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Elfen Lied (TV)

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© LYNN OKAMOTO •SHUEISHA/VAP • GENCO


[ adapted from Elfen Lied (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Elfen Lied (OAV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Cancion Elfica (Spanish)
Erufen rîto
Эльфийская песнь (Russian)
إلفن ليد (Arabic)
エルフェンリート (Japanese)
엘펜리트 (Korean)
Genres: drama, horror, psychological, romance, science fiction
Themes: fanservice, harem, inner demons, mutants, superpowers, tragedy
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murder most of the guards in the laboratory, only to get shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives and manages to drift along to a beach, where two teenagers named Kouta and Yuka discovers her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the evil "Lucy" is not dead just yet...
Video:
User Ratings: 6298 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 2123 votes (sub:1561, dub:460, Spa.sub:41, Por.sub:13, Ger.dub:10, raw:8, edit.dub:8, ?:6, Ger.sub:3, Rus.dub:2, Fre.sub:2, Pol.sub:2, Spa.dub:2, Ita.sub:2, Ara.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Excellent: 1807 votes (sub:1360, dub:358, Spa.sub:31, ?:11, raw:9, Por.sub:7, Fre.sub:6, Ita.sub:4, Ger.dub:4, Rus.sub:3, edit.dub:3, Ger.sub:3, Spa.dub:2, English:1, Pol.sub:1, Swe.sub:1, Ita.dub:1, Rus.dub:1, Dut.sub:1)
 Very good: 1174 votes (sub:915, dub:206, Spa.sub:14, ?:8, Fre.sub:4, Rus.sub:4, Ita.sub:3, Spa.dub:3, Pol.sub:3, raw:3, Ger.dub:3, edit.dub:2, Por.sub:2, Rus.dub:1, Spa.edit.dub:1, Dut.sub:1, Kor.sub:1)
 Good: 575 votes (sub:450, dub:96, Spa.sub:10, raw:5, Por.sub:4, Fre.sub:2, Ger.dub:2, Pol.sub:2, ?:1, Ita.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, Fre.dub:1)
 Decent: 251 votes (sub:194, dub:49, Spa.sub:3, ?:2, raw:1, Rus.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 So-so: 104 votes (sub:78, dub:21, Ger.dub:2, raw:1, Spa.sub:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Not really good: 72 votes (sub:58, dub:10, Spa.sub:3, raw:1)
 Weak: 68 votes (sub:50, dub:12, raw:2, Ita.sub:1, Spa.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, Pol.sub:1)
 Bad: 55 votes (sub:42, dub:10, Rus.sub:2, ?:1)
 Awful: 23 votes (sub:16, dub:4, ?:2, Spa.dub:1)
 Worst ever: 46 votes (sub:40, dub:4, Spa.sub:1, raw:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 9833 users, rank: #10
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.504 (Excellent-.49), std. dev.: 1.7872, rank: #133
Weighted mean: 8.365 (Very good+.36), rank: #152 (seen all: 8.49 / seen some: 6.55 / won't finish: 3.61)
Bayesian estimate: 8.363 (Very good+.36), rank: #85
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2004-07-25 to 2004-10-17
Releases: We have 10
Opening Theme:
"Lilium" by Kumiko Noma
Ending Theme:
"Be Your Girl" by Chieko Kawabe
Official website:
Madman's Official Elfen Lied Website
VAP's Elfen Lied Site (Japanese)
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 10
In the news 17 times:
2009-10-27   So-Ra-No-Wo-To Anime to Launch Manga on November 27
2009-08-11   So-Ra-No-Wo-To Promo Streamed by Aniplex, TV Tokyo
2009-08-06   Anime Network Online Heads to UK, Ponyo UK Opening in 2010
2009-04-01   N. America's 2007 Anime Market Pegged at US$2.8 Billion (Update 3)
2008-12-19   Denpa teki na Kanojo OVA to Be Added to Kure-nai Manga
2008-03-06   Gokurakuin's Sekirei to be Animated for TV This Summer
2007-09-13   UK's Propeller TV Expands Anime Network to Daily Block
2007-07-31   Director Kobun Shizuno at New York Anime Festival
2007-05-14   Anime Network Expands into UK with Two Weekly Hours
2006-05-30   ADV on ZVUE
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Related reviews:
    Elfen Lied DVD 4
    Elfen Lied DVD 2
    Elfen Lied DVD 1

Related releases:
    Elfen Lied - Complete Collection (DVD) 2009-06-16 (from $23.31)
    Elfen Lied - Vector One (DVD 1) 2005-05-17 (from $21.29)
    Elfen Lied - Vector One + Artbox (DVD 1) 2005-05-17 (from $29.19)
    Elfen Lied - Vector Two (DVD 2) 2005-07-12 (from $21.29)
    Elfen Lied - Vector Three (DVD 3) 2005-09-20 (from $6.00)
    Elfen Lied - Vector Four (DVD 4) 2005-11-15 (from $21.29)
    Elfen Lied - DVD Collection (Thinpak) (DVD 1-4) 2006-11-28

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Mamoru Kanbe

Series Composition: Takao Yoshioka

Script: Takao Yoshioka

Storyboard:
Mamoru Kanbe (ep 1, OP)
Sumie Watanabe (ep 2)

Episode Director:
Keizou Kusakawa (ep 11)
Mamoru Kanbe (ep 1)
Sumie Watanabe (ep 2)

Music:
Kayo Konishi
Moka
Yukio Kondoh (eps 1-13)
Yukio Kondoo

Original creator: Lynn Okamoto

Character Design: Seiji Kishimoto

Art director: Akira Ito

Chief Animation Director: Seiji Kishimoto

Animation director:
Gian Muto (ep 1)
Nobutomo Hattori (ep 2)

Mechanical design:
Hiroyuki Ogawa
Hiroyuki Taiga (eps 1-13)

Art design: Tomoyuki Aoki

Sound director: Katsunori Shimizu

Co-director: Kobun Shizuno

Director of Photography:
Hisai Shirai (eps 1-13)
Hisao Shirai

Producer:
Kazuaki Morijiri
Manabu Tamura
Osamu Koshinaka

Animation Coordination: Tetsuya Arae

Assistant Art Director: Zhu Qi

Assistant Recording: Emi Katoh

Background Art:
An Yan Zhen (eps 1-2)
Chen Qian (eps 1-2)
Chen Jia Yi (eps 1-2)
Kotaroh Mita (OP)
Li Ying (eps 1-2)
Pan Wen (eps 1-2)
Pan Ying Ying (eps 1-2)
Xu Ji Chen (eps 1-2)
Yang Zong Da (eps 1-2)
Yin Shan Feng (eps 1-2)
Ying Yi Yun (eps 1-2)
Yu Chen Wei (eps 1-2)
Yuan Li Na (eps 1-2)
Zhang Ying Ying (eps 1-2)
Zhou Jia Qing (eps 1-2)

Color Check:
Akihiro Nakada
Mie Itou (ep 2)

Color design: Ryota Nakada

Coordination:
Masato Shindoh
Takaaki Imai

Design Coordinator: Masanori Koike

Editing: Takeshi Seyama

Executive Production Manager: Takuro Hatakeyama

In-Between Animation:
Mitsutomo Matsumoto (OP)
Shinya Mitsugi (ep 1)

In-Between Check:
Masaru Kanamori (ep 2)
Mitsutomo Matsumoto (ep 1)

Key Animation:
Hidenori Inami (ep 1)
Hitoshi Kamata (ep 2)
Katsumi Shimazaki (ep 2)
Makoto Sawasaki (ep 1)
Masaki Kusumoto (ep 1)
Masami Abe (ep 1)
Masaru Kanamori (ep 2)
Masatomo Sugahara (ep 1)
Michio Satô (ep 2)
Mitsumasa Kimura (ep 2)
Nagisa Nakajima (ep 1)
Rin Shin (ep 1, OP)
Seiji Kishimoto (ep 1)
Shigeru Ishii (ep 1)
Sumie Watanabe (ep 2)
Takahiro Hoshinoo (ep 1)
Takayuki Kanouchi (ep 2)
Toshihiko Shimada (ep 1)
Tsutomu Miyazawa (ep 1)
Tsutomu Ohshiro (ep 1)
Yasuomi Umetsu (ep 1)
Yohko Ariizumi (ep 1)
Yoshimi Imagawa (ep 2)
Yoshimitsu Yamashita (ep 1)
Yuuki Itoh (ep 1)

Off-Line Editing:
Megumi Uehida
Rie Matsubara

On-Line Editing: Masahiro Onoue

Paint:
Akihiro Nakada (OP)
Haremi Miyakawa (ep 1)
Kimiko Kitazawa (ep 1, OP)
Mio Hanada (ep 1)

Photography:
Fujiko Tabata (eps 1-2)
Hiroshi Yoshida (eps 1-2)
Hisayuki Sadamatsu (eps 1-2)
Katsuyoshi Kishi (eps 1-2)
Kazuhiro Udagawa (eps 1-2)
Kohichi Gonda (eps 1-2)
Kotaroh Mita (OP)
Naohisa Haijima (eps 1-2)
Norikazu Yamaguchi (eps 1-2)
Shinji Ikegami (eps 1-2)
Shunsuke Uotani (eps 1-2)
Taro Okuzawa (eps 1-2)
Tohru Sugawara (eps 1-2)
Tomohiro Nishiyama (eps 1-2)
Toshino Yasuno (eps 1-2)
Yuji Shirai (eps 1-2)
Yuko Orikasa (eps 1-2)
Yumiko Morimoto (eps 1-2)

Planning:
Man Ooshima
Mitsuru Ohshima
Taro Maki

Production Coordination: Tomohiro Takahashi

Production manager: Shintaro Nozaki

Production Support: Seiji Suzuki

Public Relations:
Hirohiko Manabe
Takayuki Sekimoto

Recording: Norio Nishizawa

Recording Assistant: Megumi Kato

Sound Effects: Mutsuhiro Nishimura

Special Effects: Toshio Hasegawa

Theme Song Performance:
Chieko Kawabe (ED)
Kumiko Noma (OP)

 

Chihiro Suzuki as Kouta

Sanae Kobayashi as Lucy / Nyuu

Emiko Hagiwara as Mayu

Hiroaki Hirata as Professor Kakuzawa Yu

Hitomi Nabatame as Kouta (child)

Jouji Nakata as Bandou

Kinryuu Arimoto as Chief Kakuzawa

Mamiko Noto as Yuka

Maria Yamamoto as Kanae

Osamu Hosoi as Kurama

Tomoko Kawakami as Mariko

Yuki Matsuoka as Nana

Akemi Kanda as Kurama's wife (ep 10)

Asuka Tanii as Secretary

Daisuke Ono as Kouta's father (ep 12)

Eriko Ishihara as Arakawa

Fumiko Osaka as Bakery employee (eps 4-5)

Hajime Iijima as
Crepe store employee (ep 7)
Sniper

Hideo Watanabe as
Detective B (eps 3, 11)
Mayu's father (ep 5)
Policeman B (ep 9)

Hitomi Nabatame as Shirokawa

Kazuma Horie as Oomori (ep 10)

Ken Takeuchi as
Policeman C (ep 9)
Satou (ep 3)

Kimitake Kakegawa as Sniper (ep 4)

Lynn Okamoto as Special Guest (ep 12)

Maria Yamamoto as
Girl (ep 6)
Kisaragi
Saitou (ep 11)

Masakazu Kohara as
Policeman A (ep 9)
Researcher
SAT Commander

Mikako Takahashi as No.3 (ep 10)

Naoki Kinoshita as Man in suit

Noriko Shitaya as Girl (eps 8-9)

Reiko Takagi as Tomoo (eps 8-9)

Shuu Takahashi as Student (ep 5)

Toshihiko Kojima as Detective A (eps 3, 11)

Yuuki Tai as Guard

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: ARMS

Animation Support: Studio Guts (ep 2)

Background Art: Shanghai Superman (eps 1-2)

Broadcaster: AT-X

In-Between Animation:
F.A.I. International (ep 1)
Hanjin Animation (ep 1)
Jiwoo Production (ep 1)
Kawatatsu (ep 1)
Triple A (ep 2)

Music Production: VAP

Off-Line Editing: Seyama Production

On-Line Editing: Data Art

Paint:
F.A.I. International (ep 1)
Hanjin Animation (ep 1)
Jiwoo Production (ep 1)
Triple A (ep 2)

Photography: Studio Cosmos

Production:
GENCO
VAP

Recording Studio: Seion Studio

Released: VAP (eps 1-13)

Sound Production: Zack Promotion

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Jin Ho Chung

Translation: Masako Ollivier

ADR Script: David Harrison

Executive producer:
John Ledford
Mark Williams

Producer: Jin Ho Chung

Creative Director:
Chris Hawley
David Del Rio

Dialogue Editing:
Afshar Kharat
Jacob A. Gragard

DVD Coordination: Mariela Ortiz

DVD Menu Design:
Bill Newton
Russell Etchen

Editing:
Neil O'Sullivan
Patrick Givens

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Mix: Wade Shemwell

Packaging & DVD Graphics: Russell Etchen

Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas

Production Assistant:
Maki Nagano
Miyuki Kamiya
Paul Mericle
Sara Muir

Production manager: Joey Goubeaud

Recording engineer:
Afshar Kharat
Eden J. Barrera
Henry Rogers
Jon Duckworth
Matt Crawford

Senior Translator: Shoko Oono

Sound Design: Wade Shemwell

Subtitling: Neal Barnes

Adam Conlon as Kohta

Kira Vincent-Davis as Nyu/Lucy

Andy McAvin as Director Kakuzawa

Cynthia Martinez as Mayu

Jason Douglas as Bandoh

Jay Hickman as Kurama

John Swasey as Professor Kakuzawa

Luci Christian as Mariko

Nancy Novotny as Yuka

Sasha Paysinger as Nana

Shelley Calene-Black as Shirakawa

Afshar Kharat as Bully A

Allison Sumrall as
Girl on Street
Number 3
Saitoh
School Girl
Woman on Beach

Andy McAvin as Police Officer

Brandon Peters as
Detective B
Machine Operator
Police Officer C
SAT B
SWAT C

Brandon Scott Peters as SWAT B

Chris Ayres as
Detective A
Police Officer A
SAT A
Sharpshooter
SWAT B

Chris Patton as
Police B
SWAT A
Tomoo
Young Man

Christine Auten as
Child Kohta
Crepe Customer B
Female Announcer
Mayu's Mother
Nurse
Phone Message Voice
Staff B

David Matranga as
Male Staff
Ohmoni
Police Officer B

George Manley as
Drunk Man
Man
Police Megaphone
SAT Captian

Jessica Boone as Arakawa

John Swasey as
Doctor
Kohta's Father
News Anchor

Kelly Manison as
Bakery Woman (ep 4)
Crepe Customer A
Nurse
Secretary
Staff A

Luci Christian as Hiromi Kurama

Marty Fleck as Narrator

Matt Crawford as
Police Officer D
Researcher B
SWAT D

Monica Rial as
Kanae
Nurse (ep 4)

Nancy Novotny as Bully B

Rick Piersall as Isobe

Tiffany Grant as
Girl
Kisaragi

Ty Mahany as
Crepe Store Owner
Doctor
Mayu's Step-Father
Police A

Xero Reynolds as
Man
Satoh

English companies 

ADR Recording: ADV Studios

Broadcaster: The Anime Network

Distributor: ADV Films (UK) (UK)

DVD Production: ADV Studios

Licensed by:
ADV Films
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)

French staff 
French cast 

Directrice De Plateau: Julie Basecqz

 

Alessandro Bevilacqua as Kouta

David Manet as Kurama

Julie Basecqz as Lucy / Nyuu

Marie Van R as Arakawa

Marie Van Renterghem as Arakawa

Martin Spinhayer as Bandou

Mathieu Moreau as
Satou (ep 2)
Yû Kakuzawa

Patrick Brüll as Narrateur

Peppino Capotondi as L'inspecteur

Véronique Fyon as Yuka

French companies 

Broadcaster:
MCM (from 10 September 2009)
MCM Belgique
Virgin 17

Distributor: Kaze

Dubbing: Mirroring


Spanish staff 
(none)
Spanish companies 

Broadcaster:
Buzz Channel (Spain)
LAPTV (Cityvibe)

Spanish cast 

Rosa Guillén as Lucy / Nyuu

German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Jesco Wirthgen as Kouta

Samia Little Elk as Lucy/Nyu

Engelbert von Nordhausen as Director Kakuzawa

Gerald Paradies as Bandou

Jennifer Weiss as Mariko

Julia Kaufmann as Yuka

Kathrin Neusser as Mayu

Robert Schmalz as Kouta (child)

Rubina Kuraoka as Nana

Anna Predleus as Mädchen im Kinderheim

Bodo Wolf as älterer Polizist

Erich Räuker as Kurama

Ghadah Al-Akel as Kisaragi

Gundi Eberhard as Arakawa

Marco Kröger as Erzähler

Markus Haase as Yuu Kakuzawa

German companies 

Distributor: ADV Films (DT)

Dubbing: Deutsche Synchron Filmgesellschaft mbH


Arabic staff 
(none)
Arabic companies 

Broadcaster: space power

Arabic cast 
(none)
Dutch staff 
Dutch cast 

Director: Max van den Broek

Translation:
Max van den Broek (Dubbing)
Niels Viveen

Co-director: Priscilla Stinissen

 

Mark de Groot as Kouta

Nico Roukema as Professor Kakuzawa Yu

Priscilla Stinissen as Nyu

Rob Wienk as Kurama

Dutch companies 

Distributor: Kaze Animation S.A (Dutch and French)

Dubbing: FansFour

Russian staff 
(none)
Russian companies 

Distributor: MC Entertainment

Russian cast 
(none)
 
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