Elfen Lied Chapter 107 Discussion

I FINALLY finished it.



I had this manga on hold for such a looooong time, OVER A YEAR.



As for the ending I thought it was pretty good, I don't understand why people are opposed to a happy ending after all the misery of the first 106 chapters.



Kohta and Yuka getting married was nice but also predictable, oh and BTW, people need to stop with this cousin nonsense, in Japan things are a lot different than America and the rest of the western world, I don't find it disgusting or wrong that he would marry his cousin.



Bandou coming back was plain and simply BULLSHIT!!!



and finally the twins who people say are the reincarnations of Lucy and Nyu, this is something else that nor do I care and I don't find it that relevant or important, Mariko had 4 clones, so now Lucy and Nyu come back as reincarnations or clones....WHO CARES, Kohta is already old and he's married to Yuka and they have a daughter, IT DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING.





OVERALL:



I found the manga to be slightly better than the anime, honestly when I saw the anime I instantly thought it was great and one of the most unique anime out there. I finally decided to read the manga so I could see how it ended.



I enjoyed the manga thoroughly, I thought it was one of the most DISTURBING but at the same time great mangas I have ever read.



8.5/10...........since MAL is stupid and they don't allow .5s, I'll round it up to a 9.

oh is it??? awwww!!!!! XD now i love the ending even more lol it was in my head for days after i finished reading it - but ive sorta moved on from it now. i doubt ill find an manga/anime quite as good as that now. naruto is gonna have a hard time matching an ending like that! the only other thing ive seen that can do an ending as good as that is Final Fantasy! anyway, thank you for clearing that up :)

I wasn't very happy with it mean i was happy Lucy and Nyu were reincarnated

and everyone in the house is happy and junk but when bando showed up that

was a little much for me i mean come on the guys dead you don't magically become alive again like that.

i know its counting as a reincarnation but dear god that doesnt make lucy's death any less depressing

forced happy ending = Bullshit

I saw the anime long ago and read the manga shortly afterwards to get the complete story well before I had a MAL account or even was a part of other anime db like sites. For some reason this yet one of many series I forgot to put in my list but this series kind of has a special place in my heart as one of the first few (low double digit at the time) series I've seen to deal with the subjects it did and especially one of its type to be so openly gory and free with the nudity (the latter is pretty tame to what goes on in series nowadays lol).



Looking back it overall wasn't all that amazing but I couldn't recall many series pushing forth like it was at the time of its true popularity height, if released today it would seem underwhelming and most likely would get slammed nowadays by most critics but I remember there was a time when Elfen Lied hype was real haha.



Making the transition from the anime to manga was quite something too, Lynn Okamoto's manga was quite rough, if not super amateurish looking during the earlier chapters but as you progress you can see his evolution slowly improve on that, it was pretty neat. Also with so many series looking so similar nowadays even when done by different author/artists it's nice to recognize manga artists who still has their very own distinctive styles to make them stand out more.



The ending was pretty heavy even if I didn't enjoy it much, a lot of people go on Bando living but the reincarnated Lucy and Nyuu is kind of what soured the ending for me the most, just felt really forced in a way to be a complete happy ending and AFAIK (been a long ass time since I've read this) there was no build up to it. Plus there was some unanswered questions that I'm sure I had at the time I finished but can remember in much detail now (doh). Oh well, despite all that I felt Elfen Lied is still a classic in a way.

I don't know if I liked or hated the series as a whole, It's vastly contradictory to what I like to read and alot of it didn't make logical sences, you expect me to belive that manny people can be killed in such a short amount of time and not get caught, and that the characters can see all this death and gore and not be effected in the slieghtest? As well as such inhuman experiments to be taking place with no one finding out about it? I mean there must have been hundreds of women trapped in thoughs labs abducted when they were children and no one goes looking for them? I get the idea that the children may be despised and hated but that's pretty fair fetched especially since some of them could be good people and not kill there parents? Ex. Anna Also why are these diclonii only appearing in one country? The worlds pretty big you know... Last but least my DNA is telling me to kill people.... wtf? DNA doesn't work that way even... no wait wait there's nothing I can think of the explain this that's just a plot hole if I ever heard it. I can believe Lucy being psychotic from pressure on her brain and a rough childhood but her DNA alone creating various personalities and killing people.. I'm sorry I'm allergic to bull shit.



Looking over what I just written I think I must sadly say this is on the lower end of all the manga I've read... @_@

Liked Lucy x Kouta confrontation and overall ending better in anime. Also, manga somehow feels way too dragged with some ridiculous shit going on by the last chapters. Kind of disappointed tbh ~