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>Some controversy arose after producer Ueda Yasuyuki made the statement in Animerica that Lain was "a sort of cultural war against American culture and the American sense of values we [Japan] adopted after World War II".[12] He later explained in numerous interviews that he had made Lain with a set of values he took as distinctly Japanese, that he hoped Americans wouldn't be able to understand as Japanese would, and that a "war of ideas"[13] would ensue over the meaning of the anime, hopefully bringing forth "new communication"[13] between the two publics. He got as far as to express disappointment when he discovered that the American public held globally the same views on the series as the Japanese did.[13]
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