Well I was thinking more on the lines of making GAFers watch it rather than the producer's intention. I mean I haven't seen anyone watching it for years and now there's been about 73 reviews for it in the span of two thread.
Y'know I didn't say it the first time but it doesn't seem cool to have a pic of a girl with her limbs severed embedded in a post. It's pretty disturbing even if it isn't extremely gory. I'm not a fan of boobage, but if that can't be posted this probably shouldn't be either.
I give this anime a 2/10 only for the soundtrack. While watching this I found nothing redeemable about any of it. After every episode I thought to myself, "Do I really want to watch more of this shit?" and it was a slog to get through. Never have I watched an anime where I actively thought while watching that I just want it to stop.
Y'know I didn't say it the first time but it doesn't seem cool to have a pic of a girl with her limbs severed embedded in a post. It's pretty disturbing even if it isn't extremely gory. I'm not a fan of boobage, but if that can't be posted this probably shouldn't be either.
Cool, female shaggy. This is the female version of Welcome to the NHK but with legit friends rather than a talking fridge. The opening song was fantastic, all of those references touched my nerdy heart. Hell I got super excited to see someone other than KOEI recognize The Romance of the Three Kingdom.
I was also reminded last night that I need to continue Space Bros. I randomly stopped post-exam (mid 30s).
Well I was thinking more on the lines of making GAFers watch it rather than the producer's intention. I mean I haven't seen anyone watching it for years and now there's been about 73 reviews for it in the span of two thread.
Cool, female shaggy. This is the female version of Welcome to the NHK but with legit friends rather than a talking fridge. The opening song was fantastic, all of those references touched my nerdy heart. Hell I got super excited to see someone other than KOEI recognize The Romance of the Three Kingdom.
I was also reminded last night that I need to continue Space Bros. I randomly stopped post-exam (mid 30s).
Cool, female shaggy. This is the female version of Welcome to the NHK but with legit friends rather than a talking fridge. The opening song was fantastic, all of those references touched my nerdy heart. Hell I got super excited to see someone other than KOEI recognize The Romance of the Three Kingdom.
I was also reminded last night that I need to continue Space Bros. I randomly stopped post-exam (mid 30s).
Wonderful. I started picking up more film this year so I could get a better handle on things when watching anime and it's always so interesting to see how heavily one work can influence another. I suppose I'll keep in mind that I should give Metropolis a go before the next time time I watch The Big O which I've wanted to get back to since this post in 2012.
Cool, female shaggy. This is the female version of Welcome to the NHK but with legit friends rather than a talking fridge. The opening song was fantastic, all of those references touched my nerdy heart. Hell I got super excited to see someone other than KOEI recognize The Romance of the Three Kingdom.
I was also reminded last night that I need to continue Space Bros. I randomly stopped post-exam (mid 30s).
a) It really is anything but the female version of NHK. In fact, and I don't think it's a spoiler to say this, it's a show that unfortunately amounted to nothing other than a commercial for the manga.
b) Space Bros gets immeasurably better after that point.
It was much easier to watch it weekly with everyone else. Though you do have an advantage of not having to wait for a certain storyline to conclude because they stretched it over so many months.
It was much easier to watch it weekly with everyone else. Though you do have an advantage of not having to wait for a certain storyline to conclude because they stretched it over so many months.
Wonderful. I started picking up more film this year so I could get a better handle on things when watching anime and it's always so interesting to see how heavily one work can influence another. I suppose I'll keep in mind that I should give Metropolis a go before the next time time I watch The Big O which I've wanted to get back to since this post in 2012.
That was an arc that was sooooo badly paced. I think the fact that they basically redid the arc in the second year but that it came off much better shows the growth of the mangaka over time.
It's another lapsed hobby as I used to watch so much then just stopped for whatever reason. I was just glad to have some sort of reason to pick it back up. It more or less took over as the primary hobby this year.
That was an arc that was sooooo badly paced. I think the fact that they basically redid the arc in the second year but that it came off much better shows the growth of the mangaka over time.
a) It really is anything but the female version of NHK. In fact, and I don't think it's a spoiler to say this, it's a show that unfortunately amounted to nothing other than a commercial for the manga.
b) Space Bros gets immeasurably better after that point.
That's a bummer. From afar, it reminded me of that show so much. How is the manga of Jellyfish then?
I actually loved the exam portion of Space Bros, but reading that it gets even better, I now have to shuffle Hunter X Hunter, LOTGH, and Space Bros. Farewell, Social Life.
You can watch films to appreciate other films. Hell, all of the expressive arts tend to draw from each other and some have had notable impacts on culture and society, which is why literature is a part of a standard education.
I give this anime a 2/10 only for the soundtrack. While watching this I found nothing redeemable about any of it. After every episode I thought to myself, "Do I really want to watch more of this shit?" and it was a slog to get through. Never have I watched an anime where I actively thought while watching that I just want it to stop.
Taken from EP4 impressions
TLDR: This anime is bloody awful. If you have any intention of watching this look at yourself in the mirror then slap yourself on the face.
That's a bummer. From afar, it reminded me of that show so much. How is the manga of Jellyfish then?
I actually loved the exam portion of Space Bros, but reading that it gets even better, I now have to shuffle Hunter X Hunter, LOTGH, and Space Bros. Farewell, Social Life.
Everything after the moon arc is great, even if it is basically From Earth to the Moon x October Sky x Apollo 13 x whatever space thing you can think of. lol
I'll agree that the song was okay but when taken in the context of the anime it comes off as pretentious crap that's trying to achieve a deeper meaning where there is none.
I never read the manga, but the anime was a let down in my eyes.
Space Bros is worth watching through anyway!
Everything after the moon arc is great, even if it is basically From Earth to the Moon x October Sky x Apollo 13 x whatever space thing you can think of. lol
Really? While the cod-classical song is perhaps an acquired taste (and a little pretentious, perhaps, given the content of the show itself), I've always admired the OP's visuals for the re-appropriation of Gustav Klimt artwork. That's my kind of reference porn
I understand the "so bad it's good" ( heck i recently watched blade and soul ) but elfen lied isn't even near this category.
Everything that remain in my memory is "Avoid at all cost" so IMo it's not even worth the light jokes at how stupid it is.
I understand the "so bad it's good" ( heck i recently watched blade and soul ) but elfen lied isn't even near this category.
Everything that remain in my memory is "Avoid at all cost" so IMo it's not even worth the light jokes at how stupid it is.
Aww I liked your avatar. I remember watching elfen lied the day before one of my exams. Was a deep experience (at the time). Haven't seen that many deaths in an anime before
I'll agree that the song was okay but when taken in the context of the anime it comes off as pretentious crap that's trying to achieve a deeper meaning where there is none.
Yeah I'm in the moon arc (maybe I'm further then). It's the most exciting the show has been for sure. I really enjoyed the characters, easily the best aspect of the show. Just have to eventually get back to it but I have so many western shows my friends want me to catch up with the latest season (tmnt, house of cards, archer, sons of anarchy, justified, the bridge) and finish the wire that it'll be a while.
"Uguu" is just an infantile vocalization used by a character in the show Kanon. It's been mocked as a prototypical example of what's bad about anime.
As for moe, it has no meaning that's been nailed down, but it's largely to do with the reaction invoked by characters that are weak or incompetent to the point of cuteness and needing protection.
Where to begin... I already did a rant on how awful this anime was for my episode four impressions but I suppose I should wrap things up with my final impressions.
Elfen Lied translates from German to Elven Song. Elves are seen in old Germany as evil and deceptive creatures that take advantage of humans. In some Scandinavian lore elves whisper to children as the murder them. They were creatures to be feared and were nothing like the modern day interpretations such as Legolas. However, the mutant creatures found in this anime are nothing like the elves of German lore so this title makes absolutely no sense.
Kouta is our lead protagonist in this story. He is the hero this anime deserves but not the one it needs. He is our watchful protector, a dark knight. He is first introduced as the thoughtful guy who takes naked pink haired girls with cat ears who can only make one noise home to look after them. Not long after that, he is accepting girls into his home left and right. He sees this as a way to make up for his dark past... where is sister and father are brutally murdered
by the same pink haired girl he takes in.
Not only has he completely forgotten who murdered them but he then falls in love with the one who murdered them after remembering who had killed them. This moron is crazy and his personality is as likeable as a wet paper bag. He is so drab and dull and most of his dialogue consists of yelling out pink haired girl's ridiculous name. He has to be the worst protag in any anime I have seen so far.
Yuka is Kouta's cousin who been in love with him since childhood (wtf?!). When they both first been pink haired girl she is not only eager to help her but encourages Kouta to take her home with them. Afterwards any time pink haired girl shows any form of attraction or desire towards Kouta she becomes extremely jealous and takes it out on him physical or emotionally. Not content with being jealous over one girl, she is the one who pushes Kouta to continue to take more into his home. Her character infuriated me as she continued to do the "take them home then get mad" bit throughout the whole series. Other than the over the top jealousy she is complete fool who will do anything for dull protag and declare absolutely hideous lines like the one above. If she had been killed instead of Kouta's sister this anime would be better for it.
Pink haired girl is the last "main" protagonist of the series. She is introduced as an absolute killing machine with no emotion and murders without discretion. As soon as she leaves her prison, she is reduced to snivelling idiot who can only make one noise. She is completely incapable of doing anything herself and depends on protag to get changed, feed herself and bath herself. However, when she takes a small bump on the head she suddenly reverts back to her killer self. The process of this split personality made absolutely no sense. The Nyu character was not endearing with her pink hair and her "cute" noises but painful and infuriating to watch.
The dialogue and writing in this anime is atrocious. We get hilarious dialogue as seen above several times through out the anime. The situations and events to explain pink haired girl's tragic past were so over the top that it was completely unbelievable and embarrassing. You can tell the writers are trying to be taken seriously with their grim dark, tragic heroine's back story but we get children who beat puppies to death, adults who knock kids over in a crowded festival then proceed to yell at them afterwards and inner monologues that make absolutely no sense. They tried to accomplish an edgy, depressing story but fail utterly in almost every aspect.
This anime is extremely graphic in both violence and nudity. In both the OP and ED there is full frontal female nudity for almost the whole 1:30 of it. In almost every episode, one of the many female characters displays their chest for all to see. Not only is it the older mature girls who get treated this way, but the younger child characters as well. All I could do was shake my head in disgust as to what I was watching. The violence was complete and utter nonsense. We have decapitations, implosions, eye ball gouging, castration, breaking bones, animal beating and pools and pools of blood. This has to be the goriest anime I have seen and none of it was entertaining in the least. It was over the top violence for violence's sake.
I think I have seen enough anime now to say that the animation in this was pretty bad. Character's mouths failed to move during some scenes where they are singing, movement was jerky and the overall aesthetic was displeasing to the eye. The pink haired mutant girls were hideous to look at and the design choice to have ruthless killers be moe has to be some sick joke. The sound design was serviceable. The voice acting was meh and the soundtrack was decent.
I give this anime a 2/10 only for the soundtrack. While watching this I found nothing redeemable about any of it. After every episode I thought to myself, "Do I really want to watch more of this shit?" and it was a slog to get through. Never have I watched an anime where I actively thought while watching that I just want it to stop.
Taken from EP4 impressions
TLDR: This anime is bloody awful. If you have any intention of watching this look at yourself in the mirror then slap yourself on the face.
I haven't since the manga ended, although maybe I'll pick it up sometime. Then again, I said that about Gintama and I haven't felt the need to read the manga of that either... that's laziness for ya.
I haven't since the manga ended, although maybe I'll pick it up sometime. Then again, I said that about Gintama and I haven't felt the need to read the manga of that either... that's laziness for ya.