kind of slow at first and spooky. About death and technology and being a teenage girl and a god. its the first and best anime I ever saw. Let’s all love Lain.
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Artist Rachel Rossin introduced me to this anime series from 1998. Serial Experiments Lain is an early cyberpunk mystery (that predates and heavily influences The Matrix) where the online and offline worlds blur in strange and unexpected ways. The show has some really beautiful art direction and points at today’s “extremely-online” social alienation with incredible foresight.
Feb 20, 2023
This is a 12 volume manga by Inio Asano. I'm not a big manga reader & consider myself highly selective. This was one of the best & most beautiful series I've ever read. A love letter to imageboard culture alongside exploration of diverse human responses to horrific circumstances that can't be understood even as they happen to you and those you love. Sympathy, empathy, pity. Aliens and teen girls trying to cope.
I believe it's getting an anime adaptation soon, which I hope will be well done and impactful. I don't know, it just really stuck with me.
Sep 11, 2024
2 AMAZING limited series on HBO Max. Chernobyl is probably one of the most impressive and scary shows I’ve watched in a while. Watchmen is comic book related but you dont have to read it to get into it. Both offer different kinds of horror and drama. If you like anime watch the 2002 version of Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex, Adult Swim provided partial funding for the show so you can watch it there. If HBO and The Wire’s David Simon ever made an anime it’s probably that.
Jan 28, 2025
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It sucks for a long time and then it doesn’t suck quite so bad and you just keep doing it. I don’t know why I like it so much but I do.
Jun 11, 2024
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I’ve been volunteering at a Victorian cemetery since 2016. We plant era-appropriate flowers and plants in the grave of people who have been dead for 100-200 years. It’s such a peaceful, meaningful way to remember the long dead and interact with nature. also I’m certain I have ghost friends who are coming through for me on the astral plane.
Feb 16, 2024