#lain20th

We all know head writer for Serial Experiments Lain Chiaki Konaka also wrote Digimon Tamers and episode 13 of Zero Two. No surprise that Tamers is full of Lain references and parallels, but don’t think season one didn’t start the party early!

Most Lain episodes start with the same familiar sequence of city shots. Episode 33 of Digimon Adventure, the Shibuya episode, starts out following this sequence shot-by-shot:

I took the screencaps for these a year ago meaning to do this post and never got around to it. Thankfully they came in handy when Kakudou mentioned the homage on Twitter a couple weeks ago and I could offer photographic evidence. Konaka even replied to supply the equivalent shots from Lain!