None of you would give a fuck about Serial Experiment Lain if it didn't have a little girl main character

Which is?

obvious

Then explain it to us.

Go ahead. I'm waiting.

>us
I'm pretty sure you're the only one ITT who didn't get it. Are you sure you watched the show?

>Still avoiding the question
Explain why lain needed to be a cute little girl, and not a young boy like shinji. Explain why it needed to be that way for the show to work.

Shinji is Just Nadia. Fuck off.

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Not that user but moe is the key

But it is mained by a FeMC. So where does your argument go?

To what?

Open wide faggot, here comes the airplane
You know how Lain was supposed to connect everyone, right? I mean, it's outright stated multiple times in the show, which you've obviously watched, so yes. Well, she was supposed to connect everyone through a shared ideal. This ideal being love for her. "Let's all love Lain". That's how she was connecting people together and acting like a network (Lain, LAN, haha get it)
Having her be a cute girl was a way for the staff to take this on a metatextual scale, so that the viewer would love Lain as well. They explicitely said that they wanted people to love her.

So they tried to intellectualise the fact they put a cute girl on the cover to sell DVD's.

Ok, thanks.

True

male Lain would start wearing skirts and striped kneesocks the moment he gets at computers anyway

>It's another "muh artistic choices are just excuses for being le bad" midwit
Faggot. Watch the Haruhi series and Disappearance, maybe you'll understand that people can be creative without it being an excuse for thing i don't like.

They put a cute girl in it to make it sell and then wrote a story about how everyone loves the cute girl. Get a grip on reality, take your dick out of your hand.

I'm not watching your shitty recs. "NO BUT SHE'S A GIRL AND IT DECONSTRUCTS THESE SHITTY SLICE OF LIFE SHOWS ABOUT LITTLE SCHOOLGIRLS I LIKE SO IT'S LIKE SUPER DEEP". You're no different from MLP fanboys.

I kinda agree with him

I don't know man, i'm just trying to have you get a better understanding of art, so that you will stop saying stupid stuff.
Yes, it has happened in the past that artistic choices/gimmicks/metatextual things were there by necessity. Eva had a bunch of that for example due to its low budget. But it did interesting stuff with it. Necessity doesn't imply the result is bad. And in Lain's case there was no necessity even. Nobody is watching Lain because "lol cute girl". If you think CGDCTfags are into Lain you're a fucking mongoloid. If anything most people now only watch it because of how "deep" it is, kind of like Eva, which is also not really a good reason but whatever.

Lain is like a mother figure. She represents creation, destruction and connection.

>art
Lain is not art, it's otaku bait.

>Nobody is watching Lain because "lol cute girl"
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Zig Forums wouldn't know it exists if it didn't have a cute girl.

>1 minute apart
You're not pretending to be retarded user, you are, factually, unironically, retarded. I'm not talking about the character you're playing. I'm talking about you.

>little girl main character shaming
How insensitive of you.

And you don't seem to understand

It does though, it makes it very apparent something is wrong with her family in the early episodes when nobody seems to care much about her. A boy might be treated that for being aloof; perhaps he prefers it, but with a girl it seems as "off" as it's supposed to seem. Eventually her sister's programming "breaks" and she's off babbling in a corner and her dad just turns out to be this weirdo who ignores his family and only looks at memes. Later, it turns out the house was empty all along and her assigned "family" were people and possibly also "bots" projected from the wired to keep an eye on her.

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I didn't understand this anime.