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nedved11's Elfen Lied Tv Review

Elfen Lied tv Review

The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murder most of the guards in the laboratory, only to get shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives and manages to drift along to a beach, where two teenagers named Kouta and Yuka discovers her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the evil "Lucy" is not dead just yet...

Story & Characters

The story seemed very interesting and original to me:
Diclonius are the next step in the human evolution...why not let humanity evolve?Because these so called diclonius(humans wih horns and invisible razor sharp arms called vectors) want to destroy mankind in order to evolve not evolve amongst humans.
These Diclonius are kept inside huge laboratory-like facilities from which they shouldnt escape because if one diclonius escaped it could neutralize the whole human kind.
Lucy is a diclonius which escapes from this facility and is nearly shot in the head developing some kind of a double personality(sometimes she is the sadistic bloody Lucy and othertimes the cute and inocent Nyu),but she manages to escape and meets a Kouta,a simple teenager.At first it seemes that the two never had seen each other before...
The characters are very good indeed,especially the diclonius(Nana,Lucy and Mariko)
Almost everybody ive met and seen Elfen say that Kouta is a wimp and a coward...But i dont agree with this...Think about how would you feel seeing your sister and father being masacrated right in front of your eyes...
And with all the characters havin a bad childhood...I recommend this anime to absoltely anyone...By far one of my All Time Favorite.
All in alll the story and characters are great!

Rating: 10

Art

The style of drawing and the colors and art are very good.No wonder,because the anime is not old at all,being made in 2004.The expresions on the characters's faces are indeed great.By now Elfen Lied is the most well drawn anime i have seen.It doesnt have those pretty shiny effects that for example Full Metal Panic has,but it is a very well drawn/colored anime.
Being made in the well known Genco and Vap studios we coul not have expected less from the art.
The opening images are som abstract and some are Lucy ones.But the opening art is very well fit with the opening theme and with the anime.Although the ending art seemed rather common to me...
I also like not only the characters but the way the background are drawn...
I congratulate Kishimoto Seiji and Okawa Hiroyuki for their very good job on the design and Okamoto Rin for his original work,
In my opinion the art is very good.

Rating: 9

Sound

The soundtrack is absolutely great.It almost made me cry in the last ep when The sain version of the song Lillium started to play.It fits very very good with the anime.The original "Lillium"song by Konishi Kayo and Kondoo Yukio is great.Also the Saint version fits even more.
Also,the voices are great especially Nyu's voice wich is very kawaii...But the other characters's voices are also great:I like Nana's voice too.But i doubt that the voices will be at least bad iin the dubbing.I think they wont even be "Terrible",they will be "THE WORST!"
The sound effects are very good,being made with precision by the Elfen Lied staff.
The ending theme "Be Your Girl" is also very good.
So...i think that the sound is very good...not perfect...but very good!

Rating: 9

Presentation

The presentation is indeed incredible.If you see the first 2-3 eps you cannot stop watching it until the end(personally...i have seen it 2 and a half times).
But this is a very sad anime in my opinion...some say that the Elfen Lied is Horror/Action...i think that it is more likely Drama/Horror.
There is so much gore and blood and neck/leg/hand ripping apart,but that didnt seem to be disturbing to me.
The first time I saw Elfen in one day...Ive watched the first and second episode,and at the end of the second ep i was saying just one more episode and then i will do something else...at the end of the third:This is the last one and i will do somehing else...and so one until i had seen it all.
I think hat there was no need for that 14 episode OVA.It seemed very useles to me adn for a few moments i felt confused about where that episode should fit in the series,
So the presentation is pretty good to me.

Rating: 8

Final Verdict

9.0000 (very good)

Reviewed by nedved11, Feb 24, 2006

Comments

  1. akiitos Feb 25, 2006

    aww i wanted to see pics lol

  2. nedved11 Feb 25, 2006

    I've added some screenshots but why don't they appear?

  3. keroandsuppy Feb 26, 2006

    i agree with the score! Thanks for the great review.... I appreciate it!

  4. Odeena Feb 26, 2006

    Your review is interesting, but I have to point out that it's a bit inconcise at points, and it's confusing the way you switch from one topic to another, and then you return to the previous topic, and then you switch to a third topic etc. Also, I think it's quite subjective, i.e. it doesn't point out any of the bad points in the series, although there were some. Keep practicing and you will most definitely improve ;)

    (Side note: I think the images not showing is because of the server move... I'm not sure though)

  5. Arcticwarfare Feb 26, 2006

    Great review! I am patheticly addicted to this series :P

  6. meritenshi Feb 27, 2006

    nice review.. i wanted to see pictures and screenshots :P

  7. johann12345 Feb 27, 2006

    It sounds really interestting...ill look into it

  8. Elarion Feb 27, 2006

    A very good review, I agree with the score :)

  9. cheza2283 Mar 02, 2006

    I great review and I agree with the score as well! I would probably have given it a ten though! Lol! Is that possible? But I so nuts about the series that I rebought the first volume just to get the art box. Well anyways, awesome review! Keep up the good work!

  10. SouskeUK Mar 03, 2006

    Excellent review. Very nicely done especially the Story part of the review.
    But why its missing one point? it deserves a perfect 10. Go watch it again.
    Well I'm gonna watch it again for 3rd time. Catch you later.

  11. Xx4azngrl8xX Mar 04, 2006

    nice review. i really like the story part of your review. you should get a perfect score. Wish you had some pics though.

  12. demonicangel18 Mar 10, 2006

    i have heard so many good things about this anime, and i want to see it so bad! ^.^ reading the review makes me wanna watch it even more *jumps up and down*

  13. cupidheart Mar 12, 2006

    elfen lieds the best! i agree with the score its very good

  14. Veggie Mar 13, 2006

    I like this anime, there whas blood, blood, blood... :D

  15. ripsilver Mar 16, 2006

    hell yeah... an awesome anime... its one of the best... and I HAVE THEM ALL... they should make anime like this... "gotta love blood and cuteness at the same time" (gokado)

  16. Etron Mar 17, 2006

    its a awesome anime!
    ^_^

  17. iwasthere Mar 20, 2006

    Indeed, this I would say is my all time favourite anime. And I too almost cried in the end where Lucy told Kouta of her love (even though I'm a guy XD) and the flash-backs with the vocal solo was an awesome effect. And it is touching to see Lucy sacrificing herself and betraying her destiny just for her love ;_;

    Also, I just love Lucy/nyuu so much -- innocent kitten-like cuteness and also innocently perverted/murderous, elegant, and though cold on the outside, still retains that cuteness inside. ^^

  18. DSNecro Mar 21, 2006

    The best of the best! No matter what anyone else sayd i would give it 15/10 especially in the story topic!
    ^_^

  19. ionthedemon Mar 22, 2006

    this is one of the best anime i have ever seen

  20. iwasthere Mar 23, 2006

    Oh yeah, and btw, forgot to say: the purpose of the ova was to clear things up a bit on the gap in Lucy's past (between killing kouta's family, getting caught, and how she got caught). And it was also to expalin the relation between the director and Lucy, and why she did not kill the director.

    The ova did clear some things up, but all in all, I totally agree with you...it was kinda useless...

  21. a2g Mar 30, 2006

    Take one 20000 gallon pool of blood
    add
    3 cups of cute
    4 cups of action
    2 1/2 teaspoons of fan service
    100 diced people
    and then put one split minded killer in the middle of it all
    Boil on medum and you get elfen lied..

    This anime is everything combined into one package.
    I still think it deserves a 10

    By the I can play the opening on the piano/keyboard
    If you want to learn it get guitar pro 4 and download the midi of -lilium-

  22. komrov Apr 18, 2006

    I agree with Odeena your review is subjective as you didn't point out any of the bad parts of the series.I personally like the series... A LOT... yet I wouldn't recommend it to anyone under 18...yet that's just my opinion

  23. nedved11 Apr 07, 2007

    Quote by komrovI agree with Odeena your review is subjective as you didn't point out any of the bad parts of the series.

    That's why it's a review!
    It doesn't always express the truth.It is just my point of view on that anime.

    merged: 06-23-2007 ~ 09:55pm
    Some Spelling Mistakes On This Review.
    Improved My English Now. Sorry :) :P

  24. Warpten29 Oct 18, 2009

    Good Review. thanks.

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