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| Does she have another personality or something since people seem to know her in the club and her friend mentioned that as well in the previous episode? |
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| What is even going on at this point. Not that I knew what was going on in episode 1, but we are at episode 3 and I'm still completely lost. This episode confirmed that Wired is indeed a kind of online world, where people assume a persona and do stuff. It's unclear if Cyberia is located in the Wired or not, but I'm certain some scenes of the anime so far have taken place there. This episode there was another entity at Lain's doorstep, and this time it was a car with 2 red lights, similar to the red lights from the gun of last episode. By the end of the episode we can see that the car was from those guys in the black suit (they had those things in their head with the red lights, which means they were especially targeting Lain), which we can imagine to be the "Knights" mentioned in the episode, the ones that are distributing the "Psyche", the chip that Lain received. The anime is still confusing regarding what Lain really knows, because sometimes it's like Lain knows exactly what's happening, and then asks some random kids how to connect the Psyche to the Wired. But at this point, I even question if she's a real person, or just some kind of AI. I mean, she couldn't even say Arisu, her friend's name. And what happened to her family the night the shooting happened? Her dad also seems to be unable to maintain a talk with Lain that isn't about the Wired, since he completely lost interest in talking to Lain when she asked what the Psyche was. And her mother is also really strange, there's some random dudes at her doorstep, and she's just like "just another day I guess", just like in episode 1. Lain's older sister seems to be the only sane person in that household. Anyways, the end of the episode was really curious, because it really indicated that not only was Lain acting different than usual (and without her usual clothes), but also that we or the sister were only talking to a computer screen, which further shows that Lain might really be just an AI, or is not trapped in the Wired. The anime still is really confusing overall, and I can't really understand what's going on. I guess I'll need to keep on watching. Edit: Forgot to mention, but there was a scene where we heard some girl being blackmailed by a "kid with a red skirt and t-shirt with green striped", I don't know about the t-shirt, since she wears a coat, but Lain is using a red skirt. So Lain really must be blackmailing people in the Wired with personal information getting leaked. Lain isn't the person we are being shown, that's for sure. I think the "wild" Lain is connected to Lain, in some way or another. |
PokefanPTFeb 26, 8:37 AM
| A Lain aprende logica de programação na escola. E esse anime é de 1999, os caras são muito visionários |
| Lots of setup. Repeated intrigue hooks. |
| Not as interesting as the first two. Lain got the special hardware though. |
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