the guilt belongs to north americans film industries for making believe that anime is only and "alone" for children, thanks to disney and warner u morons, but all people who has seen Lain agree This is one of the most complex series, much more than a lot of hollywood's stupid movie histories.

[AZURA888]

superb

[Hotaruzuki]

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!! (I cant stop)

[gumshoeforyou]

Love this intro. I've seen this sublime anime ~3 times. During university, I wrote a paper on it for my Japanese Media class. My interpretation was that the anime documents Lain's journey through Kierkegards (last three) spheres of existence (aesthetic, ethical, and religious).

The thesis was:

The protagonist, Iwakura Lain, must advance through Kierkegards spheres of existence and, ultimately, reconcile analog and digital encodings of human essence in order to attain self-actualization.

[ErgoProxySum]

Hmm, sounds pretty good, you seem to be one of the few to truly understand a lot of this. Except, you must not forget that lain, through introspection, reestablished her existence as a deity at the end of the series. Also, its fairly limiting to refer to the story as "reconciling analog and digital encodings. Nice to hear relevant oppinions though, they are few and far between.

[unrealboot1]

is this really boa it doesnt sound like her voice

[86kittyangel10]

The opening song is by a british band called Bôa, not the korean singer BoA.

Hope that helps. ^-^

[skillroad1337]

bj....n1

[daevaexorganum]

Sublime...

[kauru03]

i actually only just started watching this so i dont know if its revealed later but why in the begining does it say "present day...present time HAHAHAHA"?

[willfreedo]

Ive watched it about 4 times entirely and, to be honest, I still don't get that very well XD

[Adnamra]

This anime is about an idea about the world can be turned on, if the technology becomes so much more advanced than human beeing. It also shows very well the domination of machine over people, and the anime ends up by people beeing destroyed by those technology.

[willfreedo]

Umm... but he was asking about the "present day...present time HAHAHAHA" part. Does that answer it and I dont get it neither?

[Adnamra]

i dont know for sure xD but can be related on the things what are happening into the anime, are also going on our present time.

[ErgoProxySum]

Humans dont get destroyed by the technology, I beleive you missed something. The only human that you could even partially assumed was Lain. There is no machine domination, merely machine as a vehicle for the human mind to become something else entirely.

[Frankablu]

It's revealed later,

Present day is the setting

Present time means everything shown is happening now.

In the last episode what happens at present day and present time is rewritten.

[squishyblanket]

i has the mp3 of this :D

[artismylife92]

layer 12 is the best layer in this series

and this is somehow addictive even though i don't understand everything in it

it's amazing what animes like this have inside them

full of surprises

[mehicepipienelrio]

nice job!!!

[Pfisiar22]

There a few themes i see in this:

1. The absence of a divine presence

2. The human desire for connection with other humans.

3. The utter failing of technology in facilitating our communication.

4. The disturbing and ugly nature of that twilight world known as the internet.

[hj319]

one of the last great anime of the 90's. Thanks for posting!

[Margorion]

My friends came sometimes to me and say that Anime is only for Children...This is always my Answer. I dont know any more complicated serie or film.

I love it, thanks for this two great minutes(and sorry for my stupid english^^).

[artismylife92]

you're friends are wrong. try making them watch a really good anime and see if they like it.

[boojaeXyunnie]

i love this anime! i watched it like a few years ago. it was awsome!

[vikmega]

did you understand it, i was lost.

[NecrosisOfLight]

Argh, it has 1 simple layer of interpretation, but even the creators of the anime themselves haven't bothered to think it all out.

1 interpretation (that fits suprisingly well) is that the entire anime is simply a metaphor for technology's making Lain (in this instance, she represents society) even more isolated paradoxically as it makes her more connected.

[willfreedo]

Simply a metaphor about social isolation? What on earth did you watch? Forgot to turn on the screen during the 13 episodes?

[NecrosisOfLight]

No I'm sure it speaks deep eternal truths about existence, and its only my thinly veiled disgust that prevents my realziing it.

Grow up. Philosophy does not have to be especially deep to be moving.

[susana1950]

Y LOVE THIS SONG WONDERFULL

[jimbim121]

Does anybody know how old Lain is? Just wondering.

[simsimonsim]

about 14

[jimbim121]

Thanx

[JimmydelaKopin]

Fifteen. It says her age indirectly in the anime.

[jimbim121]

OIC thanks!

[Fnord23Gnosis]

I like the fact that it hints at what leary and wilson have said about evolving circuits of the humin consciousness on this time stream.

Morphogenetic fields, Protocol 7, Circuit 7. Large doses of LSD or DMT, low doses of ketamine.

Then again, the verichip corporation could do this by mistake with the NWO.

Go research the 8 circuit model of consciousness by timothy leary and robert anton wilson

[Lucas311Revival]

I love everything about SE Lain

[jimbim121]

And i also LOVE this song

[jimbim121]

I love this show

[lmaalen]

And do any of you know what was first made? The Anime or the PS-game? I've heard the Anime was first created, but the PS-game was first released.....

I only watched the first episode of this, but I'm already hooked;)

[JimmydelaKopin]

Videogame. Anime made to help sell it. Unfortunately, didn't work. Still the best anime ever made, though.

[Leoncharlesblanc]

Er? I thought the video game was made in addition to the anime, not vice versa?

[datcyde]

does any one know where to get this song for myspace?

[datcyde]

nevermind i found it.

[NamelessTurtle]

Looks like a work of art.

[stephcla]

This song is soo cool, it suits greatly to the serial expermients lain, touch of existentialism in an anime series, such a great show though i never fully understood it

[Kasume]

awsome song

[ohangelinaa]

boa sounds like dido.

AHHH

[Kasume]

thought the same here too

[lalalalala09]

this is the anime from my childhood . thei passed in the tv long time ago . i didnt understand shit but i knew is life was sad .. i know that i think everyones life is sorta like that

[jujula]

hahahahahaaa mine too! i was only like 9 and i like TRIED to understand this show the whole time i was "wtf"

[CuteSasukeLuver]

i think i was 8 lol

[Strongbad662000]

yeah, i always get so depressed when i watch this anime.its really good.

[MissLovery]

this anime brings me down everytime i watch it...but i love it!!! xD

[OokamiYasha89]

^.^ i love this song...its perfect or the anime!! XD

[AnimeFan19]

Yup I felt the same way! I love this show~

[pingofdeth]

What song is it?

[yuri2004x]

DUVET, performed by Boa (the british band, not the jpop singer).

[LeiliMana]

I love the Intro!

The english from Boa is so good!!!

At first I thought an American sang it! XD

[catbootz]

Sorry to disappoint you, but it was actually by a British band called Bôa, not the Korean artist BoA. Confusing, huh? ^-^

[Vielleruka]

but why when I looked up the music video it was BoA that is confusing, unless that wasn't BoA and I was mistaken >.<

[HimeruYume]

...it's BoA I'm pretty sure...

[ingraman]

It's by a British band called Boa.

[JimmydelaKopin]

It's boa, British bnd fronted by sibling pair Jasmine and Steve Rodgers, not K-pop star Boa Kwan. She did the Inu-Yasha theme instead.

[zackeman]

Indeed awesome, very good intro as well.

[shadowraven9]

That was a awsome Anime ^.^