• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      10 hours ago

      Alright, ive watched this anime twice and i guess im clearly missing something. What’s special about it? The animation was okay. They could have thrown in a couple of jokes to spice it up. Maybe toss a pie at the floaty girl once in a while, huh?

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        1 hour ago

        What’s special about it?

        the reason it looks to you like it’s just part of the crowd is because it helped define that crowd, in a direction that was distinctly different from 80s cyberpunk and far more rooted in our modern reality - which is impressive considering it’s approaching 30 years old now and the internet was in its infancy at the time. it was a pioneer in visual elements and aesthetic vis a vis the web, and it’s ingrained in counterculture as its initial popularity spread on 4chan.

        i’ve heard it said that lain is to autism as neon genesis evangelion is to depression, so it may also just be that you’re not the target audience.