7.125 minSeason 1 • Episode 13
LatestYuka 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...
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...
Writing
Lilium theme use is actually genius, fight me
Direction
balances moe blob with body horror like a chaotic tightrope
Score
That OP will haunt your Spotify Wrapped forever
Chihiro Suzuki
Kouta (voice)
Sanae Kobayashi
Lucy / Nyuu (voice)
Emiko Hagiwara
Mayu (voice)
Hiroaki Hirata
Professor Kakuzawa Yu (voice)
Hitomi Nabatame
Kouta (child) / Shirakawa (voice)
Jouji Nakata
Bandou (voice)
Kinryu Arimoto
Chief Kakuzawa (voice)
Maria Yamamoto
Kanae (voice)
Osamu Hosoi
Kurama (voice)
Tomoko Kawakami
Mariko (voice)
Yuki Matsuoka
Nana (voice)
Eriko Ishihara
Arakawa (voice)
Mamiko Noto
Yuka (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Elfen Lied is basically the Rosetta Stone for 'edgy 2000s anime' and directly inspired Stranger Things' Eleven concept. You're welcome.
The opening uses actual Latin from a medieval hymnal about purity, which is deeply ironic given the content. Someone in production had RANGE.
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