Anime: Elfen Lied
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Plot:
The story begins with a naked young girl named Lucy who escapes under odd circumstances from an island research-facility off the coast of Kamakura in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. Lucy manages to nonchalantly dismember and slay 23 (14 in the manga) of the staff and guards with some form of seemingly supernatural power and gets outside. A sniper is ordered to kill her but only manages to ricochet the bullet off the metal helmet encasing her head. Lucy falls off a cliff into the sea and is not found again by the research staff.
Lucy is not a normal human but in fact a Diclonius which is a mutant strain of humans who have two small horns on their heads (hence the name diclonius) and possess telekinetic powers through use of their "Vectors", which are arms that project from the backs with varying numbers and length of reach depending on the diclonius.
The next day, a boy named Kouta arrives at Kamakura to meet his cousin Yuka. Kouta has come to study at a university there and has been given the use of an old family-owned inn, The "Maple (—÷, kaede?) Inn", provided he acts as the caretaker there. After meeting with Yuka, they go to visit the beach and find Lucy washed up there, still naked and bleeding from her head. However, the head-trauma that Lucy has experienced has caused her to develop a split personality, "Ny¨±". In stark contrast, Ny¨± is completely docile, harmless and is incapable at first of saying anything other than "Ny¨±". Not knowing what to do with her, Kouta and Yuka take her back to the inn to look after her.
While Kouta, Ny¨± and Yuka begin settling into a new life, the researchers begin hunting for Lucy and characters on both sides find themselves in a situation much more complex than they originally anticipated
Genre: Horror,romance
Comments: Very bloody and violent at the beginning and very touching story also. Contain nudity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5bdRjXQgiM- episode one 1/3
( Just to let viewers know the level of violence they will be experiencing)
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nice anime .. juz a warning .. quite violent and bloody .. not suitable for younger viewer
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Do you'll think the ending in the anime followed the ending in the manga?
The last episode was SO SAD
and it left me hanging there ...
ARGH! I hate anime(s) that have really crappy endings ~ like Samurai 7 - freaking annoying. -
some say one of the best violent animes.
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so chio...
so cool...
i like...
so much blood and gore too...
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Watched the whole anime 13 episodesOriginally posted by rmyfrm:Do you'll think the ending in the anime followed the ending in the manga?
The last episode was SO SAD and it left me hanging there ...
ARGH! I hate anime(s) that have really crappy endings ~ like Samurai 7 - freaking annoying.
story gets sadder and sadder -
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nice,very touching but there are some funny scenes. Nyuu is sooo cute
full 13 episodes here
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this has gotta be the most gory anime i ever watched man.. but it's damn cool nonetheless.. 8.1/10
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no the anime is shorter and slightly different than the manga other than the ending of the anime is not how it happened in the manga.Theres still a few volumes more after that part so I suggest reading the manga to find out.Originally posted by rmyfrm:Do you'll think the ending in the anime followed the ending in the manga?
The last episode was SO SAD and it left me hanging there ...
ARGH! I hate anime(s) that have really crappy endings ~ like Samurai 7 - freaking annoying.
its always nice to see Nyuu grabbing their boobs -
watched finished the anime. not my cup of tea.
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Ya, left hanging there, but not that bad lah. The most sad one is the Professor's daughter.Originally posted by rmyfrm:Do you'll think the ending in the anime followed the ending in the manga?
The last episode was SO SAD and it left me hanging there ...
ARGH! I hate anime(s) that have really crappy endings ~ like Samurai 7 - freaking annoying.
Samurai 7'd ending did not hang there lah. -
Ya no... samurai 7 ending did not hang in there - it did have a super crappy ending la .... i mean seriously, what's up with that young girl falling in love with that ah pek of a samurai - totally ruined the show for me ... the show built up so well ... and yet ... this kind of ending ...Originally posted by Hogzilla:Ya, left hanging there, but not that bad lah. The most sad one is the Professor's daughter.
Samurai 7'd ending did not hang there lah.
same with mai hime ...
SUZUKA ending was good but the story/build up (anime - NOT MANGA) was super crappy also. -
So who was the girl at the door?
I quite like the way it ended. The clock working again, the music box and the dog barking. A little open end-ed yet a little concluding. -
To anyone interested: ELFEN LIED are German words... loosely translated means Elf Song.
I loved the fight sequences...