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I went and started watching Odd Taxi because I was interested in a spoiler I saw and  The show's conceit is executed so well that even vaguely knowing the spoiler it still completely got me by surprise! 
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Larry Parrish posted:it's insane how depressing, numb, and awful it is the entire way through without ever feeling like it's too much. yeah, fr. it never feels like it's too mean to the characters, or that it's a misery porn or something. can be even funny (albeit in a very specific way)
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im watching lain for the first time and instantly my first thought is this is one of those weird late 90s things where some boomer heard 5th hand what the internet is like and made a horror story out of it. but I appreciate all the audio sounding like it came out of Prince of darkness.
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Larry Parrish posted:im watching lain for the first time and instantly my first thought is this is one of those weird late 90s things where some boomer heard 5th hand what the internet is like and made a horror story out of it. but I appreciate all the audio sounding like it came out of Prince of darkness.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:the thing about SEL is that it's hard to remember what the internet of the time was like, compared to what it's like now - which informs a lot of the story. im literally too young for it- i don't have any clear memories of poo poo online until like, 2008 lol.
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Larry Parrish posted:im literally too young for it- i don't have any clear memories of poo poo online until like, 2008 lol. this shouldn't be too hard, there's plenty of works that seek to explain the series, because even if you have the frame of reference to understand, it's buck loving wild at times with symbology that can be obtuse and/or obscure at best
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well i can tell you from the last hour or so that the real solution is to keep getting bored with it and putting my dress up darling back on which is much more meaningful to my burned out zoomer brain. it doesn't help that I'm laying in bed and I'm too tired to really think about anything.
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Apr 16, 2022 13:35
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Larry Parrish posted:well i can tell you from the last hour or so that the real solution is to keep getting bored with it and putting my dress up darling back on which is much more meaningful to my burned out zoomer brain. it doesn't help that I'm laying in bed and I'm too tired to really think about anything. i'm gonna need the manga for sono bisque doll wa koi wo suru to finish so i can read it, because it's extremely the kind of romance series i want to read based on everything i've heard about it
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Apr 16, 2022 13:38
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:that's fair, it can be a lot of effort to put into a series, especially if you've been hyped up on it - because hype basically ruins everything, and SEL especially is the sort of series that's best when you discover it on its own i got into the manga because i liked the first couple dub episodes so much. it's pretty good but i just hope it doesn't suffer from the typical shoujo pacing problems.
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Apr 16, 2022 13:47
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Oh my god the Anime Expo Twitter got hacked by one of those NFT losers.
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Larry Parrish posted:i got into the manga because i liked the first couple dub episodes so much. it's pretty good but i just hope it doesn't suffer from the typical shoujo pacing problems.
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Waffleman_ posted:Oh my god the Anime Expo Twitter got hacked by one of those NFT losers.
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The best shoujo manga know you need to add a shootout every couple chapters to keep things moving
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:This is something different than the Japanese Animator Expo, who did the weekly releases of ONAs years and years back? This is the anime convention in California.
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Apr 16, 2022 14:09
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Larry Parrish posted:im literally too young for it- i don't have any clear memories of poo poo online until like, 2008 lol. lain has BeOS references in it which dates it pretty hard
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Apr 16, 2022 14:09
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Lain is about how lingering shots of buzzing power lines are cool
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SmokaDustbowl posted:lain has BeOS references in it which dates it pretty hard But it's set in present day....hahahahahaha....present time! Hahahahahaha....
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Sleng Teng posted:Lain is about how lingering shots of buzzing power lines are cool i grew up next to high voltage lines and hell, it's true.
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SmokaDustbowl posted:lain has BeOS references in it which dates it pretty hard How can Lain be dated? It’s present day, present time! e;fb gently caress you Waffleman! 
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Lain owns but you do kinda have to remember the 90s
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Lain and a number of works from that era reflect an angst at the time that the internet would become this utopian parallel reality that people will disappear off into and thus neglect the real world. Whereas these days being too online means you are too plugged into what is happening, and people disconnect to escape the bullshit. What's always puzzled me is how the creator of Lain went "oh I expected only Japanese people to be able to understand this work, but disappointingly reactions were pretty much the same across the world", which was ??? Fangz fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Apr 16, 2022 |
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Fangz posted:Lain and a number of works from that era reflect an angst at the time that the internet would become this utopian parallel reality that people will disappear off into and thus neglect the real world. Whereas these days being too online means you are too plugged into what is happening, and people disconnect to escape the bullshit. lol. anyway being too online today means the same thing it's just that instead of playing world of warcraft you play Twitter and it's equally detached from reality but everyone pretends it's reality. which in a way is worse than being a classic type nerd ever was. anyway ill probably get around to lain eventually because it's pretty but i totally don't get it. ghost in the shell is more my speed when it comes to depressing computer stuff from the 90s.
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SmokaDustbowl posted:lain has BeOS references in it which dates it pretty hard i think ATMs here are still split between beos and os/2
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I mean I don't think Lain is that good a show really. It leads you on with the promise of a complicated mystery but eventually the mystery is explained and it's a big infodump and it's kinda dumb. It's basically anime Lost. I like the OP and the designs of the backgrounds.
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Lain is good
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Fangz posted:What's always puzzled me is how the creator of Lain went "oh I expected only Japanese people to be able to understand this work, but disappointingly reactions were pretty much the same across the world", which was ??? konaka's a weird guy. though it's funny people tried to cancel him for the digimon tamers stage play being kinda stupid and he was dramatically like "english readers: my response will be out soon" and then the response was just him going "yeah i agree it was stupid. i was in a mood when i wrote it and when i realized it sucked later they wouldn't let me rewrite it" also worth noting that konaka is like. a huge conspiracy head. he doesn't buy into all of them but he really, really likes reading about them and a lot of that is what informs lain. it's also why one of the supporting characters in digimon tamers is a dumb self-absorbed cool sunglasses fbi man who grows into a cool guy who believes in the children The Colonel fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Apr 16, 2022 |
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Fangz posted:What's always puzzled me is how the creator of Lain went "oh I expected only Japanese people to be able to understand this work, but disappointingly reactions were pretty much the same across the world", which was ??? That's my interpretation based on the quote as you've written it here; I haven't seen the original
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I can kinda understand being frustrated as an artist if you try to tap into a very specific experience & background but end up creating something more broad-strokes & general, he might've felt like he just failed to capture those finer elements of cultural specificity.
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its ok since he created his magnum opus a few years later (digimon tamers)
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His Magnus opus was Devilman Lady
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Lain was a trip I liked it, but I've always struggled on a rewatch
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lmao i just learned corporate vt*bers are a thing, because of course they are netflix's is called poop, apparently
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Sakurazuka posted:Lain is good Let's all love Lain.
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The thread where we talk about lain
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Fangz posted:Does lain count as a vtuber She regularly appears on a cathode-ray tube.
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