The OP is magnificent, and surprisingly enough sung in English. It's worth noting that certain songs are contextual cues in the show and play into the plot in a small way. There isn't a strong use of background music in the show, but this scarcity only makes the few tracks that do make an appearance stand out all the more. The atmosphere invoked by the humming of electrical lines, the pulsing of cars through the arteries of streets, the whirring of computer's internal organs and so on is eerie and surreal. His character designs are stunning and the choices in set design and visual presentation make it clear that there was a very strong level of communication between ABe and Nakamura and Ueda, the director and producer respectively. The artwork is the product of Yoshitoshi ABe. The titular character of the show and her interactions with people from different walks of life comprise the vehicle through which these ideas are explored. There are a plethora of easter eggs, references and philosophical ideas thrown at the viewer, often related to the concept of self in an online world. This review), but by the same token is incredibly rewarding for the viewer willing to put some proper effort into working out what is going on or do some extra research about the show after having seen it. It's recklessly abstruse and will put off many viewers (just like the opening of This bizarre method of storytelling is done by presenting the viewer with one apparent sequence of events and character interactions, then retroactively reinterpreting them in later episodes.
The key to this is in the writers' careful decision to leave multiple coherent interpretations of the plot open to the viewer, in essence creating (at least) two separate (but thematically connected) stories with the one show.
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Under its apparition of slow pacing and dull characters, their lies in the depths of Serial Experiments Lain the most unique method of storytelling I have ever seen. In the end though it will be worth your time and you will feel the satisfaction of have watched an anime classic that helped you to open your mind. You must take a time after each episode to interpretate what you just watched. Then again remember that it is not an action-packed shonen that you can marathon. SEL is not "worth a shot", it is much better and much more reccomendable than most anime out there. The soundtrack is great and the intro song is one of my favourites. It seems like a low budget production that some genius turned into a masterpiece (like Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs), but it is not really an issue and the characters expressions are really good. That's probably the most beautiful thing about SEL: everyone perceives it different and has an unique interpretation of it, and there are not rights or wrongs. There is an interesting theory that Lain is a personification of Jesus and that the whole serie is an interpretation of Christ's life. In this context SEL's plot is essentialy a psychological thriller driven by different situations that at first seem like random events with philosophical deepness but that in the end are connected with Lain's nature and her interpretation of the world. The story presents some of the major teenage issues of modern Japan (suicide, technology addiction, careless parenting) and connects them with a sci-fi plot. All I am going to say is that is amazing. I am not going to breakdown the story for you.
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I'll simply put it this way: you can't watch SEL "just for fun", it requires your full atention and sometimes you will have to stop and re-think what you just watched. SEL uses (and abuses) your intelligence and your darkest feelings
While other anime want to simply amuse you, SEL tries to connect with you and tries to create some kind of "bond" between you and your conscious, pretty much what NGE and GhitS do (or try to).
Honestly is very difficult to write a review as my brain is trying to recover from the mind-melting experience of watching Serial Experiments Lain, but I am going to do my best. I recently finished one of the most iconic and groundbreaking anime in history.
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