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Elfen Lied, 2004
English, Japanese
Japan
Profile of Elfen Lied
The mood of Elfen Lied is disturbing, rough, and suspenseful. The plot centers around a character with a split personality, changing the past or future, and memory loss. It is a thriller, action, and sci-fi TV show. Stylistically, Elfen Lied anime and is gory. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It takes place, at least partly, in a laboratory. Elfen Lied is adapted from a comic.
Summary of Elfen Lied
Like the cherry blossoms and bloody decapitations that saturate its frames, director Mamoru Kanbe's grisly anime series Elfen Lied contrasts the opposing forces of innocence and evil with equal parts beauty and violence. Sexy, pink-haired Lucy is part of a race of genetic mutants known as Diclonius, who sport horns in their heads and are able to savagely dismember their victims with the use of psychically controlled invisible arms called vectors. After Lucy makes a violent escape from the military compound that imprisons her, she washes up naked and vulnerable on a beach shorefront and is taken in by teenage cousins Kohta and Yuka. But unbeknownst to her kindly benefactors, the now mute and amnesiac Lucy--redubbed Nyu for her inability to speak--still retains traces of her true killer nature, which amply reveals itself when the government sends out a team of renegade soldiers and another female mutant assassin to find and destroy her.
Details
| Language: | English, Japanese |
| Country: | Japan |
| Release date: | 2004 |
| Runtime: | 25 min |
| Seasons: | 1 |
Cast and Crew
as Kohta
as Lucy
as Yuka
as Lucy 13 episodes, 2004
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