(L) Elfen Lied

[Killerattacks]

Originally Posted by AndrewLB

God damn, man, that looks like far too much effort.

Speaking of, I'm not going to be releasing the scripts anymore. My reason is up on my website. Mind you, if I find more info about the series, I'll put it up on the sub page, and I'll keep the subtitles already released up. I'll probably be correcting them eventually too.

It's somehow sad to see that you stopped your work on the Elfenlied scripts. Well, it's your decision and it's understandable. And the elfenlied.net thing wasn't far too much work IMHO. The domain was free, I already had most of the stuff, thus I managed to complete the whole thing in less than two days.

But putting all that aside I CANNOT WAIT FOR EP 9 ;p

[dreamless]

After reading some later chapters of the manga, it seems that even the manga series is coming to an end soon I guess maybe releasing later part of the series as OVAs is not a bad idea after all, if the manga is gonna end at around volume 10 or so (currently it does seem quite likely )

[Yebyosh]

Originally Posted by dreamless

After reading some later chapters of the manga, it seems that even the manga series is coming to an end soon I guess maybe releasing later part of the series as OVAs is not a bad idea after all, if the manga is gonna end at around volume 10 or so (currently it does seem quite likely )

You mean by

Spoiler for chapter 83:

The household getting invaded, Kouta getting shot? Nyu showing off the ultimate manifestation of horns?

Yep, likely the end is most likely near (or they could hospitalise Kouta, then go into another arc )

[Mentar]

Whoah! Major upset, they are diverging from the manga storyline, and very significantly so!

A very scary ep9 that was, and they're still not completely done with the flashbacks. I start to wonder how this is going to end, because as far as I can see it's not necessarily headed into the manga direction anymore.

I'm really excited now

[Spuffy]

Those excessive flashbacks are starting to annoy me. One ep would have been fine, but a series only having 13 eps, then I think it's a waste having allmost two full flashback eps. They really didn't have to be that long. Now it's three really slow eps, I hope they find back to the original pace soon again.

Ragarding the previous ep

Spoiler:

At least after watching ep 9 it's quite clear that little Lucy isn't mentally stable. Not only does she argue with herself, fact is that she does have a pretty strong imagination when it comes to modifying previous events in the worst possible way, and that she most certainly did imagine the little girl grinning and giggling in ep 8.

Spoiler for Ep 9 screenshots:

[Mentar]

Depends on what you're looking for in this series. I'll take Lucy's background story and character development over yet another "Bad Guy points a gun at girl and grazes her with shots to make her bleed" scene any day

[AndrewLB]

I still haven't gotten over the way Lucy talks as a kid.
That, and her method of finding a place to sleep. At least this show isn't turning down the blood showers.

[AnimeOni]

They are getting close to why Kouta lost his memory and how it plays into the story. I think they will cover it in the next ep or so.

As to the blood shower. They are not very environmental (conservative) with it are they? There's more blood to be spilled.
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HONEY OIL

[Timeless Enigma]

Yet another episode where I sat wide eyed for most of it.

DAMN

The episode leads me to ask a question however. When Lucy first escaped fro mthe research facility, was she humming the song Lilium?

Spoiler for Episode 9:

The internal dialoge that Lucy kept having leads me to believe that most if not all diclonius have two sides to them. The "normal" side and their primal nature side. Seems that Lucy's loss of normalcy occured after the mental trauma she received in that school. Then it was finally completed by seeing Kouta, the only person who ever treated her like a human, "betray" her.

I believe that the head trauma Lucy recieved in episode 1 re-awakened, reformed, or recreated the new "innocent Lucy". Or maybe her brains were rescrambled... heh.

My belief that all diclonius have two sides stems from Nana. She has also had her "out of character" moments (mainly in her confrontation with Bando). This is likely the genetic trait that has them all locked up in the first place.

I'm wondering about Lucy's statement in an earlier episode about never killing a human before. This is clearly incorrect, and I am sure she hasn't forgotten her younger days. At first I thought that she considered everyone she had killed thus far to be inhuman. But she killed a hapless secretary, she killed a woman who was concerned about her health in episode 9 (which to me was about as shocking as the killing of Shirakawa).

Episode 9 also reinforces that feeling that Lucy is jealous of Yuka, and she's next on Lucy's "shitlist."

What I found out of character in the episode in which Kouta and Lucy talk directly for the first time is that Lucy felt guilty and remorseful about killing Kouta's family. I think some people said that she was still under the effects of the drugs Kakuzawa gave her, and that's what caused it.

I was very pissed off the see the episode end where it did. I was like "NO, IT CAN'T STOP YET!!!" and then it did.

The director sure knows how to leave you hanging.

[Timeless Enigma]

Some screenshots for episode 10, content warning.

Spoiler for The Innocent Kurama:

Spoiler for The Young Kakuzawa:

Spoiler for Lucy/Nana Captive?:

Spoiler for Reminiscent Girl:

Spoiler for Bloodshed:

Spoiler for Murderer?:

Spoiler for Unknown:

[Guido]

The movie trailer and screenshots for episode 10 are already uploaded in the official webpage.

What's to come:

Spoiler:

1. Lucy V.S. Nana, Round 2. Battleground: Kouta's Backyard.
2. Mayu gets in the fight (again) and calls to Nyu (Lucy) to stop; she hugs her.
3. Nana's official resident at Kouta's.
4. Nana's past as lab rat.

Seriously, either the writers or animators are very much obsessed with pedophiliac fanservice.

[Timeless Enigma]

Haha, I forgot about that completely. I guess I should revisit the official site, haven't been their since Elfen Lied first aired.

Looks like that episode will certainly contain more flashbacks though.

[DwArD]

Whoa~Never saw this thread until now. All I can say is Elfen Lied does indeed have a nice story plot. And after watching up till the 9th episode,

Spoiler:

Lucy really likes Kouta, and dunno what happended, she sort of killed Kouta's family, say, maybe unknowingly? And somehow Kouta lost his memory and is slowly regaining it.

Some other thoughts:

Spoiler:

Is there any possibility that Kouta got into danger somewhere in the series and Lucy ended up going enraged and save him?

Question:

Spoiler:

What sort of made Lucy go mad when she was younger and ended up killing innocent people? Is it because she is jealous of Kouta and Yuka being together?

[AndrewLB]

Originally Posted by DwArD

Question:

Spoiler:

What sort of made Lucy go mad when she was younger and ended up killing innocent people? Is it because she is jealous of Kouta and Yuka being together?

Spoiler:

You could say that, but it was more that she didn't really consider herself "Human" thanks to those now dead school kids.

Right after she gets knocked down after seeing Yuka sexually assaulting the young Kouta at the festival, she says "I see, so Kouta has someone he loves already." and in her imagination, Kouta says "That's right, there's no way I could love a girl with such weird horns." She goes "Then why me?" and he says "I told you, I love weird animals." and then her alter ego comes along and there's the whole "You're made to kill, blah blah blah." thing, you get the idea.

So lots of people die, and there's yet another good episode of Elfenlied.

[DwArD]

Cool.....thanks for that...one of these days after my O'levels, I gonna go take up jap courses. Anyway, I don't really think Kouta 'loves' Yuka. Let me ask.....how many guys can actually resist a kiss from such a cute girl

Spoiler:

If Kouta ever regains his memory, he gonna hate Nyuu/Lucy

[Mashimaro]

Spoiler for Response to DwArD:

Is there such a thing as "sorta killing" kouta's parents?

When Guido said "movie trailers" I thought there was going to be a movie after series so I looked all the way back at the past posts. ~0~

Episode 9 sounds good, must watch.

[DwArD]

Oops.....sorry bout that.....too tired after the exams so can't type and form sentence structures properly

[dreamless]

Originally Posted by DwArD

Cool.....thanks for that...one of these days after my O'levels, I gonna go take up jap courses. Anyway, I don't really think Kouta 'loves' Yuka. Let me ask.....how many guys can actually resist a kiss from such a cute girl

Spoiler:

If Kouta ever regains his memory, he gonna hate Nyuu/Lucy

well, as far as I see, Kouta likes Nyu/Lucy, but that's about it, he treats her as a friend/someone he needs to protect, he doesn't show much romantic interest in her, while he surely has some romantic interest in Yuuka, both now and when he was young...

[Kusa]

Originally Posted by dreamless

well, as far as I see, Kouta likes Nyu/Lucy, but that's about it, he treats her as a friend/someone he needs to protect, he doesn't show much romantic interest in her, while he surely has some romantic interest in Yuuka, both now and when he was young...

Does anyone know how many manga's are out now? I have heard only 8 but I saw a scan that I never seen before in all 8 books.

[Yebyosh]

For the manga, currently 8 tankoubons (volumes) have been published.

The series is however serialised in one of those regular 'phonebook' mangazines (the tankoubans are collected from there and tidied/spruced up). Currently Elfen Lied the manga is at Chapter 83.