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Elfen Lied

Original title: エルフェンリート

If only they didn't share the same body!

2004 · TV-MA · 1 season · 13 episodes

8.3

TMDB audience score
1,506 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murder most of the guards in the laboratory, only to get shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives and manages to drift along to a beach, where two teenagers named Kouta and Yuka discovers her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the evil "Lucy" is not dead just yet...

About 5h 25m to watch every episode. An estimate: 13 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 25 minutes.

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Main cast

  • Chihiro Suzuki
    Kouta (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Sanae Kobayashi
    Lucy / Nyuu (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Hiroaki Hirata
    Professor Kakuzawa Yu (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Hitomi Nabatame
    Kouta (child) / Shirakawa (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Jouji Nakata
    Bandou (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Kinryu Arimoto
    Chief Kakuzawa (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Maria Yamamoto
    Kanae (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Osamu Hosoi
    Kurama (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Tomoko Kawakami
    Mariko (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Yuki Matsuoka
    Nana (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Eriko Ishihara
    Arakawa (voice)
    13 episodes

  • Mamiko Noto
    Yuka (voice)
    13 episodes

Seasons