The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation: Difference between revisions

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of the building would undercut the scene's ethereal beauty.

My last anime example, Serial Experiments Lain (the title is in

My last anime example, [[Serial Experiments Lain]] (the title is in

English), also contains numerous evocative moments, but these moments

are more likely to evoke nightmares than dreams. Unlike the more

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English over the credits) “I am falling, I am fading,” and, like Spirited

Away, it follows a young girl (Lain) whose journey into a liminal Other

world becomes a drama of self-discovery. In the case of Lain, however,

world becomes a drama of self-discovery. In the case of [[Lain Iwakura|Lain]], however,

this is not a fantasy realm but rather the world of cyberspace, an environment she enters after her father gives her a fancy new computer that

this is not a fantasy realm but rather the world of cyberspace, an environment she enters after [[Yasuo Iwakura|her father]] gives her a fancy new computer that

becomes her gateway to the world of the Wired. Lain becomes more

becomes her gateway to the world of [[the Wired]]. Lain becomes more

and more involved in the Wired at the same time as the Wired seems to

begin impinging on outward reality. Doubles of Lain appear out of