[Icehawk]

When Lucy killed those families or random bystanders, the point being delivered from those scenes is display to the viewers the kind of personality Lucy has: Cold blooded and psychopathic. This is done without any forms of censoring like off-screen killshots or non-dismemberments so that the viewers can receive the best impression/impact/image of her killings.

Exactly, which is why you're not supposed to be so sympathetic to her character, how hard is that to understand? You are not supposed to forget these things or just brush them off.

Those dead people serves as a part of Lucy's personality/storyline developer, nothing more. The producers or the mangaka isn't going to think back later and go "oh yeah, what she did pretty much violated laws in every country in the world, let's punish her or something." When somebody said that he watched animes to escape reality, that's what he meant. It's not about what "should" happen to Lucy, if we bind her to real life laws and rules; it's about what "will" happen to her, but *without* all the real life references and considerations.

First of all, since telepathy doesnt exist you are in no position to speak for what the creators themselves actually think about in regards to what happens with their characters, all you can do is analyze and speculate based on what they have already done. Secondly all this talk about "not binding them to real life laws" is making me sick. Here's a hint: do you think the laws of Elfen Lieds universe are any different from our own? You think she'd get off any easier in her fictional universe than ours? Please. Elfen Lied is an anime that is conveyed in a very realistic in your face manner and as such I think its safe to say its meant to be analyzed and thought about in a serious manner.

Another important point is what Lucy did was REASONABLE, it's wrong, it's bad, it's downright sick and evil, but it's reasonable. That is, if *everything* in the anime actually existed, it would be *reasonable* for Lucy to do what she did. This serves well because it draws and immerses the viewers in a "believable fictional world" that allows us to connect with the characters and story even better.

No shit sherlock, everything that happens has a reason behind it. Unfortunatly in Lucy's case, her reasoning behind alot of her actions is FLAWED. Doesnt matter if she's not real. Just because something has "reasoning" behind it does not mean it is suddenly free of scrutiny or criticism or hell in anyway right.

In the end. Lucy is a tragic character who had shit constantly thrown her way and in a typical act of Juvanile human ignorance took her anger out on the world and abused her powers and ended up killing alot of innocent people. Since the situation is set up like this, you cannot just ignore or brush off the bad things she did. You have to feel sympathy for her tragic childhood BUT ALSO remember that she made the mistake of taking things way too far for ignorant reasons and as such you should not be awarding her with complete forgiveness because she simply does not deserve it.

She knows it, Kouta knows it, and anyone who actually looks back on her character should know this.





Look long and hard at those images next time you think Lucy shoud just be let off scott free. She fucking chose that path and she damn well does NOT deserve to be let off 100% free in ANYONES eyes.