2023 marks the 25th anniversary of the show's broadcast.
June 2025 update:
Hi everyone. As of late I'm planning on migrating my content to another wesbite like wordpress but am not technically adept enough to pull it off. This place is labour of love project, so if it has brought you any joy then I hope you can help me with migration to safer alternatives. Else, I'm afraid I may have to delete it for a few years for my own safety and for those of others. Thank you.
P.S email is mxchina@disroot.org
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Hey guys! I'm the creator of expLAINed ^_^ This website is dedicated to finding the complete "true answer" of serial experiments lain.
" I imagined that Mr. Konaka said that there is one true answer between the creative team".
- Yasyuki Ueda, The anime Colony interview, 2000
I am an Indian man based in the southern part of the country, who fell in love with Lain as an anime around 2 years ago, but was deeply unsatisfied with explanations of the anime on the internet.
I wrote these explanations because I was touched by the masterpiece this anime was, and explanations on the existing internet unfortunately left much to be desired.
I recommend reading the sections in this order if you just want to understand the plot and what happened:
1) The Wired explained
2) Lain explained
3) Common questions
4) The plot explained
In addition, I've included tiny summaries at the end where necessary. I close off with my personal thoughts on SEL and what exactly its relevance means in these current times. Again, deeply sorry for any spelling and grammatical errors as this analysis was done in sort of a hurry.
I could have never wrote this without all the lovely Lain fans whose opinions and interpretations have proved invaluable to my own interpretation of he show. Consider this not my creation, but the collective consciousness of the Lain community taking form, because expLAINed was only possible with the internet, our world's Wired.
P.S Feel free to use the contents of this blog any way you like. Credit is completely unnecessary!