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 Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:59 pm
I was just curious, Thought I would post something o.o;;
I would like to ask you all a question.
What is it that made you love Elfen Lied so much?
Was it the blood? Were you drawn in by the DVD cover thinking Lucys horns were cat ears? (Guilty xP) See a preview on TV for it? Explain in full detail what got you to watch Elfen Lied, and why you love it so much. Also, add in how Elfen Lied could resemble real life situations.
Haha I'm making you all do a bit of thinking ne? ^_~
- Kaede
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:11 pm
I was browsing through some forums and lists of anime that I should check out. Kept seeing Elfen Lied posted over and over and over again as being amazing. I watched a few AMV's of it... at first I was shocked and stopped watching the AMV's.
But it slowly sunk in... then I wanted to watch it... I ended up watching the first 7 minutes of the first episode a few times just to get used to the amount of blood and gore. Finally I ended up watching it... and even after I finished I re watched it multiple times.
As to what it was about the show that made my love it so much I'm not sure. I love most of the characters (exceptions for Mariko and Bando). I think one thing that has me love it so much is that watching the characters lives being ruined I then look at my own life and think, no matter how bad life gets it could NEVER get worse then what they are going through. And in some weird way that made me happy.
Also in one of my classes we read St Augustine's Confessions and he talks about how Babies and children are evil, selfish, greedy, and cruel. I could easily and quickly tie these characteristics to the boys torturing Lucy.
Overall it was a great analysis of the Human psyche and how people change based on experiences in their past.
Once all the gore, blood, violence, nudity etc... was viewed as more or less a backdrop to the show, I could focus on the story/plot, characters, and what the show was saying about Humanity as a whole.
I think thats what makes me like the show so much.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:56 pm
alright, well one day my boyfriend was on his gaia account and he went to comment one of his friends profiles and i happened to be behind him at the time. the person's music started playing and it was the elfen lied theme and at the time had never heard of this anime. i told my boyfriend to scroll down so i could watch the video because the song really intrigued me. so i began watching it. it was the scene when lucy and nana fight. right that second watching the gore and the emotion i knew that i had to look this anime up. well the video didn't say what it was so my boyfriend looked it up in this anime book he has and i figured out the name. then i went online to watch the episodes and magically watched them in only 2 days and was hooked.
i honestly don't understand why this anime caught my attention. i've always loved gore. only gore with a purpose though. i feel like some of the emotions of how lucy feels like an outkast while being at school relates to me. for i am homeschooled now because i was ridiculed at school as well. i just almost in a creepy way feel like both personalites. some parts of me are childlike and don't want to grow up. then i have these parts of me that feel like they mess up everything and feel hated by society. the scene that stuck out most to me was the scene where the students at lucy's school hurt and beat her dog while there is nothing she can do. it brought tears to my eyes. i have had something similar happen to me. it just connected me on such a high level.
elfen lied does resemble the feeling of growing up as an outkast. it touches on things such as molestation which is something that some people cover up. elfen lied isn't just a story to me. i feel as if it has special hidden meanings. that's what i love about it.
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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:09 pm
Probably my love for violence and nudity.
Oh, and the opening theme! ^_^
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 12:52 pm
I checked it out on a whim, basically.
My friend had been fellating over the anime for some time, so I took it upon myself to check it out using a website that allowed free anime streaming. Checked it out and fell in love. I was a bit surprised with the sheer amounts of blood, gore, and cleavage, but that's not why I watched. I'm a big fan of good story. One that has twists and turns, and something to keep you watching to the very end. Even though Elfen Lied was only 13 episodes long, it's a series that's worth watching over and over. Other series actually bored me after the first watch, but Elfen Lied is a series that I want to keep watching multiple times.
That, and a big theme in the series, that of being alone, hits a bit close to home. While I obviously didn't have it as badly as Lucy did in the series, I do know what it's like to be taunted on a daily basis. It happened pretty regularly all through school, and it's why I'm glad I'm not in school any more.
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:42 am
one of my freinds said thet the anime freacked him out and thet he only watched the first epasode and there was gore left and right and thet it made him sick
and so sniffed elfen lied out on liveanime.net
and watched it.......ya gore veeryware...allthough i have a stronger stomock then buddy boy xp
then i laughed cryed and went eek "huh!?" at the rest of the show
its wad AWSOME! xd
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:25 am
I make digital art and I came across a background for Elfen Lied. I don't know the art was so amazing.
So I thought I'd look It up on youtube and I got hooked the minute Lilium started.
I love the story It's so dark and It's not like any other anime I've ever known. It's amazing.
Lynn Okamoto Is an amazing writer and artist I think.
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:20 pm
Well...I actually got introduced to Elfen Lied by one of my good friends who I've had little-to-no contact with since. crying Fun guy to talk to. Really miss him...
But I digress! Yes, I got introduced to Elfen Lied by my friend...and, at the time, I would never really watch the anime people showed me--maybe a few seconds, then go on to do some other mindless task (I know, I was a horrible person). But when I clicked on the link to the episode...the opening Lilium came on. It had subtitles, being that it was actually in Japanese...and I remember that I was so transfixed on the beautiful artwork, and the voice, that I didn't even read the lyrics. It was like...how do I describe it? Has anyone ever listened to an amazing, absolutely incredible song, to where you literally...feel the music? That was what it was like for me...I was feeling the music. I nearly broke down crying there.
Of course, after the first episode, I was bawling my heart out. After all the blood, violence, drama, and twists,--am I the only one who thought that Kurama's secretary would actually be the protagonist, before her head got ripped off?--I knew that I absolutely had to finish it all.
The way Elfen Lied connects to real life? ...How does it not? Besides the mutants out to kill us all and the research facility which studied them, it all had a lot of real life drama. There are people with split personalities; people who have traumatic pasts that their minds have blocked out; people who have been somehow hurt/abandoned by their parents; people who have been through so much that they cling onto any shred of hope they can find; people who love someone so much, that they think they may just die if the love goes unrequited; people who fight without a cause; people who have made fatal mistakes in their life and left with no choice but to accept them as they are; people who have been judged unfairly and not given a fair chance at life...
Haven't we all experienced at least one of these things at one time or another? Perhaps not in the same magnitude, no...but in one way, shape, or form, we've all had one of these incidents or feelings occur in our selves. Hasn't anyone felt some form of alienation, as if you have horns on the top of your head, as if you're somehow unwanted or unimportant? Once again, it could never be as pronounced as Lucy's feelings, or Nana's feelings, or even--at times--Mariko's feelings...but don't we feel it nonetheless?
In the end, if one got rid of all the supernatural, science-fiction, gore elements, it'd all be human drama, with human tears, and real human situations/feelings that we tend to overlook in society.
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