Lain Thread Layer 38: Let's all love Lain!

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Here's a Lain that my best friend made for me.

>>2913133
Is this the smuggest face in anime?

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>>2914047
It's up there.

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I don't suppose there are anymore pictures of Lain in that dress she wears in the PS1 game?

Would appreciate it

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>>2915615
I might have a few

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>>2915776
yeah that's all I got

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>>2915940
That's wonderful, thanks.

I didn't like that dress when I first saw it but it's grown on me and she looks amazing in it.

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>>2916214
It would be weird if Lain actually wore it but as a virtual avatar I think it's nice. The strange hair color, older appearance and strange outfit are exactly the kind of thing a girl Lain's age would use to express herself online.

I know I might get some hate for this but I like it more than what they did with all the bear stuff in the anime as Lain's "escapism". The bear motiv always felt out of place to me, I don't feel like it matches Lain in a symbolic sense like a virtual avatar or the later alien symbolism did.

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>>2916214
No problem.

>>2916267
You could probably explain away the bear motive as Lain having not yet found out who or what she was as yet. It's cute though.

The game dress really fascinates me and what you say about it being how Lain expresses herself online makes sense. Her appearance is more mature yet she still has a cute playfulness in how she moves around the file systems. It might be just me but when I first saw the dress it caught me as looking quite similar to a nuns robes.

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More thank yous go out to you

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>>2911504

Konaka likes to recycle names. He was using those names before Lain, so it's not a nod to Lain. Alice is definitely a Carroll reference; he puts carroll references in all of his works. Juri I don't know about.

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>>2916873
Yeah pretty much everything he does has one.
Alice in Cyberland is the most obvious.

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>>2916819
I remember reading somewhere that the Bear motiv was added very late into the production purely by the force of Yoshitoshi ABe. Don't remember where I heard that but it would make sense considering it wasn't really in the game at all that I can remember. It is cute but I just felt it didn't match Lain or have any symbolism like other things did. It would of made more sense just to do more with Bike chan since it's in the game and the manga but not really in the show. It's colors are more muted and desaturated as well which I personally like more than the use of brown.

And yeah her avatar outfit does look vaguely religious. This could tie into the fact that Lain is a god of the wired.

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>>2917288
Iirc it wasn't ABe, but Takahiro Kishida that pushed for it.
But there is some symbolism I think, real world Lain uses it to protect herself from everything.

Even going out with friends she wore this hat, so it's a comfort thing at the very least.

We never see wired Lain in it, and Lain's dad tells her she doesn't need it anymore at he very end.

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>tfw no lain gf

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>>2917308
Oh ok, Mixed it up.

I know that the bear stuff was to symbolize Lain's childish characteristics but I just mean the bears itself could of been swapped out for anything and I currently found the motiv out of place.

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>>2917576
>tfw no Lain daughter to shower with love and affection

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>>2917874
Why not both?

>>2917003
and Alice 6
https://lain.wiki/wiki/Alice_6

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>>2919380
Never heard of this before. Is there any way to watch it?

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>>2919380
I haven't heard of this either.
I'll have to see if I can find it.

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>>2919400
it's on Youtube, search by episode title. Probably a VCR broadcast recording, since it's never been released on home video.

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>>2913836
Hold up. Lain and Haibane had the same character designer or something? Word?

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>>2919693
Yoshitoshi ABe was the character designer for Lain and wrote the Haibane Renmei doujinshis, as well as worked closely on the anime.

>>2919697
Cool. I love both of those. I either didn't know, or forgot that Abe worked on Lain.

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>>2920456
delet

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>>2920456
>lewd lain
More please. Just not here.

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Please don't be lewd.

I like the style of this anime and it's gotten good reviews. I'm definitely going to give this one a watch

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:)

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- The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse

- "It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think"

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“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her.”

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>>2922618
Lain doesn't suffer from time.

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>>2919697
Abe was "original character design," which is distinct from character design. Character designers were Takahiro Kishida and Akira Takata, respectively.

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>>2923869
Ah gotcha
That's for the clarification.

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>>2923888
Thanks for* I mean
I need more sleep.

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>>2923948
What is written?

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>>2923977
Nothing is written.

>>2923977
Happy New Year

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anyone have this pic related with a blank sign?

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>>2926216
I made one.

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