Yea i do agree that some of the nudity was used well.Imperator_DK said:I'd think that at least parts of it could be explained as an artistic choice underlining the fragility and vulnerability of the characters.Gigaguy64 said:...
But it wasn't used as anything other than Fanservice...Elfen Lied is violent, and has some nudity, especially in the first episode. It scares off posters like this one who can't understand how nudity can be anything other than sexual.
That's all it was there for.
And the bulk of it happened at really inappropriate times, ruining the mood and meaning the previous event might of had.
Not that the substantial majority of it wasn't unnecessary and part of at times creepy and fetishistic fanservice, but the nudity in itself wasn't completely without any other relevance in all scenes.
Like what moretimethansense posted, Lucy was chained up, naked and bloody after being recaptured(I think? its bee a while) and that did show how her captors viewed her as something lower than a human.
If the series had more like that, it would have been MUCH better, still not that great but better imo.
I completely agree with Gunslinger Girl.OT: Probably lots of bizarre fetishistic Hentai I wouldn't know of.
For more ordinary anime which could potentially fit "weird and creepy", Bludgeon Angel Dokuro-Chan, Umineko no Naku Koro ni (not to be confused with its excellent predecessor [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Higurashi-no-Naku-Koro-ni]), Gunslinger Girl (at least the overall idea, the execution is fairly harmless and the first season quite watchable [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/anime/6795-Anime-Review-Gunslinger-Girl]), and what's out of the second season of To aru Majutsu no Index so far. Not all of them are without merit, but they certainly have downsides of "weird & creepy" to them.
I watched a bit of it and loved it, but some parts were just creepy.
Like one of the younger girls asking the older Blond girl how a period feels, because she cant have one.
OT:Speed Grapher is also a pretty messed up anime.
But strangely it is enjoyable, it might be the fact that the mc can make people explode from taking their picture.
But its got plenty of bizarre fetish and just plain old creepy stuff to make you go wat.
EDIT:btw i like your new avatar, i really need to watch Gankutsuou.