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Re:With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of a... by ACCount39 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:03PM (#50320696)
"And you don't seem to understand..."

Ironic that it holds the first place by understandable lines. The vocabulary isn't the complex thing - it's the content itself that eludes understanding.

Surreal and dreamlike - almost as if inviting you to connect the dots, but not giving you the labels, not giving you enough dots or an obvious enough outline to connect them confidently.

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Re:With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of a... by Terr_ on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:36PM (#50320936)
It's funny that I remember basically nothing of the series anymore... except that it still didn't quite make sense to me at the time.
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Re:With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of a... by greatquux on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:49PM (#50322535)
The latter Evangelion episodes seemed similar (but not quite as crazy as Lain). Apparently they're making a follow-up series too!
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