At 6/12/07 06:16 PM, Girouette wrote:
Perhaps you're thinking of Elfen Laid?
Horrendous pun.
Last time I checked, a manga / anime isn't rated 18+ unless it's actually porn.
Not every distributor uses the same rating system.
ADV uses broadcast TV ratings, Elfen Lied is rated TV MA. Which in case you didn't know is pretty much "18+"
Elfen Lied would be considered art.
Charles Solomon begs to differ.
The broadcast series Elfen Lied (2004) represents another example of the murderous-waif genre that includes Gunslinger Girl, Burst Angel, and Saikano. Lucy is a diclonius, a mutant capable of killing humans without touching them--a talent she demonstrates repeatedly when she escapes from a secret research facility. She washes up on a beach where two good-natured, simple-minded college freshmen find her. As Lucy can only say "Nyu," Kohta and Yuka call her that and adopt her, unaware of her deadly powers. Elfen Lied is a weird mixture of gratuitous gore, treacly sentimentality, and fan-service nudity. Nyu/Lucy shifts from cringing innocent to articulate murderer and back for no apparent reason; Yuka nurtures a secret passion for Kohta, although he's her cousin. Inane, incoherent, and distasteful, Elfen Lied offers all the clichés that give anime a bad name. (Rated TV MA VSL, appropriate for ages 17 and older: graphic violence, violence against women, nudity, profanity, sexual situations, toilet humor, tobacco use)--Charles Solomon