I just finished watch all 13 episdoes of Elfen Lied the anime series. I loved it inspite of the sometimes excessive violence. The story follows the incident of the escape of Lucy a diclonius, or mutant human who possesses strange vector arms and enormously destructive psychic powers. Lucy escapes the secret lab where she is being help captive and experimented on to enter the lives of two college students. As the plot unfolds Lucy becomes enmeshed in the lives of Kohta and Yuka, the two students and teters between her two split personalities – one cutsy and innocent aka “Nyu” and the other psychotic and estranged. Other characters enter the frey including an abused homeless girl and another less violent “diclonius”, Nana. Overall the series is good and the animation is top notch. The story leads up to a cathartic moment where all is revealed and the intricate and emotive bonds of fate between the main characters are revealed in a wash of blood and tears. For me the best thing was the title intro song (in Latin) which is beautiful and haunting as well as classy. For a taste of Elfen Lied see the intro song above.
May 27, 2008 at 12:37 pm
The opening theme is called Lilium. I got to agree it’s nice, one of my recommended aniems for someone who is thinking of suicide. Ask them to watch this and they did be crying and stop thinking of taking their own life. It’s serious, this is how strong the anime Elfen Lied is.