Elfen Lied

This proves once again that the manga is not always better than the anime. The anime adaptation actually showed more quality and censored many of the unnecessary perverted scenes from the manga. Of course, it fell short in terms of the story because the anime didn't cover the entire manga.


The Elfenlied manga has an at least subtle main plot right up to the end. But all of this failed because of the Creator's lack of talent. The story was done immensely, the characters were almost catastrophic and this work had almost no detail.

A particularly negative point about the work is the writer's massively sick and perverse predilection. It was not just about breasts and genitals, but also tremendously about sexual arousal and female orgasms.


And in the end we were presented with an enormous pile of plot armor without any explanation, so that it just looks like a happy ending.

Story

The actual basic idea of ​​the main story was not bad, as was the approach with the research facility and its background. However, the implementation of all of this has been an absolute disappointment.

Up to Chapter 60 everything revolves around some sexual content and enormously monotonous slice of life elements.

As expected, the whole finale towards the end also felt very badly implemented. With the difference that at least something happened.

Representation / drawing

The drawings are enormously below average. In some approaches even on the level of a complete amateur. Especially in the area of ​​physique, face and generally the entire anatomy of the characters.

Backgrounds were average, nothing to speak of.


Characters

The worst point in the entire manga. What happens when you put a bunch of unsympathetic, flat and boring characters under one roof. Certainly nothing good.

We have by far one of the worst protagonists in the entire anime / manga scene. Bunch of female protagonists who are only conditional on fan service. Especially since none of the characters has any personality. Everyone just felt forced and artificial. Especially Lucy / Nyu.

The top three characters by far were Nana / your father and the military killer.


Conclusion

By and large, this is a hugely poor manga in every way. The potential for the story was there, but not much was done with it in the end.

Basically, his next work, Brynhildr in the Darkness, is a much better title than this one.