Here is one of my all time favorites.  I haven't learned how to add pics to my post on care2, but pics of this one are easy to find on google just search for 'Lain'  I personnally find the muted graphic style to be quite appealing, a very gritty look, without beating you over the head with it.  An engageing story especially for us internet geeks, lol - points at self. I'll try to post another series tomorrow if that is ok.

below was taken from http://www.animenfo.com

Title                          Serial Experiments Lain

Category                   TV

Total Episodes         13   (13 x 25 mins)

Genres                      Drama, Science-Fiction

Year Published         1998

Studio                       Geneon Entertainment

  Description  

The first episode opens with the mysterious suicide of a high-school girl, Chisa Yomoda. Chisa-chan was a classmate of Lain Iwakura, a quiet, 14-year-old high-school girl. One of the other girls in the class has been receiving e-mail messages from Chisa-chan, and Lain discovers she also has mail from Chisa-chan. In the mail she explains to Lain that she just abandoned her flesh. She assures lain that she still is alive in the 'wired' world. After getting a new 'navi' and adding a 'psyche' circuit, Lain spends more and more time in the wired. It seems that Lain has at least 2 personalities, and Lain's first personality is changing even now. Who is lain? Who are the 'knights'? Can the wired influence the real world with a prophecy? Is the real world nothing but a hologram of the information in the wired?

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I caught this one first through computer files (the anime people don't feel the same as the music industry about file shareing, the anime producers know that they have gotten more sales from people trying their shows that way)

But this one was shown in the US, on cable (Channel G4techTV, show AnimeUnleashed).  This is the only one that I know of exploring the idea that society is a super-organism and we are its parts, connected via the wired (or in more common lingo the web).

Davida

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