Elfen Lied Vol 1 | 
| Actors: Jessica Boone, Christine M. Auten, Mamoru Kanbe
Studio: Adv Films
Category: DVD
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 58209
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DELF001D
UPC: 702727110924
EAN: 0702727110924
ASIN: B000929V6S
Release Date: May 17, 2005
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The broadcast series Elfen Lied (2004) represents another example of the murderous-waif genre that includes Gunslinger Girl, Burst Angel, and Saikano. Lucy is a diclonius, a mutant capable of killing humans without touching them--a talent she demonstrates repeatedly when she escapes from a secret research facility. She washes up on a beach where two good-natured, simple-minded college freshmen find her. As Lucy can only say "Nyu," Kohta and Yuka call her that and adopt her, unaware of her deadly powers. Elfen Lied is a weird mixture of gratuitous gore, treacly sentimentality, and fan-service nudity. Nyu/Lucy shifts from cringing innocent to articulate murderer and back for no apparent reason; Yuka nurtures a secret passion for Kohta, although he's her cousin. Inane, incoherent, and distasteful, Elfen Lied offers all the cliches that give anime a bad name. (Rated TV MA VSL, appropriate for ages 17 and older: graphic violence, violence against women, nudity, profanity, sexual situations, toilet humor, tobacco use)--Charles Solomon
Description
One girl washes up on shore - naked, scared, and alone. The other uses psychic weapons to make a blood-soaked break from captivity. One is named Nyu. The other is Lucy. The two couldn't be more different - if only they didn't have to share the same body! When star-crossed students Kohta and Yuka rescue Nyu on the beach, they're blissfully unaware that she's a diclonius, a mutant bred to replace humanity. To make matters worse: she's escaped from captivity, leaving a trail of dead in her path and the world's most lethal hunters on her tail. As the rooms in Kohta's rented house fill with runaways and diclonius - danger mounts outside. But, what's more dangerous? The monsters beating down the door or the demons within?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
Disturbing and exploitive - but...... May 28, 2005
T. Avallone (St Charles IL)
33 out of 38 found this review helpful
This is one of those animes you pick up because of all the "shockingly violent" hype that this series is being labeled as. Make no mistake about it: It does not shy away from nudity or gore at any expense. Although this might be a turn off to some viewers, there is an absorbing story that goes along with "Elfen Lied". It will easily get you hooked.
A couple of main problems that nobody else seems to have noted:
It seems to be an original piece of work - but its quite a no brainer that it borrowed *heavily* from the lighthearted fan favorite anime "Chobits". Any hardcore anime fan will see that.
Also - heavily sexual inuendos are present throughout, be it when the main male character takes hold of a female's breast - and she gets orgasmic pleasure out of it, showing a naked female draped in blood while chained to a wall, and female urination on a hardwood floor...not to mention showing 2 women bathing together. Some of these scenes might have something to do with the storyline - but I have a feeling most of them are just for exploitive purposes.
What is most shocking is the "TVMA" rating this was given. First off - this is something that would never be shown on television without severe editing. I would give this nothing less than a 17+ rating.
If it sounds like I'm bashing "Elfen Lied", I'm really not. The story will grab your attention and tug at your emotional strings at any given moment - and the character development is a definate plus. I'm just hoping the story continues at a level where it will outshine some of the shlock that is present on the screen.
To sum up the first volume of "Elfen Lied": So far, so good...but beware of the TVMA rating.
 Grabs you and doesn't let go August 25, 2005
Edward Swing (Laurel, MD USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The series opens with a bloodbath. The central character, Lucy, escapes from her incarceration in a scientific lab, and wipes out most of the guard on the way. And of course she's stark naked throughout this scene.
A sniper's bullet fails to kill her, but instead causes her to revert to a childlike personality, Nyu. She's found by a pair of cousins, who take her in.
The science lab want her dead, because she's too dangerous. Meanwhile, the cousins are trying to help her while figuring out where she came from.
While its easy to focus on the gore, or the nudity, I found both to work well in the story without being overly exploitative. It definitely has less fan-service than titles like Burn Up, Ikki Tousen, or Divergence Eve. The violence is pretty strong, and definitely will make the faint-of-heart feel uneasy. But to focus on either the violence or the nudity overlooks a strong and compelling story.
The story really seems to be a tale of Jekyll and Hyde. Should innocent Nyu have to suffer because of Lucy's crimes - even though they are the same being? What makes Lucy so ruthless? Added to this mix is the sexual tensions between the cousins, further complicated by Nyu. Finally the science lab is up to something...
There are several similarities with other anime series. In particular, it is almost impossible NOT to draw similarities between Nyu and Chi from Chobits. Both are total innocents, who are named for the primary thing they say. Nyu's horns even physically resemble Chi's interface ports.
But there's enough novel material, and a compelling storyline, to make this series stand on its own. Check it out!
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