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Serial Experiments Lain Volume 2 
Details
Director: Ryutaro Nakamura
Catalogue Number: MVD2020
Certificate: PG
Date Released: March 8th 2004
Screen: Fullscreen 4:3
Languages: Japanese ; English - Dolby Digital (2.0)
Stereo
Subtitles: English
Duration: 75 minutes
Special Features
- Conceptual artwork
- Hidden extras
- Trailers
- Interactive menu
- Chapter selection
Synopsis
A super hacker group that has large effects in the wired. No one knows who the members are, but they can control information and sometimes develop and distribute illegal information equipment. The KNIGHTS are trying to make lain do something... When lain metaphorizes her physical self into the wired to search for an answer of incidents that kids commit suicide. She finds that the KNIGHTS are behind this incident. One day, a group of men in black suits contacted lain, they asked "Are those people who you live with really your parents? Are you lain of the wired? Who are you really?".
layer 05: Distortion
layer 06: Kids
layer 07: Society
Cover
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To view the whole cover... click here
Reviews
If David Lynch was commissioned to direct an anime series he would probably come up with something similar to Lain. This is not a typical animated series, it is weird it is confusing and it is wonderfully hypnotic. Lain centres on a 13 year old girl by the name of Lain Iwakura. Lain is a shy and distant girl that has her life turned upside down when she receives an email from a friend that committed suicide a few days earlier. This strange event results in Lain becoming more and more interested in the 'wired'; a sort of Internet v2.0 in which the boundaries between real life communication and digital communication are difficult to distinguish. As she becomes more proficient in the ways of the wired the lines between the two realities become increasingly blurred.
Visually Lain is a beautiful patchwork of differing visual styles. There are stark colours and clean lines in the 'real world' which are juxtaposed with the vibrancy and complexity of the wired. As the series progresses these two styles begin to merge with greater regularity which produces some stunning visual effects.
The soundtrack is also up to the high standards set by the animation. The theme tune by Boa is an ideal lead in track to the series and is quite unusual for an anime programme. Likewise the music throughout is a perfect accompaniment to the images with more and more digitally produced music being used as the show progresses.
Lain is an exceptional series that will intrigue and
confound you in equal measure. Its unusual narrative structure and lack
of any real closure will put some people off, but for those that are sick
of watching identikit anime and want something that will provide you with
the opportunity to think then I urge you to seek out a copy.
Lain is essential viewing as long as you don't mind being challenged.
9/10
(Adam Cook, Anime Boredom)