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Elfen Lied
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Title(s): Elfen Lied
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Creator: Lynn Okamoto
Genres: Drama, Horror, Psychological, Romance, Science Fiction
Age Group: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Vintage: July 25, 2004
Status: Completed
Summary: The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind.
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"Gore genre Anime" Definitely not for Kidz~
Written by eri8cthow on September 1, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 4
Entertainment: 4
SYNOPSIS: A facility has been confining and experimenting about a rare species called Diclonius. Diclonius is a mutated homo-sapien with a very deadly telekinetic abilities and somewhat hold a grudge towards mankind. It is said that Diclonius will be the main reason for mankind’s extinction. A certain Diclonius escaped the facility and was ordered to be killed, she was shot on the head when trying to escape, and was thought to be dead. The Diclonius’ name is Lucy; she suffered from acute amnesia after what happened and was found on a shore in the town of her old childhood friend. Now this organization behind the facility tried to send out their best men for the job to stop the rampaging Lucy from destroying mankind.

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My first impression for this anime would be somewhat “scary.” There’s this very beautiful and slow opening song which is in Latin. Though I didn’t understand a word it said, the music is just terrifically creepy. After the opening song, you could be shocked on what you’ll see; there’s a ripped arm on the floor. 20 seconds into the anime and you’ll see bodies being torn apart horribly that probably those who aren’t used to gore would puke. Being very much oriented to having fun in ripping people apart, the blood spraying doesn’t only end with ugly male side characters. Next scene, you’ll see a cute girl who was only introduced to be badly mutilated with her head flying around. Being able to escape, Lucy started off living as “Nyuu”, her other side who is very cute unlike the blood shedding freak we know of as “Lucy.”

Outside of the facility, she’ll meet the the other most significant characters; Kouta and Mayu. Kouta and Mayu are childhood friends living in the town that Lucy/Nyuu unfortunately drifted on to. There, they took care of Nyuu thinking that she was a normal person who had amnesia.

One of the things that I really liked about this anime was how powerful the seiyuus (voice actor) were. Nyuu & Lucy have different personalities and different voices but it was only conveyed by one person (Sanae Kobayashi). The instant changing from cute to a totally psycho character was just amazing. Also, the BGM and Opening Song “Lilium” adds up to the total creepiness of the anime – that is a total plus for the anime in my perspective. Story-wise, the theme in having one childhood mistake haunting them forever is a bomb.

Without minding the gore part of the series, I definitely loved it; but still, there’s the fact that there’s gore. I don’t really mind gory scenes where a lot of bloodshedding and human body parts flying but the fact that it also includes cute girls being decapitated was a turn off. There’s this girl that I really liked in the series because probably she’s the cutest of all the girls but she ended up losing her arms and legs; that’s just a huge downer. Afterwards, the girl who got her extremities decapitated got detachable mechanical arms and legs instead. So here comes the humor; making fun and joking about her detachable extremities; that’s just sick. Gore aside, the story was pretty vexing; the ending really wasn’t an ending because there’s still a huge “question mark” in everyone’s faces. What really caused this is still unknown; the REAL enemy is still at large; and what happened to everyone in the end was still clearly not clear.

Still worth it to watch if you’re a major fan of the gore genre. With a lot of fanservice, it kinda covers the horrible memories the gory scenes give you. The whole story became interesting and more exciting up til the ending but to be honest, I lost my appetite while watching this.
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