Serial Experiments Lain
It unironically is though. Of course it's not the only one, but then it's less a matter of it being overhyped and more a matter of people needing to watch more anime. Same problem with Eva and Madoka.
>eva
>muh symbols
Lain's just a straightforward cyberpunk story told in a very vague complicated way. Details that don't make sense til later are sprinkled throughout the early eps where nobody can tell their weight.
>a) no English speakers understand Lain
Wrong, but it's true that most people probably don't get it
>b) Lain is actually incoherent
Definitely wrong
It's pretty good. I started on it recently and haven't actually finished it yet but I like it. It really captures the atmosphere of the late 90s-early 00s pretty well and the animation looks pretty good. It's a product of its time but what isn't, I guess.
The lack of dialogue is pretty interesting and not something a lot of anime try, not back then and not now. If you think it's shallow, could you suggest an anime that has more depth? I don't disagree entirely but the competition isn't exactly steep.
Like for Eva the depth lies in its themes. The notion of god, the observer effect, etc. It actually has some themes in common with Eva, like "artificial" evolution of humanity (because in the end, our actions are still part of the greater array of cause and effects our universe is made of, and as such would be considered "natural") and the possibility of connecting everyone (though obviously this one is handled differently between the two).
LAIN?
I still don't get why they broke the sister. Lain barely notices.
I didn't like it.
the sister saw the cloud-lain which indicates she's either got the high PSI (at that point) or more likely she lives at the convergence point where the wired reality is strongly breaking through i.e. where Lain manifested.