Back in the days of my stupid childhood self, I loved Elfen lied..So much. I used to think it was the best manga/anime written on the planet, and that's nothing could surpass it's darkness, psychology, message and smarteness...WHAT A MORON I WAS!
First of all, all fictions (ok maybe not all of them.) have some deep messages, just because blood and violence don't splatter at every corner of screen and the decor setting might be of young girls, sunshine, rainbow, ribbon, power and friendship and love and glitter do not mean that's a fiction even like this can't have something deep to say (ex : Shugo Chara -manga version- how to find you'r true self-, mew mew power -ecological message-, Sugar sugar rune -How to equilibrate things well betweend friendship and love, and differenciating it from lust...Do I need to continue?)
Anyway, all this tangent, to say, recently I came back to Elfen lied manga (begin of October?..) I read it, and oh my fricking EVA!!, it's so cringeworthy!
The drawings are, eeew, the characters not deep and one dimensional, they're all only cute puchebags serving to drama melancholic backstory, otherwise, they're are reaallyyy clumsy, stupids, morons, egoisticall, selfish, superficial and boring, and hollow as heck! + the backstory and the among of nudity of all the youngs girls in supplementary of the girl having a diaper and pissing herself off seemed just off of a deep weird fetish that's I rather not know, the mangaka Lynn have. The characters have much deepness as the ones of Love Hina! Even Lucy
I would have understand the hype and worshipness surrounding Elfen Lied years ago, after all I came from here too, but now it's not anymore for me...
...But, despite all the mean things I say, I really love the anime very very much. The story, characters, music, graphism are much much better. Still a bit cringeworthy because it's Elfen lied, but much much better than it's material source.
Ban me forever.