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| Twill be me next, I want lain to personally purge me. |
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| who is next?..... |
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| Man this show is just getting stranger and stranger haha |
| Just when I thought the story was going to take a more coherent turn my comprehension takes a nosedive. Hooked on the aesthetic and vibe this show gives off though, it gives me the heebie jeebies |
Villenno29May 31, 2023 3:16 PM
| I really hope that the anime will start explaining some things soon. I understand nothing. |
| Looks like Lain hacked the internet too much to the point that a 2nd world was created and her room looks like a whole Lab right now. She's definitely the #1 hacker in Japan to be able to hack street lights and what not, someone needs to stop her asap. |
| I really don't understand what's going on, but I can't stop to watch it, maybe we don't have a linear plot, and as suggest one quote of this episode, we have to link all the dots to understand what's happening. How intriguing! But what's the point of this episode? Why Lain says 'Who's the next?' ? And the Mika's part of the episode was disturbing, Is she into the Wired (which I haven't already understand what it is)? Let's figure it out |
| hly fk that episode just turnt everything up too max level. got deep. +_+ |
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waalex11Jul 24, 2023 8:37 PM
| its starting to get more interesting... |
三 刀 流 炎 无 |
| extremely quotable episode |
| Holy shit what a crazy and trippy episode. Man if anything this ep just made me feel worse for Mika with how reality looked like it was literally warping around her like a sick nightmare, all the weird paranormal shit happening around her with the message "fulfil the prophecy" were wild. She really does feel like this innocent bystander caught up in path of an tornado invisible in the story rn. The scene changes to Lain talking to various objects and her parents were interesting, i think the overarching message of them being along the lines of questioning God and their hand in deciding fate, came in quite nicely as it help present the idea of (I think anyway) the Wired creating or having it's own God somehow, and also in relation with the last scene, maybe the Wired is also starting to bleed into reality causing all these weird distortions of the virtual world and real world? The ending as well felt insane and like the icing on the cake for me. Both Mika's meeting one another, only one able to see the other and then the camera swapping to Lain's perspective and all we see about the second Mika is a ghostly shadow, honestly such a breath-taking scene that sparks so many new theories about the plot and Lain. Some of my own crack theories are, |
 "yabe." |
| ...okay what the actual FUCK That scene with two sisters was creepy af And I understand why this show is so "off", there's little to no background music, only background noise. Also faces, while stylised, are extremely uncanny in the way the emotions are portrayed. My man Taro is the real MVP of the episode lmao "Hey oneesan... u single? ;) wink wink" |
| Now her sister is caught up in all of this |
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| kinda good compare to other eps tbh. BUT In my humble opinion, we are facing some schizophrenia case or a case with a split personality. It's abnormal, make it end please And wtf is up with Lain's room? Is it room or the quintessence of pure chaos?? |
| The more episodes I watch, the more confused I get. This episode in particular made quite the revelations, but honestly I can't make much sense of them. For starters, it's the confirmation that there are 2 worlds: the real one, and the Wired one. The end of the episode highly indicated that, by showing us another Lain, more grown up, and also another Lain's sister. I'm still not quite sure if the Wired world is the one with the grown-up Lain or not, but I believe that it is, since Lain's sister had quite a trip in that World, so it would make sense for that to be the Wired world, where things can be easily controled. Also, it's clear that the Lain from the Wired is the one behind the weird stuff that is happening the real world (all of the hacking attacks). Not sure why she's doing that, but when she said by the end of the episode something along the lines of "Who's it now?" seems like she's choosing the next victim. My wild theory is that Lain is creating her own world in the Wired, where she is the "God" that is beloved by everyone, since it seems she lacks quite the affection of the family. This episode showed once again how dysfunctional that family is, and even raised the question if they are Lain's real parents (although that might be small Lain questioning their existence, in the case they are all a creation of the Wired). But this episode was really confusing. Are the Knights really a group of people? Or just Lain? And why did Lain's sister ended up in the Wired reality? Did she went there by herself or was Lain that put her there? Is Lain trying to make her sister agreeing to her ideals? Was the person talking to Lain in the beginning of the episode the Lain from the Wired? This is really confusing. Edit: Forgot to point it out, but the anime talked on how in the Wired (aka Internet), when a person gets too much power, they can actually change the real world, and honestly it's so true in the real time, there have been many people gaining influence solely on the internet, that then can influence what happens outside the Internet, even if they are powerless in the real world, which it's kinda scary how the anime predicted that. |
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