!tasukuchan

Does anybody know anything about the latest episode aired in Japan...I guess they aired a fourteenth episode of Elfen Lied. So I am not sure why I can't find it on Boxtorrents. Anyway, that kind of distorts the whole equilibrium of the dubbed releases to the US ~ I think the first DVD is actually coming out in May.

dark_glaive

What 14th episode? Can anybody else confirm this?

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!tasukuchan

Yes. It can be confirmed by going to the English fansite www.elfenlied.net

!Kikinaki

I do not know if this appropriate to ask, but can you explain whats Elfen Lied is about Tasukuchan? Just curious.

!tasukuchan

LoL ~ Yes. Elfen Lied is a thirteen episode series (Now purportedly 14 episodes) which contains graphic nudity and violence. The central storyline revolves around a male character named Kouta and a female mutated human (or diclonious) named Lucy. However Lucy has a split personality, which comes out whenever she undergoes stress or recieves an abrasion to her head. This personage is given the appropriate handle of "Nyuu" as that is all she can say. I would go more in depth, however I fear that would cause spoilers, hence moving my topic elsewhere to a different room. However I can give you the assumed origin for the title Elfen Lied. It is an old German poem.



At night in the village the watchman cried "Elf!"
A very small elf was asleep in the wood -
just at eleven! -
And he thinks that the nightingale
must have called him by name from the valley,
or Silpelit might have sent for him.

So the elf rubs his eyes,
comes out of his snail-shell house,
and is like a drunken man,
his nap was not finished;
and he hobbles down, tip tap,
through the hazel wood into the valley,
slips right up to the wall;
there sits the glow-worm, light on light.

"What are those bright windows?
There must be a wedding inside;
the little people are sitting at the feast,
and dancing about in the ballroom.
So I'll just take a peep in!"

Shame! he hits his head on hard stone!
Well, elf, had enough, have you?
Cuckoo! Cuckoo!



Obviously this poem has nothing to do with the series itself, yet if you were to look closely enough at the titles of each episode, each has its own German translation.


ADDITIONALLY~ IF anyone is vaguely familiar with the Elfen Lied fansite, then would they happen to know why the Elfen Lied game does not appear to work? After following all instructions, I am at a loss ... once again u.u;;

!lord nikon

I saw the site, and the 14th episode is going to be great.

!tasukuchan

Sweet PM me what the basic synopsis of it is. Also , do you know what the flaw in the game is? I can't figure it out for the life of me!

thevampirealacrud

Totally confirmed, it's all over other sites about anime too!

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Raven Omega

Err... I think the 14th episode doesn't even have Lucy in it, and it focuses on Nana, it was released as a bonus with the last DVD in japan, of course my info on this is a few months old so I can't say with 100% certainty, I am sure that it will be on (most likely) the final DVD of Elfen Lied's US DVD release. Volume One (Or as they call it, Vector One) will be out 5/17/05. Since they're calling the volumes vectors, I'm guessing it's gonna be a 4 DVD release (4 Volumes/Vectors; Lucy and Nana have 4 vectors, OMG GET IT?! :\)

As for the game, I've gotten it to work, you probably need to have japanese windows settings, Start>Control Panel>Regional and Language Options. Then in one of the tabs check off the language packs for Chinese and Japanese, there should be about 3 and they'll be at the top, can't be more specific since I'm using a restricted library computer now. If that doesn't work, then in the first tab change Windows settings entirely to japanese, but it should not be necessary.

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!tasukuchan

Too funny. So I am kind of in the dust on what happened within the last 5 minutes of episode thirteen. Although I don't want to give any spoilers, it just confused me after seeing her horn, um, being desecrated <.<;; Oh, thanks for help on the game. I will try it again ~ last time I tried extracting it with 7-zip, and it didn't work, but I will try, as you said, the language characters. I WAS looking on the fansite for Elfen Lied, and I can somewhat see your point about actually how the 14th episodes WOULD revolve around Nana. They seem to accentuate her much throughout the final 4 episodes or so.

Raven Omega

Yeah, make sure you have those packs THEN unzip with 7-zip, cause it can't unzip it properly if you don't have the languages in the first place

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Well in the last episode, Lucy's one horn was blown off, for Lucy one horn controls two vectors, then the other one was shot off and thus she lost all vectors. The ending to the anime is a lot different from the manga's alls I can suggest you do is look at both of them and decide which you like better. But I will reveal one thing about the manga's continuance, Lucy turns into the equivalent of Goku from DBZ o.o; I'm talkin' Super Diclonius 2 or something like that with huge horns instead of hair! I really need to read up to that point still... And yes she does survive and return to live with Kouta, Yuka, Mayu, and Nana. But as Nyuu and not Lucy. She really COULD be in the 14th episode, if she is, then she'll just be a hornless Nyuu.

##########END SPOILERS COMMENCE READING#########

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