Elfen Lied, Vol. 2 - Vector Two | 
| Actors: Jessica Boone Christine M. Auten, Mamoru Kanbe
Studio: Adv Films
Category: DVD
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 37361
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DELF002D
ISBN: 1413911552
UPC: 702727111020
EAN: 9781413911558
ASIN: B0009PLM9E
Release Date: July 12, 2005
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Description
Lucy is a Diclonius, a beautiful female mutant destined to destroy mankind. With deadly psychic pwers, she can kill with merely a thought. Fearing for the safety of the world, the government has locked Lucy away for observation and study. However, Lucy escapes, leaving a trail of carnage in her wake. Renamed Nyu by the young man who finds her, she must fight the evil alter-ego that resides inside her mind.
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 ALL SHE NEEDS IS A FRIEND July 19, 2005
Sesho (Pasadena, TX USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
As Vector 2 of Elfen Lied begins, Mayu, the young homeless girl that Kouta and Yuka took in last volume along with Nyu, has run away. She no longer wanted to be a burden on them. As she wanders the streets we see through flashbacks how she ended up as a runaway in the first place. Also on the loose is the pyschotic operative that Lucy dismembered in the first volume, newly reconstructed with cyborg attachments. He goes rogue and is out to revenge himself on Lucy, but how to find her? Another of Lucy's victims shows up and one of Kouta's professor's at college recognizes Nyu as one of his family, but is it really true?
There is really nothing like Elfen Lied out there in the anime world right now. It's a mix of a lot of anime conventions such as memory loss, harem comedy, superhuman fighting, fan service, and shojo. While having all these different genres juggling for your attention seems like a recipe for disaster, Elfen Lied mixes them all together in an entertaining and sometimes disturbing way. You get the same feeling from it as when you read the Battle Royale manga. It might be bloody and violent but there is a poignancy and sadness underneath it all. What is fiction but to put characters into extreme situations and see how they react? It's just that in this case, things are taken to the ultra-extreme. It is a great and thought-provoking show because while it has its sentimental edge, it also shows the horror and callousness that brings about murder.
i'm in love September 1, 2005
maraudinggloominati (las vegas, nv)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
started watching this series when my husband and i were in the music store and were taking a browse through ZIA's brand new animation aisle when we came across vector two. knew we'd be breakin into the story a little late but were so intrigued by the cover art, just had to buy it! that was the end of that...not a but a few days after vector 1 was on it's way from amazon and we went ahead and downloaded english subtitled versions for the rest of the series. both vectors do not disappoint...and i'm on the edge of my chair waiting for the last two vectors to complete our collection...by far my new favorite!
Genre-bending balance of horror and romance November 20, 2005
Mark W. Brinton (Bellevue, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What is it about the story that I find so compelling? You have this monstrous girl brutally dispatching all she comes across showing not one iota of compassion. Ordinarily, this would not be a recipe for an engaging series. Yet it turns out, Elfen Lied is very engaging and compelling. It succeeds, I think, because it balances the unforgivable brutality of Lucy with the portrayal of her tragic, existential plight. This series shares a close kinship with David Cronenberg's "The Fly". Each depicts monstrosity in a complex and affecting manner. Each protagonist, Seth Brudle and Lucy, comes across as tragically unredeemable. Each is haunted with the knowledge of being born into the wrong world; a world that will extinguish them out of necessity; all very sad.
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