Reviews for Serial Experiments Lain

NO SPOILER REVIEW This anime is definitely one of the strangest pieces of media I’ve seen. It’s like having a bad acid trip in an alternate world where technology is more advanced but it still feels like the present. Weird description but if you have seen the show you will know. The actual story is

I just want to make it very clear that even though most would consider a 6/10 show a 'bad' show, that isn't how my ratings work. I do like Serial Experimental Lain but when I compare it to some shows that I have given a 7/10, I just don't think that it is as strong as them. I don't necessarily hav

This anime was ahead of its time and tackles some interesting themes however, it does it in the most convoluted way possible. Didn't care for the overall story or any of the characters. Highly overrated anime for pseudo intellectuals.

7/10.

Yet another case of an anime (like Evangelion) being overhyped just for being different from other anime, with deep themes that aren't as complicated as the creator thinks they are. When your story can boil down to essentially The Matrix meets Pulse with weirdly a dash of Code Lyoko, you need to do

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