Anime: Elfen Lied

The mouth of the righteous shall meditate wisdom
and his tongue shall speak of the trial.
Blessed is he who suffers temptation,
after being tested will receive the crown of life.
- "Lillium"

A bloody arm, recently freed from a body, looks of fear and misunderstanding. Blood on every wall of what looks like a dark bunker. Violencia. There are a lot of violence.

Doors that give way to a woman. She wears a helmet and nothing else. The prison plate that covers his entire head, the prison at a secret to discover.

The young dismembered, literally and figuratively, every attempt to stop it. The gait is slow, unrestrained. Immune to bullets one escapes death, but a man, Kurama. He yells "Do not, Lucy!".

With the cliff a few inches and the sea and the moon in front of her, a bullet to break his helmet. Unconscious falls. Began an intense, ruthless search operation. But it was hours after Kouta and Yuka, a couple of teenagers in the city of Kamakura, find it. Lucy Lucy is no longer, the cold killer, but Nyuu, his alter ego and childish innocence.

Dark days to come.

Nyuu Lucy-o-is a human being of a different race and dangerous: the diclonius. Beings characterized by the pair of horns sprouting from his head, hence its name, and its capacity for slicing as invisible within their reach. Of course, Lucy is not the only one of its kind. This is followed by others, such as happy Nana, No. 7, its rival.

That we do not see the diclonius serves well as a metaphor for our thoughts, our nature when it is violent, uncontrolled and irrational. The horns could be trauma, scars from a past that is behind us, the mark that distinguishes us from others. (If no cure is called forgiveness, or metta bhavana , in Buddhist terms.)

Elfen Lied be worthwhile to listen Lilium , the song in Latin that opens each of its 13 chapters, see the pertinent references to the paintings of Gustav Klimt, Der Kuss , in particular, also very well done scenes, but painful along the series.

Otherwise I think in certain situations Elfen Lied falls into the trap of exaggeration, in pushing a violence without substance, purely visual, repetitive. Much of the time the characters lack depth and become simple, common to any other series. In terms of animation is acceptable given that it was conducted in 2004.

Elfen Lied is an Anime to be enjoyed with a critical eye, taking care not to needlessly surrender to despair and terror. But hey, that's everyone's choice.

If you have any recommendations for anime that you think complex, special and / or technology, you can come to me in the comments, I have a list, really, "or @ alanlzd , where they say they always say (say).

Anime: Elfen Lied written ALT1040 April 28, 2011 alan.lazalde
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