Like the cherry blossoms and bloody decapitations that saturate its frames, director Mamoru Kanbe's grisly anime series 'Elfen Lied' contrasts the opposing forces of innocence and... more
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Advantages: Groundbreaking anime Disadvantages: DVD extras are kept to a minimum
Elfen Lied is wonderful anime series.
You will hear many narrow-minded critics condemn this particular anime with words such as "amoral", "sick", "depraved".
They couldn't be further from the truth.
Elfen Lied is a beautiful, often infinitely sad, look at the sinister facade of humanity.
Elfen Lied is made up of 13 episodes (+1 bonus episode), all crafted by Lynn Okatomo. The first one was released in Japan, sometime during the summer of 2004.
... ...series twists and turns.
Elfen Lied is, at it's heart, a criticism of human beings.
You will actually understand why the Diclonius race wants to wipe us out. We are subjected, throughout Elfen Lied's 13 episodes, to the absolute depth of human cruelty. Many viewers should be warned that this includes allusions to pedophilia, bullying as well as animal cruelty among numerous others.
If you are open minded, you will be able to enjoy this very intelligent ...
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Advantages: Good music, extremely good animation, good action scenes and very emotionally involving. Disadvantages: Might be too extreme for some. Expect ultra-violence, nudity and a hint at incest. Possibly expensive.
...first volume of the series Elfen Lied. The series is based on the manga, and consists of 13 episodes. The full episode list is:
01 A Chance Encounter
02 Annihilation 03 Deep Feelings 04 Attack 05 Receipt 06 Innermost 07 Confrontation 08 The Beginning 09 Reminiscence 10 Infant 11 Complication 12 Quagmire 13 No Return This volume contains episodes 1-4 in both dubbed and subtitled versions. Each episode is about 20 minutes in length, as standard with ... ...so it can cost quite a bit to acquire the whole series.
The story is set in a fictional version of our own world where some humans have a special mutation which gives them a kind of psychic powers, and a human with this mutation is called a Diclonius. The series revolves around one of these Diclonius named Lucy, who escapes from a military installation conduction research on them. The Diclonius are viewed as a threat to the whole human race, as ...
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Like the cherry blossoms and bloody decapitations that saturate its frames, director Mamoru Kanbe's grisly anime series 'Elfen Lied' contrasts the opposing forces of innocence and evil with equal parts beauty and violence. Sexy, pink-haired Lucy is part of a race of genetic mutants known as Diclonius, who sport horns in their heads and are able to savagely dismember their victims with the use of psychically controlled invisible arms called vectors. After Lucy makes a violent escape from the military compound that imprisons her, she washes up naked and vulnerable on a beach shorefront and is taken in by teenage cousins Kohta and Yuka. But unbeknownst to her kindly benefactors, the now mute and amnesiac Lucy - redubbed Nyu for her inability to speak - still retains traces of her true killer nature. This amply reveals itself when the government sends out a team of renegade soldiers and another female mutant assassin to find and destroy her. Bloody and violent yet beautifully animated, 'Elfen Lied' is introduced in this volume that presents the series' first four episodes.
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