But that is what makes the Video Games industry amazing as a whole. Games are an interactive artform like movies, music, and are not constrained to the genres that we would think they should be. With smaller studios they are counter culture to what we think games should be. Giving it your all and having a vision that is outside the boundaries of creation can be fascinating to watch because it can change the future as we know it and how we view everything. Maybe even genre defining in of itself.

Also it makes me melancholy that Lain even had a chance to be made into Anime, including a game by studios that liked to take risks and to try new things for the game. Especially Gungrave and Shadow Hearts, and Eva games that never came West. Something I wish was more of a thing today than it was 20-30 years ago. But I do have hope that soon enough it will happen again for Indies and AA within Japan.

Let’s all love Lain.