Review of Elfen Lied

Elfen Lied (2004)
4/10
And I'm being generous...
25 September 2019
Some humans evolved out of nowhere, and the offspring are Diclonii. These are mostly girls with purple hair, horns and invisible hands. For some reason they want to destroy humanity. One institute has them captured and is testing on them. The guards are only there to be killed, since the weapons assigned to them are useless, even though they know which weapons are effective. Lucy, the protagonist, escapes and is taken care of by Kohta, the other protagonist while the institute searches for them.

As the story goes on, EVERY SINGLE FEMALE falls in love with our protagonist, while also throwing ecchi scenes to... please some audiences. Also, due to artwork, you can't really tell if the girls are 5 or 20 years old. Furthermore, the dialogues of the females make you wonder if the writers ever met a real woman in real life.

I had no problem with gore and blood, it was a bit over the top, but you knew that already.

Also, don't expect any character development. Every single character can be accurately described in 5 words or less. Two examples: Kohta, lonely male with healed PTSD. Lucy, telekinetic monster with bipolar disorder.

Overall, I don't know why I watched this. Probably because of that DeathBattle and the unjustified high rating.
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