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".