Elfen Lied

[thundrakkon]

Lesson of the day: "Don't be rude to little girls"

**Episode 9 Spoilers**

I was really excited today to see this episode. It was so cool to see little Kouta and Lucy. It looks like Lucy developed her split personality when she began to kill people, and it also looks like Lucy is the one that will kill Kouta's sister and father. Also, with Lucy asking Kouta to kill her, it looks like this series might end with Kouta killing her.

That was quite brave of them to be naked out in public, and quite bold of Lucy to hold him like that. Oh yeah, it was also wrong for Kouta to lie to Lucy about the gender of his cousin, or else she might not have gone over the edge.

I have to admit, Kouta's quite a player at his young tender age. I mean, he played with 3 separate girls. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img] I wonder why he wouldn't allow Lucy to go out with him and the others? Was he afraid that she'll know he is cheating on her? LOL

Next ep looks exciting with the rematch between Lucy and Nana. I didn't see a lot of blood when Lucy gathered with everyone, so hopefully Nana escapes this encounter, too.

**End Spoilers**

Arrrggghhhh... I'll need to wait another week for the next episode.

[Munsu]

so what would be the correct one? Elfin or Elven...

because if not mistaken one of them is like Legolas while the other one is like a prixie

[Eurasian]

i think legolas is elven.

ep 9 spoiler****************
3 girls...what do u mean? just two. unless u count his sister which would be even more digusting than his cousin.

i love how she kills ppl just to use their shower. that's awesome.

that boy she killed in ep 8...walking around...headless!!! that was creepy.

finally lucy woke up. god, i love her. she's so goddamn awesome. the next epi looks good. LUCY HUGS KOUTA!!!!!
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i kno how u feel thundrakkon. they gotta stop w/ these cliffhangers. it's killing me.

[hikaru004]

Don't you think that there is something weird about Kouta's memory loss? He's done it twice now. Do you think that he is also doing a Nyuu/Lucy thing on a smaller scale?

If he had just been honest in the beginning all of this might have been avoided.

[Munsu]

I dont think so.... I think Lucy would have been mad anyways.... She would have been dissapointed in the first place that the cousing was female... and her internal voice would have made her kill... there was no avoiding it...

[Eurasian]

kouta lost his memory twice?? someone refresh my memory. right now i can only think of how he has forgotten about lucy. or r u talking about forgetting about going to the fair w/ his cousin.

kouta only lied to make her feel better. how did he know that lucy was going to following him.

[Munsu]

Yeah... i was thinking the same thing... he lied to her to make her feel better not because he had the intention of lying to her because he was doing something mischivious...

He lost his memory from his childhood... and also from when Lucy killed the doctor (although I think he somehow remembers some of that)

[animefreak]

where u guy dl Elfen Lied? i only dl from animsuki so i don't really know about this anime. Some link would help, thanks.

[Munsu]

just use www.mirkx.com everything is posted there

also use baka-updates.com

[hacks21]

whats the best group to download from ?

[Ryllharu]

Originally posted by: hacks21
whats the best group to download from ?

Anime-fin, no question.


As for eps 9, Here's what I don't get. After Kouta lied to Lucy, she went crazy, but in the present, she gets just as jealous of anyone around Kouta, when she's Nyuu OR psycho-killer-Lucy. But she never kills anyone he knows personally. It seems pretty obvious that she forgave him for lying to her, but the question is WHY? It seems pretty clear she never wants him to see her seriously hurt anyone either, no matter how angry or jealous she gets.

It seems she wants him to forgive HER for something, he has blocked out of his memory. She keeps saying she doesn't deserve to be with him. What on earth did she do that was bad enough for Kouta to block it out, and for her to want his forgiveness that badly? I have an idea or two, but I'd rather hear other opinions first.

[Munsu]

Well it is obvious what she did to kouta... she killed off his whole family... if not at least his sister

[thundrakkon]

I am pretty sure that she killed Kouta's father and sister... well, at least she was involved with it in some way... This show has continually surprised me, so it is possible that what we expect might not actually be the case. What I can remember is that there was supposed to be a train accident.

Yuka, Kouta's cousin, does not remember Lucy but remembers everything else. If that is the case, then Lucy must have made her move after they started to leave, so it might not be a direct assault on Kouta's family.

[Munsu]

Yep... I was thinking something along those lines...

But im pretty sure that when she kills (if she kills) Kouta's sister it will be something more one to one than just simply causing a train crash...

[Eurasian]

i think yuka doesn't remember lucy is probably because she never met her. maybe she did but i would think she would remember. well i think kouta probably saw his father or sister or both die but it was so traumatizing that he probably blocked it from his memories. remember how he said that he doesn't remember that day at the festival very well...maybe that's why. maybe someone already brought that up, but that's just what i think.

[Swallow Your Soul]

*****spoilers for ep 9 - but at this part of the thread about 99% of the posts are about the plot anyway, besides, most people have seen it by now [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]********

Again I watched the ep dead late, though I'm kinda glad seeing as the cliffhanger will be resolved sooner (only to bring on another cliffhanger). Its so irritating how it just ends right when something cool is gonna happen [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]. As always, I hope Nana doesn't die (it still sounds weird calling a cute anime character that, I know her name is Japanese for 7, but where I live (Manchester, England) 'Nana' is another name for 'Grandmother' [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]).

I liked that episode as it featured little of Yuka who kinda does my head in, the paranoid-schizophrenic-hallucination bit was pretty cool. Some parts of the artwork during Lucy's murderous scenes remind me of Hellsing for some reason...

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One miniscule detail I interested in knowing, how is 'Lied' pronounced? Leed? Lyde/Lied? It usually irritates me when I'm not sure how to pronounce a name... [img]i/expressions/rolleye.gif[/img]

[Eurasian]

i pronounce it "leed." well that's just me.

...grandma...hahahaha...yah it would be pretty weird.

[thundrakkon]

The voice over for the previews pronounce it as Leed, but then again, it is a Japanese accent, so I don't really know. I pronounce it both ways, but prefer lyde because of the spelling. Maybe Terra's reference with l33t may have something to do with this...

Actually, Swallow Your Soul, I think most of the Elfen Lied episodes have many interesting parts. They pack so much in each episode, that if it ends at any point in the episodes now, it would be a sort of cliffhanger. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

What I want to know now is what happened to Lucy from the time she was a child to where she is now. From the previews, it looked like they killed another Diclonius that looks similar to Lucy and Nana. I don't know how they are going to pack the rest of the story into the next 3 episodes. *sigh* I want more!!!

[Munsu]

For some reason i thought that the Diclonius that was getting beaten up was Lucy herself... I might be wrong though....

[thundrakkon]

That Diclonius in the preview looked like it was missing a chunk of it's head, so I don't think it was Lucy. I could be wrong myself. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]