Elfen Lied

==First watch (2007 probably)==
===Format===
In my Derwent dorm at York, in Japanese with subtitles, with Hayley
===Journal===
Shortly after I started at university one of my new friends, Hayley, recommended it and wanted to watch it with me. I was interested and we did so.
I was a bit shocked/fascinated by the gratuitous and frequent nudity (and its nature - nipples but totally blank crotches) and the fact that despite that Hayley had recommended it and we were watching it together. But I enjoyed it.
===Rating===
1 probably?
==Second watch (September 2016)==
===Format===
At home, Japanese with subtitles
===Journal===
Since first watching it it's always stayed in my head. For some reason the violent use of telekinesis really grips me :P However, I'd tried rewatching it a couple of times and, despite the awesome opening, the first episode quickly devolves into the antics of Kohta and 'Nyu' and the rest of his harem and I found it unwatchable.
In September 2016 I'd recently mentioned it to Luke and was wondering how adult it really was and whether he'd like it, so I skipped through the first episode watching the good bits and trying to get an impression of it again. Then I wanted to watch the next episode and I basically ended up watching the whole thing again.
I still hate the harem shit in anime. It's always the same - humble boy gets an ensemble of whiny, pathetic, crying, insecure, emotionally unstable girls all attaching themselves to him desperately. It's ridiculous and insulting and I can barely watch it and I don't know why it perpetuates. If anime didn't have that shit, I wouldn't be so set against calling myself an 'anime watcher'.
And overall the story and its execution weren't really that great. I enjoyed the telekinesis stuff, and dark Lucy, but pretty much everything else was really poor. The dragged out fights, the stupid characters, the entirely ineffective and yet supposed-to-be-intimidating hitman, the diclonius not just fucking killing each other when they get the chance. Etc.
===Rating===
0
Category:TV series watched in 2007
Category:TV series watched in 2016
Category:Japanese TV series
Category:Anime TV series
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