![]() Serial Experiments Lain is an animated television show that tells the story of a junior high school-girl named Lain who gets an email from a dead student saying that she has left her physical body and now exists on the Wired (the show’s version of the Internet), claiming that God lives there as well. In Screen Culture Database, anime, cyberspace on Novemat 8:57 am Serial Experiments Lain: A vision of digital realities The wired then exists as a world in which identity is relative – where the need for ‘masks’ is nonexistent. As to the Japaneseness of these concepts Doi writes, “I think omote and ura correspond to the distinction between soto (outside) and uchi (inside) that is often prominent in the Japanese consciousness of human relations” (24).īut as we will see, the hierarchical structure dissolves when faced with the world within the wired. Loosely translated they can mean ‘façade’ and ‘inner truth’ respectively. Doi writes of the difference between the Japanese omote and ura. ![]() This concept is related directly to the Japanese in Takeo Doi’s book, The Anatomy of Self. Serial Experiments Lain is a Japanese animation about analog identity and virtual identity.
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