Elfen Lied

Detail question about the anime: In "Lilium" they sing some "u"s like the german umlaut "ü" [yː] (actually, it sounds rather "french" to me...). Is there any good reason for that, i.e., did ancient romans talk like that, or is it just because they thought it sounds nice?

It's Latin lyrics are below

Os iusti meditabitur sapientiam, Et lingua eius loquetur indicium.

Beatus vir qui suffert tentationem, Quoniqm cum probates fuerit accipient coronam vitae.

Kyrie, fons bonitatis. Kyrie, ignis divine, eleison.

O quam sancta, quam serena, Quam benigma, quam amoena esse Virgo creditur. O quam sancta, quam serena, Quam benigma, quam amoena, O castitatis lilium.

[Instrumental] Kyrie, fons bonitatis. Kyrie, ignis divine, eleison.

O quam sancta, quam serena, Quam benigma, quam amoena, O castitatis lilium.

Yes, I know it's latin. Hey, at least I didn't learn that language for nothing. I wouldn't remember ever having heard of umlauts in latin, that's why I'm asking.

they use if in 2 Latin alphabets

Does anyone else thinks that Bando's Not Quite Dead moment at the end of the Manga to bee one hell of an Ass Pull?

@ the Latin thing: the Latin in Elfen Lied's intro is technically incorrect, as most easily distinguished my the soft 'c' sound. Classical Latin always has a hard 'c' sound. However, this is more than likely a deliberate attempt at recreating Church Latin (which has the soft 'c' sound) for effect, as the Biblical quotes imply.

So going by actual Latin, no, the form is quite incorrect, but it absolutely fits Church ("Ecclesiastical") Latin. The soft 'c' sounds and the umlaut-esque 'u' is an Ecclesiastical change to allow for stretching out vowels and such and giving more control over the chants themselves. Seriously.

edited 16th Jul '11 12:18:09 AM by Five_X

Obviously

Not really

On the Elfen Lied Fansite, a fellow fan claims - and I have no reason to doubt them, but I wanted to use qualifiers nonetheless - that an Email to Mamoru Kanbe was replied to with the news of a tentative look at a second season or reboot of the anime.

According to this, he and Okamoto both are poring over international reviews and sales of the DVD's, checking to see if its even worth considering. I really don't think this person is lying, but who knows if they were misled. It sounds reasonable, especially them checking the economics of it all before proceeding.

My personal suggestion : If you're a fan who's been to content to view it online, buy it outright. If there is anything to this, a spike in sales just might do the trick. And yes, at least according to this same source, Nozomi is a distinct possibility this time around, since the e-mail in question says that it was timing, and not any Nozomi hatred on Kanbe's part, that kept her out last time.

Sorry not to have anything more definite, but against this possibility, I'm willing to look a little foolish if it falls flat.

Mamoru Hosoda, Mamoru Oshii and Mamoru Kanbe should team up or something.

edited 3rd Aug '11 7:59:24 PM by Five_X

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the poster who made the claim about the 2nd season being considered stopped posting. Oh, well. Maybe someday we can hope for a BD release or properly translated English manga release.

Maybe this series is just meant to have two distinctive endings, each satisfying a different segment of the fanbase.

So I just finished reading this yesterday.

Man, that was sad. And less gory than what I expected.

Sort of dissapointed no more time was given to develop Yuka and Nana, though Nana did get plenty more time than what I expected originaly.(Which in retrospect makes Nanas Life all the sadder to me.)

Also, yeah, Bando coming back of the dead at the end was a bit too much for me to swallow after his last fight on the beach. I retcon it as wishful thinking and hallucination from Mayu.

But overall, i'm happy I decided to look past the crappy art of the beginning and read the full thing.

Do you know any good fanfics? I am currently searching for any Lucy/Kouta material (crossovers are fine), and A Place to Belong proved So Okay, It's Average at best.

So far, I have only read The Darkness Within (pretty nice, if rushed at times); and plan to (possibly) read Falling Together, The Last Diclonius and What is Written in Blood (didn't start any of them yet, so have no idea how good they actually are).

By the way, hello.

edited 5th Feb '12 11:44:39 AM by OneMore

Try Requiem Of Anihilation. It's definitely not your Average Elfen Lied Fan Fic

edited 16th Feb '12 8:22:03 PM by LSSJ2Gohan

Not that I read/watch EL looking for total realism, but does anyone know if Unknown Man's crossbow has even a toehold in reality? I'm just thinking it can't possibly work, at least as a portable weapon.

North American Region Blu-Ray with OVA in August 2013! Yayyyy!! (Does Kermit arm raise)

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-05-30/section23-adds-elfen-lied-ova-to-complete-collection-blu-ray/dvd

edited 31st May '13 9:47:45 AM by Gojirob

Blu-Ray : Order has shipped, hoping for Tuesday, review not long after.

http://elfen-lied.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Elfen_Lied_Video_Releases - including the Blu-Ray discs and covers - sadly, the manga included elsewhere is not there.

edited 3rd Sep '13 10:42:15 PM by Gojirob

Does anyone know if Lucy has any parents? o.O I only watched the anime and I don't think it explained anything about that...

I would guess she was a Self-Made Orphan considered the circumstances of the Diclonii though.

Pretty sure they were all make in tubes. I think you even saw them at one point.

Then how come some of the parents in the anime at least felt so attached to them? I thought the horns and stuff was called a supposed disease so they were biological...

No point bringing biology into it; diseases aren't hereditary and mutations (what these would seem to be at first glance) aren't infectious. I don't there's any category that this would fit into.

End manga spoilers: Lucy's mother was the first who bore the virus. Kakuzawa even raped her to produce the first male Diclonius. Diclonii born from her were actually capable of bearing children, unlike the Slipelits.

Spoilers about Lucy's parents : Young Kaede was told (apparently by the Jerkass orphanage guardians) that she was found abandoned in a field, naked and exposed, left to die by her parents. Apparently, this was only true of her father. Her mother had either opposed or not been told of what he'd done, and spent the rest of her free life searching for her child, though why she never stopped at the local orphanage is beyond me. Captured by Kakuzawa, she was found to be the true mutant, capable of bearing reproductive-capable children, as opposed to Silpelits like Nana, Mariko, and Number 3. After giving birth to Kaede's half-brother, she found a way to take her own life. Now, it also brings to mind how stupid Kakuzawa was, telling a captive Lucy 'Oh, your Mom who always loved you and never stopped looking? Yeah, I raped her until she killed herself. So—how about joining up with me and shagging your little brother?' The anime never brings up Lucy's parents, and in one scene early on, Kurama even states that Lucy is only the most viable and reproductive capable, not the first such birth. Though it is never made clear if he means her vectors (arms) creating other horned girls, or actual birth capability, and if maybe these other known births were members of the Kakuzawas.

Mind you, I love and adore this series. But it's got plotholes, gaps and inconsistencies that only a much longer series should ever have.

Elfen Lied makes me sad. Whenever I see Lucy, I feel like punching her and hugging her.

edited 30th May '14 12:52:07 PM by Serocco

That just about sums it all up.