(L) Elfen Lied

[Hiou]

Great Show.. thanks to whoever subbed it

[Rias]

Originally Posted by Yebyosh

Actually,

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ディクロニウス = Diclonius, meaning "double sprout". It is actually used to name a dinosaur. Monoclonius, Diclonius, ring a bell? She's a mutant actually. All info gleamed from the official site.

And yes, it is only 13 episodes according to the official site.

Shameless plug: Read what I translated of the official site's synopsis at http://www.anime-source.com/banzai/m...content&id=891

I see, now it makes more sense...

katagana is sometimes harder than hiragana

[ultramantaro]

Originally Posted by Rias

Actually...

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You might think that Nyuu/Lucy is some bioweapon created..

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Actually they explain it later in the manga as Nyuu/Lucy are "people with horns" or like a mutant. "ディクロニウス" (deikuroniusu, I dunno if that's it's supposed to be german or some medical term) is what they are called in the manga. Those scientists captured her to study her, and some higher up guys wanted to breed with her to create a new race of super-humans

Right now it might seems that Elfen lied == Beautiful/Ugly world + more gore, but actually

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Nyuu and Kouta goes way back...only that Kouta do not remember the past, nor Nyuu.

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but Lucy does.

Is it only 13 epsiode planned? I hope there would be more, the manga does get more intresting as it goes on...

Breed with her?! Yes, she is well endowed but I doubt your "soldier" will ever make it close enough to make it happen

I am really looking forward to every episode of this series. It's like a rip of the full chested damsel in distress theme and is the complete opposite of a warm fuzzy anime like Aishiteruze Baby. I can't get enough of the violence and tragedies this show has to offer.

[Tellu54]

Granted I'm only up to vol. 5 but I see no reason why this series can't be done in 13 eps. It's a simple little thing.

[Guido]

I have the chance to watch episode one from beginning to end and let me say my thoughts.

First, when I read a couple of days ago your opinions regarding the gore I really felt goosebumps surging through my arms. NO KIDDING!!

And thought to myself that this anime possess the gory qualities of some of best Hollywood horror flicks.

I couldn't help myself but downloading the episode, in spite that I was beginning to feel dizzy and uncomfortable thinking about the so talked gore scene of episode one.

Finally, the download finished, and I knew there was no going back once I started the Media Player.
To my surprise (and relief) the gore scenes did not had effect on me at all. It was so pleasant and exquisite watching how richly detailed the gore and the slaughters were portrayed. They ranged all the way from severely gross to brutal, but in no way animalistic, cannibalistic, or devilish.
Maybe because Lucy only blew the guards or she tore them to pieces without actually dismembered them from the inside to the outside or exposing their entrails and tearing them apart.
Except for the part that she approached to that wimpy security guard who tried his best clinging for life, and yet Lucy took her time in actually dismembering him.
However, that scene was censored; only they made a close up shot of Lucy's head, but I could clearly heard the nasty sound of a body tearing.

Whoaah!! She went all rampage, killing everyone that got in her way while taking time walking in the nude.

Sorry for the clumsy, cute girl that got the 360 degree neck twist followed by a head tearing but that ought to taught her a lesson for happening at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

On the other hand, Nyu just looks like a Chi clone; has the ears and says 'Nyu'; so kawaii yet such a killer double-personality.

What I like most about Lucy was the way how the crew colored and shadow-toned her red, blank eyes. Beautifully done in terms of character art design.
Specially how they keep her hair loosely hanging around one zombie eye while concealing the other with the hair. From what I observed in the preview for episode two, though.

Some important points that I want to emphasize about episode one:

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Likely, Nyu goes Lucy whenever she faces with an ominous, life threat against her own self, when she becomes imperially pissed-off, and / or enduring critical emotions that she can't normally cope with like anybody else would.
For example, extreme anger, extreme guilt, extreme pain, extreme fear; got the idea, don't you?

When Lucy p**d on the floor that reminded me of that famous p**ing scene from the Exorcist. Ha-ha!

I cannot understand how that guy Kouta and his cousin assumed that Lucy's able to do things like normal people do everyday like properly going to the bathroom or eating a rice ball. When Lucy has no idea because its the first time she's in the outside world, after being, God knows, for many years confined in that secluded Lab.

I really hate that gruffy, macho soldier. The way he beat that poor secretary girl was an awestruck sight for me to behold. More brutally displayed than the gore scenes.
Hope, Lucy wastes him in the next episode; hopes that he suffers an atrocious, gory death.

Another issue that rose me doubts was why did Lucy spared that guy with glasses when she walked passed him?
He stood just a mere inch from her side, yet she passed and left him unscathed.
A possible theory for this is that Lucy does not has to resort in an unnecessary killing, as long as anybody else, literally, don't get in her way.

An awesome effect was the printed, blood hand mark, and how it moved all the way down the wall and then to the lever to pulled it down.
Ghastly but awestruck.

The opening song suits the anime, but not the ending.
(Watch it. I mean the song not the video)
The ending song feels out of place to me.

Anyways, Elfen Lied has captivated me, and I'm resolved to watch it all the way to the end.

[Rias]

Some of the comparision of Gustav Klimt's paintings and the OP

Contains Nudity. If this is not apporiate please delete. 18+ only Please.

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Seriously, 18+ Please

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The Embrace

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The Kiss

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Danae

[Silent Otaku]

Doesn't Nyu remind anyone of the old catgirl Nuku Nuku?

In Ep. 1
Does anyone know why Nyu

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didn't kill the one guy with the glasses on the last stand off

I am surprised Nyu didn't

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get pissed off and kill the boy who grabbed her by the shirt and yelled at her for breaking the shell

Wow just watched the ep. 2 and there was alot of blood and some fanservice.

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The whole scene with the boy changing Nyu with his eyes closed was funny as hell

Plus you get a better idea of how Nyu uses her powers

In ep. 3 does Nyu try

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to kill the boy who found her?

[ShikaShika]

Originally Posted by Silent Otaku

Doesn't Nyu remind anyone of the old catgirl Nuku Nuku?

In Ep. 1
Does anyone know why Nyu

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didn't kill the one guy with the glasses on the last stand off

I am surprised Nyu didn't

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get pissed off and kill the boy who grabbed her by the shirt and yelled at her for breaking the shell

Wow just watched the ep. 2 and there was alot of blood and some fanservice.

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The whole scene with the boy changing Nyu with his eyes closed was funny as hell

Plus you get a better idea of how Nyu uses her powers

In ep. 3 does Nyu try

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to kill the boy who found her?

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Who knows... maybe she recognized him and din't want to kill him somehow... I suspect we'll find out.

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That was Nyu and not Lucy. Besides, I think she may have felt a bit guilty which is confirmed in ep 2.

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We all knew what would happen as soon as he got the pants off didn't we?

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Judging from the preview, I doubt it. But who knows what Lucy might pull off, she doesn't seem that stable. At any rate she's obviously revealing her powers.

I've been waiting for a cool anime to watch raw, and since this one got licensed I guess this'll have to be it. So far I'm hooked, now lets see where it goes from here...

[Rias]

Originally Posted by Silent Otaku

Doesn't Nyu remind anyone of the old catgirl Nuku Nuku?

In Ep. 1
Does anyone know why Nyu

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didn't kill the one guy with the glasses on the last stand off

I am surprised Nyu didn't

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get pissed off and kill the boy who grabbed her by the shirt and yelled at her for breaking the shell

Wow just watched the ep. 2 and there was alot of blood and some fanservice.

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The whole scene with the boy changing Nyu with his eyes closed was funny as hell

Plus you get a better idea of how Nyu uses her powers

In ep. 3 does Nyu try

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to kill the boy who found her?

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question 1, it's actually kinda answered in the manga. She basically want to save the best for the last. Later on

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she will cut his daughters into pieces, probably only Nana will be shown anyway, since it's only going to be 13 epsiodes.

The reason behind that, I don't remember.

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as for 2nd question, pretty soon you will see every girl have a thing for Kouta. Besides, Lucy and Kouta goes way back.

[Silent Otaku]

Does this air on Japanese TV?

If so then why didn't it get cut like GANTZ did? They same stuff that was in episode 1 (decapatations & nudity) where cut from GANTZ.
Maybe the Gantz people wanted to sell more DVD's?

[ShikaShika]

Perhaps it depends on the network? They might have different policies, or maybe one was cable and the other wasn't? I dunno, could be anything...

[a_nevels666]

Originally Posted by Akamaru

Perhaps it depends on the network? They might have different policies, or maybe one was cable and the other wasn't? I dunno, could be anything...

Yeah, it depends on the network. I believe Elfen Lied was still slightly cut, but not nearly as bad as Gantz was.

[dreamless]

Originally Posted by Silent Otaku

Doesn't Nyu remind anyone of the old catgirl Nuku Nuku?

In Ep. 1
Does anyone know why Nyu

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didn't kill the one guy with the glasses on the last stand off

I am surprised Nyu didn't

Spoiler:

get pissed off and kill the boy who grabbed her by the shirt and yelled at her for breaking the shell

Wow just watched the ep. 2 and there was alot of blood and some fanservice.

Spoiler:

The whole scene with the boy changing Nyu with his eyes closed was funny as hell

Plus you get a better idea of how Nyu uses her powers

In ep. 3 does Nyu try

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to kill the boy who found her?

well, manga spoilers

1

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she will enjoy torturing him slowly later on, making it worse than death for him by hurting and killing all the people he loves.

2

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I think part of the reason is because the Nyuu personality was dominant at that time, and part of the reason is the same as above, to torture him slowly and make it worse than death for him and kill him the last after she kills the entire humanity. Actually she has already made it worse than death for him a long time ago and he was sooooo traumatized by what Lucy has done that he forcefully shut off his memory about that past

3

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no, she won't kill him until after she kills and destroys everyone and everything he loves and treasures in the world, and makes him experience the most pain and suffering in the entire world. Then maybe she'll kill him, or torture him to suffer some more.

girls are scary, and Lucy is a SCARY girl with the power of a Goddess

[Rias]

Originally Posted by Akamaru

Perhaps it depends on the network? They might have different policies, or maybe one was cable and the other wasn't? I dunno, could be anything...

Actually since right now it's on AT-X, a pay per view channel, they can have more blood and nudity than usual. Once they move it to regular stations, A LOT of mist is going to show up (to cover up the nudity), and a lot of blood is going to be gone.

A good example is R.O.D. the TV, when they played on AT-X before, there was this epsiode with nudity. When they moved to Fuji-tv after, volia, mist.

[ShikaShika]

Hail AT-X then. I hope we see more from them.

[Secca]

In ep 3,

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Nana just need 3 blades now, she's almost Ciel. Also the paper cut game thingy that they were doing in the flashback kinda remind of Shiki's hobby to cut thing apart. ^^

I tought Lucy killed the puppy. That puppy has more luck than the girl in ep 1. ^^

Spoiler for screenshot ep 3:

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[Xpress]

The subbed ep 1 is on ATX and if that was cut, then I would love to see the uncut, there was more blood and tits in that ep that I have seen in all the basic anime put together since Berserk :P

...well maybe not that much, but I dont think it was cut.
*Cant wait for ep2*

[rman0099]

You said that there is a subbed version of the series, where can you get it? what site is ATX? Thanks

[Timeless Enigma]

How far has the manga been translated? By all this talk, it seems like it's really far, or you guys can read the raws.

Anyway, Elfen Lied... boy... Like many of you, I thought this was going to be another bishoujo anime, the perfect summer anime. And the scant pics at the official website never told me otherwise.

Then a friend who read the manga told me it was gory as hell, but I couldn't believe, so I watched episode 1 RAW... damn, that was I think one of the goriest anime I have ever witnessed.

But while the gore turned me off, the story... oh, the story. I'll really just watching to see how Nyuu develops, she's so loveable, then boom, she's Lucy, and she kills everyone.

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I think the death of Kisaragi (the unlucky secretary) was done to show just how indiscriminate Lucy was. Up until then, all she had killed were armed men intent on stopping her, then she murders an oblivious, naive, clumsy secretary... It was just shocking to me and had much more impact then any of the other deaths I've seen so far in Elfen Lied

I agree with a lot of the Konomini comparisons, but Lucy >> Dark Hikari. I was also surprised to see that the OP art was modelled after some classic painting.

[Mr_Paper]

Originally Posted by Xpress

The subbed ep 1 is on ATX and if that was cut, then I would love to see the uncut, there was more blood and tits in that ep that I have seen in all the basic anime put together since Berserk :P

...well maybe not that much, but I dont think it was cut.
*Cant wait for ep2*

Originally Posted by rman0099

You said that there is a subbed version of the series, where can you get it? what site is ATX? Thanks

ATX is the Japanese satilite channel that airs the show.

No you cannot ask where to find subtitled version, read the Forum Rules.