From the very beginning (after only 5 minutes) it was clearly that anime will be very predictable, and I was right! Story is total cliche - Humans are bad, utterly evil so let's kill them all! One day Lucy is discovering that Kouta lied to her so she decided to kill his familly, and we should sorry for her? Characters are shallow, especially the main - Lucy! She have some stupid powers - giant invisible hands (vectors) for massacre, but they have a limited range of a few meters, and Lucys doses only 2 meters. I don't see what is so special about it The only disturbing part in this anime for me was Lucys (dis)ability to talk! She was so irritating always when she opens her mouth and said - Nyu! It's not very scary anime, it have plenty of cheap shock effects. I really I don't see what is so deep and tragic in this anime that only shows some funny gore (flying limbs), fanservice and bad animation. Probably Elfen Lied is one of the most overrated anime, and calling it masterpiece is ridiculous! Maybe this anime is aimed for younger audience (elementery school children) and this anime is probably good only for them! (show less)