KTEH - The Lain Premiere 

Dude looking like the Einstein of Anime

Thomas Edward Fanella, what a legend. How he would be amazed by the sheer ubiquity of anime in modern culture, and here he is being an early pioneer and advocate for the medium. We owe so much to people like him... may he rest in peace.

It is so bizarre to see anime be talked about in this way on US television. Truly a unique time capsule. Thank you for preserving it.

Inside you there are two wolves: one is an old man holding a VHS tape, the other is a naked 14-year-old

The visual of a naked lain with this guy talking about how they tried so hard to obtain it is kind of funny

I love this so much. Tom was a real one.

I’m proud to say this is how I originally watched Lain. It was late at night in the early 2000s.

Finished watching Lain yesterday. He's not wrong about it being one of the best and unusual. Idk much about american TV but this is really funny, seeing this older guy talking about anime and asking for donations.

Serial Experiments Lain was such a fit to air in KTEH San Jose since San Jose is often called "The Heart Of Silicon Valley".

This channel is a treasure. Thank you so much!

I love this guy! Tom was spreading the gospel, he knew about these amazing shows and tried his hardest to get them across. People like this are incredibly important to the early anime scene.

That is such a fuckin vibe for it to be aired in SILICON VALLEY lmao.

Never underestimate the power of public television! I’m not in the area but I could become a KTEH member if they’re still airing anime.

Genuinely convinced me to go watch Lain

guys, nakedness symbolizes purity. i think its very obvious that it isn’t supposed to be sexual in an anime like this.

This guy is a chad

He seems to be a very nice man

I wish he was still here. Would have loved if an Anime Review youtuber did an interview with him and talked about the memes and how the station took interest in Anime Culture. RIP Tom

If my pbs just played lain and not downton abbey I would definitely watch it

I know Cowboy Bebop aired on cable tv which is how I first saw it & fell in love but pretty amazing there was a domestic PBS station airing anime content like this back then....

Count me among the folks who thought Lain was introduced to the US via Anime Unleashed (Tech/G4 TV). One of my favorite anime that seems to only be known through obscure anime programming blocks😅

On PBS? That's hardcore

Wow! Lain was shown on public access tv? Awesome. I loved this series. Such a grimdark mindfxxk.

The lain ending showing at pbs is so uncanny, especially how lain in the ending is naked

I’m so jealous. My childhood PBS affiliate definitely didn’t show anything this awesome. I was lucky if they showed the occasional episode of Black Adder or Monty Python.

I was so glad that KTEH managed to show a lot of these shows, basically how I ended up getting into Anime.

Rest in Peace Tom

common PBS W

Man, this fooking crazy. Too cool.

This is genuinely incredible

I am finally watching Lain for the first time after finding the sub on Funimation. Thanks for saving this piece of history. ❤

Wish this was still a thing that PBS stations would do. Probably way better than whatever crap the're pushing now.

This man is a hero

I miss the 90s

Absolutely based

Brings back memories. Bay area anime premieres. I am so luck to have lived in this era. Anime was so beautiful and mysterious back then.

i thought tom fanella was still alive! but now ive realized his appearances on TV were on reruns of older programs with the fundraising footage intact. (or i could be making that up, my memory is fuzzy). RIP. i saw evangelion for the first time when PBS aired it. that was amazing. wish i saw lain when it was aired too.

Awesome video! We got Serial Experiment Lain in Latam in 2001 through the young adult animation channel Locomotion (1996-2005).

ooooh, would be cool to see how the intro looks like in these old recordings

Oh hell yeah! I used to watch that station for those show. Uncut and mostly sub! The anime was so hot, it drowned out the BBC sci-fi shows! And this was a station that LOVES their BBC sci-fi! At the time it was a big deal! Also, they aired the first gay kiss on TV, before Ellen, with 'Please Save My Earth' (and maybe also that Tenchi Muyo time & space adventure?).

This is literally "we need you to save Lain, so take out your credit card now"

Thomas Edward Fanella will live on forever in Please Save My Girth fan fiction. KTEH/Tenchi -Forever!

Rest well Tom

Thanks for sharing! You're so awesome!

had this as a video on my drive, looked for it and finally found it I might watch this now may this man rest in peace Edit: have watched all of Lain! I really liked it! If you haven't watched it you definitely should

I've been trying to find this for years. A boyfriend introduced me to Ranma and this program, but I couldn't remember the name.

Sadly I never got to enjoy this when it was new! Thank you for sharing this with us 🙏

I wish my PBS affiliate was like this ;_;

this video is so beautiful… tom is the goat

Hello Based department

Thank you

F-it I’m watching Lain, this convinced me

this man is the very embodiment of male masculinity

Why can’t I be a nerd from California in the late 90s-early 2000s

I loved anime night on Kteh. Very nostalgic to see this fundraiser.

why does this look like a church broadcast

Its so weird knowing you were able to watch Serial Experiments Lain on the same channel as Teletubbies and Sesame Street and Antiques Roadshow.

The Weeb King of Anime.

Lain is everywhere.

US television premiere… Tom is the best

Wish my local PBS station aired anime. All KERA has to brag about is bringing Monty Python's Flying Circus to America...

I did not know Einstein sell Anime in his free time 😂😂😂😂😂

Pretty cool

As an anime fan from New Zealand who was born in 2002, shit like this is invaluable to me. I'll never understand what the experience of consuming Japanese media in the West really was in the 90s and 2000s, but these otherwise throwaway pieces of media are such important pieces of insight into a time that will never happen again. A time, place, and experience that is insanely relevant to the one I and many others have today. We stand on shoulders, even in the most mundane and "meaningless" senses of the term. Anime was just not a thing in mainstream NZ culture until digital TV and the internet became commonplace in the early 2000s, and even then, I was little and can't speak to that experience firsthand. My cousin is several years older than me, and she can relate to the millennial American otaku experience, and it was still looked at as a rly weird hobby up until around 2016, 2017 (in my experience). Even though I was very internet literate for a five year old, I was still a small child and I'm definitely a product of my era, in the sense of media consumption.

proud san jose history

LAAAAIINNNN.

Sadly that in my country Lain wasn't ever released on television

Amazing History So Comfortful

Honestly epic

Lmao i love how they show lain's naked body in US TV with an old dude

So odd. They were so ahead of their time.

This was on PBS?! LOL im thinking it's a joke.

Lain...!

I found that clip.

I love his vibe idk

*inhales* layyyyne

PBS and Pioneer had a solid relationship

Truely the original weeb

how is this real

This anyone know when this would air? Late night? Evening?

おっさんがlainのvhs持ってんのがいい味出てる

What year was this?

0:09

this is one of my favorite things I have ever seen

eu quero comprar

'One of the best animes' lol Lain sucks