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Elfen Lied is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Lynn Okamoto. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump from June 2002 to August 2005, with the 107 chapters collected into twelve tankōbon volumes.

Plot
Elfen Lied takes place in Kamakura and Kanagawa, and focuses on the "Diclonius", a newly mutated species. Their appearance is similar to humans, but with several differences, namely horn-like protrusions on the forehead and the presence of telekinetic invisible arms called "Vectors". One such Diclonius, Lucy, is the main character of the series: Initially held in a facility built for experimentation, located off the coast of Kamakura, she manages to escape and wreak havoc, but is injured in the process, an event which causes her to develop a secondary, childlike personality known as Nyu.

Lucy is found by two locals, Kouta, who studies at the local university, and his cousin Yuka. They take her in, and become involved with the numerous, often brutal, attempts to recapture her by a Special Assault Team and a number of other Diclonius, who shift frequently from oblivious to murderous.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) A first Biggest criticism plot while not bad by itself, is interesting, and had a lot of potential does not know what to do with itself as it shifts from the Special Assault Team trying to recapture Lucy and to Kouta's harem and it does it back and forth Every time to the point it can't find it's own identity.
 * 2) The Second Biggest Criticism of this is the Lazy, poor, amateurish art style. While it does get slightly better after Volume 5 is still a small improvement making it mediocre at best in later volumes making this whole story look goofy.
 * 3) Most of the Characters are mostly bland and 1 dimensional such as Kouta, who is bland while in the Anime he is giving more character depth and serves as a love interest for Lucy. Also includes Nozomi as a useless character that shouldn't even exist at all.
 * 4) Too many unnecessary perverted scenes of Lucy groping the other females in Kouta's harem just to satisfy Okatomos Fetishes
 * 5) This is WAY darker than the actual Anime which can turn off people from reading it
 * 6) The infamous Incest plan where Dr. Kakuzawa wanted to procreate with Lucy (which she is the only one that can reproduce normally) to get enough diclonius to take over and end humanity seems very laughable and weird to most readers
 * 7) Some plot holes

Good Qualities

 * 1) While the Plot is not perfect, it had a very interesting premise which still makes it a nice read.
 * 2) It had a better anime adaptation which fix most major problems such as characterization (most notably Kouta) and minimized the perverted things
 * 3) The Art stated in BQ2 is excusable since this is Okatomo's first manga he created and had no experience drawing a seinen manga
 * 4) Most Characters such as Bando, Nana, and Dr. Kakuzawa are likable and well developed than the Anime (since they get their character developments later on which the Anime doesn't cover).
 * 5) The Villain Dr. Iwagaska makes a very interesting villain (even if he is not written that well).
 * 6) Lucy is Still Likable.
 * 7) Gave inspiration for the popular acclaimed Netflix Series, Stranger Things.
 * 8) It had a wholesome ending for everybody.
 * 9) Despite the flaws of this, some people who hated the anime consider this to be somewhat of a better alternative.

Reception
Despite all the flaws being present here, it has gained many positive reviews than the anime