Elfen Lied

Characters
  • Kouta

    Kouta

    Supporting

    Kouta is an acquaintance of Naos, and a chef. He often drops by to bring her food and ensure shes in good health. He has a crush on Nao and doesnt give up even if she claims not to reciprocate. After Hisako cooks for everyone once, Kouta jokingly declares...

  • Lucy

    Lucy

    Supporting

    Lucy is a 30-year-old Mandrake, who grew at the mouth of a cave behind Seinagi Private High School. She was picked by Taiga Kuzumi after he cried at another mandrake's death. She follows him around and helps on his adventures.Normally, the magic plates pr...

  • Mayu

    Mayu

    Main

    A young girl confined to a wheelchair and living in a castle with Prof Ichigo, she often appears to be either emotionless or angry. Mayu is able to see the guardian beasts and other spirits for who they are, sometimes she is the only one to sense somethin...

  • Nana (なな)

    Nana

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Nozomi (望)

    Nozomi

    Supporting

    A sickly girl who likes Ataru....

  • Yuka (ゆか)

    Yuka

    Supporting

    Yuka is Akanes friend....

  •  Arakawa (荒川)

    Arakawa

    Supporting

    She is a young researcher in her mid-20s who is also Professor Kakuzawas partner who works alongside him to create a vaccine in order to counter the threat of the Diclonius virus. She along with Kohta inadvertently discovered Professor Kakuzawas severed h...

  • Bandou (坂東)

    Bandou

    Supporting

    He is an operative in his mid-30s for the National Police Agencys Special Assault Team (SAT). Though he is fully human, he is as homicidal and apathetic to other people as the worst diclonius are. He is a hardy and effective soldier. After being maimed by...

  • Diana (ダイアナ)

    Diana

    Supporting

    Diana is the third of the feline characters to appear, though the circumstances of her introduction vary. In the manga, she first appears when the Senshi travel to the 30th century in Act 18. There, she is revealed as the child of Luna and Artemis, and wh...

  • Isobe

    Isobe

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Professor Kakuzawa (角沢)

    Kakuzawa Professor

    Supporting

    He is the son of Chief Kakuzawa and also a watered-down diclonius with smaller horns and no vectors in his mid-30s. When he and Kurama were younger, they both went to university together and it was Kakuzawa that originally got Kurama involved in the resea...

  • Kakuzawa (角沢)

    Kakuzawa

    Supporting

    He is the head of the research center at 70+ years old performing experiments on diclonius. He is from a long line of diclonius ancestry that has been watered down by inter-breeding with humans (much of this is, however, only revealed in the manga). As a ...

  • Anna Kakuzawa

    Kakuzawa Anna

    Supporting

    Anna is a Chief Kakuzawas daughter. She looks up to him in a similar fashion to Nana and Kuramas relationship. She was good at running and struggled to meet her fathers expectations, for he considered her "superior" due to her Diclonius heritage.She under...

  • Kanae (カナエ)

    Kanae

    Supporting

    She was Koutas younger sister between the ages of 8-10 years old. She was protective of her brother and was jealous of other girls attentions to him. Kouta cares about her very much, but repressed much of his memory of her after Lucy murdered her on a tra...

  • Kisaragi (如月)

    Kisaragi

    Supporting

    Kuramas personal secretary who seems to space out at work often and is often quite clumsy. She is killed by Lucy at the start of the story when she, completely oblivious of what is going on, trips in front of the rampaging Lucy, who tears off her head and...

  • Hiromi Kurama (ひろみ)

    Kurama Hiromi

    Supporting

    Hiromi was the wife of Director Kurama, the mother of Mariko....

  • Kurama (九喇嘛 / 九尾の妖狐)

    Kurama

    Supporting

    The Nine-Tailed Demon Fox is the most powerful of the tailed beasts, also considered the "King of the Tailed Beasts." Its power is such that it is regarded as an age-old natural disaster, as a single swipe of one of its nine tails is enough to raise tsuna...

  • Mariko Kurama (蔵間 真理子)

    Kurama Mariko

    Supporting

    Also known as Number 35, she is a young girl described as the only surviving "third generation" Silpelit (a Silpelit born from one infected by another Silpelit, as opposed to one born from one infected by a Diclonius), and the daughter of Kurama at five y...

  •  Nousou

    Nousou

    Supporting

    Nousou was on of the top scientists in the laboratory holding the Diclonii. They were the original "designer" of the Mariko clones, and was eventually killed by one of them. ...

  • Number 28 (ナンバートウェンティエイト)

    Number 28

    Supporting

    She appears for the first and last time in chapter 74 of the Elfen Lied manga. Her real name is unknown and she's about 6-7 years old. She cannot summon her own vectors, and it's theorized that's she never experienced ANY form of happiness in her life. Sh...

  • Number 3 (3番)

    Number 3

    Supporting

    She was a Silpelit child of around 3-4 years old whose name is her designation number given by the human scientists at the research facility, as she does not possess a personal name of her own. She appears only in episode 10 of the anime when Kurama exper...

  • Saitou (斉東)

    Saitou

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Shirakawa (白河)

    Shirakawa

    Supporting

    Is a scientist that works very closely with Kurama. Though her personality on the surface reflects a business-like demeanor, she holds a secret affection and genuine concern for Kurama. The manga portrays her personality as mostly servile and submissive, ...

  • Aiko Takada (高田 愛子)

    Takada Aiko

    Supporting

    Aiko Takada was the second human to befriend Kaede (Lucy). She made her only appearance in Chapter 85 of the manga series, and in the special OVA episode of the anime, both of which are almost exclusively devoted to her back-story. (Source: Wikia)...

  • Tomoo (トモオ)

    Tomoo

    Supporting

    He was a 10 year old orphan boy living together with Lucy and several other parentless kids in a child welfare facility. He along with two other bullies constantly pick on Lucy everyday primarily because of the latters physical difference (her horns), tho...