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• One Candle, a Thousand Points of Light: An online discussion of the /Xanadu/ meme
• We tell you about the role of NFTs in the construction of metaverses
• [WIW] Serial Experiments Lain - 0Megabyte's ReWatch, 6 years on.
• Redshift #34
• Ted Nelson facts for kids
• Tomokazu TOKORO
• Review of Serial Experiments Lain: Vol. 3
• Theodor Nelson: Computer Lib and Dream Machines
• Log a Game
• www.cbr.com

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One Candle, a Thousand Points of Light: An online discussion of the /Xanadu/ meme

Sunday, 23 June Serial Experiments Lain Screenplay: Chiaki J. A Anime Crossover. This is from my other blog Anime, the same review but with additional material added to the end. As not all my reviews for that blog, covering anime, would be appropriate for this blog's subject, follow the link to the original review HERE and take a gander at the various other reviews you have been missing out on from there.

When Neon Genesis Evangelion became a massive cultural supernova, including its theatrical alternative ending End of Evangelion , there were many attempts to ride its coat tails in terms of more adult anime. There were many attempts at an "Evangelion Killer", mecha shows which tried to follow varying from highly regarded work like RahXephon to failures like Brain Powrd The other aspect about Evangelion is that it almost became a giant flag held aloft for more unconventional and experimental anime television series to appear even if it never had any direct influence.

Certainly though, between the controversies surrounding some of Evangelion's content and that, in the last half, Hideaki Anno's known personal and mental health issues were literally leading to episodes using line drawings, the fact Envangelion actually succeeded rather than crashed and burned would've allowed braver work to appear more easily if other production companies wondered if there was now a market to start creating them.

Certainly experimental OVAs and theatrical films existed, but in terms of television series before Evangelion? A question to consider, mainly due to the difficult in watching every show that came before and after Evangelion to plot out a history, especially as under its shadow into the modern day, there's been many odd and bold creative works in existence even in micro-series comedies that have appeared.

One of the earliest to appear immediately after Evangelion , which can be confirmed, was the cerebral sci-fi series Serial Experiments Lain , which still has a warm reputation in the West to this day.

Lain's story is incredibly relevant in the s, amazingly prescient on issues we are coming to terms with about the internet and the potential existential and sociological problems with it, all in mind that whilst the internet is briefly references, this exists in a world where it's been replaced with the Navi instead of computers and its own form of the internet called the "Wired".

Thankfully, this means, regardless of visual details, there's no concern of this having dated anyway since the technology already looked alien to any world and the ideas are of greater concern. It helps, from this, the series never tried to create an accurate vision of the future, instead looking at the fears and concerns of this machinery even in terms of spirituality as we follow the titular Lain, a teenage girl stuck in perpetual childishness at first and utterly computer illiterate until she and the girls in her class start getting texts from a classmate who had commit suicide previously.

As she becomes obsessed with the Wired, head screenwriter Chiaki J. Konaka nosedives as she does into a world of philosophy, a potential God on the Wired communicating to her, and some sobering and accurate predictions on concerns we are getting to twenty plus years later from Serial Experiments Lain. Identity theft and the obscurity the web allows? Lain finds there's an alternative version of herself online who is much bolder and even evil.

Data security and personal information being compromised? Said version of Lain leads to Lain herself being accused as a peeping tom at school. Secret online groups and computer hacking?

The Knights of Eastern Calculus, eerily similar to the semi-fictional organisation of expert Lisp and Scheme hackers called the Knights of the Lambda Calculus, a hacking group who will even lead people to being harmed or maimed by attacking any technology, such as traffic light systems to blurring a children's tag game with a shooter, who want to break the barrier between the "Real" World and the digital one.

Existentialism and post-humanism? The idea some individuals want to evolve human beings to leave their bodies and becoming permanent consciousnesses online. Hell, throw in conspiracy theories in general too, though the only weird detail, which is weird and the only one which dates the series to back when the nineties run of The X-Files was, is where the hell the cameo by a literal green alien came from in Konaka's mind.

Lain as a series does eventually become esoteric; at first, it skims the waters of horror so much it feels like it's going to become a permanent resident, with literal phantoms haunting Lain even in the day and the telephone lines bleeding. It also emphasises how good the show was aesthetically. Now, probably the biggest surprise for me returning was that, having always been available on DVD through MVM , the original version was incredibly muddy in hindsight to the point it added to the mood, leaving the experience of seeing this thirteen episode series again on a recent restoration looking like a brand new work.

Its emphasised how even on a television budget the production took its potential restrictions as an advantage, boldness in its natural look contrasting heightened colour and lighting choices.

Again, as I've rightly remembered for years, the first few episodes feel like sci-fi horror, the images of humming electrical wires and the sense of desolate streets even in ordinary busy Japanese streets evoking what Kiyoshi Kurosawa would later go with for Pulse Contrast this with the night time scenes, with heavy neon green lighting, or the increasing influence of the computer technology through the plot, even turning into an almost bio-mechanical entity in Lain's bedroom, the floor wet in coolant, covering the entire room where once she still had plush toys everywhere.

The world of the Wired is just as distinct and strange, metaphor and symbolically doing its best to perfectly imaging an internet chatroom by representing gossiping avatars by being merely lips or eyes, or how in fear of others taking her identity, the same figures have mannequin heads of Lain on their shoulders in a darkened room in cyberspace.

In knowledge that in this world, Lain herself practically enters the Wired beyond symbolic meaning, these literal visitations around unique environments are as much there to get to Chiaki J.

Konaka's obsession with constantly breaking reality into pieces in most of what he writes, he both notorious and distinct in how the literal and the metaphorical are deliberately blurred in his work even for live action films like Evil Dead Trap 2 ; even for a children's show like Princess Tutu about ballet and fairy tales, when it gets to an inter-dimensional clockwork world where the "author" of the show exists, you can tell which episode Konaka was writing among other script writers when it's the one with the most meta and unconventional philosophy even if the target demographic was kids first.

It's completely comparable to Boogiepop Phantom , another highly experimental show fromn this era, between them offering nuisance noise and electronic effects. As mentioned, this series is from Konaka , an incredibly divisive screenwriter who leads Lain to becoming difficult at points, early into the series shattering reality when even a giant deity like Lain, to her own surprise, appears up in the clouds for children to stare up to.

Later episodes get into even arguments about the existence of God, an entire episode on intermingling real history of the internet and the likes of Project Xanadu with UFO conspiracy and the introduction of "Deus", a figure Eiri formerly human who has become a self proclaimed God of the Wired, and one episode Infornography whose first half if a compilation of images from previous episodes, all to represent Lain downloading an entire Navi system into her own brain, matched by a guitar riff you could grow a mullet from.

Probably the biggest factor, though, which might divide viewers, is when Lain is shown not to merely by an ordinary character, who is brought into these strange events, but is part of a character arch of a unique one-off figure rediscovering her own abilities, a being possibly through an ESP experiment talked of halfway through capable of going beyond the Wired to actual God-like abilities.

This is controversial as a plot point as, as shown in the worst examples of modern franchise blockbusters in fact, it does limit the connectability of the story from the viewer. I feel however that, especially as the first few episodes feel random, the narrowing of the narrative not only helps the show and but, as it focuses on specific characters, the real virtue of the characterisation appears.

Another thing I forgot, for all its esoteric and eerie shenanigans, was how emotional the show eventually is. Here I admit, for its entire cool atmosphere, and general sense of complete strangeness, actually the real virtue turns out to be the bitter-sweet tale of Lain trying to find happiness. Only close to Alice Mizuki, a school friend, her isolation in the world and how attempt to grow on the Wired literally is fraught with further isolation, here a tale which does anchor the entire series with a greater meaning.

All the philosophy is weighted ultimately by how as much it connects to her too, evoked when rather than the usual opening before the credits a male voice over text she opens the final episode talking directly to us about whether she actually exists or not. All the eccentricities are softened by how utterly emotional the show finally is within the final scenes. This means Serial Experiments Lain earns its pretensions.

Chiaki J. Konaka is notorious for his clear hatred for conventional linear storytelling, but there is so much about the dangers of the physical world against the digital one which have become ever more salient. It also makes sure the characters are of interest around Lain too. Her family, very disconnected, are so for a reason and builds itself to one single scene of emotional resonance; even two men in black, with cybernetic eyeglasses which stalk outside her house, get personalities and enough humanity to why they are there that their fate as everything turns pear shape is significant.

That's ultimately, upon returning to this show, why I still love Serial Experiments Lain. I once, on the first viewing, dismissed it with the same misguidedness I dismissed Boogiepop Phantom , another of these bold and innovative works from under the shadow of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Second time, many years later, it was the surreal and unconventional tone, on the borderline to horror and sci-fi, completely introspective and psychological, which won out. Now, this is in mind still but the drama is all what's left at the end and actually touching in the end.

Certainly, with Lain this is as good as you could get with this natural progression. He produced Lain, Haibane Renmei working with Yoshitoshi ABe a lot , and a lot of work between the experimental to more adult, from Texhnolyze to Hellsing Ultimate , that have been pretty well regarded and even successful. Konaka , TV Series. Jack Bradshaw 3 June at Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom.

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Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff. Serial Experiments Lain is an avant-garde anime influenced by themes such as reality, identity, and communication. The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the Internet. Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her emotionally distant mother, and her computer-obsessed father. Lain is herself is somewhat awkward, introverted, and socially isolated from most of he r school peers, but the status-quot of her life becomes upturned by a series of bizarre incidents which start to take place after she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from Chisa Yomoda, a schoolmate who had committed suicide. When Lain receives the message herself at home, Chisa tells her apparently in real time that she is not dead, but has merely "abandoned her physical body and flesh", and is alive deep within the virtual reality-world of the Wired itself where she has found the almighty and divine God. From this point, Lain is caught up in a series of cryptic and surreal events that see her delving deeper into the mystery of the network in a narrative that explores themes of consciousness, perception, and the nature of reality.

[WIW] Serial Experiments Lain - 0Megabyte's ReWatch, 6 years on.

Serial Experiments Lain: Vol. Searching for products Introduction Wow! This is real cerebral stuff, sinister and surreal, completely at odds with both apocalyptic manga and Japanese bubblegum anime. For example, in a schoolroom the only sound we hear is the sound of the chalk against a blackboard. The narrative is cryptic, almost confounding, and within these three episodes, almost completely without resolution. And at the centre of this heady mix is Lain - a wide-eyed schoolgirl with extraordinary powers. On this disc there are three episodes. There are some strange moments - like the long silence from her parents as she greets them after returning from school. We see a report about Roswell from - and then cut to an alien greeting Lain.

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He was saved by a girl with long red hair who drove the monster off with sword and flame. The Denizens of the Crimson World are monsters from another world who consume the "power of existence" of humans. The power of a human that is leftover becomes a Torch, a shell of their former self, destined to disappear without a trace — physical or mental — when their remaining power burns away. Flame Haze are independent humans who have allied themselves with the kings of the other world, gaining the power to fight back. The anime adaptation was produced by JC Staff and ran for three seasons: the first aired in , and the second in A separate movie adaptation of the first novel was released in Japan on April 21st,

Tomokazu TOKORO

Just try it for a little bit. So it can be that Lain always existed , far before that. What I'm not sure is if she is in real life or Wired. Because when we see world from her eyes, there are shadows, emptiness, surreal objects around. Is it really how she sees, or is it how we see? About Accela, I think it kinda makes you aware of everything going around for some time. How long the effects of Accela lasts is unknown. You lost your abilities to differ real world from the Wired.

Review of Serial Experiments Lain: Vol. 3

Sunday, 23 June Serial Experiments Lain Screenplay: Chiaki J. A Anime Crossover. This is from my other blog Anime, the same review but with additional material added to the end.

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Post a Comment. Sunday, April 5, Layer Protocol. What it was has yet to be proven. Conjecture has become fact, and rumor has become history. Lain is sitting in her room in her bear suit. The only light in the room is the glow of her computer screen.

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