The solid minute of Lain typing noises just to say "I didn't get it..." only makes the AI more believably Lain. That being said how dare they do Lain dirty like this.
@@user-sl6gn1ss8p Of course, we all have. It's a cop-out by the AI that it "doesn't understand" the prompt with the given learning so far. At the same time It's also a let down AND realistic I suppose. Either way, the experiment is interesting.
I think it's a mistake to assume just because the authors recognize some problems in that type of approach to technology that they are ultimately against it. Recognizing problems even in the things we agree and enjoy is basic critical thinking.
@@annefrank125 I don't think you can come away from watching Lain and describe the experience as "it recognizes some of the problems of technology, but it's pretty neutral about it, actually". And, like, isn't the Lain chatbot *exactly* the kind of hyperreal escapist bs Lain warned about?
@@annefrank125Lain is so clearly portraying these things as explicitly negative. I'm sorry, but if you can watch the show and come away thinking "this is overall pretty neutral on modern issues like NFTs and AI art" then you weren't paying attention.
I got into Lain this year and it became my favorite anime, and man oh man am I glad that I'm not the only one that doesn't care for this event. Going through Lain, I don't think any part of the story would have had me walk away from it being like "You know, I bet she would enjoy purchasing digital goods that hold no real world value. We need MORE value in the wired."
I think the real 25th anniversary that we got was Cyberia in VR chat that was put on by a few fans and groups and even live streamed the entire thing that was so cool to see all the fan creations and music mash ups. Also Bôa came out of retirement did a live action music video for the Lain Theme Song and released a new album and I think that is pretty cool.
the lesson is that the dude is interested in technology and is kind of a boomer, so he's still into NFTs and all that crypto blockchain stuff, while the younger generation sees it for the pump and dump scheme these fads are
Yeah I only just discovered BOA had a music video for Duvet a few weeks before the new video dropped. It's incredible how relevant this show continues to be and how it lives on thanks to the passionate community that has made it more popular than it ever was before.
Basically, it was a virtual rave party that took place in VRCHAT in a recreation of the cyberia club to celebrate the 25th anniversary of lain All this was organized by the administrators of two very large Latin Facebook groups about Lain lol. The cool thing about this is that they managed to contact many artists to play live while the party was going on (for example, one of them was Wasei Chikada). There was even a live Q&A with the members of boa!!! I’ve never been into playing VRCHAT, so that event was my first vr party and it was an incredible experience @@guyg.8529
Japan was barely getting a grasp of what NFTs and ChatGPT were by the time the entire english speaking world had completely chewed them up and spat them out already. His enthusiasm is likely genuine, just have to be aware they probably got into this trend when its lifespan was already over in the West.
As an artist, seeing them use NFT’s and AI really disappoints me. Wasn’t the whole meaning behind Lain the idea that AI/technology is harmful and would ruin the world? Did they just change their minds now because its benefiting them in the meantime? What happens when AI takes over their jobs? Will they get mad and protest like the rest of us are already?
Their work was never about fear or about "good and evil" and more about what is there to discover what's behind the mirror. Sure you could look at works like lain and just see a big threat in AI in the digital domain and the internet or technology as a whole but that's really not what it was about. As said in the video Lain is about a feeling not about fear, not about overthinking. That is all.
@@dorianlain1372 you don't understand anything about how problematic AI is if you reduce it to "oh it's because your art sucks". No need to be rude, you just show how childish every AI supporter behaves.
Kinda funny how all Lain fans i've met are very unique and interesting people. I dont really think the artist behind it knows how dumb of an attempt at a cash-grab like this one feels to us weirdoes. Credit to the author of this video, the message felt way different when you read it in such a calm voice Edit: Hey guys, what another person considers "unique and interesting" is not subjective at all. Now come and fight me in the replies.
That's weird, most other lain fans I've met are pretty much exactly the same as each other. Do you mean "unique" relative to the general population? Then sure.
@@dogmendogmen thats a bit of a naive generalization though, im a musician/artist, and most of the lain fans i've met are ppl like artists and musicians with really unique personalities, its super popular online now and theres such a huge range of people who enjoy it, but of course people similar people will like the same things
@@glxss3 It's not naive-it literally can't be because it's heuristic formed from experience. If most of the lain fans you've met are artists and musicians, then that means you aren't nearly as unique as you think you are. It's tone and aesthetic appeals to artsy and/or alternative types, and it's plot appeals to people who identify with lain and wear programming socks. Obviously something super popular will capture a lot of unique people, because it captures a lot of people. But then what's the point of OP's comment? By that logic, Marvel movies have an even more unique and interesting fanbase.
honestly if the ai lain chatbot released on its own (and like, a dollar tops) i feel like it could actually be an interesting melding of the real worlds grappling with ai ethics and fans really getting a chance to interface with a new idea. sadly with everything else it comes off as just a dumb cash grab
yeah, her chatbot reminds me of old chatbots before this whole AI craze enough (because of how rudimentary it is) for me to be mildly interested in it. if it were released like the bootleg game, just a kooky little project, i don't think anyone would find it nearly as bad and actually on topic for lain
I think the only cool Lain anniversary celebration thing I've seen this year was the whole "Club Cyberia" thing in VR Chat where they had Wasei Chikada DJing. It actually seems kind of on-brand to hold a party in a digital space like that, even if it wasn't necessarily my thing.
I would like to comment that their current use of AI doesn't necessarily goes against their philosophy in Lain. See, what's going on in Lain isn't a blunt "This is terrible, technology will f##k us all and we're dumb to rely on it", it's more of a fairly realistic "experiment" where the author thought of what could be some consequences for such relliance on technology and the philosophy flourished from that point on. It's not necessarily a negative thing, it's a comment on something that has it's downs but at the same time has a mysterious enigmatic nature which makes us, humans, thirsty for it's knowledges and it's something that could have it's benefits depending where you're coming from. Both the people scared about the damages of technology and the most radical transhumanist enjoy Lain, just like how the book 1984 is often claimed to be about anti-capitalism or anti-socialism depending what you interpret ouf of it. That aside, yeah, the anniversary isn't good at all.
Totally agree with this sentiment. One of the core messages of the anime *is* the recognition of just how much power technology has over us. It is entirely within the ethos of the anime to acknowledge this.
What? But 1984 was LITERALLY written by a socialist. It's not anti capitalism or anti socialism. It's anti authoritarian, he wrote it to warn other socialists about how their governments could be infiltrated by strong men too. Also people aren't afraid of AI, they're afraid of unregulated AI that corporations use to screw over people to maximize profit. Like in the case of the actors strike, those companies refuse to drop their socalled "right" to recreate the actors likeness using AI for aslong as the company breaths. Do you not see how insane that is? The other common problem is AI "art" that is trained on STOLEN material.
100% agree. Overall I'm wildly interested in AI. Hell, one could even interpret Lain herself to be one, as a being born of the Wired. To me, it's another branch of research into non-human intelligence - just like attempting to communicate with dolphins or aliens. It may be a bit chuuni, but the cool factor just hasn't worn off for me. Despite that, the inclusion of a Lain chat-bot felt sterile and uninteresting. AI is more useful than dolphins or aliens, but as a result it has become both a major business decision and point of contention. Look at AI art and how - despite the impressive nature of the technology - it garnered so much hate. For good reason too! Even with the usefulness of AI, we're still very far away from a general intelligence. The intrigue of non-human intelligence is not there yet. So, rather than making a Lain that can't even pass the Turing test, they should have aimed higher and sponsored the discussion surrounding the technology. Host some kind of competition in the name of Lain, for people to make strong philosophical arguments, demonstrations, or media for or against the new technology. Give winners the special merch instead of tying it to a boomer NFT game, maybe drop a new exclusive Blu-ray set for winners. Use the influence of Lain to inspire more similar works directly, and through those works we can all love Lain.
Now to me as I'm typing this comment, this is the definition of somebody being truly under the radar. 42 subscribers thats really unbelievable for content like this.
Despera is going to be the Half-Life 3 of anime at this point 😢 I want it to drop SO BAD!! It just sucks how many production issues (and unfortunate passings) occurred that prevented the show from releasing.
Honestly the Yoshitoshi Abe popup shop is the only good thing. Here's to hoping something better happens for the 25th anniversary of Haibane and Texhnolyze which I find myself preferring over Lain as I get older.
l-ai-n is either going to become like the lain fanbase (people on the internet with strange, unusual, or obscure interests) or the worst thing to ever "touch" a "keyboard". considering that you have to pay to use it, it will probably be the latter.
I tried the ai chatbot out of curiosity and for the whole free trial she kept asking if I wanted to ride a bicycle even though I told her I can't multiple times She has the memory span of cleverbot which isn't something I would expect from a chatbot that you have to pay to access
Ngl I'm actually somewhat impressed that one of the creators so hilariously missed the point of Lain that he accidentally made a really fitting continuation of its themes and warnings about the internet.
TH-cam on its way to give me something pretty informative and cool once in a blue moon. Anyway, here’s my rambly comment: Even as a fan of Lain and all of the other series these guys have worked on (especially Yoshitoshi ABe, I’ve collected some of his stuff physically…and a lot of it isn’t cheap), this really is just kinda sad and makes me feel bad for Yasuyuki Ueda. Like, i know Ueda finds all of the new Ai work fascinating and it’s cool to see him enjoy it, don’t get my wrong…but it really feels like there’s a disconnect from him and us as fans because of the fact a lot of us are just in a “Yeah…it’s neat…I guess” sort of mood in comparison to his enthusiasm on it. Clearly some work went into all of this but…I dunno, I don’t feel anything for any of it outside of the ABe Merch and sadly that isn’t enough to push me into getting into all of this for some raffle that I may or may not get anything out of anyhow. Also, uhhh…man, that NFT stuff feels kinda like a light slap in the face to the fans if you ask me. In my opinion at least, it’s literally just an NFT scheme with a Lain skin thrown onto it and it comes off as predatory and soulless. I’m also not someone who supports NFTs or anything of the sort, though, so maybe it’s just not for me for that reason, I dunno. I never understood the appeal of them in the first place.
I mean, the issue is how this AI hype is people projecting their own fantasies into it and ignore its inherit reality, that as this stage of things AIs are exploitative and work purely on copying and modifying existing works by mixing and matching them together to creat the illusion of something new, lacking the human element of transformation and inclusion of new ideas.
@@shizachan8421 I agree. In a way, people are just kind of using it in some…odder ways in my eyes, almost like it’s wish fulfillment too. But yeah, Ai is rather limited when you try and use it in a creative sense, the biggest example being art. You can notice imperfections like extra fingers on a person, warped parts of an image that make it look unnatural, things like that, and there’s of course the issue where Ai can only create so many different styles. Meanwhile, human artists don’t have that limitation, if they can draw it, their style for something can be whatever they want it to be. I also just feel that there’s a conceptual limit to Ai that isn’t an issue for people since they can come up with whatever they want and create it as it’s something visually definable enough, I’m sure if an Ai could replicate a specific concept a human artist can create or not. Never underestimate what a human being, their brain, and a drawing tablet or piece of paper with a pen or pencil can do. In a way, it feels like…a war between human artists and Ai at this point in time (though I’m putting that in a VERY over dramatic way) and makes me wonder when there will be a time where we can truly no longer tell what was human-made and what was done by an Ai. As someone who is a VERY amateurish artist who’s been out of the game for a long time, it certainly will be interesting to see where that leads.
Sadly, it's really just a case of most of us being from a completely different generation, so of course we won't really be on the same wave length as him.
@@nyodesu AI is touted as this super futuristic thing that will do everything so well that it will outdo humans 100% of the time, to the point where it completely replaces human involvement in art because of how good it is (That's a depressing idea.) In practice it tends to be fairly limited and mostly championed by those who'd rather not do art in the first place. Ethical issues with current models aside, what's being sold isn't good for anyone who wants to be hands-on with their work. All the hype around how it's going to get unimaginably better is more to encourage investors to give them money to ostensibly put towards makingsomething like that, whether or not it's possible or desireable.
I didn't even know that someone could suck at Wikipedia so badly that the donation message is able to impede their ability to do anything on the website for a year...but that was before I'd heard of Ueda Yasuyuki.
*OOF* This feels like kind of a sad and bitter end to serial experiments lain. At least in any official capacity anyways. I don't blame any of the creators for not feeling passionate about the the show or game anymore, but peddling a bunch of NFTs and a AI chatbot feels really disingenuous *at least to me* but It's cool to know that there's still a thriving fan base that continues to talk about and appreciate the show even to this day. Wish I had known about this earlier.
Hey at least the music scene for the Lain Anniversaries are brilliant 😏👌 I was honoured to be a part of the VR Cyberia music events these last two years, where a group of amazing Producers/Bands/DJs got together with the one and only Wasei JJ Chikada, and made an immersive VR Chat live show for fans 🙏😁 #letsalllovelain 🖥️🌐
We FB and Discord communities did an online event for the aniversary with guest JJ, Bôa and other artist influenced by Lain in their music, Just fans for the fans, as it should be.
You missed Cyberia fest 25th on vrc, we had bôa do an interview and as always JJ (DJ Wasai) to most of the music and some other artists did sets. Was a really nice time and the community from all over the world got together.
Well, I guess the aniversary stayed true to it's roots. If Lain's about how the advancements in technology fundamentally changed human nature and relationships, seems fitting that Its anniversary and creator would also embrace this new era of AI as a way to worship technology itself. Though perhaps, as opposed to the anime, our future with technology and AI is one were it overtakes us, with us being part of it. Instead of the technology helping us reach the next stage of human evolution through the transhumanist cybernetic fairy-tale, we are the ones doomed to aid the machine evolve by giving it our flesh and ideas. By letting machines interact with other humans through algorithms and variables, by inputing them our work, our art and our creativity to process and output something their own, and by creating an environment where computers become an integral part of our lives. Everything just at the inexpensive cost of our own individuality.
Opposed to? That's what happens in serial experiments lain, too. Eiri's just delusional and thinks his manmade horror is the next step in human evolutuon. I don't understand how you can be this pretentious and still completely miss that it's dystopian, not utopian.
@@dogmendogmen Oh no, I never said it was supposed to be something utopian. I'm sorry if it sounded like that. And before anything else, at the end of the day I think Lain is just an artwork that's there to be interpreted and pondered about. Without going into any kind of political agenda, personally, I believe SEL it's ultimately a fiction piece where its creators wanted to tell a story that shows us a possible future where techno-transhumanism IS a thing, and how that could affect people. And the way I see It, the anime doesn't necessarily try to paint it as a bad or a good thing. It just welcomes this reality and tells a story about how people can either attain a better understanding of themselves and their reality or just go crazy about it to the point of worshiping it, or thinking that they could use it to become gods themselves. What I pointed out in my previous comment is just how, in the real world, it doesn't seem to be a balanced relationship as it is in the anime. In fact, it's the other way around. Technology seems to be using US as a means of evolving itself, instead of people using it to improve (evolve) themselves and their lives. Which, of course, it's just a silly figurative speech, as I'm sure you know computers aren't able to fully build and operate themselves (yet). But well, of course, I could also be wrongly misremembering some things as it's been quite a while since I last watched it. Feel free to keep the discussion going though, because as you can probably see, as a Lain fan I quite like to talk about it. Lastly, I'm sorry if the pompous and fancy speech made me sound a bit pretentious. English isn't really my native language and the only experience I had with organizing my thoughts in an actual discussion was through English essays lol
@@henshicode8901 Sorry, you see a lot of people who took away it being pro-transhumanism, I thought you were saying that. You're saying it makes states that technology fundamentally changes human nature, but makes no judgements as to whether that's good or bad. I'm sure as with everything, you kind of see what you want to see in it, but I don't think there's a single thing in it that would suggest it's good. I can't think of a single character that uses The Wired to understand themselves, unless you mean Lain finding out that she's not a real person and is doing what she was created to do-which again, she's not actually human. We're only told that The Wired is a good thing, everything they actually show us ends up being bad.
@@dogmendogmen Yes, you could say people see that what they wanna see in about every opinion and their views in life, and honestly I think that's precisely what makes life itself interesting. That's what makes our individuality, makes us human, opposed to the AI algorythims I first spoke of. It's a brilliant thing that what people see and understand, is different and based on their subject experience in life. Although, whether or not they are able to accept and adopt new challenging ideas and concepts that can shake their core beliefs is another thing. The unknown territory can be scary, and new inventions can lead to terrible consequences if not carefully dealt with, of course. Regardless, I do think that trying new things is what gives birth to wonderful creations and Ideas. Now, what we do with those things its what ultimately matters. Nothing is intrinsically bad or good, per say. As I see, what we make out of the things we create is what can really do good or bad in the long run. If you're eager to understand this anime's plot regarding technology in either a good or bad light, I think Lain's could lean a bit toward that same concept. Even if its atmosphere is a bit ominous, through technology I believe Lain shows us how fundamentally lonely and helpless humans can really get. Something that I can see Lain herself understanding really early on. And although in our society, the current practices and uses of technology and the internet itself might have influenced and become the cause for the loliness epidemic nowadays, I believe when those tools first were made available to the public was with the intention to helping them communicate, connect and interact with those far away. To build forums and communities to help each other over long distances, simply because what we had at our reach wasn't enough. Now, looking at the anime and in parallel, our current reality, what have they done and acheived through the use of technology has done any good in the end? Should we separate technology from humans and their lives or completely adopt it? If we adopt it, should we let it create and make its own decisions for us, or should we use it to help us shape our own decisions? Should we use it to augment and eliminate our own limitations or should we use to fix those things that fundamentally makes us? Well, you tell me. Either way, technology is both a fascinating and scary thing. Something that I'm sure the entire creative team behind the anime was well aware, to the point of basing the entire plot, atmosphere and visuals around this duality.
I agree with your views here. The cash-grabby stuff and stigma of NFT's are way too much for the community I feel. But at the same time bringing Lain to "life" in a very basic way given out limited, yet astounding AI models can't be ignored for how much it plays into her presence both in "The Wired", the actual internet, and everyone who remembers her. I don't care for the project, but It's really interesting to reflect on it as a thought piece of where we are now vs when the show aired.
they shoulda just put her in roblox or vrchat or something. like maybe a recreation of her house and neighborhood. maybe the school and cyberia. like that woulda been way cooler
It's funny how you made 2 other videos relating to lain before this video was the one that put you on the radar. I've seen a few other videos that had somewhat low view counts on lain before I found out they blew up to massive popularity one day. People are constantly discussing Lain and making AMVs on it because it's just that trippy of a show visually with like a bunch of mixed messages of how people felt at the turn of the century into this technological age. Lain has a massive community even if it's not as big as some other fandoms I suppose. I'll honestly be surprised if someone doesn't know about Lain if they know a bunch about anime. It kinda overshadows other series, and I totally get there isn't really very many similar shows to Lain. I kinda wish more people tried exploring anime a bit more. Find weird obscurities like Amuri in Star Ocean a totally bombastic CGI anime that's just the craziest 3D anime I've ever seen.
Cat Soup might be more like akin to Lain in a way via a story perspective and can be a bit more emotional than just a crazy bombastic experience like a lot of OVAs tend to be. I'm still hoping someone actually makes a video on Shichinin no Nana sometime because I honestly have no idea why there's zilch videos on youtube about that anime even if it's a weird comedy about 7 cloned girls with different personalities lol.
Fantastic video. I can tell you really respect the Lain community and the show itself as I do. I was super excited about this project, but I feel the overall reception/sentiment of it has gone down rather poorly. I 100% believe the creator thinks what he is doing is right and has value and I have to respect him for putting all this effort in, but ultimately It's not in the right direction for fans.
if the ai lain was idk actually good (not that i know i haven't played with it but that clip was... yeah) i think it'd fit in the lain universe. The SEL franchise playing with morally grey technology is an exciting prospect, if written thoughtfully, but it feels weird when the tone of the anime is very critical of the future of technology, and the creator in the present isn't very critical of what its become at all. He seems to be in complete awe of its capabilities, like he was swept up in the very same plight the anime warns against. That's the depressing part to me.
TBH, the chat-box kinda interested me, at least to see how long does it take to the Internet to turn it into a maniacal being as already happened with other AI chatboxes 😆
Now that you sum it up its a big marketing campaign. I personally found the (really slow) AI chat box cool I guess but yeah it's a pretty steep price for using it.
TBF, i would pay 35 dolleriedoos for a Lain 25th standee. The NFT component doesn't really motivate me one way or the other in the making of that decision. No, the real problem is that they only made 50 of them.
I would have rather had nothing and stuck with fics and fanart than what we actually got. Like, there's a translated version of someone who made a serial experiments lain manga from screenshots alone. That takes some serious dedication and love
nothing could be less endearing to me than someone admitting to using Chat GPT for projects and thanking fans with an AI-written letter. Its super insincere
Thank you for the video, it was very informative, kinda sad how the legacy of Lain is being mistreated in such a way but it is what it is. I only watched the show 3 years ago and it left a big impression, I don't think anything like that could be made today...
i would love to see a new Lain figure for the 25th Anniversary. The old ones are so damn expencive. Still hope Goodsmile Company would do a figure of her in the future, or even better, making a Yoshitoshi Abe Collection with the main characters from every show or something.
You can see everyone involved in Lain somehow now started to try to capitalize on the anime, not only the creators like Yoshitoshi Abe, but the band responsible for the opening theme is also really really active recently, that's a good thing cause the band sounds really good, but in the other side, seeing the creators of the anime wanting to make money with those superfluous things, is just an oxymoron, wasn't the whole idea of the anime to show that tecnology was bad?
They included a definition of what an animation cel is. Which I guess is the inverse of me asking for the definition of an NFT? It’s bits of color all the way down.
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The best 25th anniversary gift we've gotten was MyAnimeList getting hacked and all entries being renamed to "LET'S ALL LOVE LAIN"
That's was epic and based
wait that actually happened? thats kinda cool
I agree
wait when did that happen? thats so cool
@@luiss428yes it happened
For the anniversary i think we should just all love Lain.
ok so in that case, let's all love lain
Let's all love lain
Let's all love Lain
lets all love lain
UOOOH 😭
The solid minute of Lain typing noises just to say "I didn't get it..." only makes the AI more believably Lain.
That being said how dare they do Lain dirty like this.
It's both brilliant and sad at the same time.
@@rushnerdWe are getting Mixed Signals from the Wired
haven't we all done that at some point? Typing and deleting and retyping only to give up and send a short message?
@@user-sl6gn1ss8p True
@@user-sl6gn1ss8p Of course, we all have. It's a cop-out by the AI that it "doesn't understand" the prompt with the given learning so far. At the same time It's also a let down AND realistic I suppose. Either way, the experiment is interesting.
the fact that the creators are doing what the series heavily criticizes is so dystopian that nothing could compare
Don't think so.
Are the creators directly responsible for that or it’s a marketing team ?
I think it's a mistake to assume just because the authors recognize some problems in that type of approach to technology that they are ultimately against it.
Recognizing problems even in the things we agree and enjoy is basic critical thinking.
@@annefrank125 I don't think you can come away from watching Lain and describe the experience as "it recognizes some of the problems of technology, but it's pretty neutral about it, actually". And, like, isn't the Lain chatbot *exactly* the kind of hyperreal escapist bs Lain warned about?
@@annefrank125Lain is so clearly portraying these things as explicitly negative. I'm sorry, but if you can watch the show and come away thinking "this is overall pretty neutral on modern issues like NFTs and AI art" then you weren't paying attention.
I got into Lain this year and it became my favorite anime, and man oh man am I glad that I'm not the only one that doesn't care for this event. Going through Lain, I don't think any part of the story would have had me walk away from it being like "You know, I bet she would enjoy purchasing digital goods that hold no real world value. We need MORE value in the wired."
Wholesome but also cringe 😅
I wish the Rei Fans never found lain, both two really meaningful and interestingly written girls reduced to just patrick Bateman neco arc meme faces.
Soft-spoken artificial ideas of women were going to lose their nuance in the greater public sphere regardless.
We only protect what we value.
i hate how people completely misunderstand these amazing characters and they get turned into just memes
I wish Rei and Lain fans never found Patrick Bateman
@@thebottleofexuberantwealth7507what’s a neco arc?
@@jimmythe-gentskibidi toilet for 20 yr olds
I think the real 25th anniversary that we got was Cyberia in VR chat that was put on by a few fans and groups and even live streamed the entire thing that was so cool to see all the fan creations and music mash ups. Also Bôa came out of retirement did a live action music video for the Lain Theme Song and released a new album and I think that is pretty cool.
the lesson is that the dude is interested in technology and is kind of a boomer, so he's still into NFTs and all that crypto blockchain stuff, while the younger generation sees it for the pump and dump scheme these fads are
Dis is the most actual take
That’s a bar.
What a perfect synopsis
the blockchain is inevitable, see yall in the future
@@evergrace-g2d 哎呀
i saw duvet (lain's op) by boa release a music video of it recently! should have known it was the anniversary lol
u have 2 minutes to apologize to them @@dorianlain1372
@@kid_dracula_damn what happened
the best thing that came out of it tbh
There was a one before, and it was much better
Yeah I only just discovered BOA had a music video for Duvet a few weeks before the new video dropped. It's incredible how relevant this show continues to be and how it lives on thanks to the passionate community that has made it more popular than it ever was before.
the fact that you sent lain "what's better yaoi or yuri?" is hilarious
also great video :D
Lain: _essay-length typing_
@@tahunuva4254Laid 😂
I'm a dude do Yuri for me.
im glad the latin american fandom did more justice to the anniversary with the incredible Cyberia VRFest, i had a lot of fun in that
Aguante el fandom de lain latam 🫡🫡🫡🫡
@@CrissPivot realll, el fandom de lain latam es de los más bonitos que he visto en todo el internet 🙏
Basically, it was a virtual rave party that took place in VRCHAT in a recreation of the cyberia club to celebrate the 25th anniversary of lain
All this was organized by the administrators of two very large Latin Facebook groups about Lain lol. The cool thing about this is that they managed to contact many artists to play live while the party was going on (for example, one of them was Wasei Chikada). There was even a live Q&A with the members of boa!!!
I’ve never been into playing VRCHAT, so that event was my first vr party and it was an incredible experience @@guyg.8529
@@guyg.8529 What did he say? There is nothing there!
@@guyg.8529literally nothing is responded to who tf are you talking to
"I have the power of ChatGPT" ..i can't believe this is a sentence we got to read
Japan was barely getting a grasp of what NFTs and ChatGPT were by the time the entire english speaking world had completely chewed them up and spat them out already. His enthusiasm is likely genuine, just have to be aware they probably got into this trend when its lifespan was already over in the West.
There was a "heh" in the letter. He was kind of being tongue in cheek about it.
@@thesidneychan that maked it even funnier
@Hugsloth This isnt true... Asian countries are embracing AI.
@@thesidneychan is the saying actually tongue in cheek not tongue and cheek
it's like irony on top of irony on top of irony and that's both funny and strangely appropriate
As an artist, seeing them use NFT’s and AI really disappoints me. Wasn’t the whole meaning behind Lain the idea that AI/technology is harmful and would ruin the world? Did they just change their minds now because its benefiting them in the meantime? What happens when AI takes over their jobs? Will they get mad and protest like the rest of us are already?
Doomer mentality. You sound like book burners back a couple hundreds of years ago.
Their work was never about fear or about "good and evil" and more about what is there to discover what's behind the mirror. Sure you could look at works like lain and just see a big threat in AI in the digital domain and the internet or technology as a whole but that's really not what it was about. As said in the video Lain is about a feeling not about fear, not about overthinking. That is all.
im going to delete ur comment in 2 mintues@@turtle_soda
@@kid_dracula_ deleted from existence
@@dorianlain1372 you don't understand anything about how problematic AI is if you reduce it to "oh it's because your art sucks". No need to be rude, you just show how childish every AI supporter behaves.
Kinda funny how all Lain fans i've met are very unique and interesting people. I dont really think the artist behind it knows how dumb of an attempt at a cash-grab like this one feels to us weirdoes. Credit to the author of this video, the message felt way different when you read it in such a calm voice
Edit: Hey guys, what another person considers "unique and interesting" is not subjective at all. Now come and fight me in the replies.
true, i've met one lain fan in real life and it's true.
That's weird, most other lain fans I've met are pretty much exactly the same as each other. Do you mean "unique" relative to the general population? Then sure.
@@dogmendogmen thats a bit of a naive generalization though, im a musician/artist, and most of the lain fans i've met are ppl like artists and musicians with really unique personalities, its super popular online now and theres such a huge range of people who enjoy it, but of course people similar people will like the same things
@@glxss3 It's not naive-it literally can't be because it's heuristic formed from experience.
If most of the lain fans you've met are artists and musicians, then that means you aren't nearly as unique as you think you are. It's tone and aesthetic appeals to artsy and/or alternative types, and it's plot appeals to people who identify with lain and wear programming socks.
Obviously something super popular will capture a lot of unique people, because it captures a lot of people. But then what's the point of OP's comment? By that logic, Marvel movies have an even more unique and interesting fanbase.
@@dogmendogmen 😭
honestly if the ai lain chatbot released on its own (and like, a dollar tops) i feel like it could actually be an interesting melding of the real worlds grappling with ai ethics and fans really getting a chance to interface with a new idea. sadly with everything else it comes off as just a dumb cash grab
yeah, her chatbot reminds me of old chatbots before this whole AI craze enough (because of how rudimentary it is) for me to be mildly interested in it. if it were released like the bootleg game, just a kooky little project, i don't think anyone would find it nearly as bad and actually on topic for lain
I think the only cool Lain anniversary celebration thing I've seen this year was the whole "Club Cyberia" thing in VR Chat where they had Wasei Chikada DJing. It actually seems kind of on-brand to hold a party in a digital space like that, even if it wasn't necessarily my thing.
They could have just.... rereleased it on blueray or something and it would have been better IMO
It already has been in the UK at least. You can get it for like £20.
Lain is prophetic, so much of the tech and social impacts shown in the series has become reality. It just gets more and more relevant.
I would like to comment that their current use of AI doesn't necessarily goes against their philosophy in Lain. See, what's going on in Lain isn't a blunt "This is terrible, technology will f##k us all and we're dumb to rely on it", it's more of a fairly realistic "experiment" where the author thought of what could be some consequences for such relliance on technology and the philosophy flourished from that point on. It's not necessarily a negative thing, it's a comment on something that has it's downs but at the same time has a mysterious enigmatic nature which makes us, humans, thirsty for it's knowledges and it's something that could have it's benefits depending where you're coming from.
Both the people scared about the damages of technology and the most radical transhumanist enjoy Lain, just like how the book 1984 is often claimed to be about anti-capitalism or anti-socialism depending what you interpret ouf of it.
That aside, yeah, the anniversary isn't good at all.
Totally agree with this sentiment. One of the core messages of the anime *is* the recognition of just how much power technology has over us. It is entirely within the ethos of the anime to acknowledge this.
What? But 1984 was LITERALLY written by a socialist. It's not anti capitalism or anti socialism. It's anti authoritarian, he wrote it to warn other socialists about how their governments could be infiltrated by strong men too.
Also people aren't afraid of AI, they're afraid of unregulated AI that corporations use to screw over people to maximize profit. Like in the case of the actors strike, those companies refuse to drop their socalled "right" to recreate the actors likeness using AI for aslong as the company breaths. Do you not see how insane that is?
The other common problem is AI "art" that is trained on STOLEN material.
100% agree. Overall I'm wildly interested in AI. Hell, one could even interpret Lain herself to be one, as a being born of the Wired. To me, it's another branch of research into non-human intelligence - just like attempting to communicate with dolphins or aliens. It may be a bit chuuni, but the cool factor just hasn't worn off for me. Despite that, the inclusion of a Lain chat-bot felt sterile and uninteresting. AI is more useful than dolphins or aliens, but as a result it has become both a major business decision and point of contention. Look at AI art and how - despite the impressive nature of the technology - it garnered so much hate. For good reason too! Even with the usefulness of AI, we're still very far away from a general intelligence. The intrigue of non-human intelligence is not there yet.
So, rather than making a Lain that can't even pass the Turing test, they should have aimed higher and sponsored the discussion surrounding the technology. Host some kind of competition in the name of Lain, for people to make strong philosophical arguments, demonstrations, or media for or against the new technology. Give winners the special merch instead of tying it to a boomer NFT game, maybe drop a new exclusive Blu-ray set for winners. Use the influence of Lain to inspire more similar works directly, and through those works we can all love Lain.
It's not about technology for or against, it's about humanity.
@@jiaan100 Yes. The vehicle is technology, but the end is humanity. Just like Texhnolyze too.
Now to me as I'm typing this comment, this is the definition of somebody being truly under the radar. 42 subscribers thats really unbelievable for content like this.
we not getting despera 💀
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuughhhhhhhhhhh DESPERAAAAAAA
Seems like they have little motivation to continue Despera after Nakamura’s death
Despera is going to be the Half-Life 3 of anime at this point 😢 I want it to drop SO BAD!! It just sucks how many production issues (and unfortunate passings) occurred that prevented the show from releasing.
please stop reminding me how old I am @@under7890
Legit bruh its over
i guess it IS an april fool's joke in some ways
Lain didn't deserve this...
Happy 25th Anniversary Lain :D
Honestly the Yoshitoshi Abe popup shop is the only good thing. Here's to hoping something better happens for the 25th anniversary of Haibane and Texhnolyze which I find myself preferring over Lain as I get older.
i havent watched texhnolyze yet but man haibane is so good
i really really love haibane i hope it gets something neat for its anniversary
@@reitrace honestly doubt, its not exactly obscure but i dont think it has quite the fanbase
where can i find the yoshitoshi popup shop???
We’ll at least Duvet blowing up this year revived Bôa’s music career lol
I started getting some pretty good advice from Lain about my current relationship and then I got Paywalled. Rip.
Damn
Get Paywalled Get Paywalled Get paywalled!
Lain acting like a true therapist
@@zedxcu_fear_
So excited for the Ghost in the Shell branded VR spinal plug when it comes out.
got me good lol
l-ai-n is either going to become like the lain fanbase (people on the internet with strange, unusual, or obscure interests) or the worst thing to ever "touch" a "keyboard". considering that you have to pay to use it, it will probably be the latter.
is the ai chatbot saying racial slurs yet?
Evil Lain any%
@@thrwwccnt5845 This is the internet, they came pre-packaged
Well I'll go for anything that will make it less interesting to your type of "fan base"
@@futanari333 What's wrong with the fanbase being into strange and obscure stuff?
The part about Lain springing forth into IRL... God, I hope not. That whole concept is fuckin horrifying
At least having a TTL is cool, I wish more projects did this. If anything good came out of this project, it's this.
I tried the ai chatbot out of curiosity and for the whole free trial she kept asking if I wanted to ride a bicycle even though I told her I can't multiple times
She has the memory span of cleverbot which isn't something I would expect from a chatbot that you have to pay to access
Ngl I'm actually somewhat impressed that one of the creators so hilariously missed the point of Lain that he accidentally made a really fitting continuation of its themes and warnings about the internet.
TH-cam on its way to give me something pretty informative and cool once in a blue moon. Anyway, here’s my rambly comment:
Even as a fan of Lain and all of the other series these guys have worked on (especially Yoshitoshi ABe, I’ve collected some of his stuff physically…and a lot of it isn’t cheap), this really is just kinda sad and makes me feel bad for Yasuyuki Ueda. Like, i know Ueda finds all of the new Ai work fascinating and it’s cool to see him enjoy it, don’t get my wrong…but it really feels like there’s a disconnect from him and us as fans because of the fact a lot of us are just in a “Yeah…it’s neat…I guess” sort of mood in comparison to his enthusiasm on it. Clearly some work went into all of this but…I dunno, I don’t feel anything for any of it outside of the ABe Merch and sadly that isn’t enough to push me into getting into all of this for some raffle that I may or may not get anything out of anyhow.
Also, uhhh…man, that NFT stuff feels kinda like a light slap in the face to the fans if you ask me. In my opinion at least, it’s literally just an NFT scheme with a Lain skin thrown onto it and it comes off as predatory and soulless. I’m also not someone who supports NFTs or anything of the sort, though, so maybe it’s just not for me for that reason, I dunno. I never understood the appeal of them in the first place.
I mean, the issue is how this AI hype is people projecting their own fantasies into it and ignore its inherit reality, that as this stage of things AIs are exploitative and work purely on copying and modifying existing works by mixing and matching them together to creat the illusion of something new, lacking the human element of transformation and inclusion of new ideas.
@@shizachan8421 I agree. In a way, people are just kind of using it in some…odder ways in my eyes, almost like it’s wish fulfillment too. But yeah, Ai is rather limited when you try and use it in a creative sense, the biggest example being art. You can notice imperfections like extra fingers on a person, warped parts of an image that make it look unnatural, things like that, and there’s of course the issue where Ai can only create so many different styles. Meanwhile, human artists don’t have that limitation, if they can draw it, their style for something can be whatever they want it to be. I also just feel that there’s a conceptual limit to Ai that isn’t an issue for people since they can come up with whatever they want and create it as it’s something visually definable enough, I’m sure if an Ai could replicate a specific concept a human artist can create or not. Never underestimate what a human being, their brain, and a drawing tablet or piece of paper with a pen or pencil can do.
In a way, it feels like…a war between human artists and Ai at this point in time (though I’m putting that in a VERY over dramatic way) and makes me wonder when there will be a time where we can truly no longer tell what was human-made and what was done by an Ai. As someone who is a VERY amateurish artist who’s been out of the game for a long time, it certainly will be interesting to see where that leads.
Sadly, it's really just a case of most of us being from a completely different generation, so of course we won't really be on the same wave length as him.
@@nyodesu AI is touted as this super futuristic thing that will do everything so well that it will outdo humans 100% of the time, to the point where it completely replaces human involvement in art because of how good it is (That's a depressing idea.)
In practice it tends to be fairly limited and mostly championed by those who'd rather not do art in the first place.
Ethical issues with current models aside, what's being sold isn't good for anyone who wants to be hands-on with their work.
All the hype around how it's going to get unimaginably better is more to encourage investors to give them money to ostensibly put towards makingsomething like that, whether or not it's possible or desireable.
I agree a lot with that last paragraph. Just because lain’s name is on doesn’t mean I’ll care
I'm really glad that I somehow stumbled upon your channel. Thank you for your videos and I hope that you'll eventually reach more people.
Just give me a new anime written by Yoshitoshi Abe (no, hes not the guy who wrote Lain, hes the one who did the character art(
message is kind of sweet i guess but it turned into rambling and i wanted him to shut up
A lot makes sense in hindsight.
The best celebration for lain would be an international remaster of the ps1 game 🙃
I didn't even know that someone could suck at Wikipedia so badly that the donation message is able to impede their ability to do anything on the website for a year...but that was before I'd heard of Ueda Yasuyuki.
*OOF* This feels like kind of a sad and bitter end to serial experiments lain. At least in any official capacity anyways. I don't blame any of the creators for not feeling passionate about the the show or game anymore, but peddling a bunch of NFTs and a AI chatbot feels really disingenuous *at least to me* but It's cool to know that there's still a thriving fan base that continues to talk about and appreciate the show even to this day. Wish I had known about this earlier.
Hey at least the music scene for the Lain Anniversaries are brilliant 😏👌
I was honoured to be a part of the VR Cyberia music events these last two years, where a group of amazing Producers/Bands/DJs got together with the one and only Wasei JJ Chikada, and made an immersive VR Chat live show for fans 🙏😁
#letsalllovelain 🖥️🌐
Some comments: "This isn't what lain was about!"
Me: You understood what Lain was about?
_"And you don't seem to understaaaand-"_
"A shame you seemed an honest man-"
cant wait for despera coming 2162
I just turn 25 recently this year and can't believe Lain turn 25 year old now! XD
Well technically Lain herself would be like 40 but
ok thats too many people, you guys can stop watching now
ok my bad bro
No >:)
every time you flash the fucking vocaloid dances in these videos i crack tf up literally every time
We FB and Discord communities did an online event for the aniversary with guest JJ, Bôa and other artist influenced by Lain in their music, Just fans for the fans, as it should be.
well that's pretty disappointing. at least the first batch of people got something physical along with their nfts tho
Machine learning model with a small, exclusive data pool.
Sounds like it cant go wrong.
You missed Cyberia fest 25th on vrc, we had bôa do an interview and as always JJ (DJ Wasai) to most of the music and some other artists did sets.
Was a really nice time and the community from all over the world got together.
you using “partirò” at the end was wholesome, thanks.
I’m italian, so I’m happy this song is known also outside italy 💜💜💜
Aw man, I had no idea this was even happening and now I'm both sad about having missed it and sad that it kinda sucked anyway...
didn't even realise this was only a 300 subscriber channel, you deserve way more
Glad we've lain that to rest
Well, I guess the aniversary stayed true to it's roots. If Lain's about how the advancements in technology fundamentally changed human nature and relationships, seems fitting that Its anniversary and creator would also embrace this new era of AI as a way to worship technology itself.
Though perhaps, as opposed to the anime, our future with technology and AI is one were it overtakes us, with us being part of it. Instead of the technology helping us reach the next stage of human evolution through the transhumanist cybernetic fairy-tale, we are the ones doomed to aid the machine evolve by giving it our flesh and ideas. By letting machines interact with other humans through algorithms and variables, by inputing them our work, our art and our creativity to process and output something their own, and by creating an environment where computers become an integral part of our lives.
Everything just at the inexpensive cost of our own individuality.
Opposed to? That's what happens in serial experiments lain, too. Eiri's just delusional and thinks his manmade horror is the next step in human evolutuon.
I don't understand how you can be this pretentious and still completely miss that it's dystopian, not utopian.
@@dogmendogmen Oh no, I never said it was supposed to be something utopian. I'm sorry if it sounded like that. And before anything else, at the end of the day I think Lain is just an artwork that's there to be interpreted and pondered about.
Without going into any kind of political agenda, personally, I believe SEL it's ultimately a fiction piece where its creators wanted to tell a story that shows us a possible future where techno-transhumanism IS a thing, and how that could affect people.
And the way I see It, the anime doesn't necessarily try to paint it as a bad or a good thing. It just welcomes this reality and tells a story about how people can either attain a better understanding of themselves and their reality or just go crazy about it to the point of worshiping it, or thinking that they could use it to become gods themselves.
What I pointed out in my previous comment is just how, in the real world, it doesn't seem to be a balanced relationship as it is in the anime. In fact, it's the other way around. Technology seems to be using US as a means of evolving itself, instead of people using it to improve (evolve) themselves and their lives. Which, of course, it's just a silly figurative speech, as I'm sure you know computers aren't able to fully build and operate themselves (yet).
But well, of course, I could also be wrongly misremembering some things as it's been quite a while since I last watched it. Feel free to keep the discussion going though, because as you can probably see, as a Lain fan I quite like to talk about it.
Lastly, I'm sorry if the pompous and fancy speech made me sound a bit pretentious. English isn't really my native language and the only experience I had with organizing my thoughts in an actual discussion was through English essays lol
@@henshicode8901 Sorry, you see a lot of people who took away it being pro-transhumanism, I thought you were saying that. You're saying it makes states that technology fundamentally changes human nature, but makes no judgements as to whether that's good or bad.
I'm sure as with everything, you kind of see what you want to see in it, but I don't think there's a single thing in it that would suggest it's good. I can't think of a single character that uses The Wired to understand themselves, unless you mean Lain finding out that she's not a real person and is doing what she was created to do-which again, she's not actually human. We're only told that The Wired is a good thing, everything they actually show us ends up being bad.
@@dogmendogmen Yes, you could say people see that what they wanna see in about every opinion and their views in life, and honestly I think that's precisely what makes life itself interesting. That's what makes our individuality, makes us human, opposed to the AI algorythims I first spoke of. It's a brilliant thing that what people see and understand, is different and based on their subject experience in life.
Although, whether or not they are able to accept and adopt new challenging ideas and concepts that can shake their core beliefs is another thing. The unknown territory can be scary, and new inventions can lead to terrible consequences if not carefully dealt with, of course. Regardless, I do think that trying new things is what gives birth to wonderful creations and Ideas.
Now, what we do with those things its what ultimately matters. Nothing is intrinsically bad or good, per say. As I see, what we make out of the things we create is what can really do good or bad in the long run.
If you're eager to understand this anime's plot regarding technology in either a good or bad light, I think Lain's could lean a bit toward that same concept. Even if its atmosphere is a bit ominous, through technology I believe Lain shows us how fundamentally lonely and helpless humans can really get. Something that I can see Lain herself understanding really early on. And although in our society, the current practices and uses of technology and the internet itself might have influenced and become the cause for the loliness epidemic nowadays, I believe when those tools first were made available to the public was with the intention to helping them communicate, connect and interact with those far away. To build forums and communities to help each other over long distances, simply because what we had at our reach wasn't enough.
Now, looking at the anime and in parallel, our current reality, what have they done and acheived through the use of technology has done any good in the end? Should we separate technology from humans and their lives or completely adopt it? If we adopt it, should we let it create and make its own decisions for us, or should we use it to help us shape our own decisions? Should we use it to augment and eliminate our own limitations or should we use to fix those things that fundamentally makes us?
Well, you tell me.
Either way, technology is both a fascinating and scary thing. Something that I'm sure the entire creative team behind the anime was well aware, to the point of basing the entire plot, atmosphere and visuals around this duality.
I agree with your views here. The cash-grabby stuff and stigma of NFT's are way too much for the community I feel.
But at the same time bringing Lain to "life" in a very basic way given out limited, yet astounding AI models can't be ignored for how much it plays into her presence both in "The Wired", the actual internet, and everyone who remembers her. I don't care for the project, but It's really interesting to reflect on it as a thought piece of where we are now vs when the show aired.
they shoulda just put her in roblox or vrchat or something. like maybe a recreation of her house and neighborhood. maybe the school and cyberia. like that woulda been way cooler
oh i got into this series at the worst possible time didnt i
Man, the 25th anniversary of Lain... I'm getting old...
Let's All Love Lain!
It's funny how you made 2 other videos relating to lain before this video was the one that put you on the radar. I've seen a few other videos that had somewhat low view counts on lain before I found out they blew up to massive popularity one day. People are constantly discussing Lain and making AMVs on it because it's just that trippy of a show visually with like a bunch of mixed messages of how people felt at the turn of the century into this technological age. Lain has a massive community even if it's not as big as some other fandoms I suppose. I'll honestly be surprised if someone doesn't know about Lain if they know a bunch about anime. It kinda overshadows other series, and I totally get there isn't really very many similar shows to Lain. I kinda wish more people tried exploring anime a bit more. Find weird obscurities like Amuri in Star Ocean a totally bombastic CGI anime that's just the craziest 3D anime I've ever seen.
Cat Soup might be more like akin to Lain in a way via a story perspective and can be a bit more emotional than just a crazy bombastic experience like a lot of OVAs tend to be. I'm still hoping someone actually makes a video on Shichinin no Nana sometime because I honestly have no idea why there's zilch videos on youtube about that anime even if it's a weird comedy about 7 cloned girls with different personalities lol.
I really wish they wouldn't look at what people have done with SEL. Just made it worst and most likely have never watched it.
@@futanari333 I see you under every comment, how low can you stoop to seek out attention?
imagine being a texhnolyze fan then
Imagine being a Shichinin no Nana fan then.
I have to pause this, and then start again when I find my onesie.
Lain's best episode was gay bar
Fantastic video. I can tell you really respect the Lain community and the show itself as I do.
I was super excited about this project, but I feel the overall reception/sentiment of it has gone down rather poorly.
I 100% believe the creator thinks what he is doing is right and has value and I have to respect him for putting all this effort in, but ultimately It's not in the right direction for fans.
if the ai lain was idk actually good (not that i know i haven't played with it but that clip was... yeah) i think it'd fit in the lain universe. The SEL franchise playing with morally grey technology is an exciting prospect, if written thoughtfully, but it feels weird when the tone of the anime is very critical of the future of technology, and the creator in the present isn't very critical of what its become at all. He seems to be in complete awe of its capabilities, like he was swept up in the very same plight the anime warns against. That's the depressing part to me.
Wow Lain is so cool
12:42am
Oct/31/23 Tuesday
I am on my knees, begging, pleading, crying. For the love of all that is holy, PLEASE get a pop filter. I don't know how much longer I can take it
I have no idea what Lain was before now, now im sorta sad that the 25 aniv. Isn't going well.
that voice change for the gpt bit was the best
TBH, the chat-box kinda interested me, at least to see how long does it take to the Internet to turn it into a maniacal being as already happened with other AI chatboxes 😆
Now that you sum it up its a big marketing campaign. I personally found the (really slow) AI chat box cool I guess but yeah it's a pretty steep price for using it.
It was a gag
Let's all love Lain
TBF, i would pay 35 dolleriedoos for a Lain 25th standee.
The NFT component doesn't really motivate me one way or the other in the making of that decision.
No, the real problem is that they only made 50 of them.
Let's All Love Lain
happy birthday lain !!!!
I didn't know it was Lain's anniversary.
Some pretty damn good timing, for me, atleast.
I knew Lain was fucked when this guy did his Digimon Tamers "sequel"
The writing was on the wall
9:20 this part nearly broke me I was literally shallow breathing after a full minute of typing slowly I can’t cope
They made a show about why you shouldn't create the torment nexus and then went and sold the torment nexus :[
I would have rather had nothing and stuck with fics and fanart than what we actually got. Like, there's a translated version of someone who made a serial experiments lain manga from screenshots alone. That takes some serious dedication and love
to bad the Lainchan and arisuchan sites went down.
correction Lainchan is still up
nothing could be less endearing to me than someone admitting to using Chat GPT for projects and thanking fans with an AI-written letter. Its super insincere
Two words, the only physical thing i would like for this anniversary:
Lain chikita
CORPORATE SPONSOR PLAN??? Bro imagine your boss walks in one morning like "hey I got everybody access to Lain" "...what?" "to help with your work"
Thank you for the video, it was very informative, kinda sad how the legacy of Lain is being mistreated in such a way but it is what it is.
I only watched the show 3 years ago and it left a big impression, I don't think anything like that could be made today...
love the creator giving a nod to tanasinn :)
"Dont create the torment nexus"
*creates the torment nexus
Now with advancements in technology, every writer can write about the Torment Nexus and create it at the same time
really great video bro but how did u do the text scroll along with the effects? Also what editing program do u use?
i use adobe premiere
Do you have some deleted videos? I see that im subbed to you and while your previous content looks like stuff I would watch I dont remember any of it.
i would love to see a new Lain figure for the 25th Anniversary. The old ones are so damn expencive. Still hope Goodsmile Company would do a figure of her in the future, or even better, making a Yoshitoshi Abe Collection with the main characters from every show or something.
It makes me kinda sad to see nfts and a chat bot all about lain. Kinda like the original message gets blurred
let's all love Lain
Well that was a fever dream
i like how the opening to this video is complaining about pseudo-intellectuals while sounding like a generic pseudo-intellectual
或庵曰、西天胡子、因甚無髭。
50th anniversary is gonna be so EPIC!
You can see everyone involved in Lain somehow now started to try to capitalize on the anime, not only the creators like Yoshitoshi Abe, but the band responsible for the opening theme is also really really active recently, that's a good thing cause the band sounds really good, but in the other side, seeing the creators of the anime wanting to make money with those superfluous things, is just an oxymoron, wasn't the whole idea of the anime to show that tecnology was bad?
woah are you surprised that creators and artist are trying to capitalize on their work???what a shame!!
damn i would have loved to chat to an AI lain if that had been done well
They included a definition of what an animation cel is. Which I guess is the inverse of me asking for the definition of an NFT? It’s bits of color all the way down.
Fantastic video! Loved it like I love Lain! Let's ALL Love Lain!