Give this a thumbs up if you believe this describes the series nicely and that they should fix the dog scene for the better to save the dog. Do what you need to do to fix that moment. Lucy never deserved the abuse in Elfen Lied.
One of the best short sci fi series. Most people give up watching the series after the first 7 minutes due to all the violence, nudity, etc, but the show itself isn't all about gore and blood.
The series shows great depth in human character, has romance, drama, and psychological themes. Many critics rate it a 9 out of The main character of the show is Lucy, who is the first of a new species, the Diclonius.
She has vectors which resemble hands and can vibrate them at high speeds to slice objects and people in half. She is injured however during her escape and loses her memory becoming the innocent Nyu, so named as that is the only word she says. She is found by Kohta and Yuka a pair of cousins who take her in not knowing what she is. When threatened Nyu reverts to being Lucy and dispatches or maims any perceived threat. They are later joined by Nana, another Diclonius and Mayu a young girl who'd run away from an abusive home.
Later in the series we are shown back-stories of the characters; in a couple of places this is very shocking. I liked the juxtaposition of very cute characters with a fairly violent action but wasn't quite as keen on the excessive nudity, some was justified but many times it felt like it was just there for titillation which a story of this quality didn't need. If it hadn't been for the excess nudity I'd have given this a ten as the plot, characters and animation are all great.
I'm sure I'll be watching this many more times in the future. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Could have been more. First of all start with the fact that there are only 13 episodes in total. With each episode about 25 minutes we are talking here about 3 hours and 15 minutes, like a longer film.
It is hard to describe the anime, I have to start with the fact that it is very simple. All characters have the hair with the same color as the eyes, all eyes are big and moist and there are a lot of blank expressions or rather radical ones that remind me of children anime. On the good side, the story is rather interesting: there is a new sub species of man that has the ability to project very powerful telekinetic hands that can rip a person to pieces and often do and that is researched inside a lab where they are kept and experimented upon like rats and Guinea pigs.
A lot of anger comes out of this, but also the desire for human affection. Now this premise is a rather good one, the title and the music also promise a lot. Unfortunately the promise is unfulfilled and we lose the series to what I call "Japanese telenovels".
With a more professional animation and a good direction this could have been a very good and emotional anime movie of one hour and a half. It is hard to describe the series, the best formula that comes into mind is Sailor Moon meets X-Men. I can't believe I am the only one commenting it :-? For the most part my experience is that the anime that hurls the most nudity and blood at the audience tends not to be worth watching unless you simply want to see naked, bloody cartoon characters.
It is often a way of saying, "the story and characters are bad, here's something to look at to make up for it. The reviews I've read here generally take the nudity more to task than the violence, the idea being that the nudity fails to propel the story whereas the violence underscores exactly how dangerous the tentacled girls are. On the surface this is a reasonable argument. Certainly the nudity is irrelevant to the narrative, failing to in any way define the characters, and in the case of girls chained nude in government labs, it feels quite exploitative although one could argue that it was a technique meant to reinforce the inhuman status of the subjects to the lab's employees.
The violence, on the other hand, has a horror-movie effectiveness to it. And I'll admit that a lot of the reason I didn't like it is that I'm squeamish it's not nearly as hard to take in the manga. But the truth is, the series does not just efficiently show the damage, it glories in it.
It is violence porn, like those Mortal Kombat games where blood spurts out in geysers. Violence was necessary, but the degree of violence simply was not. I think the reason you don't see much nudity in great anime, and generally less gore, is simply that the makers have faith in their story. Elfen Lied is a series that hedges its bets, and by doing so, it falls short of being the series it could have been; one that dared to stand entirely on its stories and characters.
Irishchatter 3 June I have to say this anime was quite destructive with its hype of gore and Lucy killing everyone around her with her powers. It was even sad that near the end that the father Kurama and cute little Mariko were killed by a bomb when they were trying to cross the bridge. That nearly brought tears to my eyes seriously! The anime was pretty engaging which is all I have to say!
My first impression about "Elfen Lied" was quite positive, actually. The opening sequence inspired by Gustav Klimt art was one of the most beautiful and original intro sequences that I've ever watched in any television show animated or live action The story starts in a very strong way, with a gory but also thrilling and well made sequence, that keep my interest for what was going to happen next.
And then is when things start to turn strange. It has several sequences of cruelty,not only psychical but also psychological, with innocent-looking characters facing the most horrible things. But also, as strange as it sounds, it also contains several "cute" moments some of which are incredibly corny or annoying I guess this combination of gore, cruelty, melodrama and cutesy was completely deliberate, but I still found it to be somewhat awkward and weird.
On the good side, the animation is pretty good, the music is excellent and the character design is pretty well made. It was annoyed by the fact that, during the series, almost all If not all the bad things that happen in the story are caused directly or indirectly by men, with almost all the female characters being their victims. Excluding Kouta and Kurama, all the important male characters from this show are portrayed as abusive monsters that enjoy torturing both in a psychical and psychological way and making innocent girls suffer.
Personally I think that this perspective is very biased and unfair, and it really didn't let me enjoy the plot of this series. Some scenes are very, very unpleasant to watch, and some of them seem to be just way too gratuitous, or included only for the sake of melodrama.
The overall result was satisfying though, with an ambiguous, but convincing resolution. Definitely, this series is not for everyone.
I guess some viewers will find "Elfen Lied" to be way too nasty, tasteless and trite, and I'm afraid that part of those affirmations won't be way too far from the truth. However, in my opinion, despite having a very unpleasant story, this series still has many redeeming qualities, that deserve appreciation and recognition.
Even if I'm not very much into very violent anime, I have to admit that "Elfen Lied" keep my interest until the ending of the story, and that's way more than any other series from this kind have achieved until this moment. For me it was a worth-watching experience, but I would recommend only to those viewers who are able to handle not only the most violent and cruel elements included in a story, but also the most sickly-sweet ones.
This anime definitely intends to be controversial, but it isn't violence for the sake of violence such as 'Fist of the North Star' and countless worse flicks. The abuse of the mutants in cruel experiments, chained to the wall, and their explosive revenge attempts provide the necessary contrast for beautiful scenes such as Nana taking her first bath or Lucy going to the zoo, since they are considering this the best things ever happened to them in their life. Even if the basic idea seems a little far fetched a handful of mutants trying to kill billions of human beings to take over the whole planet, shall we really believe that could be possible?
Although bordering on the tasteless sometimes writers should remember: the killing of a cute pet dog always upsets an audience much more than the killing of a man , a brilliant anime! Sadly, that is all they left for viewing - two episodes. I was hooked. I literally ran to my nearest Anime store and bought the entire 13 episode collection, bought a few slices of pizza, some water and for a few hours on a Saturday watched the entire series.
That's how addictive this is. Addictive and good. I'ma classical art and music buff so the opening shots and music were enough to get my attention - and it should, for these two elements are a part of the story as well.
Let me say, this is NOT for the kiddies. But oh yes, there is blood You cannot escape the good animation here, the richness of it to the story and while not insanely detailed, it does focus upon what you are watching - and what you are watching is a story regarding a teen female of another species that has developed two personalities.
One is of what she really is: a device to wipe out all of mankind as we know it and create another in 5 years and the other what she could be - an innocent looking for love, reception and overall acceptance. I don't want to give too much of the story away here for this is one of those 13 episode stories I hope those who like this genre will try to look at openly.
But I will comment on the last episode - it leaves the door open for another series set or movie and I really hope they do go back in and do another. To me, there is no doubt of who is the shadow at the gate and if so - we know there were at LEAST 35 of these creatures.
We saw three, with Lucy being "Queen". And while the assumption was all female Snootz 3 January It is a sad comment on society when someone makes an anime this excessively gory and twisted-- and then the community in general give it high ratings.
I'm not discussing censorship; I'm discussing good taste and basic sanity. It would take a warped mind to enjoy the incredible gore presented in just the very first part of this anime at which time I shut it down.
This is some of the worst representation of anime genre. If normal audience were first introduced to anime via this series they'd likely never watch anime again. Would this have been a better anime without all the gore?
Sure it would That's the shame of it: it could have been a better show. That there are people who think this is "entertainment" and enjoy such stuff explains a great deal of what is wrong with this world. I expect a whole lot of neg-rates on this review. Don't care. This is unnecessarily gratuitous tripe. Because it's one of the first edgy anime inexperienced viewers see.
Once this drug gets hold of you you'd better be prepaired beforehand. People get too absorbed in the gore-filled dramatic atmosphere to notice how stupid the characters are. It used to be babby's first edgy show until Attack on Titan came along. Aside from being gory, edgy and full of nudity which made it controversial for many ppl controversial automatically equals excellent it was and still is one of the rare shows with protagonist Lucy being ruthless, murderous, villainous and Ax Crazy. This is something really fresh in mainstream animation where main heroes are almost always restricted with lines they ultimately won't cross the same lines in almost every show , for this reasons titles like Death Note and Mirai Nikki became great hits despite many flaws they had, and for majority of western audience Elfen Lied was the first show of that kind they ever watched.
It's worth mentioning here that title popularity any title, not just EL is often greatly affected by something like a "critical point" in viewer first impression. On the other hand if the "critical point" isn't crossed then it works in reverse - the viewer sees all the flaws and can't be bothered to justify them or look for anything deeper than what is shown on the surface even when there really are things worth thinking about hidden somewhere deeper. In other words - if you like Elfen Lied then you can by yourself find a lot of fun stuff hidden under the surface some of it is just over-interpretation and finding depth where there was not supposed to be one but it is irrelevant as long as there is fun in it , if you don't like it enough to find something on your own then you will just see a lot of holes and won't be able to understand why others could rate it so differently ;.
Karharot said: Aside from being gory, edgy and full of nudity which made it controversial for many ppl controversial automatically equals excellent it was and still is one of the rare shows with protagonist Lucy being ruthless, murderous, villainous and Ax Crazy.
We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So, what are we supposed to do? Should we abandon knowledge? Throw away reason? In any event, that wouldn't be possible. For better or worse, we ate the fruit of knowledge long, long ago.
Popular among edgy teens. Celestia-L20XX said: Popular among edgy teens. Elfen Lied is the kid who thinks he's super avant garde, when it's actually one anime deserving of being called pretentious. It's also 2edgy4u.
For my part I just liked the characters and agreed with their motivations for the most part. From What I understand it has given everyone something different. Gore, nudity and all that I don't care.
But What I do care is the impact it creates. To be plain Elfen Lied is a war a secret war between humans and something else. Gore like I said it is a war. But their is more then that to it shows the horrible truth of weakness and darkness of humans and Diclonius alike. So why is it a masterpiece because its more then just watching a psychopathic gore fest.
But that being said not everyone sees it the same way. Normal I say people are short sighted everyone is allowed to have their opinion. Nikoka said: People get too absorbed in the gore-filled dramatic atmosphere to notice how stupid the characters are. Udgey said: Nikoka said: People get too absorbed in the gore-filled dramatic atmosphere to notice how stupid the characters are. SolvitePriest said: mayukachan said: Udgey said: Nikoka said: People get too absorbed in the gore-filled dramatic atmosphere to notice how stupid the characters are.
I guess it's like a cult classic, was one of the first edgy shows to get popular, but not really the best at anything it does. It just paved the way for more outlandish and actually really good shows to get adapted. Its shit Nidhoeggr said: Because it's one of the first edgy anime inexperienced viewers see.
I dropped this during the first episode. The gorefest made me chuckle, it was so edgy. I wasn't disturbed, just laughing at the absurdity of it all. It's often a gateway anime, I guess.
Gateway anime perhaps? And nostalgic to many who rewatch. Pretty much the Naruto Syndrome. Is Yuka just that uptight, or would anyone start to get nervous when their childhood dream is wrecked by crazy circumstances? Is her devotion to Kouta proudly in the tradition of great romances, or something she should have let go of and moved on from? Is Nyu's grabbiness and lack of modesty ecchi hilariousness, or is it something that makes Kouta's life impossible, and traumatizes poor Nozomi, for example?
Are we supposed to see Nyu's antics as arousing sexual fun or take another look at every girl who grabs another girl in the anime bath, despite being told to stop? Nana's optimism is heartfelt and charming--until you realize that this is mostly a defense against living a life of horror and deprivation in which your only link is a father who largely permits this to happen. Is Kisaragi's savage murder a shot at clumsy girls in anime, or a marker that shows us such girls would have trouble living in a world of killers?
A classic example is this : Were Brutus and Cassius and the other conspirators in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar heroes stopping a tyrant, or criminals depriving Rome of its chosen leader and causing chaos?
Bottom line : X is so Y for a reason. It, however, is a reason that, like as not, no two people will ever completely agree on. There is no word from the various rights-holders, and the net is fairly choked with requests and ideas for a Season 2 or a remake like was done for Full Metal Alchemist.
These things take money, and whether or not those with the legal power to do so want to spend their money that way is a question we simply have no answer for.
As of , the popularity of Stranger Things , a series partly inspired by Elfen Lied, may be changing the first series low profile, but only time will tell. Some people have a sociopathic level of detachment from all others, caring only about their own needs and wants. To her mother, Mayu was now an obstacle to her happiness. Selfish is almost a euphemism when talking about her. There are shelters and services that try and aid kids like Mayu.
Give to them. Two of these are not natural Human hair colors, and the third is not a usual color for a child of strict Japanese descent. We see no other Diclonii in color illustrations. While Pink and Blue are hair colors seen in other anime, no Humans in Elfen Lied seem to have them, so they too are a part of the Diclonius mutation, though why something like hair would differentiate so much remains a mystery.
In the anime, all Diclonius all have pink hair, but the shade and hue varies. For example, Lucy's is cerise, Nana's is a paler, somewhat purple-tinted pink, and Mariko's is light enough of a pink color to look blonde at sunset.
This is probably to make them easy to identify against the backdrop of human characters, who all have realistic hair colors. Bottom line: Okamoto wanted to distinguish them from humans, or just wanted to make their hair those colors, or both.
In the anime, it's to give them a uniform look to help distinguish them from normal humans. Vectors are energy-based and a form of telekinesis. It's never clarified why they manifest as arms, though they do extend out of a Diclonius' back or around them. Being energy-based would explain their lifting and cutting power, being able to insinuate themselves between molecular bonds, as well as why a young small Diclonius, Mariko , had the most "arms.
It comes from the words of St. He said "Open your fingers and close the middle and the ring finger only.
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