Critics responded positively to these thematic and stylistic characteristics, and it was awarded an Excellence Prize by the 1998 for 'its willingness to question the meaning of contemporary life' and the 'extraordinarily philosophical and deep questions' it asks. The word 'weird' appears almost systematically in English language reviews of the series, or the alternatives 'bizarre', and 'atypical', due mostly to the freedoms taken with the animation and its unusual science fiction themes, and due to its philosophical and psychological context. Serial Experiments Lain was first broadcast in at 1:15 a.m. The 'blood pools' represent the Wired's presence 'beneath the surface' of reality. The interpretation's the thing, and those looking for action or comedy may come away slightly disappointed.Lain's neighborhood. Splicing in elements of Matrix-style cyberpunk, X-Files conspiracy, and the David Lynch-esque surreal, 'Lain' is, like the Wired world it portrays, a synthesis of disparate ideas and personas, all thrown into a blender for the viewer to interpret. Apparently, her consciousness is still on the net.or is it? From then on, things get weird, complicated, and interesting. After a classmate seemingly commits suicide, Lain gets e-mail from the dead girl.

The story is simple at first and seems half-predictable in these post-'Matrix' times. But it goes beyond style and gets into substance. From the killer opening title sequence (with a great opening song, by the way) to the strange 'previews' (they only consist of a girl talking and her body parts - I'm not kidding) for the next show, 'Lain' certainly has a fairly unique style. It's not godly perfect or anything, but it gets up there.way up there. Navis and Macintoshes are both built by companies named after fruit, Tachibana (a type of orange) and Apple, respectively. The HandiNAVI, the handheld computers which both Lain and Arisu used was based off the Apple Newton, the first PDA. The child's Navi that Lain used to use was modeled after the 20th Anniversary Macintosh. The electronic voice heard saying the episode titles is the 'Whisper' voice from the MacOS Speech Control Panel, a program that permits text-to-speech. All of the Navis shown in the series use one-button mice as Macintosh computers do. Open the NeXT' is a reference to the NeXT company, founded by Steve Jobs in the late '80s and purchased by Apple Computer in December 1996. Arisu's Navi resembles the original Apple iMac. Navi's operating system has a graphical user interface (GUI) similar to that of MacOS. The Navis use an operating system named Copeland, which was the codename for Apple's MacOS 8. The Be company was founded by Jean-Louis Guasse, a former Apple executive. This is a reference to BeOS, whose logo has similar coloring. There are numerous references to Macintosh and Apple Computers: The phrase 'To Be Continued', with a colored 'Be' is shown at the end of most of the episodes.

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