Not sure how to feel about this...

I mean I watched Elfen Lied when I was 15 as a teenage in 2004. Then again about 8 years ago with the wife. I enjoyed it watching both times. As a even bigger manga fan than anime, I was excited to try the source material = the manga. However, this feels a lot more....trashy? Than the anime. Maybe it's been awhile since I watched it but this felt a lot more ecchi/hentai-ish than the anime.

So this starts very similar. Lucy (or Nyu when she loses her mind) breaks out of her imprisonment and goes on a rampage, killing anyone who's in her way. As she's escaping she is shot in the head, but her metal mask covers the brunt of it, but as she falls into the water and awakens she can't remember who she is and acts like a kid. She then meets Kouta and Yuka, cousins who are living together now and take her in.

So from there it starts off brutal and goes into much more comedy route. Nyu/Lucy keeps messing with Kouta, having him grab her breast, get her naked, you know. Normal stuff you do to strangers you rescue. Yuka is jealous of her COUSIN, and wonders if he would touch HER breast...COUSINS...yo what the fuck?

Anyway...Soon the people who lost Lucy send people after her. Including a insane person who likes to murder people. This guy is hilarious, over the top, and curses more than me. See Brando is a moron but he's funny as hell, and him yelling "Yo this some exorcist shit" when Lucy goes after him is perfection.

Anyway, the rest of the chapters speed through the anime. Trying to deal with serious situations like child abuse but don't mind displaying panty shots of that said character prior...and after...what? WHAT?

Yeah there's some huge problems in this manga. And the dialogue can be extremely laughable.

Doctor: I need you to spread your seed.
Brando: Doc...are you fucking dumb you fucking idiot?

LOL Good times. For the absurdity I have to read on. A 2.5 out of 5.