Is Elfen Lied worth watching?

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It's a goddamn shitstain. Look into any elfen lied comment section and you'll find it filled with wrist slashing fucks whinging about how humans are monsters because nobody accepts them. The whole message behind Elfen Lied is that nothing is ever your fault, it's the people who were mean to you in your childhood, and so it justifies your behaviour so long as you're not too ugly and remember to act cute once in a while. Nonetheless, pretentious overgrown emos jerk this off like no tomorrow because this is the only way they can prove to their parents that anime isn't just for children when instead they've made themselves look like precocious children which is even worse. Misanthropy is pathetic and cowardly, and pretending that it's somehow "new and original" is a new extreme for wilful ignorance. When you want to feel like you're persecuted by your peers yet at the same time feel like you're inherently superior to them for arbitrary reasons, go ahead and stroke one out for Elfen Lied. This kind of mindset was what fostered Alex Mahan's approach to life.

Elfen Lied fans have the megalomaniacal narcissism of Moviebob, the self pity of Yanderedev, the emotional chutzpah of Dobson, and the persecution complex of Russel Greer.
 
waffle dijo:
It's like catcher in the rye or NGE, it's only good if you experience it for the first time at the right time in your life.
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I think it is very much this. I love Elfen Lied but I was a pre-teen when it came out and to a 12 year old me it was amazing. 15 years later I know it isn't high art but it still resonates well with me, probably in part due to a sort of nostalgia.
 
Eryngium dijo:
Watched it years and years ago, didn't the main characters cousin also get raped by her uncle or something? Happy shit.
Puppy scene really stuck with me, Elfen Lied was probably a bad choice for a starter anime for a like 12 year old me.
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Old post, but it was actually the homeless loli character that was raped by her step-dad. And, Elfen Lied being the classy show it is, the molestation is shown on-screen. Not the first point in the show where I thought, "okay this is a bit much", but definitely one of them.

The show is...interesting, but in all the wrong ways. I guess that's the best way to put it. The show is needlessly edgy and transgressive, is filled with all kinds of fetishy content, is tonally all over the place, and the "moral of the story" is pretty ridiculous given the circumstances leading up to it.

It is a pretty amusing thing to throw at friends who like edgy, fucked up shit, since even they probably haven't seen too much that goes as far as Elfen Lied, particularly regarding children.
 
I liked Elfen Lied back in the day but I'm a sucker for that kind of dark and edgy fare.

Elfen Lied is pretty much peak 2000's edgelord, and it was one of those things that flopped over in Japan but it was briefly popular in America for a while. Someone else said that if you weren't at the right age at the right time when you first saw it, you probably wouldn't get why it was popular and I agree with that. It was over-the-top with the edge even by 2005 standards.
 
Orion Balls dijo:
I've seen enough anime to suspect that sadistic puppy/kitten murdering children are actually a common problem in Japan.
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The people who write these things learn about human interaction from otakus, who in turn learn them from otakus, eternally distorting their view of human nature, like chinese whispers except with an understanding of how people behave.

Damien Thorne dijo:
Brutal gore one scene, uwu look at how cute we can be weeb shit in the next scene, repeated for twelve episodes. Pick one tone and stick with it, for crying out loud!
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Elfen Lied is transgressive to the kind of people who have never been exposed to anything edgier than a hannah barbera cartoon. The slipshod juxtaposition of cuteness and violence stimulates a certain combination of neurons prevalent to people whose entire identities revolve around flipping off society. Being different for the sake of different and getting a real kick out of whining about how people don't accept your inherent worthiness. Because you don't like things that others like, you like things that two vastly different kinds of people apparently like. Desecrating the forced wholesomeness of Middle American society, yeah, that'll show 'em! Is it any surprise that I suspect SJWs never grew out of their emo phase?

All rants aside, the cuteness and gore add nothing to the story. Both are part of the most hamfisted attempt at emotionally manipulating the audience to root for the prettiest character. Why go to all the effort of actual characterization when you can throw the biggest possible pity party for whoever you're supposed to like?

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I liked Elfen Lied back in the day but I'm a sucker for that kind of dark and edgy fare.

Elfen Lied is pretty much peak 2000's edgelord, and it was one of those things that flopped over in Japan but it was briefly popular in America for a while. Someone else said that if you weren't at the right age at the right time when you first saw it, you probably wouldn't get why it was popular and I agree with that. It was over-the-top with the edge even by 2005 standards.
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What can I say? It was probably dubbed to capitalize on that market of limpdicked edgelords who were disappointed by the new millennium. People who were so fed up with being conflated with pokemon fans yet they couldn't get their hands on Urotsukidoji. All I can say is the influence of Elfen Lied runs deep in the zeitgeist today, and the sheer amount of damage it has done to the creatively bankrupt is unforgivable.
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This carebears turd of a man has just discovered suffering and its debilitating effects on people. "this shit happens in real life" no shit. Was every cartoon you watched before Elfen Lied for toddlers? We can't connect with bullshit representations of sadness happening for illogical reasons because there's no subtlety or nuance. Sadness exists, and we're used to it. We can't connect because human emotions have been reduced into tools that have worked flawlessly on your manipulable babybrained ass.

"Fail to connect with human emotion and tragedy" nah, i'm just a callous little bastard who has the ability to smell bullshit. There's no human emotion, no true tragedy, only a hollow mockery of it. And all you can see is the surface, because you don't think beyond it. You respond to stimuli, and that's all you can do. I have heartstrings stiffer than a nun's cunt because I prefer to ask myself why I feel that way about something. While to you, feelings are an end to themselves. If you lived in Brave New World, the insipid melodramatic feelies wouldn't be any problem for you.

"it again opened my eyes to how shady we as humans are" Dumb, retarded fuck. Do you watch the news? Have you seen every single piece of media shitting on mankind in an anemic attempt to seem deep? That's no groundbreaking discovery, you botched abortion, you mental midget. Everybody arrives at that astonishing revelation when they're twelve.

To a fan of Elfen Lied, a "complex" character is a morally repugnant character with hollow excuses and superficial charm. They view characters as representations of their own ego, and judge them by how flatteringly they reflect it. Don't get me started on the people who claim to relate to her. They go on and on about how deep and emotionally complex their series is, but never explain why.

Now, what valid, objective points did IZEROII make?
 
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This show is for losers who masturbate because no one was ever into them and their shame and humiliation and self-loathing eats away at inside them because they crave intimacy but can't find it, because nature was just against them, so they dream of magical women who will deliver them away from a life of mundane drudgery and give their lives meaning and purpose, something they crave but can never find.
 
Harbinger of Kali Yuga dijo:
This show is for losers who masturbate because no one was ever into them and their shame and humiliation and self-loathing eats away at inside them because they crave intimacy but can't find it, because nature was just against them, so they dream of magical women who will deliver them away from a life of mundane drudgery and give their lives meaning and purpose, something they crave but can never find.
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No, worse. They project themselves into innocent little girls because if they were to reflect upon themselves as the people they are without slapping on that facade they'd surely realize that most of their failings are their fault. They dream of being those magical women so they can take it out on the world they hate. The superpowers are to emphasize that they are more powerful, superior to everyone around them, and for that reason they can feel persecuted and supreme at the same time. They want intimacy, but also revenge.

It's so easy to blame others when you believe you can't do wrong. So by pretending to be a tormented eternal victim, you don't have to hold yourself accountable for anything.
 
Harbinger of Kali Yuga dijo:
This show is for losers who masturbate because no one was ever into them and their shame and humiliation and self-loathing eats away at inside them because they crave intimacy but can't find it, because nature was just against them, so they dream of magical women who will deliver them away from a life of mundane drudgery and give their lives meaning and purpose, something they crave but can never find.
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Don't get me wrong, Elfen Lied is pretty awful in its own right at face value and I only kinda like it because of nostalgia for when I was a twelve-year old edgelord. If you weren't an edgy young teen in the mid-late 2000's, then Elfen Lied pretty much has no value whatsoever.

Even when I was 13, I knew of even darker and edgier anime and watched live-action shows like The Shield that were better and more realistic with the 2000's edge but Elfen Lied is kinda amusing in the sense that it's probably about as close as we'll ever get to a Coldsteel: The Hedgehog adaptation.
 
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I merely watched the anime, and I turned out fine....

Oh, and there are Male Diiclonius in the anime, with the leader of the institute being one. The entire lesson of Elfin Lied is that there are both good and evil people, even if there is another alien species, and that stupidity is a major factor in life. Well, that's what I got out of it.
 
I thought the anime was great, but there was only one season, so prepare to be blueballed by it. The manga gets even stupider.
 
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