The opening and ending themes of this thirteen episode series are pleasing – with Duvet (By boa) being a very nice, and welcome addition to the show. Like is one of the girl’s alive or dead – and where did they go if the latter is true? Along with other things that make me wonder why I bother to watch this type of show, as I’m not one for the dementia-type animes – or whatever you’d classify this as. They’re obviously trying to make this animé as mysterious and mind-bending as possible, already throwing in little mysteries from the get-go. I have only seen part of the latter, and non of the former, but that is what I’ve heard, and after seeing this, I believe it. Serial Experiments Lain has always been one of those shows that you often times have to get or understand – not unlike the fabled Neon Genesis Evangelion or RahXephon.

And as this is my first time using wordpress, the first posts bound to be a little space glitchey. If you have an animé blog yourself, and want to be part of my blogroll, drop a line. So if there are any good animes out there that are underrated that you wouldn’t mind me blogging, drop a line and I’ll check it out. I’m going to try and balance between blogging popular shows and unheard of – but still good – ones. Though Lain is the only series up on the blog right now, I hope I’ll be able to add more as time goes by – some that I’m planning are Chrono Crusade, Monster, and Fantastic Children.

Keep in mind that everything after the read more cut has spoilers for the episode, as it is a full summary of the episode as well as my closing thoughts about the show itself. Well, I’ve decided to start off with a rather well known series that most people have at least heard about: Serial Experiments Lain.

Serial Experiments Lain – Episode 1 (Wired)

Serial episode 1 summary