{"product_id":"elfen-lied-complete-tv-ova-blu-ray","title":"Elfen Lied - Complete TV + OVA Blu-ray","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLucy is a Diclonius\u003c\/strong\u003e — a human-appearing mutant with small horns, pink hair, and an invisible network of telekinetic appendages called Vectors that can slice through steel and tear bodies apart at the molecular level. \u003cstrong\u003eShe has been imprisoned and experimented on since childhood\u003c\/strong\u003e in a government facility, her entire existence a product of human cruelty. When she escapes in a spectacular and extremely bloody breakout, a head injury leaves her with a fractured personality — the childlike, innocent Nyu — and she washes up naked and amnesiac on a beach near Kamakura. Two college students, cousins Kouta and Yuka, find her and take her in. Kouta carries a trauma of his own, a childhood memory he cannot fully access, whose connection to Lucy becomes apparent only gradually. The facility sends operatives to retrieve her. Other Diclonius are deployed against her. And the sweet, helpless Nyu who can barely say her own name exists alongside the devastatingly dangerous Lucy whose capacity for violence has no ceiling — sharing one body, one face, and one slowly emerging question about whether anything humanity did to her can be answered with anything other than extinction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElfen Lied is a 13-episode dark fantasy horror series produced by Arms Corporation — the studio behind Kite and Mezzo Forte — and directed by Mamoru Kanbe, based on Lynn Okamoto's manga serialized in Weekly Young Jump. It aired on AT-X from July to October 2004 and is one of the most discussed and debated anime of the 2000s — praised for the genuine emotional weight beneath its extreme violence and fan service, criticized for its deployment of those same elements, and consistently cited as a formative viewing experience by a generation of Western anime fans. The opening title sequence, using Klimt-inspired imagery set to the haunting Latin choral piece \"Lilium\" by Yukio Kondo, remains one of the most memorable in the medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original North American DVD release was by ADV Films beginning 2004. In December 2012, ARMS released a Blu-ray remaster box set in Japan; in September 2013, Section 23 Films and Sentai Filmworks released the remaster to North American audiences under the ADV Films banner — this 2-disc Blu-ray Complete Collection. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotable Staff \u0026amp; Voice Talent\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDirector:\u003c\/b\u003e Mamoru Kanbe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOriginal Manga:\u003c\/b\u003e Lynn Okamoto (serialized in Weekly Young Jump, Shueisha, 2002–2005, 12 volumes)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharacter Design:\u003c\/b\u003e Seiji Kishimoto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStudio:\u003c\/b\u003e Arms Corporation \/ Studio Guts (Kite, Mezzo Forte)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMusic:\u003c\/b\u003e Yukio Kondo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOpening Theme:\u003c\/b\u003e \"Lilium\" — original Latin choral composition by Yukio Kondo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnding Theme:\u003c\/b\u003e \"Be Your Girl\" by Chieko Kawabe \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapanese Cast:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Sanae Kobayashi as Lucy \/ Nyu\u003cbr\u003e- Chihiro Suzuki as Kouta (Pilot Candidate, Voices of a Distant Star)\u003cbr\u003e- Mamiko Noto as Yuka (Kaiba, Freezing Season 1 \u0026amp; Vibration)\u003cbr\u003e- Sayaka Ohara as Mariko\u003cbr\u003e- Kenji Nojima as Bando\u003cbr\u003e- Yuki Matsuoka as Nana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnglish Dub Cast (ADV Films — Houston, original dub used for TV series):\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Luci Christian as Lucy \/ Nyu (Black Bullet — Enju)\u003cbr\u003e- Adam Conlon as Kouta (Voices of a Distant Star)\u003cbr\u003e- Shelley Calene-Black as Yuka (Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Noir)\u003cbr\u003e- Cynthia Martinez as Nana (Voices of a Distant Star, Tenchi GXP) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlu-ray Features (Section 23 \/ Sentai Filmworks 2-Disc Complete Collection)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- All 13 Episodes + OVA \"In Passing Showers\" — Complete Series, Uncensored\u003cbr\u003e- Textless Opening Animation (\"Lilium\")\u003cbr\u003e- Textless Closing Animation\u003cbr\u003e- Character Artwork Gallery\u003cbr\u003e- Production Artwork Gallery\u003cbr\u003e- Based on ARMS 2012 Japanese Blu-ray Remaster \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpoken Languages:\u003c\/b\u003e English \u0026amp; Japanese Audio, English Subtitles \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition Details\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapanese Title:\u003c\/b\u003e エルフェンリート (Erufen Rīto \/ Elfen Lied)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuntime:\u003c\/b\u003e ~350 Minutes (Complete Series, 13 Episodes + OVA, 2 Discs)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDirector:\u003c\/b\u003e Mamoru Kanbe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlu-ray Release Year:\u003c\/b\u003e 2013 (U.S. Release, September 3 — Section 23 Films \/ Sentai Filmworks \/ ADV Films label); Sentai reissue 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOriginal Broadcast Date (Japan):\u003c\/b\u003e July 25 – October 17, 2004 (AT-X)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Section 23 Films \/ Sentai Filmworks (ADV Films label)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRating:\u003c\/b\u003e TV-MA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRegion:\u003c\/b\u003e Region A (North America)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGenre:\u003c\/b\u003e Dark Fantasy, Horror, Drama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThemes:\u003c\/b\u003e Diclonius Persecution, Dual Personality, Government Experimentation, \"Lilium\" Opening, Formative 2000s Western Anime Fan Experience \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedia assumed VG+ unless otherwise noted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sentai Filmworks","offers":[{"title":"Gold Cover - VG+","offer_id":42543036792917,"sku":null,"price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/7673\/7365\/files\/81o_lerc2ZL._SL1280.jpg?v=1780070211","url":"https:\/\/hifilofi.shop\/products\/elfen-lied-complete-tv-ova-blu-ray","provider":"HiFi LoFi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}