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Elfen Official Site
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Elfen Lied On AnimeNewsNetwork
Elfen Lied On AnimeNfo
German Song Lyrics
Gustav Klimt,the painter that originally made the opening art
Lillium [Opening] Lyrics
Be Your Girl [Ending] Lyrics


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Demographic:Seinen
Genres: Action, Horror,Psychological, Romance,Science Fiction

Elfen Lied (エルフェンリート, Erufen Rīto?) is the title of a Japanese manga series originally created by Japanese author Lynn Okamoto as well as a TV anime series based on it. Elfen Lied focuses on a mysterious and deadly breed of horned humans called "diclonius", and the havoc they wreak upon humanity. The title Elfen Lied is German for "Elf Song" (see Lied), and pronounced approximately [ˈɛlfən liːd], although the correct German spelling would be "Elfenlied".

Elfen Lied first began as a manga series, serialized in the magazine Weekly Young Jump and published in Japan by Shueisha, ending at the completion of the twelfth volume. An anime adaptation began airing in Japan on July 25, 2004 while the unfinished manga was still in production. This caused the anime plot to differ in some ways from the manga plot. A bonus OVA episode was released on April 21, 2005 giving some more background information.

So far, only the anime series spanning 13 episodes and the OVA have been licensed in the United States, by ADV Films. ADV Films said the series was one of their bestselling and "most notorious" releases of 2005. Elfen Lied and the character Nana were the inspiration for the popular Clone Manga fan-webcomic "Nana's Everyday Life" which has been completed and fully translated from English into 6 other languages.

Elfen Lied also has an excellent drawing style as well as the graphics.

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*Characters*

Kouta (コウタ or 耕太)

He is a 18 year-old student and one of the main characters of the series. Kouta enters the story when Yuka's family rents him a closed down inn as long as he maintains it, and begins living there while going to a university. Kouta has traumatic memories of the deaths of his father and sister, late in the series revealed to be by Lucy's hand, which he has repressed. Due in part to his loss, Kouta has a "soft-spot" for girls in trouble and is extremely generous and protective to the girls around him.

Yuka (ユカ)

She is Kouta's cousin[1] around his same age and lives with him at the inn. She is in love with Kouta, and is therefore jealous of Kouta's attention to Nyuu, to the point of being very irrational. Mayu once described her as the "mother" at Kaede House, and Kouta as the "father".
Note: Yuka's relationship with Kouta may be considered taboo or illegally incestuous by U.S. viewers, but marriage between cousins is not necessarily taboo in all cultures.Cousin marriage is not scandalous in Japan.

Lucy (ルーシー)

A teenage diclonius girl around 18 years old, Lucy has four vectors with a limited range of two meters.However, she can be swift and lethal within that range, and will use any nearby objects as high velocity projectiles to kill at greater distances. She is also capable of stopping or deflecting most standard ammunition when she concentrates on the task. Lucy hates humans mainly because of how she was treated by her human peers as a child. Consequently, she discounts non-diclonii, claiming they are not real people. She seems to lack empathy, kills without much concern, and acts somewhat sadistically. Despite this lack of concern for human life she will not harm Kohta and refrains from killing in his presence...most of the time, at least.

Nyuu (にゅう)

A split personality of Lucy that developed after an .50 BMG round ricocheted off a metallic helmet encasing her head. Nyuu has a childlike personality and infantile knowledge of the world, and lacks spoken language skills, only able to say "Nyu" and "Kouta" most of the time. Nyuu is innocent and incapable of violent acts, a foil to the normally cold and sadistic Lucy; she is the manifestation of her "good side". When Nyuu is attacked violently (or hit on the head), she regresses into Lucy; likewise, when Lucy is treated with love and kindness, or wants to hide herself from Kouta, she will uncontrollably switch back into Nyuu.

Nana (ナナ)

Also known as Number 7, she is a young Silpelit girl who has the physical appearance of being 12-14 years old (though because Silpelits age rapidly, she is actually only about 6 years old). Her name, 'Nana', is Japanese for the number seven, the number by which she was called at the research facility ("Nana" is also a fairly common female name in Japan). Most diclonius babies are euthanized at birth in sweeps of hospital maternity wards, but Nana was one of a handful kept alive for use as a test subjects; as a result she has spent her entire life in the diclonius research facility. Kurama sees her as his daughter and cares very much for her.Unlike many other Diclonius, because Kurama treated her with kindness, she is not homicidal or sadistic. She has the ability to temporarily disable other Diclonius' vectors by having her vectors go through their pineal gland.Nana's empathy for others does not allow her to fight as vigorously, and she loses her arms and legs when she is viciously dismembered by Lucy. With her vector arms, she is later able to manipulate prosthetic appendages and even throw them like a rocket punch.

Mayu(マユ)

Mayu is a young teenage girl of around fourteen years old. The viewer first meets Mayu when she arrives at the inn being inhabited by Kouta, Yuka and Nyuu to return an umbrella she found at the beach. Mayu is a homeless girl who subsists mostly on bread crusts from a bakery. Mayu became homeless when she ran away from home because her stepfather raped her several times and her own mother would not protect her, stating she preferred her new husband over her daughter. Her only friend until she meets Nana is a small puppy whom she refers to as Wanta. Kohta and Yuka take Mayu in; in both the manga and anime, she officially transfers into their care and goes to school in their area.

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