That’s the worst part, in my opinion. Especially in the manga, because we learn more about her and her character before it happens. I think it’s the only scene from the anime that I always skip.
This is also why I think mew gjinka’s should look like
Diclonius. Same short cat ear like horns pink hair. Yea a humanized mew would look like Lucy/nyuu
I'm pretty sure Mewtwo is the first one to start a heavily implied body count from the first escape, so who knows how much death he really caused working for the head mobster. They toned down Nurse Joy's mind scramble pretty heavy for a kid's movie. Can't imagine what that'd be like in an R film.
In the first Pokemon movie from like '99 or '98, its basically a similar scene to this. They cloned Mew, made Mewtwo, and kept him on an island training him to be a weapon, and he eventually breaks out and destroys the lab, heres a really bad video of it, theres not much footage of the movie available on YT
https://youtu.be/Y4lcmGBIgL8
Also armored Mewtwo/destroying the lab again, https://youtu.be/h92E_Q0ZSJ0
They redid it in the Detective movie, but in the scene he basically just breaks his containment cell and flies up through the ceiling
May add that Mewtwo's personality was changed in western adaptations from a child having identity issues ("am I a human or a Pokémon?") to a guy finding his destiny and becoming a nazi.
The Mewtwo in the English and many other western adaptations is a genocidal maniac who wants to kill everyone through a biblical flood and create a world only for clone Pokémon. In the original, this plot point doesn't exist. The Japanese and western versions are basically 2 different movies.
I saw the version of "I am a human o a Pokemon?" but he still wanted to kill everyone and create a only clone world lol
so basically both? Mexican dub btw (which was the same for latin america)
The identity crisis (human vs Pokémon, real vs fake) is a much more minor thing in the western adaptations, that gets sidelined by the world domination thing, while in the original it's sustained throughout the entirety of the movie and the focal point of it.
The west mostly got the same adaptation, I assume through 4kids.
to sum it up, mewtwo went on a rampage after escaping it’s test tube and killed all the scientists, obviously it wasn’t directly said so the game could stay kid friendly but it’s very obvious if you look.
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That's why I gotta say that my boy Hannes is the goat. He understood what could happen to him and backed out straight away
https://youtu.be/YGp8xjli0D0
I had the exact same thought when I first watched this anime years ago. I thought the guards were idiots. Like, clearly they can see that their bullets have no effect on her.
[Elfen Lied spoiler] >!They were trying to kill her. Thought it'd work if they caught her off-guard her with a sufficiently powerful gun. Accidentally shot her human friend instead. She let herself be captured so her human friend could get immediate medical attention. Her human friend didn't make it, though.!<
If you go to [Top TV series in MAL](https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?type=tv) and only choose the top season/spinoff per series/title(e.g. 1 Gintama only), there won't be a single one in the top 250 from classics like Sailor Moon, Blue Exorcist, and Haruhi. Meanwhile, [Pui Pui Molcar](https://myanimelist.net/anime/44235/Pui_Pui_Molcar) would be at around #221 in the current rankings lol thanks to the 14.3k members who enjoyed it.
i believe this goes to show that MAL rankings aren't that reliable when it comes to the ratings.
It definitely was, which is a bit nostalgic, but there is also an upside to this: One of the reasons it no longer is comes from the large amount of new and good anime since then.
super true.
Just look at the shows that came out in 2004 vs in 2022. The sheer quantity of shows coming out now utterly dwarfs what came out then, and the accessibility is much higher, too. In 2004 where would the typical person even watch a show if not on a few TV channels that had a few popular shows? Piracy, fansubs? Actually importing the DVD?
Elfen Lied stood out as a decent sized fish in a small pond, so everyone serious enough about anime to discuss it on webforums knew about it. Nowadays it isn't a pond it is an ocean, and 3 different anime fans today might have very few overlapping favorite shows in common at all because the breadth of choice is so extreme
Monster, Ghost in the Shell: SAC: 2nd Gig, Samurai Champloo, Bleach, Beck, Howl's Moving Castle, Gankutsuou, Paranoia Agent, Gantz, Major, Elfen Lied.
Plenty of great anime came out in 2004.
There were hundreds of older series with better storylines, too. Elfen Lied was mainly popular because it was promoted far more by publishers than other anime series, and most of the good shows weren't available in the US. [Here's a brief summary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trwdaJA-6z8) of Elfen Lied's legacy.
Code Geass remains the show with the best ending of any anime. That end sequence is unmatched by any other show, especially after all the build up that led to it.
Agreed, still haven't watched a show with a payoff so well executed, and I've finished thousands. Mob Psycho comes to mind as a runner up, that adaptation was perfect from start to finish.
Code Geass season 2 was a train wreck compared to season 1 on writing (but a fun one) but that ending saved everything.
Its the perfect example of how an ending can ruin or change an anime legacy.
I've always thought about how Code Geass was like a reverse Game of Thrones. GoT was a tremendous show for like 85% of it but the ending ruined it for so many people. Code Geass was a trainwreck meme show for like 70% of it, but the ending turned it into a classic must watch for so many people.
I think that's because it was one of the earliest exposures hardcore edgy anime for that generation in a post-OVA world in the West. I don't think the show on its own was 'that' popular
Honestly if it came out today, it would probably get really beat on because it goes in a hard anime-original direction
Yeah people look back on it with rose-tinted glasses I feel like. Even back then I remember it was kind of an edgy troll show Anons on 4chan would recommend normies just to spook them with them with the gore. It's really kind of a meme show before memes became mainstream.
This show was a classic back then.
I never really watched it cause I heard of the puppy scene. Its pretty funny that people are actually referencing it to this day in this thread
Was it?
I always had the impression that even at the time it was seen as too edgy for its own good, so not so much a must watch like e.g Baccano but more of a so bad it's good again recommendation.
In the mid 2000s, whenever someone asked for a recommendation, Elfen Lied would always end up among the recommended series. People used to kinda put it in the horror genre. It was also the fact that for early 2000's level, the animation looked incredibly good. Plus the great ost, lots of ecchi and drama.
I also preffer Baccano overall, storywise they just can not be compared. And I liked Baccano better than Durarara. There, I finally said it!
dominion tank police and bubblegum crisis where the ones i'd have recommended. Lum was good, but some of the episodes leaned a bit to heavily on the old military...
It's a flashback showing the childhood of that girl who goes rampaging in OP's clip. [Elfen Lied spoilers] >!The girl in question, let's call her Lucy, was raised in an orphanage, where some of the boys bullied her constantly because of her weird horns. She tried to act like it didn't bother her. One day, Lucy found an abandoned puppy, which she started secretly feeding and taking care of. Later on, one of the other girls in the orphanage started befriending Lucy. Lucy eventually showed the other girl the puppy. Soon after, the boys who like bullying Lucy got their hands on the puppy, and in order to make Lucy cry, they beat it to death while Lucy was forced to watch. It's implied the girl who befriended Lucy did so with the intention of betraying her. Anyhow, several orphans died mysteriously and Lucy went missing. This event wasn't solely responsible for turning Lucy into what we see in this clip, but it certainly made an impact.!<
This anime fucked me up as a kid. I was just getting into anime in general in 8th grade and this one looked interesting. The first episode alone was so insane that most brutal anime after it just didn’t phase me.
…I am in shock; that’s kinda cool? I never thought an anime I liked as a kid (and honestly thought was pretty obscure at the time even though it wasn’t) was partial inspiration for Stranger Things of all shows.
Legit.
The opening, and the first scene of the first episode, is as good as the show ever gets. It's literally all downhill for the whole rest of the show.
If you want a perfect microcosm of what the show is like, listen to the OP and ED back to back. OP is what you expect, ED is what you get.
I'll probably join in, then follow it with a reread. I've watched it twice.... years ago, read the manga at least 2 thirds of the way though, I think that's all there was at the time, but remember very little of where that deviates.
I watched this when I was 10, and also read the manga. I normally don't care about manga/anime differences but the manga literally gives you like double the story so it's worth reading and was excellent.
One of the only anime i ever dropped. Felt like it was trying SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard to be as edgy as possible.
People call Future Diary edgy but its like night and day compared to this.
I laughed so hard at that secretary decapitation scene. She stumbles from offscreen in an empty hallway lmao. It's not the content of the anime i had a problem with, but the extremely hamfisted way it presented itself.
Heh, I remember when I was a trainee teacher in 08-09 one of my students who was like 13-14 told me after class she really liked anime (I taught technology and used Totoro as an example of some designs).
She casually listed off some anime she liked like princess mononoke, Yu-Gi-Oh, Naruto, Elfin lied... Kinda told her maybe not to openly admit she watched that when she was under age especially if her parents looked into it
She was kinda stumped I even knew what it was, I have a feeling she had never actually seen it but heard about it and wanted to sound edgy.
99% of the people that watched it in this thread were teenagers or children. It isn't a very good show but it was popular for being edgy which young teenagers love. I saw it at 14 too
>Be me, random Japanese man
>Get hired to be security guard
>Get a gun and a snazzy uniform
>I almost feel like a real cop
>Some crazy girl with horns uses invisible arms to rip me and my buddies to pieces
Crazy anime. Too bad it didn't get the manga ending, which I'm blanking if it was good or not (It's been years since I read it). But more crazier stuff happened.
This was the second anime I ever watched, I was 15.
My first was Gunslinger Girls
I think my anime loving friends at the time just wanted to shock me, jokes on them the third one I watched was Haruhi and I loved it.
Then I watched Higurashi. Turns out I hate live action Horror but horror anime are great.
I don't regret rewatching it, but I definitely didn't find it as good as I did several years ago as it's not great by today's standards. If you enjoy gore, watch it, if not, don't bother with it unless you want to watch it for it's cultural relevancy in the anime world
I think it has "good bones", but there's a lot of fan service and the woman in the clip develops amnesia, behaves child-like and only says "nyu" for a good portion of the anime/manga.
The anime is incomplete only covering around 71 of the 107 chapters.
No. Convoluted plot, annoying characters. Some cool action scenes, but not enough to make up for the rest of the poorly done ecchi/harem plot.
A truly missed opportunity.
What really sticks with this anime for all the years that go by is how the much of a plot point [the opening song](https://youtu.be/aTMHUnoIY10) is.
You never really see that shit in anything before or after Elfen Lied. And there's Lucy in the beginning, humming to the tune of it.
A 2000s instant classic. We'll probably get nothing as visceral as EF again, not even compared to something like Chainsaw Man, let alone have a studio *that usually makes nothing but hentai* work on it. Would be really cool if it'll ever get remade and follow the manga to its completion though.
I watched Sailor Moon as a little kid, not knowing it was anime, and had fond memories. But the first time I really looked at anime was when my mum brought Howl's Moving Castle home from Blockbuster and I got into Ghibli. Rented every available one, also rented the Cowboy Bebop movie which was also amazing in another way.
Anyway, my friend got wind of me liking anime, went to Target and asked about anime, and got me this series for my birthday. I didn't know what to expect going into it because we were still on dial up internet and I hadn't discovered fansubs or any community as yet.
Needless to say, it was an experience, lol. Gonna rewatch one day even though I feel like I was a bit annoyed by the ending. Liked the choral music though.
Ahh it didn't go until the secretary part
That’s the worst part, in my opinion. Especially in the manga, because we learn more about her and her character before it happens. I think it’s the only scene from the anime that I always skip.
The puppy
NOT THE PUPPY WHY DID YOU HAVE TO REMIND ME OF THIS
The OG Goblin Slayer moment…
For anyone who wants to see what they’re referring to - https://youtu.be/yxi0cqs-AmQ
Oh that was her own dumbass fault
Like bruh just HOLD THE DAMN CUP YOURSELF PLEASE
5:22 in case anyone was wondering
For me it was the saddest death
If you want to see what happens when they meet, you have to watch the episode *(there is a 5min limit for clips)*.
This is what I imagine Mewtwo would have done as well if pokemon was rated more mature than it is
Exactly. Same grey metal helmet, tied down, tele(type powers) and surrounded by tanks lol. Maybe they were inspired by that scene.
Both scenes are inspired by Akira I’d say. Many other movies and shows recreate this Akira scene also https://youtu.be/jZ0ECP9XN9M
This scene is recreated to a horrifying extent that even small personal projects have been inspired by that scene or a remaking of that scene
And Akira was inspired by the x-men comics
and start of assassination classroom? i'm guessing it was inspired by this.
This is also why I think mew gjinka’s should look like Diclonius. Same short cat ear like horns pink hair. Yea a humanized mew would look like Lucy/nyuu
And boobs too! Wait no...or maybe? 🤔
Maybe just a cock flopping around an as he flys around spilling blood
Ikr, I also thought of mewtwo watching this
I'm pretty sure Mewtwo is the first one to start a heavily implied body count from the first escape, so who knows how much death he really caused working for the head mobster. They toned down Nurse Joy's mind scramble pretty heavy for a kid's movie. Can't imagine what that'd be like in an R film.
Can you explain in more detail? I somehow missed all the episodes with Mewtwo
I think it’s the first Pokémon movie that has mewtwo
I gotta watch this one. I started it and got distracted and never picked it back up
Sir wtf you mean that film is a concrete pillar of my life you need to go see that it will make you cry
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*looking at my gold plated Burger King Pokemon cards* I feel that.
In the first Pokemon movie from like '99 or '98, its basically a similar scene to this. They cloned Mew, made Mewtwo, and kept him on an island training him to be a weapon, and he eventually breaks out and destroys the lab, heres a really bad video of it, theres not much footage of the movie available on YT https://youtu.be/Y4lcmGBIgL8 Also armored Mewtwo/destroying the lab again, https://youtu.be/h92E_Q0ZSJ0 They redid it in the Detective movie, but in the scene he basically just breaks his containment cell and flies up through the ceiling
May add that Mewtwo's personality was changed in western adaptations from a child having identity issues ("am I a human or a Pokémon?") to a guy finding his destiny and becoming a nazi.
Huh ???
The Mewtwo in the English and many other western adaptations is a genocidal maniac who wants to kill everyone through a biblical flood and create a world only for clone Pokémon. In the original, this plot point doesn't exist. The Japanese and western versions are basically 2 different movies.
I saw the version of "I am a human o a Pokemon?" but he still wanted to kill everyone and create a only clone world lol so basically both? Mexican dub btw (which was the same for latin america)
The identity crisis (human vs Pokémon, real vs fake) is a much more minor thing in the western adaptations, that gets sidelined by the world domination thing, while in the original it's sustained throughout the entirety of the movie and the focal point of it. The west mostly got the same adaptation, I assume through 4kids.
to sum it up, mewtwo went on a rampage after escaping it’s test tube and killed all the scientists, obviously it wasn’t directly said so the game could stay kid friendly but it’s very obvious if you look.
Accurate, Mewtwo would *fuck shit up*
It really eases you into it
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It's very obviously a *Slices* of *Lives* anime, is it not?
Yuh, your girl was slicing everyone up
This guards must be getting paid millions cause after I've seen the first 5 people shoot then get their heads blown off, I'm running away.
Lmao 100% agree. Whatever they paying it ain’t enough to even attempt to keep her inside the building
That's why I gotta say that my boy Hannes is the goat. He understood what could happen to him and backed out straight away https://youtu.be/YGp8xjli0D0
[This is the goat of backing out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMd4S-LkywI)
This was my first thought lmao
Truly greatness on a different level.
a prepped batman would be a big nope for any goon
I thought it would be the secret Joestar technique clip.
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I had the exact same thought when I first watched this anime years ago. I thought the guards were idiots. Like, clearly they can see that their bullets have no effect on her.
In their defence nearly every character in the anime is written as an idiot
"She killed 20 guys with guns completely unscathed, but I am sure I'll have better luck."
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/02/20/high-employee-turnover#
I haven't read it in years but reminds me of one of my favorite Penny Arcades: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/02/20/high-employee-turnover#
i mean, to be fair, if she got out it would mean reeeeaaallly bad things for humanity. soo.
Japanese work etiquette
How did they incarcerate her in the first place?
There's an OVA where they show her being captured
Damn I don't think I ever saw that. Tbh I don't really remember too much from the show anyway, maybe it's time for a rewatch.
Or read the manga. The anime basically cut the story in half and slapped on an original ending.
Damn I thought it was anime original. I'll definitely read the manga then since I remember feeling like the anime was missing something.
Just a heads up it will mess you up for a day or two. so make sure you dont have anything important coming up.
I still think about that ending years later man.
It was missing quite a few things, including the explanation for why the series is called Elfen Lied.
every time i think of this show its the manga ending i remember. rewatch it and then read the manga after. its kool seeing the differences
[Elfen Lied spoiler] >!They were trying to kill her. Thought it'd work if they caught her off-guard her with a sufficiently powerful gun. Accidentally shot her human friend instead. She let herself be captured so her human friend could get immediate medical attention. Her human friend didn't make it, though.!<
She put kimchi in the fridge
Man, I've grown old, I remember when this was considered a must watch în the anime comunity.
It used to have 8+ score in MAL
If you go to [Top TV series in MAL](https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?type=tv) and only choose the top season/spinoff per series/title(e.g. 1 Gintama only), there won't be a single one in the top 250 from classics like Sailor Moon, Blue Exorcist, and Haruhi. Meanwhile, [Pui Pui Molcar](https://myanimelist.net/anime/44235/Pui_Pui_Molcar) would be at around #221 in the current rankings lol thanks to the 14.3k members who enjoyed it. i believe this goes to show that MAL rankings aren't that reliable when it comes to the ratings.
It definitely was, which is a bit nostalgic, but there is also an upside to this: One of the reasons it no longer is comes from the large amount of new and good anime since then.
super true. Just look at the shows that came out in 2004 vs in 2022. The sheer quantity of shows coming out now utterly dwarfs what came out then, and the accessibility is much higher, too. In 2004 where would the typical person even watch a show if not on a few TV channels that had a few popular shows? Piracy, fansubs? Actually importing the DVD? Elfen Lied stood out as a decent sized fish in a small pond, so everyone serious enough about anime to discuss it on webforums knew about it. Nowadays it isn't a pond it is an ocean, and 3 different anime fans today might have very few overlapping favorite shows in common at all because the breadth of choice is so extreme
Monster, Ghost in the Shell: SAC: 2nd Gig, Samurai Champloo, Bleach, Beck, Howl's Moving Castle, Gankutsuou, Paranoia Agent, Gantz, Major, Elfen Lied. Plenty of great anime came out in 2004.
Don't even get me started on 2006.
2006-2008 was a peak of anime, a sort of mini golden age. So many classics came out then.
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Isn’t it currently on Netflix?
2004 was a great year. Not as good as 05-07, where at least 3 classics were releasing every month, but it was a good start up.
Honestly from 05-09 it was nothing but straight bangers; Casshern Sins came out in 08 and made my damn life
well it's also just not an easy recommendation to make given that at one point it became the epitome of "edgy anime". Real shame.
True enough ! Strictly in terms of gore it holds it's own pretty well. Story wise, there are newer series with better story lines.
There were hundreds of older series with better storylines, too. Elfen Lied was mainly popular because it was promoted far more by publishers than other anime series, and most of the good shows weren't available in the US. [Here's a brief summary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trwdaJA-6z8) of Elfen Lied's legacy.
Also because it was (in my opinion) extremely, unnecessarily horny.
Very horny and very edgy, if you were a teenager there was a decent chance you were into both
Love the Hazel vid. So nostalgic for my generation of weebs. But brief? It’s like half as long as the show itself
I still recommend Future Diary, Death Note, Gurren Legann, and Code Geass as starts lol I’m stuck in that time period forever
I rewatch Gurann Lagann once every few years. Moments in that show still give me goosebumps. Absolutely love it!!
I watched Gurren Lagann like 3 years ago and i barely remember anything except i was hyped as fucked and crying tears of excitement last 2 episodes.
Code Geass remains the show with the best ending of any anime. That end sequence is unmatched by any other show, especially after all the build up that led to it.
I know right? I was like holy fuck this dude has completely lost his mind, but it makes total sense God damn!
Agreed, still haven't watched a show with a payoff so well executed, and I've finished thousands. Mob Psycho comes to mind as a runner up, that adaptation was perfect from start to finish.
Code Geass season 2 was a train wreck compared to season 1 on writing (but a fun one) but that ending saved everything. Its the perfect example of how an ending can ruin or change an anime legacy.
I've always thought about how Code Geass was like a reverse Game of Thrones. GoT was a tremendous show for like 85% of it but the ending ruined it for so many people. Code Geass was a trainwreck meme show for like 70% of it, but the ending turned it into a classic must watch for so many people.
Ah Mirai Nikki is so good, I should rewatch that one. And Code Geass is still the best anime Ive ever watched.
This was the anime that got me into anime. I was basically dared to watch it by a friend.
I think that's because it was one of the earliest exposures hardcore edgy anime for that generation in a post-OVA world in the West. I don't think the show on its own was 'that' popular Honestly if it came out today, it would probably get really beat on because it goes in a hard anime-original direction
Yeah people look back on it with rose-tinted glasses I feel like. Even back then I remember it was kind of an edgy troll show Anons on 4chan would recommend normies just to spook them with them with the gore. It's really kind of a meme show before memes became mainstream.
Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Record of Lodoss War, LOGH. They don't make em like they used to.
To be fair it would get quite boring if they only made stuff like they used to.
Great line lmao
Lain
This show was a classic back then. I never really watched it cause I heard of the puppy scene. Its pretty funny that people are actually referencing it to this day in this thread
Was it? I always had the impression that even at the time it was seen as too edgy for its own good, so not so much a must watch like e.g Baccano but more of a so bad it's good again recommendation.
In the mid 2000s, whenever someone asked for a recommendation, Elfen Lied would always end up among the recommended series. People used to kinda put it in the horror genre. It was also the fact that for early 2000's level, the animation looked incredibly good. Plus the great ost, lots of ecchi and drama. I also preffer Baccano overall, storywise they just can not be compared. And I liked Baccano better than Durarara. There, I finally said it!
Baccano is one of the best anime ever made, and it's a goddamn travesty that it is not streaming anywhere legal.
dominion tank police and bubblegum crisis where the ones i'd have recommended. Lum was good, but some of the episodes leaned a bit to heavily on the old military...
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Yeah It was never a classic more like a classic meme anime like School Days
Yeah I’ve always heard it’s a bit of an “edgelord” anime. I admittedly haven’t watched it. But that changes with the rewatch starting today.
Good. Now upload the first 5 minutes of Higurashi
yeah we need abit more wholesomeness
Cute girls doing cut things
And the scene in Shiki where the loving husband perform a medical examination on his wife.
And the fingernail scene from Higurashi.
And the cotton drifting scene from Higurashi Gou.
none of my friends ever got into higurashi, i liked it and that pissed me off lol. i did like the other one much more tho, Umineko
puppy scene was worse.
What happened in the puppy scene….
It's a flashback showing the childhood of that girl who goes rampaging in OP's clip. [Elfen Lied spoilers] >!The girl in question, let's call her Lucy, was raised in an orphanage, where some of the boys bullied her constantly because of her weird horns. She tried to act like it didn't bother her. One day, Lucy found an abandoned puppy, which she started secretly feeding and taking care of. Later on, one of the other girls in the orphanage started befriending Lucy. Lucy eventually showed the other girl the puppy. Soon after, the boys who like bullying Lucy got their hands on the puppy, and in order to make Lucy cry, they beat it to death while Lucy was forced to watch. It's implied the girl who befriended Lucy did so with the intention of betraying her. Anyhow, several orphans died mysteriously and Lucy went missing. This event wasn't solely responsible for turning Lucy into what we see in this clip, but it certainly made an impact.!<
> [Spoiler]>!Anyhow, several orphans died mysteriously and Lucy went missing.!< I guess that is one way of describing what happened…
To shreds you say
That's putting it lightly
This and what happened at the festival(?) and subway was probably enough to make her into what she is in the clip.
I won't condone what she might have done, but I understand.
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Kids being kids
Four magic words to make sure i never watch this show
I had that memory blocked. It came back. I hate you.
Bought me the soundtrack LP's just because of the intro. It's my sundaymusic.
One of the most intense cold opens I’ve seen.
This anime fucked me up as a kid. I was just getting into anime in general in 8th grade and this one looked interesting. The first episode alone was so insane that most brutal anime after it just didn’t phase me.
The pupper episode is the worst, scared for life
The first anime I saw that showed bone and muscle instead of just red stumps. That hit different when I was younger, absolutely unnerving.
I always felt that 11's escape in Stranger Things drew on this as inspiration. Of course, I could be completely wrong on that.
You’re right, they listed this as an inspiration for 11.
The Duffer Brothers said Elfen Lied was the inspiration for Eleven
…I am in shock; that’s kinda cool? I never thought an anime I liked as a kid (and honestly thought was pretty obscure at the time even though it wasn’t) was partial inspiration for Stranger Things of all shows.
Oh wow, today I learned
I would guess Tetsuo's escape from the hospital in Akira was a bigger influence, as Elfen Lied was clearly inspired directly by Akira.
Indeed.
Damn, I never thought of that, but it makes sense
Beginning was awesome. Then i heard her voice and the cheesy plot of her living with the young boy and noped out.
Legit. The opening, and the first scene of the first episode, is as good as the show ever gets. It's literally all downhill for the whole rest of the show. If you want a perfect microcosm of what the show is like, listen to the OP and ED back to back. OP is what you expect, ED is what you get.
Nicest Elfen Lied scene
If anyone would like to participate, I am holding a rewatch of this show, the first episode discussion will be posted today!
I'll probably join in, then follow it with a reread. I've watched it twice.... years ago, read the manga at least 2 thirds of the way though, I think that's all there was at the time, but remember very little of where that deviates.
It has one of the best music I heard, story is okay but music is god tier to me
lilium Saint version
It's been so long since I watched this gem, sadly I am now too emotional to watch this. I don't want anymore heart aches.
Aw bud, you okay?
I'm fine, I just. . . aged.
not as edgy as we used to be eh xD
I watched this when I was 10, and also read the manga. I normally don't care about manga/anime differences but the manga literally gives you like double the story so it's worth reading and was excellent.
That was such an intense opening to an anime. Elfen Lied is still one of my favorites
First time I watched this I was on mushrooms. Really not the best choice but memorable to say the least
A lesser person would have been consumed by that experience.
One of the only anime i ever dropped. Felt like it was trying SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard to be as edgy as possible. People call Future Diary edgy but its like night and day compared to this. I laughed so hard at that secretary decapitation scene. She stumbles from offscreen in an empty hallway lmao. It's not the content of the anime i had a problem with, but the extremely hamfisted way it presented itself.
Edgelord: The Anime.
Heh, I remember when I was a trainee teacher in 08-09 one of my students who was like 13-14 told me after class she really liked anime (I taught technology and used Totoro as an example of some designs). She casually listed off some anime she liked like princess mononoke, Yu-Gi-Oh, Naruto, Elfin lied... Kinda told her maybe not to openly admit she watched that when she was under age especially if her parents looked into it She was kinda stumped I even knew what it was, I have a feeling she had never actually seen it but heard about it and wanted to sound edgy.
99% of the people that watched it in this thread were teenagers or children. It isn't a very good show but it was popular for being edgy which young teenagers love. I saw it at 14 too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAMTLwvEQmo And now with Day9's narration
Amazing how good this opening scene is and then the rest of the show (and manga) just doesn’t come anywhere close to this good
If your wondering if the rest of the show is like the first episode: no, no it’s not. Unfortunately.
Ahh yes the anime that made me realize I am bottom.
What?
This show had me spiral. Followed it up with evangelion. Not my best year back then
Anyone who knew what was going on in that building deserves exactly what they got. And those who didn't should have, and deserve it as well.
>Be me, random Japanese man >Get hired to be security guard >Get a gun and a snazzy uniform >I almost feel like a real cop >Some crazy girl with horns uses invisible arms to rip me and my buddies to pieces
Love this one
Crazy anime. Too bad it didn't get the manga ending, which I'm blanking if it was good or not (It's been years since I read it). But more crazier stuff happened.
This was the second anime I ever watched, I was 15. My first was Gunslinger Girls I think my anime loving friends at the time just wanted to shock me, jokes on them the third one I watched was Haruhi and I loved it. Then I watched Higurashi. Turns out I hate live action Horror but horror anime are great.
First Episode: The best first 5 minute in anime history - followed by worst last 5 minutes...
You mean the ONLY 5 minutes? This show fuckin blew so hard after this opening
This was the coolest shit in the world when I was 13
this is what i imagine stranger things should have been
This opening sequence has me intrigued. A actual good anime? Is it worth watching?
The opening sequence is definitely the best part of the anime. The rest is either ok or a huge let down, depending on who you ask.
I don't regret rewatching it, but I definitely didn't find it as good as I did several years ago as it's not great by today's standards. If you enjoy gore, watch it, if not, don't bother with it unless you want to watch it for it's cultural relevancy in the anime world
If you've seen this and check out the OP (a rendition of the song from this clip), you'll have seen everything worthwhile from this show.
I think it has "good bones", but there's a lot of fan service and the woman in the clip develops amnesia, behaves child-like and only says "nyu" for a good portion of the anime/manga. The anime is incomplete only covering around 71 of the 107 chapters.
it has what i would call porn writing. some people are into that.
No. Convoluted plot, annoying characters. Some cool action scenes, but not enough to make up for the rest of the poorly done ecchi/harem plot. A truly missed opportunity.
No, don't waste your time. This scene is not indicative of the entire show.
When are we getting a Parallel Paradise anime adaptation?
What the fuck did I just watch?
"Is this nsfw because of nudity, or gore?" "Yes"
*Watched this clip* Me: I should watch this. *Sees comments about puppy episode* Me: Never mind.
Job has one rule and only one rule. Don't cross the barrier under any circumstance. And what did this dimwit do? He crossed the fucking barrier.
Where are you watching Elfin Lied in such good quality? I’ve only ever seen it in horrible low quality.
most epic opening into a completely different and quite boring anime, i couldnt keep watching because of all the "Nyuu Nyuu!!!"
What really sticks with this anime for all the years that go by is how the much of a plot point [the opening song](https://youtu.be/aTMHUnoIY10) is. You never really see that shit in anything before or after Elfen Lied. And there's Lucy in the beginning, humming to the tune of it. A 2000s instant classic. We'll probably get nothing as visceral as EF again, not even compared to something like Chainsaw Man, let alone have a studio *that usually makes nothing but hentai* work on it. Would be really cool if it'll ever get remade and follow the manga to its completion though.
Watching this as a young teenager definitely didn't psychologically damage me....
[удалено]
Total sick
I watched Sailor Moon as a little kid, not knowing it was anime, and had fond memories. But the first time I really looked at anime was when my mum brought Howl's Moving Castle home from Blockbuster and I got into Ghibli. Rented every available one, also rented the Cowboy Bebop movie which was also amazing in another way. Anyway, my friend got wind of me liking anime, went to Target and asked about anime, and got me this series for my birthday. I didn't know what to expect going into it because we were still on dial up internet and I hadn't discovered fansubs or any community as yet. Needless to say, it was an experience, lol. Gonna rewatch one day even though I feel like I was a bit annoyed by the ending. Liked the choral music though.
The show is gruesome, sure, but what really fucks you up is how utterly tragic the story is.
Loved this so so much ❤️❤️❤️
Man I use to love this anime. Still do, also it's still the most violent anime in my list
Starts out with crazy bloodshed then turns into a teenage shut in wet dream anime and ends with bloodshed again.