Believing her to be of no consequence, Bando ordered his subordinate Satou to execute the horned girl summarily. This joy rapidly evaporated as it became apparent that Lucy knew how to use her destructive power strategically. She also showed that she could improvise, placing Bando on the defensive and quickly shutting down any plans he made to surprise her.
Before he knew it, Lucy stood above Bando, firearm in hand, his position all but hopeless as Lucy began to slowly maim and dismember him, taunting his curses and expletives as the torture kept on. As she prepared to finish Bando off, Lucy saw an object in her hand. Lucy was absent until the girl from the beach, Mayu, came to Maple House seeking to return a piece of property lost in the struggle that same night. In a telling moment, she paused on the way out of Maple House, slicing the leash but not harming Mayu's dog, Wanta.
Wandering for a short while, unclear on where she even might go, Lucy encountered her second would-be agent of retrieval. This adversary was a Diclonius like herself, born from one of the countless men Lucy had infected in her travels. She was called Nana , and though Lucy didn't learn this right away, she considered herself to be the daughter of Lucy's arch-nemesis, Kurama.
Since the two could sense each other's approach, Nana quietly walked up to Lucy and requested her return to the Institute peacefully, an offer Lucy refused. She also warned Nana to leave, calling their species 'real people' as opposed to Humans, and having no desire to hurt her. Nana refused, feeling her status before her 'Papa' Kurama dependent on bringing Lucy back when in fact she was exceeding her mission of observation already.
A battle began , with each surprising the other regarding raw power and skill. Lucy used this opportunity to slice one of Nana's legs off, before batting Mayu away and proceeded to tear off all of Nana's remaining limbs.
Determined and more skilled than Lucy allowed for, Nana was able to temporarily disable Lucy's vectors, allowing her 'Papa' to survive a direct assault on Lucy.
As Nyu, she once more made her way back to Maple House and was among those who welcomed Mayu when she agreed to live there permanently. Again, her unexplained absence was mostly overlooked by her housemates.
She slowly improved her social and speaking skills, but this would prove her short-term undoing. A class the trio attended had as its instructor the dismissive, arrogant Professor Kakuzawa , son of the man who ran the Institute that Lucy escaped. In his private lab beneath the classroom areas, the Professor drugged, stripped, and made ready to rape Nyu. To his surprise, the drugging once more brought out Lucy, who found her vectors finally returned after Nana had disabled them.
With his plan to forcibly mate with Lucy and counter what he supposed to be his own father's intent to do the same on the rocks, Professor Kakuzawa moved to form a conscious alliance with Lucy. He explained several things to her, including his role in planning her escape, and his family's Diclonius heritage , diluted by generations of inter-marriage with non-horned Humans.
His florid grandiose talk held no appeal for Lucy, leading to the Professor's decapitation before Lucy departed the lab.
Once more, Lucy resolved to have done with him, this time by confessing her murder of his family, theorizing it would surely drive him away for good.
After annoying Yuka yet again with a persistent embrace, the three returned to Maple House, where not one but two new residents were soon to join them. This prank would not go as planned. Away from Maple House, Mayu reunited with Nana , who had been given vector-respondent artificial limbs by Kurama and sent away from the Institute to evade Chief Kakuzawa 's execution order.
In the meantime, Nana, who had briefly sensed Lucy before she withdrew, returned with Mayu. However, she did not relent from keeping watch over Nyu, all to see if Lucy returned and posed a threat. Nana was not there long when she sensed the presence of the Diclonius called Number 35 by the Institute, brought in to execute her and recapture Lucy.
Feeling she was a threat to the people in Maple House, Nana departed to confront 35, only to discover this was a girl younger than herself. On the other side of the bridge, both a dramatic Diclonius battle and a wrenching family drama played out. At first, Mariko's greater raw power ruled the day, battering Nana mercilessly. However, Mariko made the mistake of taunting Nana with the death of her 'Papa' not yet knowing this man was her father as well and in any event believing the worst of him , leading Nana to successfully counter-attack.
Seizing the advantage, she disabled Mariko's power as she once had Lucy's. The arrival of Doctor Kurama both calmed and escalated matters, with both girls learning Mariko's identity. Mariko was at first enraged by Kurama's resolve to kill his child, to stop her from being a danger to herself and others, but Nana forced a reconciliation with some rather large bumps and twists, best covered elsewhere.
This brief peace was made all the more fleeting by the arrival of two new players. The first was Kurama's former secretary Shirakawa who told how Chief Kakuzawa was planning to unleash a weaponized version of the Diclonius virus meant to overtake the entire globe.
The second was Nyu, who only wanted Nana to return home. Realizing that Nyu's state of mind rendered her powerless, Kurama tried to use her or Lucy's life as a bargaining chip to stop the Chief's plans. This hope proved pointless as the false satellite launch went off without any interference.
This threat brought Lucy to the forefront, saving her life and placing everyone present in mortal danger. The Lucy they faced here was easily at her most sadistic and cruel. Lucy immediately began to threaten and taunt her assembled enemies, personally assuring Nana and Kurama that neither would survive this encounter. Mariko, who had forgiven her father and who had recovered both her powers and state of mind she had been in a mental state like Nyu's now challenged Lucy.
Mariko, who had bombs embedded in her since birth, knew they might soon explode and sought to trade her life for her father and Nana's. Despite the best efforts of Kurama and Shirakawa, the control mechanism for the bombs was destroyed by Lucy, with Shirakawa beheaded. Blindsided by worry and by the force of Lucy's attack, Mariko lost her legs to Lucy's power, making her vectors too difficult to use amidst the pain.
Clinging to Lucy as the countdown concluded, Mariko died in an explosion that also took off Lucy's horns.
Once again, Nana pleaded on the helpless Nyu's behalf and stopped Kurama from executing her on the spot. The first phase of Chief Kakuzawa's grand plan was in motion; Lucy remained his target for the final steps. Related to Nana, the story's narrative resumes six months after Mariko's death. According to Nana, the most dramatic change over the course of those six months was the sudden maturing and coherence of Nyu. Nana, who correctly felt that this period of peace could not last marveled as the recent mass killer Lucy gently and lovingly attended to a small distressed baby bird.
Nana's prediction came true several times on several fronts, almost all at once. An awakened Lucy regretted disrupting the peace she had found but accepted Bando's challenge to meet him back at the beachfront. The battle began quickly, but it was far from a one-on-one, and Lucy did not have the advantage she did when she first fought Bando. The former soldier had cleared the beach of debris and laid down several booby traps to weaken and disorient her.
Lacking anything to throw, Lucy tore the head off of the suddenly worshipful Unknown Man and launched it like a missile at Bando. Bad timing and miscalculations also lessened the value of Bando's prepared tactics. Nana attempted to aid Bando against Lucy, but her prior wounds left her too weak.
When Lucy managed to sever one of Bando's arms again, Mayu realized that Lucy had been the one who severed Nana's limbs. Despite harsh words towards Mayu for her deception Bando rushed in and took the blow meant for the young girl, which split him in two.
However, as he fell, Bando also managed to shoot one of Lucy's regrown horns off, sending her fleeing from the battle.
In a stroke of bad luck, she happened to Nana and Mayu while they were discussing Lucy and how to deal with her.
Still not wishing to live as the killer Lucy, she returned to face Nana, hoping the younger girl would kill her. His heartfelt and even angry plea of concern about them all broke through the doubts of both Nana and Nyu.
Though they finally went back with him, events had reached the point of no return. A quiet dinner, in which the only tense subject was awaiting Nozomi's music school entry results, was sundered by the entry of armed troopers, in tandem with an Intelligence Agent , a scientist more ruthless than Arakawa, and three clones of the late Mariko Kurama.
Her manner and position remained unprovocative; so much so, it took the force's leaders a few moments to recognize her while securing the other residents.
Unaware of their target's nature, the attackers began dangerously escalating their efforts. The defeated Nana was held up like a limbless doll or trophy by the arrogant Nousou; Nozomi was kept in a chokehold, potentially ending her singing career.
When Yuka objected to this treatment, she was shoved and held face down, while the crowd of men likely did nothing for Mayu's peace of mind. Once outdoors, the Agent ambushed Lucy, and used the dying Cynthia first to knock one of her horns off, then when she was on the ground, to shoot off the other. Deranged and lost at this point, Lucy's old enemy Kurama finds his way there and cradles the dying Cynthia, thinking she was his late daughter Mariko. When the clone passes on, Lucy taunts Kurama once more for it, and the two bitterly recall how they first met, including the tragedy that led to Lucy's capture before the series began.
In the custody of Chief Kakuzawa, she also encountered the Chief's daughter, Anna , transformed into a living computer and behemoth. Kakuzawa confirmed that she was the killer Lucy, a great shock and sadness for Nyu, who only wanted to return home to those she saw as her family.
Showing a feeling of control justified or not the Chief released Nyu, who showed modesty uncharacteristic of either Lucy or her former infantile self. He also began to make his case for an alliance between himself and Lucy, with her bearing the children of the new world order. Explaining that the persecution of his ancestors, who he sees as the first horned people , or Diclonii, shows Humanity's true nature, the Chief says that their destruction is inevitable.
The tables turn when Lucy seizes control from Nyu. With more potent vectors, Lucy is both more experienced with and more willing to use them than the gentle Nyu. She severs one of Anna's monstrously large arms, and then the other when Anna persists in attacking her. Simultaneously, the island erupts with vectors' power and begins the process of its destruction. The narrative does not make entirely clear whether this is the result of Lucy's battle with Anna or the reaction of the Clone Diclonii rejected clones of Mariko Kurama to the anti-Diclonius birth vaccine created by Doctor Arakawa.
Whatever the health of the island, Lucy's health falls into question as she weakens, coughing up blood as Chief Kakuzawa reveals that high-end usage of her powers reduces her body's integrity. Ordered to stand down against Lucy, Anna makes an attempt to relay what she feels is vital information, but Kakuzawa blends this into his beliefs about what will happen at that moment.
Sarcastically musing that between Kurama and Kakuzawa, her enemies seem to wait for her presence to have parent-child discussions, Lucy received a great shock, perhaps the greatest of her young short life. Perhaps seeking to disorient her further and gain Lucy to his side, the Chief told Lucy that only her birth father had tried to abandon her.
Her mother not only opposed what he did, but she also spent the rest of her life searching for her daughter. Sadly for the mother, her search seemed to place her in the crosshairs of Chief Kakuzawa who captured and imprisoned her, resulting in her rape by him. This assault led to a male heir, Lucy's half-brother whom Kakuzawa introduced as her potential mate, to keep the new Diclonius line pure.
As noted elsewhere the boy's age and the timeframe of his mother's imprisonment are difficult if not impossible to determine from evidence in the story itself, though the problems are not wholly unresolvable. Unlike the overtly malevolent Lucy, Nyu is a childlike innocent. Two cousins, one of whom may have known Lucy in the past, end up finding Nyu and taking care of her, all while the government sends assassins and other Diclonius after Lucy.
Elfen Lied is more remembered for its explicit content than its plot. There is so much gore and violence in this anime that it borders on hilarious. People's limbs are ripped out, heads are peeled off, others are just plain ripped open. One memorable scene features Lucy ripping the head off a passing secretary and using her body as a shield, then throwing a pencil through another guy's head before ripping into his cohorts.
It's telling that the most disturbing act of violence in the whole series is also the least visually explicit. But what makes the violence feel toothless is how little impact it seems to have on people. One Diclonius, Nana, gets her limbs ripped out by Lucy, only to just get new plastic limbs to replace her old ones.
A mercenary, Bando, gets similarly maimed and blinded, only to get cybernetics to fix up all those injuries. None of the violence means anything to the characters, so why should it mean anything to us? But on top of the violence, there's the nudity, much of it involving under-aged characters. There's a ton of sexual situations that push the envelope, including a possibly incestual relationship between the cousins.
One character, Maya, is repeatedly raped by her father, and none of it ever is brought up following the initial moment it's mentioned. These genuinely disturbing topics feel exploitative, brought up only to shock you for a moment without ever going into how these events affect people. Because of this, he created a world of heightened emotions, intended to make people cry.
This leads to one of the anime's biggest problems looking back is how it frames the frankly horrendous things Lucy does over the course of her life as justified because "she feels bad about it. Get ready to enter the world of seinen manga! Top 10 Characters Who Would Make the Best Anime Girlfriend If it was physically possible, and we managed to avoid being put in the friend zone, it would be almost every anime fan's dream come true.
Let's take a peek at some characters that would make for the best anime girlfriend! Remove from Favorites Add to Favorites Animeography. Elfen Lied add Main. She has developed strong emotions of hatred and vengeance towards regular humans mainly because of how she was treated by the majority of them as a child, making fun of her horns and giving her insulting nicknames such as freak.
Kobayashi, Sanae Japanese. She does, however, like animals. She was caught by a member of a secret research institute. Eight years later, she escapes but when she is about to succeed, a bullet strikes her head and she ends up losing conscience. She then washed up on shore and was found by Kouta and Yuuka. They took her to Kouta's house to heel her wound, but this is no longer Lucy. Besides losing her memory, she also now has a completely different personalty.
Because all she can say is 'Nyu', that's what they name her. She does, however, revert back to Lucy when she is stuck in the head or in danger.
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