What on earth was this?
You have so many questions throughout the show and then get an info dump right at the end, and the show ends immediately.
What on earth was this?
What on earth was this?
You have so many questions throughout the show and then get an info dump right at the end, and the show ends immediately.
BRING ME
TO LIFE
WAKE ME UP
I only got it on my third rewatch. I saw it first as a 13 year old in 2006. Then as a 19 year old in 2012 and I saw it last year during the pandemic as a 28 year old.
Every time I saw it I had a completely different view of it but a deeper understanding. It requires you to be well read, familiar with philosophy, history but also life experience to truly understand the message.
I'm not sure how old you are. I assume you're of my generation, if so then watch it again. If you're a Gen Z watching it for the first time. Return to it when you're 30
I'm watching Lain
I didn't like lain. and i'm a 90s kid programmer. It just didn't click with me. Loved texhnolyze and ergo proxy though.
Lain was great, but Texhnolyze was superior in every way
>When he finally comes to the surface only to find out everyone is a husk without passion for life
Man I truly felt that on rewatch.
I've noticed this strange phenomenon between Texhnolyze, Lain and Ergo Proxy that most people only like 2/3 of those shows and really don't like the third one. It can be any combination but I've noticed that. Like me for example Texhnolyze is my favorite show, I like Lain a lot but I really can't stand Ergo Proxy.
I think it's because of the mixture of mystery, exposition and focus on internal feelings. Lain focuses the most on internal experiences with minimal exposition and medium mystery. Texhnolyze focuses the most on exposition with medium internal experience. Ergo proxy focuses the most on mystery with medium exposition.
So the show that lacks the element you liked the most will not be liked. I don't enjoy the internal experience part of Lain but to lain lovers that is the entire point and appeal of the show. The show truly does a good job of conjuring that feeling of loneliness and internal experience you can experience and feeling as an outsider in daily life. Especially in the pre-social media age.
Texhnolyze had the most kino ending of the three and arguably of all anime and for that it gets the number one spot.
I absolutely agree. The tonal shift towards the end is truly gripping and stands the test of time to this day. It even works on rewatch when you're expecting it to happen.
I like all of those.
But I love Boogiepop Phantom.
Come and save me!
It's got about 2 good episodes in it, rest is RAISON D'ETRE nonsense
You didn't get the hint that this was pseudo-intellectual trite when they started quoting philosophers?
Why is is pseudo-intellectual when they started quoting philosophers? They're not gonna reinvent the wheel. 99% of the world's population only know some philosophers by name only. So don't give me that shit.
Some people get offended when they get exposed to ideas with which they're already familiar
Because instead of incorporating the philosophers' ideas into their story they just quote them at you. It's a great example of pseudo-intellectualism, simply name dropping people and ideas without exploring them or demonstrating some kind of understanding or synthesis.
Can you elaborate? It's been years. I remember it being adventurous and "deep" enough for an anime show.
Philosophy is applied storytelling. Storytelling is applied philosophy. If you're puking some continental philosophy garbage dialogue for a story you have failed. Either write a phiosophy book or write a story, let the two inform each other but never explicitly mix them or you'll end up with a mediocre hodgepodge of midwittery.
Been years since I've watched this. I remember liking it.
I couldn't past 10 episodes
I couldn' t past 10 minutes
It gets better. At least that's what I remember feeling. Or maybe I just wanted to see how it ended and I powered through it.
The show really gets good in the second halve.
The show doesn't answer any of your questions except just before it finishes. Literally the last 10 minutes.
It's like waiting hours for your food, and then the waiter just throws it at your face
>Apophenia
You should only take it as entertainment. Any deeper meaning is just your head canon fantasy. Just because writers cobbled together a show that seems to have a message doesn't necessarily mean it does have one.
Evanescence had a TV show?
>You have so many questions throughout the show and then get an info dump right at the end, and the show ends immediately.
Classic Japanese storytelling. They love when stories are so convoluted and confusing they can't possibly make any sense until they're explained suddenly.
Mid wit here
Wtf is a raisen debt trap?
It was a brooding 2deep4u pretentious scifi anime. A symbol of the mid 2000s. It wasn't good but I miss it compared to the totally braindead garbage we have now.
I fricking WISH shit like this and death note still got made in 2022 instead of fricking my hero academia and other cartoony zoomer shit.
I couldnt stick with it. The art is fricking ugly, especially the robots. I hate the aesthetic
>The art is fricking ugly, especially the robots. I hate the aesthetic
Worst post ITT. I hate that this artstyle died in the early 00s
Deathnote, Last Exile, Baccano all had this same "realistic anime" aesthetic and I hate that this changed to moe trash since 2007's K-on. Even today it never recovered.
thats not what im talking about. im talking specifically about the look of the proxys and the interior design. there are other ways of doing gothic like Angel Heart which look great
is that suppose to be amy lee?