None have been announced, and I doubt they'll do anything special. This isn't Eva we're talking about.

Lain > Eva. Discuss

They released a thinpak in Japan. I think those DVDs might be even lower bitrate than ours!

EVA > Lain because they have that nice chopped up Death/Rebirth revision of the series into a movie. Lain needs a chopped up movie version. But what would be cut out? There is no filler!

Lain > Eva.

Simply because it had more sense, didn't have any giant mecha, didn't feature 'simple', typical anime humour, and didn't have a pretentious end movie.

In the typical approach of Marxian dialectic resolution, we reach synthesis: Eva ~ Lain

Both are good.

Ah, but Lain > Rei?

>>8

twitch

>>5
You could cut out at least half of "Distortion" and "Infornography"!

Just got me a copy of volume four of the robot anthology, and ABe made a comment about Lain Box art, so they might be planning something, though the book isn't exactly a recent release (vol 10 in .jp) so, he could have been reminiscing or a re release in japan... Be a good time for me to finally get the DVDs if they do do aniversary release though...

>>12
Same as offensive /b/tard-style poster here... I like the atmosphere of Wakachan; while I do think the overall human quality is lower here than it is in 4chon, this is a pleasant place with helpful people, and the pictures are generally higher quality than 4chon. So, I bet this sort of asinine trollwob isn't tolerated here?

Now, after the introduction... are we ever going to have a spiritual sequel to Lain? Texh didn't make the cut; it was too pretentious and self-indulgent. Sure, you could give it lenient treatment over the first 4 episodes, but the slow pace and coquettish exposition lead up to nothing; a city we didn't care about was destroyed, and we were supposed to take on a tragic feeling.

>>12 You are also wrong and please pay attention in philosophy 101 next time 'round.

>>13 "a city we didn't care about was destroyed, and we were supposed to take on a tragic feeling."

Probably because the motivations or all the protagonists, including the city's, were either of the lowest kind or else impossible to fathom. And then their will to life got totally redshifted. A Lynchesque visit to a Petri dish.

>>14

It IS Hegel. Read Philosophy of History. And don't accuse me of failing a course I never took.

Further, the motivations of most of the Texhnolyze characters are crystal clear. Ask me who you don't understand, I could give you a plausible interpretation. Kano was a megalomaniac, and a sort of counterpart to Ran in post-humanity. (That was why he kept on calling Ran his sister. And as a point of humor, he kept on harassing Ran for cybersex over the psychic internet.) Ran didn't do jack because she had perfect precognition, her predictions were always right. Yoshii was an anarchist, who hoped Lukuss would break the decadence of the surface world and create a new and vital universe. Who's mysterious in their motivations?

What failed it was that the characters were all flat, and that there wasn't enough running time. There were, what, 20 or more major characters in 22 episodes, in a series that depends on having compelling and complex characters? How does that work?

If Wikipedia is right, there is wrongosity here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis%2C_antithesis%2C_synthesis

>>16

zoomj wikipedia self-contradicts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_history

>> 17

Well, Film at Eleven. Wikipedia is the end result of Chinese Whispers.

So we have to go to the source:

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8phnm10.txt

Unfortunately the olde Hegel is extremely obscure. Quite difficult to make sense of anything he writes. But after having looked over the text for half an hour, Hegel does not seem to say anything about "the motor of history". At all. Which is normal - this is about the Phenomenology of the Mind, not of History.

The origin of "dialectics" in Hegel is still an Unproven Assumption!

>>1 Well I'm cosplaying Masami Eiri (including a plushie Lain for fondl- cough cinematic enactment) at Supanova this year in celebration.

I really hope there is something released.

Just for the record, Lain > Everything

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