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We will often hear Lain asking herself: is there something wrong with her? Why? Why can’t she just be ordinary? And even when she starts feeling ordinary, why she continues to feel alone and without friends? On efficiency, not on people’s well being.īeing different, weak and vulnerable in a similar world means being on the losing side in the battle for life. Japan has a society that focuses heavily on the collective, not the individual.

The two Lains of these alternative universes are, indeed, the same person, but they were put into different contexts and situations that will lead them to live drastically different and totally disconnected experiences.īut the main themes remain the same there is a heavy criticism towards the Japanese society of the time, where everything that really mattered was being ordinary, where there was no space for a private life which had to be hidden like a secret never to be revealed, because if it was found out, you were finished. The initial project involved only a game.
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If you are expecting something similar to the anime, you are misguided: the TV series was born to sponsor the game and not the other way around. It’s basically a visual novel, narrated through the use of a collection of files which will make possible recreate the story of Lain and of every character close to her. I’ll start talking about the game mechanics instead of the plot.
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It was published for Playstation in November 1998, it’s divided in two CDs and since I’ve completed the first one, I can only briefly talk about it before I can go back to the full game experience in the future and talk about the, alas spoilering, last part. What I present you today is an article about the first part of game dedicated to the dear Lain Iwakura, because yes, a videogame exists.
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We can say we worked hard to pay serial experiments lain, a series which irreversibly transformed my life, a worthy homage. I also wrote a review about the anime, already translated, that you can find here. I started writing an “analysis” that one day I’ll complete and will be subsequently translated in English by Idreim, our lovely collaborator.
