Elfen Lied

After watching the 13th ep I am left with but one desier: MORE! GIVE ME MORE!!!!!111oneone

Althou, I must admit, I am a bit glad they ended the series, since very few of the "firever and ever and ever" series end up as good as they start off.

I guess I will have a beer in remenisence about the great anime that was; Elfen Lied.

[MechaTama31]

Good god, what en ending that was! Simply beautiful!

One thing I wonder though... She had one of her horns busted in the fight with Mariko, and you would think this would have some effect on her psychic powers. And indeed, when she is surrounded by the gunmen and they start firing, we only see two vectors spring up, not four. Then she loses her other horn. At the very end of the ep, when the clock starts to move, presumably that's supposed to indicate that she started it with her vectors (I could be wrong, maybe it was just a dramatic coincidence), but it seems like she wouldn't have any vectors left.

[dreadful]

Mecha, I do understand about the puppy in relationship to the plot and effect on Lucy and you're not the first one to mention it. The point of my moaning was "Why include an element of realism in a show that exagerates things from the beginning to the end?". After all, the creators could have been more inventive. You do remember the later events in Narutaru, don't you? There are planty of ways to apprach the cituation in order to achieve needed effect.

And, yeah, the ending was pretty good.

heh totally agree with mecha abt EL being a beautiful series with a gorgeous ending.

regarding the horns,

Lucy does indeed lose her vector ability when she loses her horns

this is something posted at the animesuki forums by vud911


for those still wondering about lucy at the end of ep 13

I think the ending is implying Nyuu came back into their lives (she lost both horns, therefore, would be a normal human being,) The sad melody stopping represents the sad times are are over and clock beginning to move means it is beginning of a new start. But this is just optimistic thinking

[MechaTama31]

dreadful, my point is that your point is pointless. Just because parts of the show are not 100% true-to-life doesn't mean they have to make everything bizarre and unreal. It's a basic way to start a story: take your world, then change one thing in it, and imagine what things that would change, what events might happen, etc.

It just doesn't make any sense to me at all to object to that one single aspect of it for no other reason than that things like that probably happen in real life. People get shot in real life too, but I don't see you complaining about any of that.

[dreadful]

I guess first part of your post makes sense, particularly if you make it a starting point and put child's psyche into account. What is she, 8-9 at the time of events? And I believe children are very impressinable at that age.

I guess I'll just leave it at that, because I don't want to get into a whole new new argument cartoonish vs real like violance and where and how much peoiple get shot.

[Shinji103]

Holy!....I was planning on getting in the first comments on episode 13, but everyone beat me to it! (oh well)

Beautiful ending, but slightly inconclusive. What about the project leader guy? He still wants diclonius to wipe out humanity, so what's to stop him now?
Not that I'm complaining about the ending, it's lust that that one part is bugging me a little. And why is it that the "perfect ending" is so rare? I mean "perfect ending" as in similar to the Rurouni Kenshin manga ending:

where Kenshin and Kaoru get married and have a baby and live happily ever after (at least until the Reflection OVA).

I totally agree with alc, and that's why I'm bugged about there once again not being a perfect ending:

Originally Posted by alcuin/smokydrag

this is something posted at the animesuki forums by vud911


for those still wondering about lucy at the end of ep 13

I think the ending is implying Nyuu came back into their lives (she lost both horns, therefore, would be a normal human being,) The sad melody stopping represents the sad times are are over and clock beginning to move means it is beginning of a new start. But this is just optimistic thinking

notice nyuu as opposed to Lucy

very nice way to describe the ending ^_^

If Nyuu is now a normal human being (which I believe too), then the director could have gotten Kouta and Nyuu together at the end. It just frustrates me that you hardly ever see a perfect ending.

[DistMan]

A beautifuly executed story. Only "complaint" would be that the animation could've been better (korean animation company), but that is something which is quite subjective so let's not start a discussion about that.

Regarding the events at the beginning. I dont think it would be that strange for Lucy to go haywire after that incident witht he dog if we consider her situation. A small child, apparantly no parents to speak of, constantly bullied, her 'friend' who she opened up to betrayed her...and the last thing dear to her was brutally slaughtered infront of her eyes. That can cause a psychological impact, quite a strong one. Anyhow, we must also consider that the dioclonus 'species' do have a violent side which must be tamed.

[Shinji103]

Originally Posted by DistMan

Yes, I do say lucy becuase I think Nyuu retracted into the back of her mind.

Now that you mention it, that does make snese, since Nyuu was really there to hide Lucy's personality, but then Lucy's personality came back. But then, Kouta knew Lucy only by the name Nyuu, so I guess Lucy's name would be decided by whichever name she liked better (she would probably like Nyuu better because Lucy is a bit symbolizing of her murderous self).

A second season would definitely be much appreciated, but as Distman said, that probably won't come. But one can always pray.