#Serial experiments lain intro song serial#
#Serial experiments lain intro song series#

It concluded saying that 'Serial Experiments Lain might not yet be considered a true classic, but it's a fascinating evolutionary leap that helped change the future of anime.' The author saluted Abe's 'crisp, clean character design' and the 'perfect soundtrack'.

#Serial experiments lain intro song series#

In 2005, Newtype USA stated that the main attraction to the series is its keen view on 'the interlocking problems of identity and technology'. It was praised by the Japan Media Arts Festival, in 1998, for 'its willingness to question the meaning of contemporary life' and the 'extraordinarily philosophical and deep questions'. Despite the show judged atypical, the critics responded positively to the thematic and stylistic characteristics. Words like 'weird' or 'bizarre' are almost systematically associated to review the series by English Language reviews due mostly to the freedoms taken with the animation and its unusual science fiction, philosophical and psychological context.

#Serial experiments lain intro song serial#

In 2009, Yoshitoshi ABe announced a spiritual sequel to Serial Experiments Lain called Despera who will reunited many of the staff who worked on Serial Experiments Lain, including Chiaki J Konaka and RyЕ«tarЕЌ Nakamura. Ueda and Konaka declared in an interview that the idea of a multimedia project was not unusual in Japan, as opposed to the contents of Lain, and the way they are exposed. A dЕЌjinshi titled 'The Nightmare of Fabrication' was produced by Yoshitoshi ABe and released in Japanese in the artbook Omnipresence in the Wired.

The scenario for the video game was written first, and the video game was produced at the same time as the anime series, though the series was released first. Producer Yasuyuki Ueda said in an interview, 'the approach I took for this project was to communicate the essence of the work by the total sum of many media products'. The Lain franchise was originally conceived to connect across forms of media (anime, video games, manga). Later, when he discovered that the American audience held the same views on the series as the Japanese, he was disappointed. This would lead to a 'war of ideas' over the meaning of the anime, hopefully culminating in new communication between the two cultures. He explained he created Lain with a set of values he took as distinctly Japanese he hoped Americans would not understand the series as the Japanese would.

Serial Experiments Lain was conceived, as a series, to be original to the point of it being considered 'an enormous risk' by its producer Yasuyuki Ueda.