Lain was quite an experience... I had already seen subjective and contemplative media, but Lain is more than that. Until the halfway point of the anime, everything is very confusing, and the other part of the anime, heading towards the end, becomes even more confusing, but it starts to explain itself as it approaches the last 2 episodes. Throughout the work, there are many loose ends of information, numerous suggestions, ranging from aliens to modified children, encouraging the viewer to try to link one thing to another to understand, but it only becomes more perplexing. That's why I watched it trying not to think too much and just accepting the things that were happening.

But the substantial part of the anime, the existentialism mixed with a Matrix vibe, which also reminded me of the movie Lucy, is really cool. Indeed, Lain is one of those pieces of media that you'll be thinking about for a long time. The semiotics of the anime is brilliant; every frame was carefully thought out, combining the Y2K aesthetic, webcore, mixed with a bit of retrofuturism—it's a spectacle on its own. Lain is a timeless anime, I would say, because even though it's over 20 years old, the ideas and concepts will still endure into the future, exploring the essence of the internet, the connection of the world, and people, etc.

Perhaps in the future, we might have something like the idea of transferring consciousness to a virtual plane, which incidentally, there's a great Black Mirror episode about. Above all, Lain is a good breeze for introspection that lingers for a while.