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What is your favorite anime?
Serial Experiments Lain, by far. It tells the tale of Lain, a socially awkward high school freshman who has received an email from one of her class mates - who had died a week previous. Moving on from there, the tale goes on of her "experiments" with the information network that seems to connect everyone. The questions it poses are wide, and almost subliminal. What exactly makes a human being - the information within the mind or the flesh encasing it? If an event that exists only in our memories were to be forgotten by all involved, did it really ever happen? Can God exist if no one is there to believe in it?
The most haunting thing about the series, however, is not the suicide of the man who desperately wants to disconnect from the Wired, nor the blank stares of Lain's sister, who's mind had become entrapped within it. No, it is the manic voice that opens every episode, bar the thirteenth, cackling as it declares that all of this is happening in this world, as we watch.
"Present day. Present time. AHAHAHAHAHA!"
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What is your favorite manga?
Mirai Nikki. This story follows Yukiteru Amano, a young boy who wanted to pass his life by as a bystander, standing upon the sidelines of life recording what happens around him in the diary on his cell phone. Fate - or rather God - has a different plan for him, granting Yukiteru and eleven other humans the gift of precognition, in the same form that they wrote down in their diaries. There is a catch, though - God is slowing dying, and requires a successor, and the reason he had given away these "Future Diaries" was so that he could choose his successor. The diary holders are locked in a competition a la Highlander - the last one standing becomes the next Lord of Time and Space.
What strikes me most about this manga is that despite the fact that the two main protagonists are young teenagers, the void in adult competency does not exist. Nor are Yuki and Yuno hyper-competent - they survive through a combination of help from their friends and allies, dumb luck, and a keen eye for overconfidence.
The best thing about this manga: Yuno Gasai. She plays the idea of a character's only trait being their love for another character straight, and comes off as brilliant, crazy, awesome, crazy, clever, and most importantly: crazy.
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