Serial Experiments Lain felt very much like a dark dream when I watched it. And because it was so different from the mainstream stereotypical anime which can ea

Serial Experiments Lain felt very much like a dark dream when I watched it. And because it was so different from the mainstream stereotypical anime which can easily fit into well defined (and IMO overdone) categories. But I also think it's different from the sort of 'aim at western audience' type of anime (to be frank the appeal is a bit different from asia perspective, at least for me). The dark universes of Akira and Ghost in a Shell have some equivalent in the cyberpunk genre in the west, e.g elements of a dystopian society, which do not feature too often in the Japanese anime world. In that sense Lain really experiments with the genre and rebel against the typical characters and gave it a unique style (hence the name I guess :)