Is naked killing women who don't even have to look at you for you to die good enough for you???Or do you need a bigger explanation???
Elfen lied is on of the goriest animes along with Higurashi when they cry and Blood-C.
This Anime is sure to confuse you, disturb you and scare you silly. The series Is set around three main characters, two who are related and the other who is terribly confused and violent. Some of the characters pasts and stories behind them can be confusing, and the technology that the lab uses is even more mind boggiling for me.
The story line is confussing to. As in the beginning we see one of our main characters escaping a goverment labrotary which keeps her kind of people trapped and tested on constantly so the problem with their powers, etc. can be contained to an extent. After a lot of violent and needless killing she ends up on a beach..... Stark naked..... She's then found by our other two main characters and taken somewhere safer than the beach. The series from this point starts to un ravel the truth about all of our main characters, whats happened to their families and why Lucy is so dangerous to be around .
There are plenty of characters we grow to hate over the series of episodes, but even the main characters, who in a stereotypical anime would be loveable, are all hateable. This can be for many reasons, like Lucy, her split personality and violent nature makes us uneasy and we grow hatred towards this character. Kouta, as he lies a lot, bring up the past, is uneasy and nervous around others and relies on the other characters way too much, and maybe the fact that his stupid reckless desicisions put everyone else in danger. Yuka, an annoying idiot in my eyes who's easy going until it comes to Kouta.
Lucy; Otherwise known as Nyuu, Lucy can be violent, agressive and a little bit of a phycopathic killer when her personality splits. She's one of the original Diclonius's, they are said to be an ancient form of human being that attempted to destroy man kind once. They bring disaster and misfortune to those who come into contact with. She was placed in the lab for testing reasons and for the safety of the world, she was placed in from a young age and has been confined ever since.... so its not a surprise they start the series off with her finally escaping. Every time her personality splits and she goes back to being Lucy instead of Nyuu she tries to get away from the other characters as she knows that they'll get hurt and probably killed, also because of their horrific pasts. All in all Lucy is quite scary but because of the split personality, we all soon grow to love Nyuu instead of who she really is.
Yuka&Kouta; These two don't need as big an explanation than lucy, because the parts that they only play at the beginning are two innocent people helping out Lucy. They don't have powers or anything special like that. All we get to know at the beginning is that They are cousins who live quite far away from each other. The reason as too why Kouta has moved in with Yuka is due to educational purposes so to us this is nothing unusual.
The series is actually a great watch, that's if you can stomach amount of hearts that fly out of peoples bodies and the amount of blood..... It is quite an old anime that's been out for some time now.
The problem is that it hasn't really gotten noticed because compared to other animes the series is kind os short, and the gore that's in the anime, in fact just the first episode, throws a lot of people off of the rest of the series.
An amazing anime from start to finish, I only have a small problem with the nakedness......There's to much of it.
Friday, 29th March 2013. 8:20am. ~AmyXxx
