Elfen Lied

LUCY RULEZ!Too bad its another short lived anime.

*sigh* this is to anyone who said "they need to continue this series"

elfen lied IS NOT BIG IN JAPAN! it was not popular on it's anime release and the chances of them continuing is slim to nil....

jus so people don't think im jus sayin this cos i dun like the series

Elfen Lied is one of the best animes ever made, yes the end was left short but compared to the mangas end i prefer it 100%

AGREED. THE MANGA KILLED ME INSIDE. It was the most beautiful manga I've ever read. And yes, the anime was a little short, and the ending wasn't even close to the manga ending (in terms of awesomeness). Also, WHY THE FUCK WOULD THERE BE A SEQUEL? WHAT IF THEY MADE A SEQUEL TO FORREST GUMP? IT WOULDN'T WORK. An ending is an ending. Fish.

Yeah elfen lied is in my top 5 animes. It was touching and heartbreaking, truly a wonderful anime.

It was an entertaining show, but I wouldn't consider it in any way being deserving of a place in top (numerical) anime of all time.

Yes this show was quite amazing. It was very sad though. Very sad, but all and all it was a marvelous piece of work and its something worth watching. But it definitely isn't for the faint of heart.

Definitely ones of my favorites, all the themes were put together very nicely. Although I agree that the anime was a bit rushed.

This was one of the first animes that I ever watched. It's an absolute classic and is one my most favorites. I only wished that the anime wasn't rushed as it much as it neared the end =\

exactly this deserved at least 24 episodes and/or anothe seaon.

I've read the manga after watching the anime, and it brought me to tears TT^TT

LUCYYYYYY!!!!

LUCY is MOE/YANDERE.

Don't dare make LUCY angry.XD Nice anime. Very bloody.

This is one of my favourite series too out of all the ones I've seen (Spice and Wolf is still my favourite), and I think it'll continue to be so, because not only do you have a very human story of self-destruction and hatred begetting hatred, but you've then got multiple other story threads running around, such as diclonius instinct vs personality (hell Lucy/Nyuu was a literal embodiment of this), along with the various romantic sub plots and everything else going on.

Layfon's summary a few pages back is a good summary of the ending, although I do think it misses a few bits which are relatively important, after all Lucy becoming a murderer was because she stopped resisting her instinct and nature, her later Lucy personality is basically a raw amalgam of her negative emotions and instinct, whilst Nyuu could be seen as her humanity, which was pushed aside for a large part of her life because everyone close to her had either betrayed her, was dead, or worse...Nana's unwillingness to fight for a large part of the series and general personality showed that the Diclonius all have this dark side, but dependant on thier nature and nurture they could over come it, however humanities atttitude towards them resulted in a cycle of betrayal and destruction :) but hey, more fun if people watch the series.

The ending did feel a bit rushed, but given the state of the manga at the time (and by all accounts the manga is even MORE fucked up at the end), I think they probably did close to as good as they could do, even if that shadow left the ending on a completely ambiguous note.