{"id":931169,"date":"2021-12-16T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/931169\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:15:00","slug":"dont-know-thyself-serial-experiments-lain-anime-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/931169\/","title":{"rendered":"(Don&#39;t) Know Thyself | Serial Experiments Lain Anime Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OUU0kqMShmk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSerial Experiments Lain is a psychological cult classic anime from the 90&#8217;s, putting it in league with series like Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, or Elfen Lied. NGE is somewhat of an apt comparison; Lain&#8217;s gift is taking the surrealism of Eva&#8217;s final episodes, and training it into an entire series. While the plot may feel almost coded at times in the extreme oddity and surrealism, the anime makes a few things clear. One of those things is a crisis of self. Lain Iwakura takes on many forms throughout the series, and not just growth or development, but that within actual, distinct forms that she fights. Is she a regular girl? An angel? A devil? And what can we learn on the frontier of this extreme example of a fractured self? Well, let&#8217;s see right now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Music: YoungBerry Beats &#8211; Feeling Low (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1pVy3MHRkWA)<\/p>\n<p>Another video on the same anime:<br \/>\nPerfect Design in SEL: https:\/\/youtu.be\/wp5ENQ81SYw<\/p>\n<p>#Anime #SerialExperimentsLain #Lain #ProfessorViral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serial Experiments Lain is a psychological cult classic anime from the 90&#8217;s, putting it in league with s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":931170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135,6327,63855,5183,388,3620,2537,8746,3736,29219],"class_list":{"0":"post-931169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japanese-anime","8":"tag-anime","9":"tag-cosplay","10":"tag-discussion","11":"tag-manga","12":"tag-otaku","13":"tag-seinen","14":"tag-serial-experiments-lain","15":"tag-shonen","16":"tag-shounen","17":"tag-weeb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}