a5c7b9f00b Two university students come across a seemingly harmless girl named Lucy, unaware that she's actually a mutant serial killer with a split personality. A teenager girl escapes from a laboratory with the power to dismember people with her multiple invisible arms. On her way out, she gets shot and becomes a double-personality person, half-sweet, half-murderer. On her way, she meets people who have suffered the biggest horrors possible. Together, they will face the evil organization who uses other girls to track the original one. Elfen Lied has a unique story with diverse characters that make this show a must-see. For me, I wasn't all that interested in the show,only because…<br/><br/>*WARNING* THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS PERTAINING TO THE SHOW, 'ELFEN LIED'. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.*<br/><br/>…I had heard the show contained lots of nudity and scenes with naked children either being harmed or in one case abused by an 'evil' step-father. However upon watching the first anime, I was hooked. I mean, yes there's a lot of nudity and an episode involving a young girl whose step-father was a disgusting pervert who should have been killed in the series(Personal opinion). But all that plays into just what the series is about and the story behind it. Towards the end of the show anyway it all starts to make sense and the nudity winds down a bit…just a bit anyways. Without going into further details, all i can say is watch the show, because the story itself is compelling with plenty of drama, blood/gore, and suspense. <br/><br/>Also, I personally enjoyed watching the show in it's original Japanese language with English subtitles. Don't know why, but when the English voice over is done, much of the important dialogs is either left out or told differently. With twists & turns, you couldn't ask for a better anime series where the action is great and the characters are interesting. Elfen Lied does everything that makes me roll my eyes or makes me sigh out of boredom and disbelief. This is an anime that doesn't want to tell a good story or even give us interesting characters, but instead, be as graphic and disturbing as possible.<br/><br/>There are being called Diclonious that have invisible arm like appendages called vectors that they can use to dismember anyone in their path. This is where we are introduced to characters such as Lucy, Nana, and Mariko, who are discriminated and often times, tormented by the humans. Lucy, the main character, breaks out of a research facility, but loses her memory after being shot, and becomes Nyu, a split personality of Lucy.<br/><br/>We then have the human characters such as Kouta, Yuka, Mayu, Kurama, Bando, and several others I can't bother to remember. Kouta has the typical tragic backstory that was so tragic that he doesn't even remember the incident when coming face to face with Lucy. Yuka is the cousin of Kouta that only exists just so there is incestuous pandering. Mayu also has a tragic backstory that made me stop caring since almost everyone has to have one. Kurama is probably the only interesting character of the show and whose backstory is the best out of the bunch, especially when it came to his Diclonious daughter, Mariko. And Bando is just the prick who would find any reason to hurt or kill anyone he sees.<br/><br/>There are so many problems with this anime, starting with how unrealistic the characters are portrayed to be. They make them as if humans were the devil's spawn and the slow and boring writing doesn't really help at all. This anime has almost no substance and its only defining features are the dark elements that are played, but even then it fails at that. This anime tries to be mature, but like some other anime that delve into this sort of subject matter, it has no clue what the hell maturity is.<br/><br/>Overall, this anime is way too edgy and often doesn't know how to create compelling characters or even follow up on an interesting concept with poor writing. Originally, I would have given this a one out of ten, but Kurama and Mariko were the only saving graces for this anime, everything else can go suck it.
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