The Philosophy Behind Serial Experiments Lain | Anime Analysis
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- It's time try and explain as much as I can about one of the most confusing anime's I have ever had the pleasure to watch. I love this show and had a hell of a time picking it apart to come to a understanding of it and I hope you enjoy this video analysis of Serial Experiments Lain.
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this is the only anime i've watched where i finished it and had absolutely no clue what i just watched. def not a bad show but i couldnt tell you what happened if you paid me
I still don't fully understand Evangelion
@@maeannengo4908
it took me years to understand EVA.
@@mryoshi1221 if you can give links to explainers and such, it will be greatly appreciated
@@maeannengo4908A translation of the title gives a clue: The Evangelion of the new generation. Get it?
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oh it took years of rewatching, but theres plenty of videos on here im sure
this poor child , a child born with a psycosis , was experimented on. though not shown in the film she had a stuffed dog she wanted alive and built a mechanical sub frame , effectively making the first bio mechanical AI. it was she who cut her hair in that odd style.
what is bro cooking
@@exkhaelidk
from the ps game!!
@@tanyah6655 i see
Hmm what
Plastic Memories, Monogatari, Koe No Katachi and now Serial Experiments Lain? That’s a pretty great selection to make videos about i must say. I hope you’ll stick to your current trajectory and keep uploading, as I’m really enjoying these video essays.
Thank you!
@@socksenseiexquisite cultred people shit. W.
I thought i was "intelligent" To be able to comprehend evangelion, oh boy i was wrong
Just finished the anime at 8am after a one sleepless nigh.. The only thing i need right now is answers
9:14 this is so true, I ve been recently thinking about this non stop and it kinda started to scare me.
Like if I were to wake up tomorrow in a new timeline, I would never think about existence of another one since the "new" timeline I am living in is the true one since my memories would probably be aligned to it.
Maybe I ll wake up tomorrow and look at my pc and be like "oh timeline didn't change, my pc is still here, my comment is still on this video" but in a way, how can I be sure?
Solid analysis my dude 👍
As a child of the eighties and nineties, this series resonated with me so much when I first watched it. I remember feeling at the time that my memories were being assimilated by The Cloud and that hard facts and all that I had learned up until those days when I first watched this were being slowly consigned to the Internet. I like this anime because it mirrors my own descent into the world of computers, religion, and philosophy. A place where the edges blur and it takes a subtle stab at where the average person can no longer tell the difference. Superb series.
Would've been nice if you covered the documentary scenes from episode 9 & how they relate to real life & the progression of today's technology.
I’m looking for someone who already did that
the concept of multiple lain created by the other people,it seemed a lot like "one, no one,one hundred thousand",at my advice one of the best novel ever created written by pirandello were every single person has a different version of you inside their memory that it is completely different from how you percieve yourself
This is one of the best analysis of lain i have seen
"Omni-potent"
It feeels like the story creator of this show was from future.The show is way ahead of time.Its actuallly REEEL world vs REAL world😎.
"Is Lain God or a god?"
Considering it's Japan, lower-case. Neither Shintoism nor Buddhism have a monotheistic "God."
Confusing yes but there's a certain charm to it.
Lets all love lain!
Can't Wait to Hear an intro to a youtube video like this one..but for Blame!
Yes i am blasting doom music
A Surreal Drug Trip of an Anime That was on Tech T.V, G4 Tech T.V. ,G4. along with The Magical Shopping Arcade of Abenobashi. Serial Experiments Lain needs to be viewed a few times to understand it. I miss D V Dues day.
If “The god is the creator and if you created being then are you the GOD” didn’t change your perspective nothing else ever will
2013 childish Gambino would love this show in the concept of existence and reasoning
Fuck I too watched it after hearing Joey talk about it in a short like 2 weeks ago😂😂...wtf, I didn't understand tf going on so I am here 💀....
I watched it in the past but dropped it. Maybe I didn’t understand it or it wasn’t my taste at the time
Pretty sure lain is an ai and the world of lain is just a simulation to see capabilities of lain
anyone else first hear about the anime from that 9/11 video
This video makes me feel gay for liking Serial Experiments: Lain. God damnit, I'm not gay for liking Serial Experiments: Lain. You're gay
You need Jesus.
The video was great , but i think you are wrong about something you said "for something to be real it must exist" but something can exist and not be real , like our imagination. It exist in our minds but it may not be real . Although i think you meant existing physicaly
your mind exist along with your imagination because you can perceive it. While I may not be able to physically see it, it's still real, you can still describe to me what it's like, and I can gain a grasp of it even if it's not physically in front of me. The line between reality is very ambiguous, but the way I see it existence has various forms. I don't know how I described it in this video to be honest, I made it 2 years ago now lol.
What is this, philosophy?
i lost a braincell watching this
Dear brother, do yourself a Big Favor, Read The Holy Quran, and pray to God Almighty, Lord of the worlds to enlighten you with His guidance and wisdom out of these ignorant paradoxes.
There is just One God worthy of worship, He is Allah Almighty, Creator of worlds to Whom belongs everything, and yes He is Omnipotent, All-knowing, All-powerful and much more. You have to take knowledge of Him from His Words not from other sources, if you want Truth about God and not falsehood.
May Allah Almighty guide and protect you!
1. Say (O Muhammad ()): "He is Allah, (the) One.
2. "Allah-us-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks).
3. "He begets not, nor was He begotten;
4. "And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him."
what are you yapping about bro
Bad show
I, too, struggled to understand Serial Experiments Lain until I came across an explanation that, for the most part, plugged up all of the holes. That is, Lain is either a deity or an AI who understands the nature of the physical world. In either case, she wanted to experience life as a human. For this experience, Lain had to block all her memories of being a deity or AI.
Hum mate, the hypothesis you're trying to get to is explained literally in the series. It's first insinuated by Tachibana's guys, then explained clearly by Masami (and partially her 'dad'), so it doesn't need any interpretation...
it isnt explained very clearly@@user-cg7gd5pw5b
Oh dang that's deep....
You're a genius
I finished watching it last night, for the love of god someone headpat and hug this poor girl please.
This is a very well-done analysis. How this only has 30 views is beyond me. I hope you get big. I see a lot of potential with this channel.
Thank you so much! Hearing things like this means the world to me!
The video only exists within who has observed the video, to the rest of the population this video is non-existent.
Be patient bruv it's 89k now
I’ve watched lain twice and even after watching this video I still have no clue what’s going on half the time
my fault i'll do better next time
@@socksensei i dont think hes saying its your fault the entire show is just a total mind fuck in the most amazing way possible
@@socksenseimy band has a new video called For Lain, a love letter/tribute of sorts.
And I Don't Seem To Understand~.
Lain is the Metal Gear Solid 2 of anime
accurate
most accurate comment, rare to see someone who understood mgs2 lol
Factual
I love metal gear
@@arhum1224 metal gear solid 2 is when soli- NO THAT IS NOT SOLID SNAKE and Raiden from honkai impact (the gacha one) come together and talk about cool ass mechs
You know that the anime is wild when someone starts to become a philosopher
i am balling i am faded i have losterol -lain
Hi. I really like your Lain video, and there’s some ideas you bring up here I’d like to reference in a video I’m making this month. The video will follow a literature review format, wherein I plan to survey how multiple video essayists on YT have approached making meaning out of Lain. Please let me know if you don’t want me to quote you / your ideas (which may include audio/visual snippets from your video). Either way, thank you for adding to the conversation on Lain on YT!
You're free to use any part of the video you like! Glad you enjoyed it!
@@socksensei Much appreciated. Thank you!
@@snakeeyedreams8181 No problem!
Dude rock on man thank you for your response and review to this awesome anime from back in the day
Back in the early 2000s me and some friends were buying up a ton of Anime, and I got this because it was there. No clue what it was. I watched it alone first then with my friends. It was just as fun seeing their reactions as the show. We must have sat there talking about it trying to figure it out for hours. Completely sober BTW. 😂
I of course then found the Boa CD with the song Duvet from the intro. Fun music fact, the singer & guitarist are the kids of Paul Rogers..lead singer of Free, Bad Company, the Firm and Queen (for a little bit in the 2010s)
I like your breakdown & enthuasiam for the series. I do believe however, that there are lot more concepts to unpackage here or at the very least there's more to add to what you brought to the table with this video.
I think you've scratched the surface. Great job
It really does address the societal issues that are relevant today and will be increasingly as we spend more of our time on the internet and even digitalize our human connections. Although the plot was convoluted and hard to follow, I like how it was only secondary to the emotions and themes that drive it, compacting so many existential questions and exploring them through her journey. What is reality? Who am I? How many am I? Love?! Collective unconsciousness?! God?!?!
It’s currently 4:45 and I’m going to watch episodes 11-13 later, my head hurts 😭
real same for me
same!!!!
This is a very interesting notion that future events dictate the past
Its like throwing cards in the past and when you open them that is the future of those back then unfolded cards. Truly life is a gamble.
What is dead and what is alive>>>>>? Memories are what keep us alive in the plane of existence and when they fade away , its death//////
TRASH TASTEEEEE!!!!!! I LOVE THEMMMMM OMLLLLLLLLLL + i needed this analysis so bad 😭😭 THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! all the best for the future of your channel!
Bro, to be honest
I still don't understand this anime
never watched anime at all other than moominvalley (if you consider that anime), but this might make me watch anime
I remember watching this when I was 12. It was a mind fuck then. I need to rewatch it now so I can understand more of what was going on.
You should check out paranoid agent if you haven't yet
I was not prepared for this but great video
LET'S ALL LOVE LAIN!
guys do u know animes like this , I need more 😂
Check out technolyze
Monster.
It was the second anime i ever watched, and i probably will not find a better one. (i watched laine like 2 weeks ago :D)
That may also be, because i just started working in IT and was hooked by every bit of this show immediately.
Anyways, great video!
I think it's a bit early before you make statements like that xd
@@Ph4lip well, its not like i have 0 clue about anime, i have looked around for stuff that i like, but there hasn't been much that i was geniunely interested in. And that show took my interest over the top, thats something that only a few RL-shows have achieved so far for me. So, yeah i understand what you're saying, but i still think its kind-of true :D
@@___aZa___ Is it just that conventional story telling isn't for you? In that case it couild just be your general taste for all types of fiction. But if you're looking for Animes that dive into themes that could be life changing, I'd recommend Monster and Vinland Saga. For more obscure stuff similiar to Lain, I'd recommend Neon Genesis Evangelion, Aku No Hana, or Mangas such as Junji Ito collection or Blood on the tracks.
If you're looking for something extremely depressing I'd recommend reading Oyasumi Punpun. Most of these things are not very mainstream except for Vinland Saga and Neon Genesis, so you might not have heard of them.
@@___aZa___ To be honest this show was really amazing and had me really perceiving reality differently and i do agree it is a show that will never have the same feeling. But i do agree with @Ph4lip that i think its a bit early before u judge that there wont be another anime that is better or this good as like this.For example try to watch ergo proxy,texhonlyze and monster then share your opinion with me to see if it is still the same
@@___aZa___I've felt the same way about Evangelion, it was the second anime I watched and I connected with it so much that nothing else interested me, this was the closest anything has gotten with me finishing it twice (I've watched Evangelion 8 times)
what podcast is this at 0:22 that you were referring to?
Trash taste
This is just a random bloke talking abut the things he felt. Didn't explained $#¡+.
The story goes that Lain is a program given a physical body by a cult--The Knights--that wants to merge the physical and virtual realm to give people immortality after death. She had to be given a physical body to achieve this--to be on both planes. Her father works for the company that the cult is a subsidiary of and was in charge of taking care of Lain as a proxy. Because of her nature as a program--and I guess also as a teenage girl, she was naturally drawn to the wired. And because of the fact that she is a program, the more she delves into the wired, the more the nature of her as a program starts to distort reality. When she entered the wired, there are multiple versions of her because she is omnipresent within the wired. She is the goddess of the wired. And the more she enters it, the more the goals of the cult comes closer but Lain herself sees the backlash of such. The hallucinations of those around her, the crossings of reality and the wired. Even before she even enters the wired, those distortions she sees--like the black pixelations with the bloodpools--she later comes to realize is because of her own existence. Because she was in proximity, it probably led to her classmate's death, her false sister's hallucinations, the shooter at Cyberia unaliving himself. Things from the wired and her own mind were manifesting in the real world. After her confrontation with Eiri--the leader of the Knights and temporary standing God of the wired--that manifested in the real world that traumatized her friend Alice, she decides to delete herself from people's memories with her powers as a goddess realized. She knows that if she just deletes herself from others' memories, she can control the harm that she presents to the world and she chooses to use her powers that she tapped into to safeguard people instead of becoming what she was intended for.
God was never created. He always was and always will be. Easy
Poor Lain bro, she is still questioning her existence and come to the conclusion that she should be just forgotten and be alone, my heart cant take it bro
The answer to this anime is simple. The anime answers this itself. Solipsism is the main idea and it’s trying to justify the idea by refuting “god”. The whole show is a God complex. It touches on multiple different forms of beliefs about existence, but it settled on the idea that one only exists within itself and nothing else is real. That’s why the last episode of lain is so chill, because she excepted that she’s the only reality. Hence, making her god.
I think as a surrealist show you can away pretty much anything you want from Lain. With the aliens, everyone being in the Wired, and the shot of their city near the end being small and surrounded by darkness could mean that all of this is just a computer program/simulation. There was also that drug introduced near the begining that makes your sense of time move much slower so all of this could be Lain on the drug, which is why towards the start of the show she is very spaced out and slow to learning and acts “different” when everyone else sees her. All these theories are correct because as you said the show never tells you exactly what is correct
Amazing analysis, sub!
I finished the anime just now and I was really confused about this damn alien, can someone explain :D ?
Gonna be taking mushrooms and watching this on my weekend. Let you know how I feel.🎉😊😊😊
So? How was it???
Amazing explanation I still don’t get why I use those videos to learn English
Sometimes nonsense is just that.
I love this explanation and I love how you added that this isn’t hundred percent true just your thoughts, goes so well with the concept of the show
Found it as the GAY BAR. Music video
Came here to understand what the f I just watched and i actually did just finish the show at 4:00 AM 😂😂
Bruh I ain’t got no Idea what this guy talkin bout I’m even more confused😂
What was that song at the end?!?! its killing me. I know ive heard it from something.
no thanks, im already too depressed
fair
god i fucking love this show dude
real
So like, how do i get my brain and consciousness back ?
Blue gender > evangelion > lain > paranoia agent > haibane renmei > ergo proxy
If you understand those icons then you completely are an exceptional philosopher
Imagine watching this anime but on weed it would of been so trippy
God = love (unconditional) I.e true (eternal)
god = love (conditional) I.e false (temporal)
What’s with 90’s anime and philosophical brain mush?
Reminds me of...all kind of things
0:55 "Compact and entertaining' would be last words that come out my mouth when thinking about this Anime
"compact" is fine but "entertaining" is straight up wild
Reminds me Matrix.
3 minutes in and I have not thought about any of these ideas
This is making me think
Only good thing bout it is the 90s asthetics and electronic hardware, everything else bout it sucks
Heck no
What it has to do with the word "serial experiments"
I will forgor this next day
My brother had this show on VHS back when I was like 14-ish. Freaked me out , especially the alien thing.
I found out about this anime on tiktok of all places 😅
Really? From who?
Same
oh god, not tiktok
What's the music in the outro? It's so chill I love it, I want more
寂しん坊 · No Words
idk if this was good choice for me but this is the fourth anime that I've finished watching and I tried to make it make sense it opened up a whole more question
Not smth you’d watch so early unless you are well-read in philosophy
I feel enlightened.
yeehoo I also just finished it at 4am 🎉
Same dude actually it’s 4:11 but damn when I finished the show I was a bit confused
I've been watching this over and over again since I was, like, 10.
Bring it on.
This saved me life. W vid. W BBC. W analysis. Allahu Akbar
9:30 Jesus is the true truth and God isn’t a liar. Great video overall.
I LOVE this anime
I loved watching this Anime back then! It was so ahead of its time!
SINCERAMENTE, O QUE É O TEMPO, NÉ?
The whole collective consciousness narrative made me think of the noosphere philosophy in Metro 2033 and STALKER. An anime, following the Metro 2033 book, would work out really well, if done right
Lain is like those tiktok girls who spent their life on the internet hence acting snobbish for being more modern than anyone else 😂
lol
Posting before watching the entire video:
My first experience with Serial Experiments Lain was while high out of my mind, and it was a trip and a half. The animation and weird SFX on it, mixed up with my already somewhat distorted view of reality in that state made the perfect concoction for my brain.
Technically God did create many ‘gods’ .. He created everything. So He is all powerful.. to create another as powerful as Himself, I’m sure is possible too. But there is no point. He is already everywhere and everything. God is not one thing in one place, so to make another would mean taking Himself out of a place to put Himself back in it. Possible but pointless, it’s already done.