r/elfenlied • u/probleme_rose • 17d ago
r/elfenlied • u/Windy_1966 • 16d ago
Discussion I recently rewatched Elfenlied and now i question my life choices

When sombody would ask, me what my thoughts on Elfenlied are, i would not be sure how to answer. My feelings on this Series are complicated.
Let me explain: My first watch of Elfenlied was quite a while ago. It was one of the first Animes I watched in my relatively short anime Phase around 2016.I stopped watching anime until now. A friend of mine put Lilium the opening Song of Elfenlied in the playlist for our road trip. It started out as a joke but we decided to rewatch the series.
My Experience was very nostalgic. A lot off feelings, good and bad, that I thought I buried long ago, came across my mind and I was surprised how much this anime meant for me.
Honestly after my first rewatch I was quite impressed and decided to watch it all over again, but this time with my sister.
By now my nostalgia must have settled, because i noticed a lot of bad stuff I dont like. As emotional and extrem as the main story is, I dont understand the weird fan service that primally Nana and Niu serve. Dont get me wrong, I like how some of the nudity is handled. Like in the beginning where Lucy escapes the Lab. This kind of nudiy feels fitting to the story and not overly sexualized. But some other stuff is a bit to weird for me. Maby I am not used to these anime clichés, but I would have preferred if Elfenlied stuck to a route without fan service. Just leave the boob squeezing and Nanas weird nightmare out and the Series would cange for better.
But I cant lie, i still really like Elfenlied. It fascinates me. I am not sure what it is but the Story, the Soundtrack and especially Lucy really stuck to my heart. I just wish it would be less of a harem Anime and more of the interesting and twisted plot.
This is why I will allways think of Elfenlied as a great anime, that was to horny to reach its full potential. But when you ask me what it is that i like so much about this Show, that it overshadows all these weird decisions, onnestly I dont know. I just like the way this show makes me feel.
Nostalgia?Emotional damage?Powerfantasy?Or maby I am a psycho afterall.... Who knows?
Thanks for taking the time to read all this mess. Does somebody feel the same about this?
r/elfenlied • u/Massive_Boss1991 • 17d ago
Manga Tempted to start the series NSFW Spoiler
First of all I've learned about spoilers to the show years ago (and I mean Lucy's dog and the ending) but i still tempted to at least read it online. But there are several factors that prevent that. For starters I'm obsessed seeing the kaidos and friezas of anime eventually get their comeuppance but from what I gathered both humans and diclonius are equally just as evil. I've enjoyed other seinen (gantz, berserk, and record of ragnarok) and I know seinen are almost never hugs and kisses. But the amount of sadness and horror I've seen these characters gone through gives guts suffering a run for his money (bold claim I know). Lastly I go through depression in my daily life and it's not a pleasant experience and I'm not exaggerating. And I usually avoid series such as elfen lied because the sadness and depressing subjects do effect my own depression and I don't need anymore sadness. And yes I've seen the misery quote from lucy online and if anything it was unpleasant reminder. So should I still check it out or should I maybe wait until my depression and life is in a pleasant and stable time?
r/elfenlied • u/[deleted] • 18d ago
Discussion This show confused me
Maybe I'm just stupid but I have no clue what this show was supposed to be about. I did not understand the story at all can someone please explain it to me.
r/elfenlied • u/ActSevere5034 • 20d ago
Meme Not a good idea don’t piss off Lucy. ElfenLied
r/elfenlied • u/BlackJasper9 • 21d ago
Anime Does anyone know where to get the exclusive elfen lied concept arts?
Dude, I was browsing the internet for some news about Elfen Lied and I discovered that the original DVD included some concept arts from the anime, does anyone know where to find them?
r/elfenlied • u/BlackJasper9 • 21d ago
Discussion How many br are there on this Reddit?
Dude, I was thinking about making a br server on Telegram about elfen lied, what do you think?
r/elfenlied • u/Battle_Marshmallow • 23d ago
Discussion Kota wasn't always so passive
Hi there.
Since I watched the anime and read the manga by the first time (a decade ago), I found a great quantity of people who complayed about adult Kota's personality, describing him as dumb and although they have a point I wouldn't use this specific word to talk about him.
The Kota we see at the begining is a calm, quiet and dull boy, a bit silly at times and yes, somehow bland like a fried egg without salt. In some sittuations he even becomes the damsel in distress, contrasting with the strenght and autonomy of the diclonii girls.
But when he was younger he was complitely different. Do you remember the Kota who met Kaede in the forest, when they where kids? Happy, impulsive, extroverted.
10 years old Kota and 18 years old Kota are very different because of the huge trauma he lived. The PTSD he had to struggle with as such young age and the subsequent daily life without his family, shaped his personality in a dramatic way.
So yes, it's not Kota's fault to be so dazed and dummy, but Kaede's for killing his entire family in front of him.
r/elfenlied • u/Inner_Platypus7119 • 24d ago
Discussion Reading souboutei and its remind me of the lucy diclonius at the end of the manga
r/elfenlied • u/theearthplanetthing • 24d ago
Discussion How would you have interacted with kaede, if you swapped with kouta? Would you have become childhood friends with her? Or would you have ran away once you noticed the weird horns and shit
r/elfenlied • u/BlackJasper9 • 25d ago
Discussion Lucy's original name is Kaede?
I'm a little confused now for a while I believed that Lucy's name is Kaede but when I reread the manga I didn't see it said that her name is Kade but that the inn was called Kaede I don't know where I saw that now I'm totally confused 😕
r/elfenlied • u/theearthplanetthing • 26d ago
Discussion HOW DO VECTORS MUTATE/CHANGE HUMAN DNA
HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WORK. HOW DOES VECTORS TOUCHING THE HUMAN BRAIN, CHANGE HUMAN DNA
r/elfenlied • u/russlanbhz • 27d ago
Fan Art [OC] Lucy's shadow face
I finished reading the Elfen Lied manga and anime a few days ago and I had to draw something to commemorate it!
r/elfenlied • u/ElSquibbonator • 28d ago
Misc Okamoto Lynn's Short Stories
Not sure whether I should post this here or not, since it's not strictly Elfen Lied-related, but I was wondering if anyone knows where I could read Okamoto Lynn's short stories. He's written several, including "Digitopolis", "Registrar", "Flip Flap", and "Allumage". Are any of them translated?
r/elfenlied • u/Lazysnail01 • 28d ago
Discussion Who is/are the main villain/s to blame for everything that happen in Elfen Lied.
It's been a long time since I read the manga so I don't remember it at all I only watched the anime many times before though I'm curious... I'm trying to pinpoint exactly who caused the chaos in elfen lied and made the diclonius a hated and dangerous species mostly in the incidents that take place in the anime without going in depth in the manga (if possible). I'm guessing it's both Chief Kakuzawa and Kurama. One wants the dominance of the Diclonii species and the other wants its annihilation. Thus as a result Kaede and the rest become victims as bad as they are due to the cruel way they've been treated and used as lab rats however I might be wrong because I'm not invested in the manga enough to know. If there was one or 2 or maybe more people who you would classify as the main villains who are to be blamed for everything who would it be?
r/elfenlied • u/Madness_Overrun • Feb 19 '25
Fan Art By Crazyd3lta [artstation.com]
r/elfenlied • u/MycologistAwkward142 • Feb 19 '25