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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9349610" data-attributes="member: 6671663">I have two now-older anime series I recommend to people who don’t like a bunch of common anime motifs.Planetes is a hard sf series. The opening shows a horrendous orbital disaster wiping out everyone on board an orbital shuttle. The nations of earth establish an international project to clean up all the junk. Time passes. The project slips into the background. It’s as important as ever, but it’s no longer prestigious. It becomes one more important job left to drifters and losers. And these are the people the show is about. Over the course of the show, some of them get their shot, others don’t, and complications abound. These days I compare it to the Murderbot series of humanity and warmth.Serial Experiments Lain lives in the hinterlands where near-future extrapolation (IPv7 is important), thrillers, and Philip Dick-style reality shifts hang out for a snack. It starts with a high school girl committing suicide, and the sending e-mail to her friend Lain a few days later. Weirdness accumulates: strangers follow Lain, messages from other unusual sources come in, Lain herself has bouts of very different temperament, her parents are keeping some secrets from her.A friend of mine once wonderfully described a classic anime fail mode: you get 12 episodes of tightly plotted locked-room murder mystery, and then in the finale, the detective reveals that the ineffable unity of things is responsible for the death, and everyone is fine with that. Serial Experiments Lain isn’t one of those. It actually does account for all its mysteries. And Lain’s final scene with her father is the kind of heartbreaking combination of revelation and response that I still aspire to write some day.Lots of both are available on YouTube so you can check them out, and both will reward if you like the kind of mature drama they are.</blockquote>

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