Let's discuss Family Guy...

[Yukaphile]

I have no idea. It sickened me, though.

[ProfessorDetective]

I have no idea. It sickened me, though.

Then honestly, I'd stay away from pretty much ANY adult-aimed animation, at least from the USA (and a LOT of anime), if I were you. Pretty much everything post-watershed gets stupid gory in spots.

[Yukaphile]

And yet, I love Elfen Lied. I think it has the best girls in all of fiction - not anime, fiction.

[Admiral X]

Dude, watch something by Go Nagai and get back to me.

I mean, I'm not really one to play gatekeeper, but this is kind of reminding me of that screeching over Goblin Slayer a while back, which made me wonder if any of those people had ever watched anything other than Naruto and Bleach. I'm betting pretty much anything considered a classic by vintage anime watchers like myself would give these people PTSD.

Obviously you've watched Elfen Lied before, so you really ought to know better - you can bet your ass that the people complaining about Goblin Slayer would have pretty much all the same things to say about Elfen Lied. Hell, probably actually worse things to say about it. It's why it's so silly that you're throwing shade at something you didn't even watch for yourself, which actually has the context of being a reference to something else (Poltergeist), which is basically Family Guy's raison d'être. I mean, you're really saying that these particular instance of Family Guy are indecent no matter what the context, yet you're a huge fan of a show that has this stuff in it?

Gore and nudity warning, like big time

youtu.be/M3Iznevw2X4

The Family Guy scene by comparison:

youtu.be/yWST32TktcM

Which one do you think the vast majority of people would have more of a problem with?

[Yukaphile]

Elfen Lied, obviously. It also has tons of unrestricted naked shots with uncensored views into the girls', um... "private parts," lol.

[Admiral X]

It was also much, much gorier, moreso than the actual movie Family Guy was plagarizing-I mean parodying.

[Yukaphile]

It's gorier, and yet somehow Family Guy upsets me more. It's pointlessly mean-spirited while Elfen Lied, from the animation and visual style, just seems to be dripping with more artistic vision, from the fidelity to the real world they are striving for, to the gorgeous shots of backgrounds, how beautiful character models look, I just appreciate Elfen Lied more. And besides, you KNOW most moral-objecting people afraid of their bodies or far-left snowflakes would object to the nudity. And the stuff like the facility only caging the girls naked, I could understand, but that's kind of the point, to show off that this is past the pale and it's the normalization of dehumanization and social alienation.

[Mecha82]

Some one in comment section of Anime America's Top 10 most satisfying Death's in Anime video put it that Elfen Lied is anime were you sheer for psychopath because everyone in it are so terrible people which seems accurate based on what I know about Elfen Lied.

[Yukaphile]

Plus, Lucy has a compelling tragic backstory, and all the poor little Diclonius girls being stripped and chained and bloodied and experimented on aren't really all that bad. They're hearing voices. Containment is clearly necessary. The extreme depths of depravity the humans sink to past the pale simply out of racially-fueled jealousy and fear is unforgivable. And give Lucy this, for as hungry as she is and desperate for some sort of connection to another person, she could easily rationalize it to herself to force herself on somebody, especially if it means breeding more like her to wipe out humanity. She does not. She even cares for animals. She has standards. That said, I think her redemption would be a lot easier than others in fiction. She just thinks she doesn't deserve it and that for her, it's impossible.

[Admiral X]

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