I'm thinking of watching Elfen Lied

Is it worth my time?

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No

Just watch the first episode and the Opening
Drop it there.

Only really worth it if you LOVE edgy stories and shounen romcoms.

That's about right.

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Watch it all and don't listen to what anyone else in this thread says. It's the best anime ever created and no one can refute that fact for if they do they are fags

Why would we know?
Who are you?
What else do you like?
Think for yourself, faggot or go back to the hi/v/emind.

I liked Serial Experiments Lain and Evangelion, is it anything like that?

If you like the greatest love story of all time it is.
Not necessarily.
Elfen Lied is like that picture suggests: the main character is sad and suffered a lot, also a serial killer who kills without remorse, but is really sad.

It's full of gore, sadness and it's a fairly interesting story because it mostly doesn't really have “protagonists” or “antagonists”, just characters that often oppose each other's interest.

It's okay. It's not as edgy as people made it out to be but the writing is also quite terrible, especially in the manga. If you like a sappy tragic love story, watch the 13 episodes. Takes like 4-5 hours tops if you watch them back to back.

Badou is based.

It's OK, but you're better off reading the manga. Or watch the anime, and then continue the manga. Story gets pretty good in the end.

Well, it toches themes of solitude, aceptance and discrimination with (imo) a nice done melancholy effect. But there is also serious gore there, sometimes in the most touching moments, I think that it was done for contrast.

Look watch a couple of episodes and if it picks you interest continue, otherwise just drop it.

I thought some of the darker moments were too much to be believable, like when those preschoolers tortured a puppy to death purely out of malice, it was trying too hard to be edgy

What's wrong with the writing?
It doesn't really have any major plot holes but it's not a super brilliant plot either.
It mostly has interesting themes and characterizations.

It's of course one huge coincidence that Lucy meets Kouta again like that, but that's it.

It was hilarious that they did not show the puppy being bludgeoned and that happened behind a table.
This is one of the most viscerally goring series out there but apparently showing a cute puppy being bludgeoned was too much.

yes, but I don't value your time

Well, most of the people who get gored kind of have it coming. ESPECIALLY those kids.

No they didn't.
Lucy mass murdered at a random festival and random residents of houses to find a place to stay.

yes

It's an edgefest for the sake of being an edgefest. If that sounds like fun, then yes.

yeah

Well, 13 year old me liked it and I still like even 8 years later, so make of that what you will.

You'll love it or hate it there's no in-between
If you love it check out the manga once you finish
Most of the shit taste fags on this board love to hate it

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The source was far worse than the adaptation but did explain some things better which had to be rushed due to time constraints in the adaptation.

Source is haremfaggotry with too much groping fan-service; thankfully they cut that out as well as one character that seemed to only exist to fall in love with Kouta.

It's a 5/10. Watch it casually for the history, the memes, and the OP.

>Is it worth my time?
You spend your time shitposting in here so your time is worthless.
Go watch anime instead, retard.

For ultra violence, tits, and tragedy, give it a whirl.

go watch it

Why did Elfen lie?

>It doesn't really have any major plot holes but it's not a super brilliant plot either.
The writing is hack-tier. Lots of minor inconsequential characters are used and killed off
>Haha, you thought you were alone? I fucked your mom and gave birth to a dioclonius son, see look at your brother who will rule the world now
>*gets killed off in the next panel after being introduced the panel before*
Then there's the fact that Lucy/Kaede's character redemption is pointless because her dna voice is the real psychopath monster or some other bullshit. The last half of the manga after the Enoshima bridge incident was stupid.

It's sort of like kill la kill in that the only decent parts of it are the tits

People deserved to die.