Anime : What does the escapist think about Elfen Lied?

[l3o2828]

You see, i was requested to write a review about it, it's finished.
But, i wont post it yet, i just wanted to look at peoples opinions before posting it, i might find some new perspectives about it.
My opinion still stands but i would like to aknowledge several perspectives just to make my overall understanding of this thing richer.

 

[Charles McGuffin]

Boring. Too much useless gore.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

It was cool, not a masterpiece but I enjoyed it.

 

[Thaius]

A very intriguing and well-made anime. One of the more thematically mature I've ever seen, and there was pretty intense tension due to the fact that pretty much any character could randomly be bloodily ripped apart with no warning at almost any time; you never really knew anyone was safe.

Unfortunately, its main downfalls were the nudity (sometimes it was understandable, or even helpful to the artistic design of the plot, but a lot of times it was just shameless fanservice) and the fact that it just decided to stop halfway through the source manga's story, adding it to the huge, huge, HUGE pile of anime with disappointing endings. Seriously, I don't understand how only a few anime I know of actually ended in a complete, satisfying way.

 

[l3o2828]

It was cool, not a masterpiece but I enjoyed it.

It would be nice if you explained why.
<.<
just sayin'

 

[Zetsubou^-^]

i liked it, but yeah, it ended 1/2-1/3 of the way through the actual story, and changed a few key things.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I haven't read the Manga, but I did watch the anime. It was alright, a bit gory for me. Didn't appreciate what I deem the, 'The puppy part'; but maybe I am just overly sensitive to that sort of thing. However, I absolutely adore the theme song.

 

[Mariakko]

Was a good anime but it ended badly because of the anime caught up with the manga, so they decided to end it.

 

[l3o2828]

I found it annoying. Violence and nudity for the sake of it, basically.

Plus, killing innocent bystanders without any clear motive is just fucking stupid, irrespective of any bullshit reason like "I HAZ NO FREYNDS OR PAYRUNTS HURRRR".

This sums up my opinion in a terribly broad way.

If you really want to know, i think the anime is bad, truly bad, like dispassionate mediocrity.
All i'm trying to find is why people think it's a good anime.
Animations fine but it gets a little meh around the time the second effin episode starts, but the soundtrack, characters, writting and overall plot are incredibly slapdashed many characters just killing because 'Oh i have a genome that makes me kill humans' or ' I am evil what do you expect?' and while it could work on some cases Elfen lied is just badly written making those poorly written drama examples into an even more laughable mess of tits, panty shots and violence.

And really, Persona 4 the animation is a much more adult anime than Elfen lied and that is sort of a shonen series.
It's about people confronting themselves with a huuuuge Psychological reserach background behind it and some truly sincere commentaries on society.
Elfen lied it's the same kind of adult as The Witcher or some other dark fantasy etc.
Yeah characters dont cuss but the ammount of nudity and blood just kind of make it a little distasteful and adults wouldn't watch this because theorically they are smart enough to find something that actually is deep and mature as them, oooor they could just watch much more lighthearted shows for catharsis.

The anime isn't even sad for me, it's just infuriating how it expects us to feel symphatetic of the main character when her flimsy as hell backstory is supposed to be roughtly 80% of her response to being asked 'why do you kill so many people'.
I could go on but none of you will read this...

 

[SteewpidZombie]

Meh, it was okay. I found it wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. I would've enjoyed it more if they had focused on character development a tad bit more and less on gore at every chance.

I found that the characters were easy to understand, but they didn't really have any diverse plot points aside from 'Lead Male', 'Lead Female', 'Secondary Cast #1, #2, #3, ect', and 'People who get brutally killed in bloody ways #1 through #8974637 and so fourth'. Sure I might be over-exaggerating the show, but I found that it was too narrow driven on it's violence to be overly fantastic. Also I would have liked to see a more complex story aside from 'Crazy killer chick goes mental and slaughters people after being pushed around for her whole life, and some other stuff about experiments and blah blah blah *kill kill, gore gore*'...

I give it 6 decapitated heads out of 10

 

[Gemore]

dark but i loved it. induced Schadenfreude ( i/&#712;&#643;&#593;&#720;d&#601;nfr&#596;&#618;d&#601;/ (German: [&#712;&#643;a&#720;d&#601;n&#716;f&#641;&#596;&#655;d&#601;]) is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others ) in me during the flashback when we see her first use her powers. Over the top? i can see the arguments for that, but i apreciete the fac that it doesn't give a fluff about taboos.

 

[FortheLegion]

To much gore for my tastes. Needs more light heartedness...

 

[Gemore]

Elfen lied it's the same kind of adult as The Witcher or some other dark fantasy etc.

gah i really hope you have read the books. but im assuming you haven't. They are really good, but i would call it dark fantasy done right..

 

[BX3]

Was thinking of trying it from my library, heard bad things, decided against it. But the manga... oooh, man. It's somewhere in my Top 10. Good story, well rounded characters, a main antagonist near the end that I hated with every fiber of my being, and a satisfying ending. Not overly depressing, not sunshine-and-rainbows. Pretty good in my book and to this day remains one of my favorites.

The art was meh, though.

 

[l3o2828]

Elfen lied it's the same kind of adult as The Witcher or some other dark fantasy etc.

gah i really hope you have read the books. but im assuming you haven't. They are really good, but i would call it dark fantasy done right..

No sorry i've only played the games.

And yeah i agree it's not done well, that's why i compared it to Elfen lied, because i think Elfen lied is a gritty dark mature anime done terribly bad.

 

[Beardly]

I watched the anime and I would laugh my ass off at the end credits of every episode. The show was so dark and sad but the song that played over the end credits was lighthearted and poppy. Then the preview would come up to tell you what depressing things would happen on the next episode.

 

[Tax_Document]

It tried too hard and frankly, turned me off Anime completely.

 

[duowolf]

It's an enjoyable anime, the manga is miles better as it goes into more detail and has a real ending unlike the animes which kinda cut of in the middle of the story.