>>2720938Well Imma be real with you, it's fucking weird. And definitely too convoluted and lost in metaphors to really 'get' on your first viewing. Once you have all the pieces, you gotta watch it again. And then maybe one more time later on, to catch the details you missed.
It's entirely fair that some people don't want to invest so much time into such an.. unexciting show.
Although to help you, the diaries exist. They give quite a lot of characterisation to Lain, whereas the show has almost none.
http://laingame.net/Psyche evaluations, personal entries, conversations, other people's statements. There's plenty to flip through, like I said, a lot of characterisation.
Most of it can be thought of as a prequel, with the very end being an alternate timeline. (you may know how the PS1 game ended)
And another hint from me personally, try to keep track of this: Lain has three distinct personalities in the concept art. I can't speak moonrunes, so I call them 'innocent', 'confident' and 'wired'. Each has distinctly different body language, expressions, mannerisms, preferred clothing and places they usually hang around at.
Pic related, wish I had this earlier.
