>>2227619While I can certainly agree that there are parts of the anime that are slow, abstract, and ambiguous, you'd have to be pretty slow to not understand what happens. It's not for everyone and it's very much a product of it's time, but it speaks to a fantasy that I think a lot of us have had at one point or another. I remember being Lain's age and wanting to upload my consciousness to the internet, just exist in a big digital archive of the sum of all of mankind's knowledge as an anonymous browser. Safe forever. Finally watching the anime really resonated with me.
