Explaining Serial Experiments Lain & The Real Life Cult That Inspired It!

[@buchichu7034]

Lain' s foster family are real people; not sure where you got them being artificially created is. Her dad even worked with Eiri - you can see him in the newspaper article next to him.

[@cccantv6457]

Haven't watched his full video yet but It was very ambiguous. You have to admit that much. Especially after the sister completely lost it.

[@buchichu7034]

@@cccantv6457 a bunch of people were losing it. People's minds were being lost in the wired, including her. Again, Lain's dad is IN THE PICTURE with Eiri before the latter ever entered or starting messing with the wired and 7th protocol.

[@cccantv6457]

@@buchichu7034 I just finished watching the whole thing and think that his take is valid. I'll rewatch at some point but while everyone was losing their shit it was heavily implied that Lain's family was fake. Artificial or what have you it seemed like they were mainly there to monitor and keep her in check. The more she came into her power the more obsolete they became. Nobody was as braindead/a shell of themselves as the sister.

[@jonnygood6290]

Both can be true

[@cccantv6457]

@@jonnygood6290 idk who you are but i don't like you.

[@KillerXSquirtle]

Huh, it's kind of crazy how much it turns out Madoka Magicka takes after Lain in the end. Very cool!

[@mayanightstar]

You can draw a very clear obvious line from: Neon Genesis -> Lain -> Madoka Magicka

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

Serial Experiments Lain reminds me of the spiritusl concept of a "tulpa", an entity created by intense meditation that once manifested has a rather high degree of autonomy from their creator (or at least, that's what I understood of the conept). Apparently in some Buddhist traditions is believed that Buddha can create tulpas as earthy bodies to comunicate with the people outside of the Nirvana, but Western mystics believe an individual or a group of people can also create tulpas, literally manifesting their collective thoughts into reality; so Lain would be a combination of both definitions of tulpa, a physical avatar of a divine being that the collective interconected minds of the Wired (guided by Masami's protocols) brought into the material world

[@JaakuSan]

I haven't watched Lain since I was like 10, but this weird little series has lived rent free in my head ever since. I still have the art book somewhere. I should watch it again.

[@tadesman1998]

I have seen many Lain video analysis and this one is just so good!! congrants on such an amazing video! and thank you for the knowledge

[@KM-by2oj]

I loved this video, please do episodes breakdowns, your method of explaining is so nicely thorough and easy to listen to! Thank you for gathering and researching sm

[@kaelalalondie]

I would love a deep dive on Haibane Renmei it was my favorite anime as a cherub and the research you did on lain was so through I would love your take on HR and the mythos about angels and the afterlife in that series

[@deepcut7788]

Oh I think I’ll have a lot to say in that I’ll check it out

[@palpitations00]

Same

[@BeaUwU02]

I really shouldn't have let this video waiting for so long, but, I had to watch the anime first since I wasn't familiar with it and just discovered it by the recommendation you did on your other channel. The anime was very confusing, but to watch this now I know it was worth it. Your video is really good, very underrated to say the least.

[@RanomUniverse]

So glad you got into the show and that this video helped, its such a confusing show, I loved uncovering its mysteries at a younger age.

[@abigailaceves9230]

Congrats on your first anime series 🎊🎈🎉🥳👏🍾🥂

[@anthbald]

I agree with a lot things you bring up and like your view on the the series. Although I think all the Gnosic stuff is a little bit of a stretch. I see were you might be able to put it in, but the show itself really doesn't have enough in it to go that way. Overall, love the video. Probably the best video I've seen to explain this series. Still one of my favorite anime series.

[@CartoonUniverse]

It really isn't a stretch when you understand the history of the Templars and what they inherited. Glad you liked the video either way!

[@omega3fatass61]

yeah...

[@wersa.666]

I've had lain on my watch list for sooo long! I finally tried to watch it a few months back and it just wasn't clicking but I think I gave up too early. I'm already very familiar with templar/masonic/gnostic stuff, Internet history, conspiracy, and even the research of John c. Lilly/e.c.c.o. stuff. I had no idea any of this stuff was covered in lain but it's all stuff I've previously researched! Thanks to your vid, I shall give it another go. Thanks for the push!

[@CartoonUniverse]

Please do come back if you finish it and let us know what you think of the show and the video! Glad to see someone else knew a lot of this stuff, though I had no idea about John Lily

[@daemon4202]

lain is one of the rare anime that you kinda sorta NEED to binge through to have it work. its also highly dependent if you go dub or sub with both being fantastic in this case but very contextually different and will get you absorbed into the story differently. if you only made it into one ep then expect tonal whiplash. it rapidly becomes something it wasn't over and over again

[@Animebryan2]

Episode 9's documentary scenes & what they imply is a pretty deep rabbit hole in of itself. Would be nice if you cover more in depth what all that means, its impact on the real world today, as well as the origin of computers & how we came up with it, whether on our own, or through outside help (Aliens).

[@deepcut7788]

For that you want my personal channel which is the one I’m commenting from right now. At some point, I will be doing videos that talk about that sort of thing, though no current plan to break down the documentary itself yet. Actually that might be good for here on random random universe for a second video though.

[@yuuko6264]

additional note: the knights in the show inherit their reference to the knights templar from the "knights of the lambda calculus", a tongue-in-cheek secret society that's existed as an in-joke amongst mit lisp hackers since at least the first few editions of the jargon file, and several of the real-life references the show chooses to make are mit-adjacent, as is the lisp code scrolling by on her handheld in that one scene.

[@Iightbeing]

G-d writes in LISP.

[@boop3nowurded538]

Extremely, criminally underrated.

[@rainbowtoyfunrandomess1982]

Hmmmmm I wonder what this is all about. Also welcome back, it's been awhile since you posted a video here on Random Universe.😮

[@aikou2886]

3:15 Suddenly that one scene in Digimon Tamers with the goth girl and her Dobermon makes a lot more sense.

[@MrCleardark]

Really enjoyed this video, would definitely watch your take on the lain psx and manga

[@Pombadecombate]

Great video! It was very insightful XD I think the only thing I didn’t get was why there are two Lains, one of them being God and the other an SSE 🤔

[@Amaleksspin]

Great video new sub

[@C.Hartley000]

I think.. therefore I am.

[@moistsquish]

Man shows like this just arent made anymore i miss these esp in my "im 14 and this is deep" era lol good times cringe but happy

[@mayanightstar]

I love how your take on Wired!Lain vs Normie!Lain is just "people's personalities change when the get on the internet" instead of this DID/MPD or Freudian nonsense I've heard from other theorists.

[@CartoonUniverse]

haha supposedly the game confirms she does have DID, and I don't disagree with a lot of the ways they are portrayed with, but generally I find that stuff to be a bit overwritten on the subject, but I'm sure many people feel the same way about my more mytho-historical connections to cartoons haha.

[@ejrosenberger6735]

Man I'm so glad that you got into the giant clans from the Bible because I just went on a deep dive of them not too long ago myself

[@redye5858]

banger video

[@Starriaaa]

You can’t really explain lain if you haven’t played the Play Station game. Lain is a multimedia story and the PS game is 100% cannon to the overall story

[@josedorsaith5261]

@22:22 Sins increasing dude to teachings like in Mishneh Torah, Kings and Wars 8

[@daemon4202]

food for thought. lain's alien and dmt techno elves are one in the same. discuss

[@kaninchenzero8537]

the red and green striped sweater isn't not a reference to freddy kruger and his nature as a dream entity who used to be a living human

[@willowleahy6491]

18:28 damn didnt expect to be deconstructing Christianity today but here we are.

[@embermoto]

I still don't like Serial Experiments Lain but after this video I do have a better appreciation of the show.

[@pyeitme508]

Interesting 🤔

[@BlairMelton-pe9fb]

4:40 I have never heard of this and where do I watch this on

[@RanomUniverse]

All the episodes are here on KZbin, it is Serial Experiments Lain.

[@BlairMelton-pe9fb]

@@RanomUniverse how many episodes are there

[@CartoonUniverse]

@@BlairMelton-pe9fb just 12

[@BlairMelton-pe9fb]

@@CartoonUniverse but how will I find it

[@theTeleforce]

A very interesting video! I really enjoyed Serial Experiments Lain when I first watched it, even if I was not super clear on what exactly was supposed to be happening. It's been more than a decade since I saw the show; I ought to give it another go. I'd definitely watch a layer-by-layer breakdown, too, and I've always been curious about the game, although I've never played it (I understand it doesn't have that much to do with the show, actually, beyond starring the same protagonist). Incidentally, it was a bit odd for be listening to the narration talk about Gnostic beliefs about celestial beings being able to commune with our world and suddenly seeing Mexico City's Angel of Independence come out of nowhere (at 20:06). I never expected that statue to photobomb a video about anime, I will readily admit.

[@coraline2770]

it was the first anime i ever watched all the way through loved it

[@JAYZ-47465]

And you don’t seem to understand…

[@roivinikmossel2998]

A shame you seemed an honest man and all the things you hold so dear will turn to whisper in your ear "lets all love lain".

[@angell6425]

why was this not on the main channel I have no idea but yes I would very much like to see more or the breakdowns of this you mention

[@CartoonUniverse]

We don't really post anime there, so when we cover anime it will probably be on this channel.

[@angell6425]

@@CartoonUniverse fair enough. Hope to see more lain and cool anime here then.

[@abigailaceves9230]

Wait, what documentary and is it real?

[@RanomUniverse]

its a documentary within the show, episode 9, which is seen cut between different scenes of lains story in the episode. It is 90% real but the last sequence is not, its where our world and her world diverges.

[@Max-iq8hi]

You can't spell "Experiments Lain" without "Explain" ;D

[@NoOneIsMe-sulfur]

I see what you did there

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

and the cult that resulted

[@BlairMelton-pe9fb]

0:36 ❤ what’s it called again

[@gooaygar]

at the time of the templar. Israel was called Palestine.

[@cankul7745]

Had alot of fun while watching this video with my brother, was very entertaining, but we really would like a layer by layer explenation as well! Great video