Nyu is a freakin Pokemon! XO
Hello my fellow Elfen Lied-ers *cough* :) So I said in a previous post that I hoped to get a dicussion going from each episode and give it a good honest critique from a non-biased otaku U_U Well after a week I finally got to finish watching episode one, Receipt. And since there will surely be spoilers all the way to the very end, this is always be under a cut =D
To start off, I always loved how every episode was named in Latin, but what always got me was how the episode title was always a little odd =/ Anyway the episode starts off with a very bloody scene, which was extremely bloody for the time it came out because if you want to compare it to anime today, the opening scene might not seem as bloody despite the buckets of blood all over the floor from the inept guard. After all, no show/movie is complete without the inept guards.
The first episode also introduces the first and pretty much only appearance of Kurama's assistant, Kisuragi. I actually felt really bad for her because she was so clumsy that it made it all the worse when she was quickly killed off by Lucy (full back-al nudity =X ). When you first hear her and the other office assistants chattering away in the kitchen you notice that Kurama (you'd have to assume it was him for reasons I'll add later) left Kisuragi several "memo"s about what not to do -_- I honestly thought she would have had at least a bigger role in the series. Now I was reading an article about the Special OVA episode that shed some light on some of the opening sequences. If you watched (not too closely because sitting too close the to tv makes you go blind) when Lucy had killed off all the guards and walked by Kurama without so much as a nod, she leaves a bloody handprint on his back =O Why didn't she kill him right there? Well if you don't want a spoiler- wait, this entire post is a spoiler so whatever. In episode 14 (not really episode 14) when he, being Kurama, is shown first capturing Lucy, the girl Lucy tried protecting dies in an effort to save Lucy's life. Kurama had promised Lucy that he would do everything he could to save the girls life but when she died Lucy promised Kurama that she wouldn't kill him but would take away everything that he loves just as he had taken everything away from her. End spoiler.
Now what had always bothered me was how Lucy could take a bullet, that's powerful enough to take out a tank, and only suffer from a split personality. And finally we are introduced to the main character, and ultimately the main love interest, Khota and his cousin Yuka. Personally I was always a Yuka fan. I'm sorry to cut my review here but before I have to I want to explain why I've concluded that Nyu is really a pokemon U_U The evidence, Nyu only says her name: "nyu nyu nu nu nyu nyu nu". A pokemon only speaks by repeatidly saying it's own name. "Pika pika pika pikachu!" U_U;
Thanks for taking time to read and hopefully we can get some good discussion going =D
To start off, I always loved how every episode was named in Latin, but what always got me was how the episode title was always a little odd =/ Anyway the episode starts off with a very bloody scene, which was extremely bloody for the time it came out because if you want to compare it to anime today, the opening scene might not seem as bloody despite the buckets of blood all over the floor from the inept guard. After all, no show/movie is complete without the inept guards.
The first episode also introduces the first and pretty much only appearance of Kurama's assistant, Kisuragi. I actually felt really bad for her because she was so clumsy that it made it all the worse when she was quickly killed off by Lucy (full back-al nudity =X ). When you first hear her and the other office assistants chattering away in the kitchen you notice that Kurama (you'd have to assume it was him for reasons I'll add later) left Kisuragi several "memo"s about what not to do -_- I honestly thought she would have had at least a bigger role in the series. Now I was reading an article about the Special OVA episode that shed some light on some of the opening sequences. If you watched (not too closely because sitting too close the to tv makes you go blind) when Lucy had killed off all the guards and walked by Kurama without so much as a nod, she leaves a bloody handprint on his back =O Why didn't she kill him right there? Well if you don't want a spoiler- wait, this entire post is a spoiler so whatever. In episode 14 (not really episode 14) when he, being Kurama, is shown first capturing Lucy, the girl Lucy tried protecting dies in an effort to save Lucy's life. Kurama had promised Lucy that he would do everything he could to save the girls life but when she died Lucy promised Kurama that she wouldn't kill him but would take away everything that he loves just as he had taken everything away from her. End spoiler.
Now what had always bothered me was how Lucy could take a bullet, that's powerful enough to take out a tank, and only suffer from a split personality. And finally we are introduced to the main character, and ultimately the main love interest, Khota and his cousin Yuka. Personally I was always a Yuka fan. I'm sorry to cut my review here but before I have to I want to explain why I've concluded that Nyu is really a pokemon U_U The evidence, Nyu only says her name: "nyu nyu nu nu nyu nyu nu". A pokemon only speaks by repeatidly saying it's own name. "Pika pika pika pikachu!" U_U;
Thanks for taking time to read and hopefully we can get some good discussion going =D