Asuka Tanii as Secretary. Daisuke Ono as Kouta's father ep Eriko Ishihara as Arakawa. Fumiko Osaka as Bakery employee eps Hajime Iijima as Crepe store employee ep 7 Sniper. Hitomi Nabatame as Shirokawa. Kazuma Horie as Oomori ep Keijin Okuda as Group Member A ep Ken Takeuchi as Policeman C ep 9 Satou ep 3. Kimitake Kakegawa as Sniper ep 4. Lynn Okamoto as Special Guest ep Maria Yamamoto as Girl ep 6 Kisaragi Saitou ep Mikako Takahashi as No. Naoki Kinoshita as Man in suit.
Noriko Shitaya as Girl eps Reiko Takagi as Tomoo eps Shuu Takahashi as Student ep 5. Toshihiko Kojima as Detective A eps 3, Animation Support : Studio Guts eps 2, 5, 7, Background Art : Shanghai Superman eps Off-Line Editing : Seyama Production. International Coordination : Toru Iwakami. Post-Production Manager : Shelly Thomas. Recording engineer : Afshar Kharat vol 3 Eden J.
Adam Conlon as Kohta. Andy McAvin as Director Kakuzawa. Cynthia Martinez as Mayu. Jason Douglas as Bandoh. Jay Hickman as Kurama. John Swasey as Professor Kakuzawa. Luci Christian as Mariko. Nancy Novotny as Yuka. Sasha Paysinger as Nana. Shelley Calene-Black as Shirakawa. Afshar Kharat as Bully A ep 8. Andy McAvin as Police Officer ep 2. Jessica Boone as Arakawa. Luci Christian as Hiromi Kurama ep Marty Fleck as Narrator. Monica Rial as Kanae Nurse ep 4. Nancy Novotny as Bully B ep 8. Rick Piersall as Researcher.
Tiffany Grant as Girl ep 10 Kisaragi. Xero Reynolds as Man ep 1 Satoh ep 2. Alessandro Bevilacqua as Kota. Beatrice Wegnez as Mariko. David Manet as Kurama. Marie Van Ermengem as Arakawa. Marie Van R as Arakawa. Martin Spinhayer as Bandou.
It was annoyed by the fact that, during the series, almost all If not all the bad things that happen in the story are caused directly or indirectly by men, with almost all the female characters being their victims.
Excluding Kouta and Kurama, all the important male characters from this show are portrayed as abusive monsters that enjoy torturing both in a psychical and psychological way and making innocent girls suffer.
Personally I think that this perspective is very biased and unfair, and it really didn't let me enjoy the plot of this series. Some scenes are very, very unpleasant to watch, and some of them seem to be just way too gratuitous, or included only for the sake of melodrama.
The overall result was satisfying though, with an ambiguous, but convincing resolution. Definitely, this series is not for everyone. I guess some viewers will find "Elfen Lied" to be way too nasty, tasteless and trite, and I'm afraid that part of those affirmations won't be way too far from the truth.
However, in my opinion, despite having a very unpleasant story, this series still has many redeeming qualities, that deserve appreciation and recognition. Even if I'm not very much into very violent anime, I have to admit that "Elfen Lied" keep my interest until the ending of the story, and that's way more than any other series from this kind have achieved until this moment.
For me it was a worth-watching experience, but I would recommend only to those viewers who are able to handle not only the most violent and cruel elements included in a story, but also the most sickly-sweet ones.
This anime definitely intends to be controversial, but it isn't violence for the sake of violence such as 'Fist of the North Star' and countless worse flicks.
The abuse of the mutants in cruel experiments, chained to the wall, and their explosive revenge attempts provide the necessary contrast for beautiful scenes such as Nana taking her first bath or Lucy going to the zoo, since they are considering this the best things ever happened to them in their life. Even if the basic idea seems a little far fetched a handful of mutants trying to kill billions of human beings to take over the whole planet, shall we really believe that could be possible?
Although bordering on the tasteless sometimes writers should remember: the killing of a cute pet dog always upsets an audience much more than the killing of a man , a brilliant anime! Sadly, that is all they left for viewing - two episodes. I was hooked. I literally ran to my nearest Anime store and bought the entire 13 episode collection, bought a few slices of pizza, some water and for a few hours on a Saturday watched the entire series. That's how addictive this is.
Addictive and good. I'ma classical art and music buff so the opening shots and music were enough to get my attention - and it should, for these two elements are a part of the story as well.
Let me say, this is NOT for the kiddies. But oh yes, there is blood You cannot escape the good animation here, the richness of it to the story and while not insanely detailed, it does focus upon what you are watching - and what you are watching is a story regarding a teen female of another species that has developed two personalities.
One is of what she really is: a device to wipe out all of mankind as we know it and create another in 5 years and the other what she could be - an innocent looking for love, reception and overall acceptance.
I don't want to give too much of the story away here for this is one of those 13 episode stories I hope those who like this genre will try to look at openly. But I will comment on the last episode - it leaves the door open for another series set or movie and I really hope they do go back in and do another.
To me, there is no doubt of who is the shadow at the gate and if so - we know there were at LEAST 35 of these creatures. We saw three, with Lucy being "Queen". And while the assumption was all female Snootz 3 January It is a sad comment on society when someone makes an anime this excessively gory and twisted-- and then the community in general give it high ratings.
I'm not discussing censorship; I'm discussing good taste and basic sanity. It would take a warped mind to enjoy the incredible gore presented in just the very first part of this anime at which time I shut it down.
This is some of the worst representation of anime genre. If normal audience were first introduced to anime via this series they'd likely never watch anime again.
Would this have been a better anime without all the gore? Sure it would That's the shame of it: it could have been a better show. That there are people who think this is "entertainment" and enjoy such stuff explains a great deal of what is wrong with this world. I expect a whole lot of neg-rates on this review.
Don't care. This is unnecessarily gratuitous tripe. I don't know if I've ever been so internally divided about how I felt about a series as I've been divided about this one. On one hand, you have potent stories of loss, regret, guilt, pain and then finding both hope and redemption. On the other hand, the series also is mired in unnecessary degrees of exploitation.
The setup is pretty simple. Lucy, a sociopathic horned mutant capable of blocking bullets and slicing people to shreds with her invisible arms escapes from the facility that holds her in a murderous rampage. During her escape, she loses her memory and washes up on a beach where she's taken in by a pair of college students.
As the series continues, you learn little bits about all the characters and a few more are introduced slowly and you see where all the characters and learn about what has helped to cause them to become the way that they are. The first episode is intense. In fact the opening sequence feature scores of people being dismembered while alive by a nude Lucy. There is a ton of blood exploding everywhere and the acting given to Lucy is absolutely chilling.
And one of the most powerful things about this beginning is that it immediately instills in you a sense of dread whenever Lucy shows up, because of her clear disregard for human life she appears to kill humans almost indiscriminately.
At the same time, my problem with the series shows up in this intro too. All the mutant characters that eventually show up on the series spend a significant portion of their on-screen time nude. While at times, this is done for artistic effect for example, showing the degrading inhuman conditions that they are kept in by their captors , there is clearly exploitation going on at the same time, which you can tell because of the later "panty shots" as well as completely unnecessary scenes of naked Nyu Lucy's simple and innocent alternate persona after she gets amnesia.
This is furthered by the sexually natured antics Nyu engages in. Although there are a couple points where this is done for comedic effect, it's completely unnecessary and distracts from the storytelling. It's not porn, but it's certainly excessive. Although I want to level the same critique against the violence of the show, I cannot, because the terribly graphic nature of the violence goes a long way to creating the necessary dread for and awe of the mutant characters, rather than just for fanboy points.
So, part of me thinks that the writers and artists themselves had the same view of the mutant females as subhuman as the humans on the show despite the surprising degree of humanity that is injected into these characters. I have to say that I was really impressed by how quickly the show moved along and was able to conclude its entire story arc. This thirteen episode series is packed with story and backstory, some of which is quite poignant because it deals with crimes in the past done, both to the main characters and by the main characters and the fallout on all the characters involved.
And yet, despite its frequently somber and horror-tinged tone, the series manages to gather some hope together for the redemption of most of the characters involved. In addition to impacting my emotions, the stories told managed to dance in my imagination for hours after I finished each episode and I hungrily devoured each disc as it arrived from Netflix.
Overall, I really like Elfen Lied, but I have strong issues with the exploitation element involved. It would've been a much stronger series had it controlled its fanboy-catering temptations and packed in more story it was adapted from a manga series--so you know that more story was there.
But I was pleased that it really did seem to open and close with Lucy's story arc and told a solid tale of a terrible mistake, the price to pay, and the redemption thereof. I cannot recommend it, because of its exploitative nature and because many will likely be disturbed or distracted by its graphic nature, but it remains an impressive series regardless. Just one that could've been improved with more restraint. Quite simply one of the most astounding pieces of TV I have ever seen.
Beautiful, disturbing, sweet, harrowing, violent, charming, graphic, sensitive. The paradoxical nature of the elements makes for an absolutely spellbinding experience. The premise - the show starts with a high security alert at a secure facility. A young girl is seen escaping, nude, but with some kind of strange, torturous looking device on her head. As heavily armed soldiers approach her, they are ripped to pieces by an invisible presence, in a most graphic fashion.
So the scene is set. The young girl is a Diclonius - a human with horns - and the soldiers were destroyed by her ability to produce 'vectors', invisible, super strong appendages that shoot from the body like extra arms. If it all sounds a little odd, it is, but it does all make sense. Simply put, this is tour de force TV, quite unlike anything you would ever see from Western TV companies, and essential viewing.
Shostakovich 9 June I was perplexed to find that one of the reviews marked as 'most helpful' on IMDb contained the sentence 'If you [..
Note that this isn't bad in itself; eroticism can be a form of entertainment. That series is a comedy, self-conscious in its bawdiness and not attempting to conceal its intentions.
How fitting that the series contains a character with multiple personality disorder, because "Elfen Lied" itself doesn't dare to admit it is a harem anime, but insists on being a psychological drama. The first red flag should be the set-up. The plot revolves around damaged young girls who possess psychic powers, propelled by little horns on their head reminiscent of God help me cat ears.
It is implied Diclonius are just instinctively predatory. Lucy is a terrible person who feels bad about killing all those people not because she's genuinely guilty, but rather because it damaged her relationship with Kouta.
At no point does she really demonstrate any measurable guilt for any of the people she kills. And Kouta just forgives her, even kissing her. This scene is so absurd it retroactively ruins everything that came before it.
In the whole series, however, two things do hold up. One of them is the beautiful opening sequence. Lilium remains one of the most haunting opening songs for any series, accompanied by an artistic, beautiful sequence. It is better than the content that follows. The other thing that holds up is the single scene in Elfen Lied that, upon revisiting, is still profoundly disturbing. It's a flashback to Lucy's childhood, where we see the awful orphanage she grew up in. Lucy's bullied all the time, finding comfort in raising a small puppy.
She tells a girl she thinks is her friend about the puppy, only for the little brat to tell the bullies about the dog, and all of them engage in brutally beating the puppy to death with a vase. And while all of them think this is hilarious, Lucy and in turn the audience are profoundly disturbed.
Lucy's powers awaken in a moment of rage, and she paints the walls with the kids' blood. The scene demonstrates gradual build-up, racking up genuine tension, only to release it in a way that fits what's come before, using restraint when needed, and we actually see how this act of violence has an impact on everyone.
Another criticism is that the series ends abruptly with loose ends to the story that could leave viewers unsatisfied. Despite all of these criticisms, Western reviewers also describe the series as "really a genuinely good watch," and "a very special show, good and bad parts taken into consideration.
The opening and ending sequences feature artistic drawings of the principal characters. These versions of the characters were stylistically based on Gustav Klimt 's paintings, including The Kiss , Adele Bloch-Bauer I , and others with similar imitating poses, colors, and patterns.
The German song Elfenlied "Elf Song" , from which the title takes its name, appears in the manga and is credited to the composer Hugo Wolf. The song does not appear in the anime since it was taught to Nyu by the manga-only character Nozomi. All episode titles have dual titles in German. List of Major Characters in Elfen Lied. Minor Characters in Elfen Lied. Elfen Lied Wiki Explore. Elfen Lied. Helping Out. Explore Wikis Community Central.
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