Length:13 episodes
Plot
The main character Koda moves to the town where his cousin lives to go to school. He has not seen his cousin or the town for years, after visiting one summer before his Dad and little sister died. Koda and his cousin Yuka find a strange girl naked on the beach, unable to say anything but "Nyuu" and they take her in. Despite how innocent "Nyuu" (what they name the girl) seems, she is actually a psychopathic killer with telekinetic powers who has lost her memory. She is a"Diclonius"- a genetically mutated human being distinguishable by her telekinetic powers, and two horns on her head.
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| Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" Music/ Opening/ Closing |
Characters
Koda
I'm not sure that I really liked Koda. When he wasn't being clumsy and stupid, he was crying. I know he went through a lot, but to be honest- I would've appreciated if he stopped being such a puss.
Yuka
I hated Yuka. She was whiny and didn't have a life beyond crying about the fact that Koda didn't like her as much as she liked him. I felt like she deserved a good punch in the face
Lucy/Nyuu
Yet another anime character with a personality disorder. YAYY. Lucy is a psychopath who breaks out of a facility just for Diclonii, and then gets shot in the head and her personality splits. Sometimes she's the cute, innocent, and simple Nyuu, and other times she's the vengeful psychopath Lucy. I actually really like her because as Nyuu she's so adorable, and as Lucy she's a complete badass. I know she kills a lot of innocent people, and disassembles Nana- another diclonius, but there was a reason that she started killing people. Not that one reason justifies popping people's heads and limbs off as if they were dolls, but... yeah.
Mayu
She's a homeless run-away who has a cute little puppy. She keeps getting into situations, and Koda and Yuka take her in after she is injured and calls them from the hospital. She's a pretty decent character with an upsetting backstory.
Nana/ Number 7
Nana is the only good Diclonius in the show. She was also imprisoned in the same facility as Lucy and is sent to track her down. She does everything for her "Papa", the lead researcher of the facility who has led her to believe that he is her father. She prides herself on being a good girl. She loses her limbs in a fight with Lucy, and the head researcher is told to kill her because she is no longer of use. However he rescues her. Throughout the show she doesn't really kill anyone- not that I remember at least. She's a good person, despite being tortured, and kept in a facility all her life.
Controversial Stuff
Boobs, blood and gore galore. Seriously. The Diclonii can't keep their clothing on for very long. The opening and closing animation is full of nude shots of Lucy. Plus, blood sprays everywhere. It's not like the people just fall down dead in this show. They are ripped apart. There's tons of blood, and guts. I think the worst part is when Nana loses her limbs.
However, it wasn't as bad as some of the other shows I've seen... and I could watch this mostly because it was just drawing. If it was fake blood and real people I would've been more willing to turn it off. I've watched Supernatural episodes that made me 3x more squeamish.
So yeah- If blood and boobs aren't your cup of tea, then.. don't watch this. Eurgh. Just got a mental image of that.
Overall
Have we established that I'm not quite right in the head by this point? Yes? No?
Well, I liked it despite the blood, guts and gore. I thought it was intelligent and well-thought out. I was a little apprehensive when i first heard of it- because i did hear that it was really bloody. It wasn't that bad... but I already mentioned that the fact that it was animated, and therefore didn't affect me as much. The characters, for the most part were kind of annoying. Also I didn't like how they didn't really address why Yuka liked Koda so much other than he was good at things. We didn't find out much about Yuka at all, and she was horrible and two-dimensional. She was either crying, or slapping Koda across the face all the time.
The storyline was a bit off.. I don't know exactly what it was, but yeah. Also- I didn't like how it showed how Lucy became how she was, but all the other Diclonius except for Nana were awful killing machines.
I liked it, but I'm not a super fan. It ended really abruptly because the manga wasn't finished yet, and so they just ended it, insinuating that Lucy came back for Koda.
Star Rating: ***/*****
Abrupt ending, little explanation for certain things, annoying whiny characters, and excessive gore, drag down an anime that I really liked overall.
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