Elfen Lied beaten some of the animes in my top A list? For me, no. Even the manga version doesn't do that. It's tragic, but more or less it's tragic for the sake of tragedy itself IMO. I think when compared to other tragic series like, say, Key the Metal Idol, Lain, Now and Then Here and There, Saikano, Narutaru, TEXHNOLYZE, etc. etc. it lacks depths, the theme of Elfen Lied seems to be just tragedy itself, with not much else.
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