Elfen Lied

2004
Elfen Lied

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EP1 A Chance Encounter Jul 25, 2004

An unknown girl with invisible hands, or vectors, and telepathic powers escapes from a secret facility. The next day two cousins, Kouta and Yuka, find her. But she is different from before. She can only say one word, nyuu. Not knowing anything about her, the two cousins take her in. Kurama, the head scientist from th efacility where she escaped, has sent a merciless man, Bando, after her.

EP2 Annihilation Aug 01, 2004

The offshore facility, headed by the scientist Kurama, sends a special task force, headed by the ruthless, cold-hearted assassin Bando, to hunt down Lucy at a beach in Kamakura. However, they only encounter her in her innocent "Nyu" state. She is hit over the head by Bando. Bando then tells his partner to finish Nyu off, but the hit reverts Nyu back to Lucy, who kills Bando's partner, and goes after Bando. Lucy uses a firearm to shoot and injure Bando. In the end, Bando has been dismembered and blinded. Lucy reverts to Nyu before she is able to kill Bando. It is seen here that Lucy and Nyu switch between each other depending on the events surrounding them. After being injured by Bando, Kohta is put in the hospital, but is not severely injured, and is released hours later while Yuka goes looking for Lucy. He encounters her back at the house and forgives her.

EP3 Deep Feelings Aug 08, 2004

It’s the calm after the storm... but the calm won’t last long. Kurama and the secret facility are sending two people after Lucy. One is the newly healed and stronger Bando. The other is a diclonius just like Lucy. At Kouta’s house, Yuka and a homeless girl named Mayu talk about the events that happened two nights ago at the beach. All of a sudden, Nyuu slips and falls. She bangs her head and Lucy awakens inside of her.

EP4 Attack Aug 15, 2004

After alerting the soldiers and Kurama to Lucy’s whereabouts, Nana confronts her and the two begin to fight in a cemetery. Can Nana hold Lucy off long enough for Kurama and the others to arrive? Meanwhile, hearing loud noises in the cemetery, Mayu stumbles upon the two fighting.

EP5 Receipt Aug 22, 2004

Mayu’s tragic past is revealed. She remembers back to when she ran away from home. At school, Yuka and Kouta’s new professor is none other than Yu Kakuzawa, Chief Kakuzawa’s son. He instantly notices Nyuu as Lucy and tricks Kouta into handing her over to him.

EP6 Innermost Feelings Aug 29, 2004

Bando escapes from the hospital, still trying to find Lucy to satisfy his grudge against her. Professor Kakuzawa Yū's decapitated body is found by his assistant and Kohta. While searching for Lucy, Kohta and Yuka develop a fondness for each other as displayed through a kiss. Finally, Lucy is found by Kohta and Yuka and taken back home.

EP7 Confrontation Sep 05, 2004

After fighting, Bando and Nana realize that they are allies and not enemies. Nana agrees to bring Lucy to the beach when she senses her. Meanwhile, at the temple, Mayu meets Nana. The two become friends and Mayu agrees to bring Nana back to her house for food.

EP8 The Beginning Sep 12, 2004

After Lucy is knocked out by Nana Kouta tends to her. She sleeps and relives her childhood in a dream, revealing many things about her. Meanwhile, Nana tells Mayu about Lucy and the diclonius and Arakawa is called in to work for Director Kakuzawa...

EP9 Reminiscence Sep 19, 2004

More of Lucy's past is revealed: Her meeting with Kouta, their friendship that will end in tragedy, and the reason why Lucy became the killer she is today.

EP10 Infant Sep 26, 2004

Lucy and Nana start to fight, but Mayu stops them and Lucy turns back to Nyuu, hugging Kouta and telling him she likes him. Later, Kurama's past is revealed and so is more about the dicloniuses.

EP11 Complication Oct 03, 2004

Number 35, Mariko, is released and immediately kills the soldiers around her. The professors, who were prepared for this, set off one of the explosives inside her, destroying her arm. Later, they fly her to where Nyuu and Nana are. Meanwhile, Nana is enjoying living in the inn but Kouta tells her she needs to work as well. Things seem to be going as peaceful as it can get...

EP12 Quagmire Oct 10, 2004

Mariko is torturing and playing with Nana like an insect while Kouta runs to her to protect her. Mariko temporally looses her vectors, thanks to Nana, and has to be sent back. Nyuu follows Kouta, but when the soldiers start to shoot at her she turns into Lucy. Seeing the bloodthirsty Lucy, Kouta recalls everything...

EP13 No Return Oct 17, 2004

Yuka informs Mayu of Kouta's past. Meanwhile, Lucy and Mariko find each other and face off in a fight. Now, Nana and Kurama have to find Mariko because Kurama needs to kill her...
7.9| 0h30m| TV-MA| en| More Info
Released: 25 July 2004 Ended
Producted By: GENCO
Country: Japan
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.vap.co.jp/elfenlied/
Synopsis

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...

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vivifan Elfen Lied is a very sad anime but it's very beautiful at the same time. This anime was well worth my time even tho it was only 13 episodes long. The story in this anime is dramatic and gruesome, the characters are interesting and well developed, the gore is great, the music is great, the voice acting is very good in Japanese(tho I feel the dub could've been better) plus the animation isn't too bad either. The anime's faults however is that it starts of rather slow but then it picks itself up as it progress's. It's also not for people have weak hearts and can't take very dark storytelling (even tho I think this is what made the anime great). It's also quite short too. The emotions I got from this anime made me feel sad, happy, angry and so on. It's one of the saddest animes I have ever seen and I recommend it to people who like dark/sad animes.
lennylips Elfen Lied is an exhilarating show, leaving you fascinated to see what is to come next. This show is scary, gory, and bloody. Except that what makes as unique as it. Elfen Lied has interesting characters, and remember able. Violent, yet interesting, never a dull moment, except not for the feint of heart. Otherwise than the pros of the show, the cons, what is stopping it from being a 10/10. Elfen Lied has an abundance of uncalled for nudity.
theanimeduch Personal opinion and facts. 13 episode show dubbed and subbed the dub is well not great I hear the sub is better huh. Characters are Lucy,Kouta, Yuka, Mayu, Nana, Kurama, Bando, Mariko. Story girl escapes secret facility loses memory of who she is and how to speak finds Kouta he hides and protects her from whoever is looking for her regains memories protects him from harm leaves and disappears without trace.Aired in 2004. Story was amazing but the voice for the characters didn't do well. Honestly this is like school days but dubbed. Don't get me wrong the story is great but the dub it was awful. This show is not all bad compared to School Days.Overall this is a tremendous show it doesn't lack anything but a good dub. The first episode the first few minutes is amazing, except if you hate blood
Marez "Elfen Lied" definitely is an anime worth watching and I can understand why so many people liked it, but calling it a "master-piece" and "the best anime ever" is a little bit too excessive.I noticed that the fan base of this show consists of two groups: the ones who are praising it for its extreme violence and the ones who think this is a great and beautiful love story. Well, the gore scenes are indeed really impressive within the first 2-3 episodes, but as the show progresses the same recipe is repeated way too often and the first impression soon becomes very pale. The love story is rather dull than "great and beautiful". There is this boy Kouta and diclonius-girl Lucy who killed his father and sister, and yet Kouta still manages to say to her something like this: "You killed my father and sister and I won't forgive you... But I love you". Makes sense, right? But those are not the reasons why I don't like "Elfen Lied" as much as everyone else. The reason why I couldn't enjoy watching this show is because it doesn't give us neither explanation nor clues to find out what diclonius are (it rather makes you state they are the next step of evolution) and it has a lot of scenes that will make you go "WTF?" but not in the way like some other animes like "Neon Gensesis Evangelion". Here are some examples: In the first episode Lucy killed every person who stood in her way but she left Kurama alive. Apparently she has a split personality because of the bullet that hit her in the first episode, but later on we find out that she already had a split personality as a child. Why do the diclonius-people kill their parents at the age of 3? Why do they have pink hair? What is that killer guy had to be castrated for after Lucy cut off his arms and blinded him? and so on...Not to mention, this is a 13-episode anime and yet in so limited time they still put a lot of "nyuu-nyuu" moments with unnecessary nudity. The only thing I liked about this anime are the back-stories of Lucy and Mayu which manage to make you feel sorry for them.The soundtrack, on the other hand, is perfect. If only the show was at least as half as good as the song "Lilium".