Elfen Lied

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Elfen Lied
Original title エ ル フ ェ ン リ ー ト
transcription Call Rito
genre Dark fantasy , horror , psychological thriller , Etchi , his
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Lynn Okamoto
publishing company Shūeisha
magazine Young Jump
First publication June 6, 2002 - August 25, 2005
expenditure 12
Anime
► Elfen Lied (2004)

Elfen Lied ( Japanese エ ル フ ェ ン リ ー ト , Erufen Rīto ) is a manga by Lynn Okamoto , of which there is also an anime version of the same name, Elfen Lied . The manga can be classified into the genres Dark Fantasy , Horror , Psychological Thriller , Etchi and his .

Plot of the manga

scenario

The "Diclonius" form the core of the plot. They are human beings with bony deformations on their heads, reminiscent of cat ears, and strong telekinetic forces that express themselves in the form of several invisible arms. These arms are referred to as vectors throughout the manga . The origin of these beings is a virus that leads to the corresponding mutation in a human child. Due to their vectors, they are seen as a threat to humanity, as they can cause enormous damage with these poor, but who have a limited reach, and naturally have the instinct to kill other people. For fear of this, some Diclonii are imprisoned from birth in order to be able to study them better. However, many of them are killed immediately, as the Diclonius receive their special abilities from around the age of three and kill their own parents themselves.

The general population is unaware of the existence of the Diclonius, as great efforts are made to keep the incidents secret. However, it is tricky that the Diclonius can pass the virus on to perfectly healthy people through contact with their invisible vectors, who then give birth to a Diclonius. Newborn Diclonius are mostly female and cannot reproduce, male Diclonius cannot reproduce either and have no special abilities, but still have external characteristics. The first Diclonius who can reproduce is Lucy .

prehistory

During the action, it becomes clear in several flashbacks that Lucy was shunned and teased by the other children in the home because of her horns. She committed her first murder of three boys who killed in front of her eyes a puppy she had adopted as a friend and who was betrayed to the boys by Lucy's only ally. After having escaped from the home, she met Kota, who was also young, who described her horns as something particularly great, which saved him from death. However, they soon part ways because Kota is only visiting relatives for the holidays and has to go home again. Kota reports that he and a boy would attend the evening festival the day before he left. Instead he is on the road with Yuka, which Lucy finds out to her horror. Disappointed with the lie, she wreaked havoc at the festival and followed Kota to his departure train. There she kills his younger sister Kanae and his father in anger. This event traumatizes the spared Kota and he loses all memory of the incident and thinks that his sister died of an illness.

Around the same time, a top-secret research laboratory is established by Kakuzawa Senior, who promises his son a job there. Under the pretext of studying human evolution, Kakuzawa Junior persuades his fellow student Kurama to work on the project. In fact, painful experiments are being carried out on Diclonii in which Kurama shows moral concerns. If a Diclonii outbreak attempt is unsuccessful, Kurama is infected with the vector virus unnoticed. When his wish for children is fulfilled, he is shocked to find that his own daughter is a Diclonii. Since he cannot kill her out of love for his wife, who dies shortly afterwards, he keeps her under lock and key.

Meanwhile, Lucy is successfully on the run for five years, but is ultimately caught by the soldiers and kept in the research center. Lucy had to watch again how people broke a promise, because a friend who accompanied her was badly wounded during the arrest and died despite the promise that she would be saved if Lucy gave up voluntarily. After this incident, she swore revenge on Kurama.

Escape and failed capture attempts

One day, Lucy escapes from the research facility on an island. On her flight she cuts a bloody swath through the ranks of the guards. However, towards the end of her escape, she was shot in the head, seriously injuring herself and falling into the sea. When she comes to, she is no longer the same person. Lucy has a split personality and when one part of her passes out, the other personality comes out. The girl, who only had the goal to kill all people, is now a little child in spirit. The two students Kota and Yuka find her by chance on the beach. She is naked and cannot say anything but "Nyū", so Kota and Yuka call her Nyu and take her with them. From that moment on, the three of them live together in the same house and the two students try to find out more about Lucy.

Since Lucy is dangerous in the opinion of the research laboratory, they try to capture or kill her with a special unit. However, this fails completely because the soldiers are not prepared for Nyu's abilities, who transforms back into Lucy for a certain time in dangerous situations. However, as soon as Lucy remembers something from her past, she becomes the innocent Nyu again. Mayu, sitting homeless on the beach, becomes aware of this spectacle, who finds the soldier Bando, who couldn't wait to kill Lucy, seriously wounded on the beach and saves his life with first aid.

After the first attempt was a debacle, they now also send Nana, a very gentle and obedient Diclonius. Nana, also known as “Number 7”, has lived in the laboratory since she was born and has endured countless painful experiments. Over the years, she convinced herself that Kurama, the department head who looks after her, is her father. She listens to this without any objection and always tries to make him proud. Nana is given the task of tracking down Lucy and, if necessary, to provide her so that she can be brought back to the laboratory. When it comes to a fight, Nana initially has an advantage because her vectors have a greater range. But in a moment of distraction, Lucy gains the upper hand. She severed all four limbs from Nana and eventually escaped when the scientists and soldiers approached. After this further failure, Nana is said to be killed on the orders of Director Kakuzawa, since she is no longer of any use to him. Instead, Kurama procures her artificial limbs and helps her escape. After another meeting with Kota, the young girl Mayu, who ran away from home after being raped several times by her stepfather, is also taken into the student house. Shortly afterwards she met Nana, with whom she developed a close relationship and who was accepted into the shared apartment.

Since nothing helps in the hunt for Lucy, the researchers send Mariko, Kurama's biological daughter, as their ultimate weapon to finally destroy Lucy. It is a so-called “super silpelite” with a much larger number of vectors, which also have a much greater range. As a result, Kurama and his "two daughters" meet. Kurama, who is suffering from an inner conflict over Nana and Mariko, tells them about the Diclonii mission to wipe out humanity. But instead of being understood, Mariko's anger flares up at her father. A bitter fight ensues, but the two reconcile and Kurama is even saved by her. Mariko suffers a similar fate as Lucy and also has a split personality. The situation takes a different turn when Lucy joins the action and murders Mariko. In the process, she loses both horns and seems to have permanently lost her dangerous personality. Traumatized, Kurama withdraws to a hut on the beach.

Director Kakuzawa's plan

The action continues half a year later. In the meantime, Nyu lives peacefully with Kota, Yuka, Mayu, Nana and Nozomi. Director Kakuzawa, who is planning to become the founder of a new species by uniting with Lucy, does not give up the search for Lucy. He sends out a henchman and his assistant Arakawa to find and capture Lucy. In doing so, Nana is tracked down by him and Lucy's hiding place is revealed. At the last second, however, he is routed by Bando. But now he inevitably meets Nyu, whom he is unable to distinguish from Lucy, his greatest enemy and former disbeliever. Through this painful encounter, Lucy wakes up again and a fight ensues between the two opponents, which is fought again on the beach. Despite Bando's meticulous planning, he succumbs to Lucy, but triumphs morally as he saves Mayu, who tries to interfere. He is very seriously injured in the process.

Director Kakuzawa sends another commando, this time consisting of three “tamed”, cloned Mariko-Diclonii, who manage to capture Lucy with grueling effort. Lucy grows horns that resemble donkey ears. However, these are shot down again. Meanwhile, Nana, plagued by self-doubt and feeling guilty for the family's plight, accidentally meets Kurama, who is however in a mentally confused and neglected state.

Lucy defeats two of the Mariko clones, but in the end she is overwhelmed anyway, turns back into Nyu and is taken to an underground cave where General Manager Kakuzawa has already been waiting for her. In the meantime, the third Mariko clone escapes and runs amok. The cloned Silpelite was able to get rid of a chip that was implanted in her forehead, suppressed the Diclonius personality and caused a split in personality (similar to Lucy and Nyu). Nana and Kurama eventually track her down and kill her. In the laboratory, the general manager tells the story of his ancestors. He is a descendant of Diclonii, who lived 1,000 years ago. But they got involved with people, which diluted their DNA more and more. No sooner had they lost their strength than people hunted them down. Then he says he found and abused Lucy's mother and fathered another pure Diclonius in the process. After these words he calls Adam, her little half-brother. He also has a chip in his forehead that suppresses his personality. His ultimate plan is for Adam and Lucy to mate and repopulate the world with pure Diclonii. Lucy kills him and the general manager out of anger and then leaves the underground cave.

On the beach she meets Kota, who has been waiting for her, and together they go to a lighthouse. There he confronts her about why she murdered his family. Lucy bursts into tears and asks his forgiveness. He tells her that he hates and detests her, but that he would put up with her if she no longer kills people. At that moment Kurama comes and shoots Lucy, but Kota throws himself in between and is seriously injured. Out of anger, she tears off Kurama's arm and throws him from the lighthouse. Then Lucy uses her vectors to heal Kota. However, in doing so she exceeds her limits and her body melts.

Kota wakes up when Nana finds him. Meanwhile, Lucy has almost melted and her third personality, who ordered her to wipe out humanity, has taken control. Their vectors are now several kilometers long, also similarly wide, and zoom down to different cities everywhere, killing thousands of people. Kota tells Lucy that he regrets what he said and that he feels a lot more for her. Thereupon Lucy and Nyu appear to him as ghosts and ask him to kill them, as he had promised Lucy eight years earlier, but Kota refuses because he does not want to lose them again. Lucy promises him that he will wait at the place where they first met and that one day he will see her again. With a heavy heart, Kota kills Lucy and Nyu after all.

The reunion

Almost ten years have now passed. The Silpelites have spread across the world, killing millions of people. But then the antidote to the vector virus was invented and everyone was vaccinated. The result was that there were no more Silpelites, but that next to humans only pure-blooded Diclonius could be born (such as Lucy or Adam).

Kota stands at the grave of Lucy's dog, because that is also the place where he met her for the first time. With him is his little daughter Nyuu. The child's mother is probably Yuka, but Nozomi would also be possible. He tells her that he dated his best friend at this place a long time ago. At that moment two girls step out of the bushes. Both are around ten years old and look just like Lucy looked as a child. It's Lucy and Kaede, the two are reborn as twins. They say that they finally met their best friend. Kota turns to them and weeps tears of joy.

Characters

main characters

  • Lucy ( ル ー シ ー , Rūshī ) / Nyuu ( に ゅ う , Nyū ) / Kaede ( 楓 )
She is a Diclonius whose four vectors have a range of about 11 (in the anime 2) meters. Vectors are arms invisible to humans, except when they are unusually strong. In the form of Lucy , she kills without scruples and lets her victims feel her hatred. As a child, she was often teased by a group of boys about her horns and raised about not being human. She befriends a girl from her school and yet gains hope of being loved. Lucy finally shares a secret with her new friend, a small dog that Lucy takes care of with great devotion. Her friend promises not to reveal anything to anyone, but tells the group of boys that Lucy has been beating about her horns for a long time. They catch the dog, mistreat him in front of Lucy's eyes and finally beat him to death. Injured by the loss and broken promise of her friend, Lucy loses herself in her anger and uses her vectors for the first time. She tears the boys to pieces together with her friend. Convinced that the people are “the monsters” and not themselves, Lucy repeatedly causes bloodbaths all over the city.
Hidden in the forest, she is approached by Kota and treated like a human being, because he doesn't find her horns scary either, but rather as something special. In this way he gives her hope again in humanity and prevents her from being killed at the last second. After several meetings, she falls in love with him. But when she learns that he was going to a party with a girl, although he had previously said it was a boy, this hope also disappears; she finally becomes the merciless and bloodthirsty Lucy and then kills Kota's father and sister. Soon after, Lucy surrenders because Professor Kurama promises to save a girl who Lucy had also befriended and who was shot while trying to catch Lucy. The girl dies anyway and Lucy swears to the professor not to kill him, but to take everything that means something to him in order to make him suffer. Lucy is held captive until she manages to escape.
Nyuu is Lucy's second personality. She is an innocent, lively, and nonviolent being - the exact opposite of Lucy. The cause of the sudden split personality is a head injury sustained by a sniper while escaping from the laboratory. If Nyuu is violently attacked, it often happens that Lucy "wakes up" again. Since Kota and Lucy were childhood friends, Nyuu is in some ways a throwback to Lucy's younger self . Because when Lucy - after killing Kota's father and sister - saw that Kota felt deep pain, she felt sorry for her. But she only shows this in her devotion as Nyuu. In the form of Nyuu, she cannot use her vectors and cannot be tracked down by other Diclonii either.
At the beginning of the series, Nyuu cannot speak (except for the word “Nyuu”), but as the story progresses she learns to express herself clearly and correctly.
In the end, you learn that Lucy's real name is Kaede.
  • Kota ( コ ウ タ , Kōta , called Kohta in the German DVD version )
He is a science student and lives in a former hostel - Kaede-sō - that Yuka's parents let him use. As a child, he saw his father and little sister brutally killed. This caused him a kind of amnesia because he can no longer remember many things from his childhood. So he believes z. B. that his sister died of an illness. After Lucy / Nyuu moves in with him, his memories slowly but fragmentarily return until he can finally remember everything in the end. He is generous and has a strong protective instinct, especially towards girls.
  • Yuka ( ユ カ , Yuka )
She is a friend of the same age from Kota's childhood and lives with him in the hostel. She is in love with Kota, which is why she reacts with jealousy to Kota's care for Nyuu. She is his cousin, because Yuka greets Kota in the first episode with: “ Yuka desu. Itoko no. ”( 「 ユ カ で す。 従 妹 の。 」 ) which literally means:“ I am Yuka, your cousin. ”In contrast to the western world, such relationships are not frowned upon in Japan.
  • Nana ( ナ ナ , Nana ) / number 7
She is a Silpelite and about Mayu's age. In contrast to Lucy and Mariko, she is harmless and not sadistic, but it happens every now and then that she feels the same hatred for people that is built up by other people's contempt for her. But at the latest when Nana is in pain or sees her own blood, she comes to again. In a fight with Lucy, she loses both arms and legs, which are later replaced by prostheses that she controls with her vectors. She calls Kurama "Papa" because of the strong bond with him. Even though she knows he's not her father, she still sees him as that. In the anime, this is explained by saying that he is her only caregiver. Her 4 vectors have a length that exceeds that of Lucy by almost 2 meters, about 5-6 meters in the anime and 4 meters in the manga.
  • Mayu ( マ ユ , Mayu )
She is a 13 to 14 year old girl who was sexually abused by her stepfather. Because of this, she runs away from home and becomes friends with a young dog she calls Wanta. Yuka and Kota find her in a corrugated iron shed on the beach and take her in out of pity. Her mother finally gives her up for adoption and she moves in with Kota and Yuka. She builds a strong relationship with Nana over the course of the plot and also watched Nana lose her limbs in a fight with Lucy. At the same time, Nana and Mayu take over the care of Wanta later on.

Supporting characters

  • Kurama ( 蔵 間 , Kurama )
He is Nana's confidante and Mariko's biological father. His wife died shortly after Mariko was born. He is the research director of the Diclonius research center.
  • Bando ( 坂 東 , Bandō )
He is a soldier whose mission is to find and kill Lucy. He is badly wounded in a fight with her, but can be recovered using cyborg technology and implants. From now on, his only goal is to finish his assignment to kill Lucy because she has inflicted these injuries on him. In the manga he is apparently killed trying to protect Mayu from Lucy, but survives and meets Mayu again on the beach towards the end of the manga.
  • Sato
Sato was the soldier on Bando's team who was killed while trying to capture Lucy.
  • Mariko ( マ リ コ , Mariko ) / number 35
She is about five years old "Super Silpelit" and the biological daughter of Kurama. It has 26 vectors with a range of over eleven meters. Since it is therefore classified as extremely dangerous, it is stored in a special, gigantic steel container. Your only contact with the outside world is through an intercom. Their resulting stunted limbs force them to move in a wheelchair. Since she is extremely murderous and sadistic, she was implanted with several detonators after her birth, which can be detonated in an emergency. After two rockets are fired at her in the manga, she also gets a split personality.
  • Saitou
Saitou was Mariko's foster mother, but she only had contact with the girl via the intercom. When the two of them touch each other for the first time, Saitou thinks she is in control. However, this is not the case, which leads to her being killed by Mariko.
  • Kanae ( カ ナ エ , Kanae )
She was Kota's little sister. She felt protected by her brother and didn't like it when other girls were kind to her brother. Lucy killed her on a train together with her father.
  • Shirakawa ( 白河 , Shirakawa )
At the beginning she is the assistant to the general manager Kakuzawa and after Mariko has murdered her caregiver Saito, she is responsible for her. Shirakawa is killed in the anime during the mission with Mariko. During this mission, Mariko is supposed to kill Nana, but she does not succeed. Nana falls down a bridge into the water, but is rescued by Kurama, who drove past the spot in a boat at the right time. When Kota and Nyu show up there and Nyu becomes Lucy again, Lucy kills Shirakawa. In the manga, it was she who gave the order to Mariko to use the bombs, but later showed remorse.
  • Number 03 ( 3 番 , Sanban )
She was one of the silpelites held captive in the research center. For a series of experiments, she was chained to a wall and bombarded with metal balls to investigate the strength of the vectors. When this became too traumatic for number 03, Kurama appealed against it; but without any success. However, she managed to break free and was shot in the head in front of Kurama's eyes. Shortly before that, number 03 passed one of its vectors through Kurama's brain as well as that of an assistant and infected both with the virus , causing his daughter Mariko and the assistant's daughter (who, however, was eliminated shortly after birth) to become a Silpelite.
  • General Manager Kakuzawa ( 角 沢 長官 , Kakuzawa-chōkan )
He is the general director of the Diclonius research center . He has the genetic makeup of a Diclonius, but like his son does not seem to have any special powers. The only external feature is its stubby horns. In his megalomania he strives for world domination as the leader of the future Diclonii.
  • Professor Yu Kakuzawa ( 角 沢 教授 , Kakuzawa-kyōju )
He is the son of Kakuzawa. He also only has small, barely visible horns, which he hides under a wig, and no vectors. Yu is Professor of Biology at Kohtas and Yukas Universities. When he tries to sexually assault Nyu, he is beheaded by her second self, Lucy . In addition, it was he who gave Lucy the chance to escape from the research laboratory, as he had similar intentions as his father and also calls himself “God's representative”.
  • Anna ( ア ン ナ )
Anna is only mentioned in the manga and is the daughter of General Manager Kakuzawa, who was transformed into a gigantic monster by an operation, which can calculate the future through increased intelligence. In a later argument with Lucy, she is badly wounded and is dying. In the last chapters, however, it becomes clear that it can free itself from the tissue surrounding it.
  • Isobe ( 磯 辺 )
He's a researcher in the Diclonius Research Laboratory and has been there for about as long as Doctor Kurama. He is only mentioned by name in the manga. He has the trigger for the explosive device in Mariko's body. When he reveals the code to her, she kills him.
  • Nozomi ( ノ ゾ ミ )
She is a friend of Yuka's who, against her father's wishes, decided to become an opera singer. In order to prepare for the entrance exam at a music academy, she is allowed to practice regularly at Haus Kaede. She is described as pretty and intelligent, but has psychological incontinence. She also seems to have developed feelings for Kota. The anime does not address this person, although they appear frequently in the manga.
  • Arakawa ( 荒 川 )
She is first introduced as a quickly intimidating assistant to Professor Kakuzawa. However, after he was beheaded by Lucy in a confrontation, she suffered a nervous breakdown and eventually took his head to the general manager. He shot her first, but then decided to spare her life and let her work for him. In the anime, she destroys Kota's documents so that Lucy's home cannot be found. In the manga, however, she betrays him so that Lucy can be captured. Later she also developed the antidote to the vector virus, which prevents further silpelites from forming.
  • Adam
Lucy's half-brother Adam is held captive by General Manager Kakuzawa like many other Diclonii and abused for experiments. When Lucy first met him, he was around 5–10 years old. The general manager explains to Lucy that the Diclonius mutation began in her mother and that she only gave birth to Diclonii. He then abused her and fathered her half-brother Adam. Unlike the Kakuzawas, he is not genetically degenerate, but a pure, male Diclonius, which also has vectors and horns similar to Lucy's. Angry about her mother's rape, Lucy kills him and the general manager, but appears to regret his death shortly thereafter. According to General Manager Kakuzawa, Adam is the only male Diclonius.
  • Dr. Nousou ( ノ ウ 荘 )
He is a carefree, sometimes playfully childish scientist who works for the general manager. He creates the clones of Mariko and also builds a control device, which he implants in the forehead of her clones and Adam and thus suppresses and controls their personality. In the attack on Kota's house, where Lucy is captured, he is injured. Barbara later kills him after he freed her from her chip and apologized for the experiments on her.
  • Mariko's clones
Four clones of Mariko - the strongest silpelite - are bred in the manga. Alicia, Barbara, Cynthia and Diana. They have a chip in their foreheads, which suppresses their actual personality and creates a childlike personality (comparable to Lucy / Nyu) and weakens them. Alicia and Cynthia are killed while fighting Lucy, but they can wound her beforehand. Barbara is later freed from the chip and runs amok. She is eventually killed by Nana and Kurama. Diana is beheaded by another Silpelite at the very end.
  • Aiko Takada ( 愛 子 高田 )
She is the first person after Kota to befriend Lucy and to accept her despite her horns. Aiko is described as a girl with family problems who desperately wants to become a painter. Among other things, she asks Lucy to model for her. In the anime version, she only appears briefly in the OVA episode. Her friendship with the young Lucy is short-lived, however, as she throws herself into the path of a rifle bullet to protect Lucy from her pursuers. Lucy allows herself to be captured when she is promised to be able to save Aiko's life in the hospital. However, she still dies on the spot.
  • The agent
In Kakuzawa's research center, she was used as a bodyguard and for secret missions. It wasn't until much later that it was discovered that she was a spy. She captures Lucy and takes her to the general manager. In later chapters of the manga, she and Anna Kakuzawa are caught at the fountain of life.
  • Number 28 ( 28 番 )
It is a very weak silpelite. It only appears briefly in the manga. She will undergo an operation, after which she will permanently feel severe pain and be severely disfigured. She should be used to track down Lucy, but dies before it succeeds.

Conception

The manga was named after the German song "Elfenlied". Despite this reference in the title, the song only appears twice in the manga: once as Nozomi tries to teach Nyu to sing in the 5th volume of the manga, and a second time when Lucy tries to save Kota's life in the last volume. The song itself is based on the poem "Elfenlied" written by Eduard Mörike , which was later adapted as a piece of music by Hugo Wolf . The name "Silpelit" comes from this song, as the non-reproductive Diclonii are called in the manga.



Elf song At night in the village the watchman shouted: Elf!
A very small elf in the forest was sleeping
around the elf!
And thinks that
the nightingale called him from the valley by his name,
or Silpelit would have called him.

If the elf rubs his eyes out,
goes in front of his snail shell
and is like a drunk man,
his sleep wasn’t fully
exhausted , and so limps tap
through the hazel wood down into the valley,
slips so close to the wall,
sitting there the glow worm light to light.



What are the bright windows?
There will be a wedding in there:
the little ones are sitting at the meal
and doing it in the hall.
I guess I'll look a little 'no!

Ugh, bump your head on hard stone!
Elf, have you had enough?
Gukuk!

–– Eduard Mörike

In 1997, Lynn Okamoto was still employed at Bandai in the development of the Raising Sim Toki no Kuni no Elfenlied ( 時 の 国 の エ ル フ ェ ン リ ー ト , Toki no Kuni no Erufenrīto ). He also called his debut manga Elfenlied , but it is about two musicians.

Origin and publications

The manga Elfen Lied consists of twelve volumes, which were initially only published in Japan and South Korea . It was published as part of Weekly Young Jump magazine in the form of 107 chapters that spanned 12 issues. Since July 24, 2007 the manga has also been published in a Mexican edition. The entire manga was published in German by Tokyopop in six double volumes from March 2009 to January 2010. In the first three double volumes, earlier works (short stories) by Lynn Okamoto were also co-published, these would be: MOL , Memoria and his debut work of the same name Elfenlied . In September and December 2013 a new edition appeared in two boxes. He has also appeared in Mexico for Grupo Editorial Vid, in Italy for Planet Manga, in Portugal for Panini Comics and in Taiwan for Ever Glory Publishing.

The manga differs from the anime, among other things, in that the violence and the depiction of youthful nudity are described in more detail and the anime only addresses the first 6 of the 12 issues.

Adaptation as an anime television series

In 2004, the manga was adapted by a 13-part television series, which reproduces the content of the first 60 chapters, but differs in many details from the manga. An additional 14th episode appeared as OVA . However, she did not continue the anime, but added a separate storyline, which is to be classified between the 10th and 11th episode.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ダ ー ク フ ァ ン タ ジ ー ま と め . In: Akiba Sōken. Retrieved August 20, 2018 (Japanese).
  2. ^ Theron Martin: Elfen Lied DVD 4: Vector Four. In: Anime News Network. November 28, 2005, accessed August 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Lynn Okamoto: -profile-. In: FOR NEXT. Retrieved May 11, 2011 (Japanese).

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