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Elfen Lied (TV) Reviews
Elfen Lied
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Title(s): Elfen Lied
エルフェンリート, Erufen Rīto
Creator: Lynn Okamoto
Genres: Drama, Horror, Psychological, Romance, Science Fiction
Age Group: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Vintage: July 25, 2004
Status: Completed
Summary: The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind.
Reviews
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Excellent 58 reviews
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Good 15 reviews
19%
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Average 3 reviews
4%
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Poor 2 reviews
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Very Poor 2 reviews
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Elfen Lied: Well developed story but for mature viewers ONLY
Written by Little_Wolf-18 on February 10, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 3
Animation: 4
Entertainment: 4
Warning first: Contains GRAPHIC gore/blood and violence. FAR beyond the usual level of violence and blood in TV and anime, even of mature rating. Not for the faint of heart. Definitely NOT FOR KIDS. If you’re under 18, you should back out NOW – and if you don’t, don’t blame me.

Now that that’s out of the way:

The story of “Elfen Lied” is complex but well worth your time if you’re a mature viewer. The plot’s based on a unique concept, with an interesting background and some enthralling twists, deep, dark, and mysterious. The (read more)
23 out of 23 people found this review helpful.
Pretty Radical :)
Written by Jakki113 on January 6, 2012 at 8:34 AM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 5
Dialogue: 3
Animation: 4
Entertainment: 5
Well it starts a bit slow but then it suddenly transforms and it BLOWS YO MIND!!! This would be the ULTIMATE anime if only they just SHOT AND KILLED THE YUKA BITCH!!!! (I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way)

But I say it's definitely worth a watch. You get to see a lot of gore and the lead character Lucy is just KICKASS!!!
5 out of 10 people found this review helpful.
It scared me! yet interesting!
Written by bobemaniscool45 on November 24, 2011 at 3:51 PM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 3
Entertainment: 3
I like it, to an extent! At first, i was like this looks scary and when i watched it, it was! But it was more of an entertaining scary but maybe too much blood and bone cracking sounds! This shows makes me sad, mad, and happy at certain points. Like the part when she killed those children when she was young, they had it coming for what they did; i've would've done the same thing since i be mad too. The concept, very interesting, it's survival of the fittest and discrimination between races. It's something i would watch again but i won't because (read more)
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
It was pretty good
Written by Kuro1194 on September 20, 2011 at 7:26 PM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 3
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 4
Entertainment: 5
Overall, I thought the anime was pretty good. It was cute, funny, violent, sad...all the things I like in an anime. My only complaint is that the series was just too short and it ended with a cliffhanger ending (I hate those). I ended up reading the manga and was A LOT more satisfied with the story. The manga was so much deeper. It also had a better ending. To anyone wanting an Elfen Lied "season 2" I recommend reading the manga. There is so much more content in it.
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
"Gore genre Anime" Definitely not for Kidz~
Written by eri8cthow on September 1, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 4
Entertainment: 4
SYNOPSIS: A facility has been confining and experimenting about a rare species called Diclonius. Diclonius is a mutated homo-sapien with a very deadly telekinetic abilities and somewhat hold a grudge towards mankind. It is said that Diclonius will be the main reason for mankind’s extinction. A certain Diclonius escaped the facility and was ordered to be killed, she was shot on the head when trying to escape, and was thought to be dead. The Diclonius’ name is Lucy; she suffered from acute amnesia after what happened and was found on a shore in (read more)
19 out of 20 people found this review helpful.
Violent but very good!
Written by alice16 on April 2, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 4
Watched a few years ago and is still in my top 10 list! Nana is one of my favorite animated characters as well even though she is not the main character :)

I think that you can easily watch the hole series in a day (or two!) It really kept me interested to the last episode and had a few twists to the story that were unexpected! I really love the design of the characters and the colours used, very nice pictures :) ( I don't like the intro video though, or the song for that mater :P )

Brilliant!! Love it to bits!!
6 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
One that'll go down in history!
Written by skiddy93 on January 18, 2011 at 8:42 AM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 5
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 3
Entertainment: 5
Amazing......that is all that needs to be said

but for a proper reviews' sake this anime has got to be one of the best animes ever created
the storyline of this series is a original masterpiece, ive personally tried looking for more like this one but to no avail, which makes Elfen Lied an anime that'll go down in history, get on it people
lots of gore, a cute main character with a killer second persona and plenty of scenes to bring out the shocked faces and not to mention at times even tears, if you havent seen this one yet......what rock (read more)
8 out of 9 people found this review helpful.
mixed feelings
Written by Mithrandir77 on November 30, 2010 at 10:46 AM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 3
Animation: 4
Entertainment: 4
from the beginning it looked like somethink from different world and I was staring at that and thought: This is damn great slaughterhause. But in the end the story got too much complicated and rivers of blood were unnecessary. I was quite dissapointed.
5 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
Takes time, but worth the time :)
Written by abramstank on November 15, 2010 at 6:54 PM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 4
Honestly it took a minute for me to get into this Elfen Lied. At first it felt like I was forcing myself to watch it, but as the series progressed my eyes were glued to the screen. You definitely have to watch the entire series in order to fully understand and appreciate the storyline. The animation is amazing, though it can get a little graphic. Definitely worth a watch, just give it time to suck you in.
7 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
Cruel but interesting
Written by anez on November 15, 2010 at 9:51 AM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 3
Animation: 4
Entertainment: 4
To understand this anime You must watch all episodes. Also OVA episode may be really helpfull, and I think that it completes the story. Besides bloody and full of violence scenes it has really nice script and characters, also nice music, especially in the opening
7 out of 11 people found this review helpful.
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