Serial Experiments Lain is one of my favorite anime series of all time. I wrote a few posts about it on my old blog if you want to check them out: Serial Experiments Lain Review and Serial Experiments Lain Thematic Analysis. It feels like nobody ever talks about this anime anymore, which is perhaps understandable since it's a 90s anime. But I never get tired of thinking or writing about it. So I've put together a post that offers a reinterpretation of Serial Experiments Lain. How The Anime Ended
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