Comments on: Elfen Lied http://www.smalleyesbigmouth.com/2006/12/18/elfen-lied/ Yet Another Pointless Anime Blog Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:18:15 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Aaron Nowack http://www.smalleyesbigmouth.com/2006/12/18/elfen-lied/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Aaron Nowack Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:22:29 +0000 http://www.smalleyesbigmouth.com/2006/12/18/elfen-lied/#comment-7 Hundreds, most likely. It's indeed a fairly broad brushstroke, and I'd never suggest that all the shows that can be described by it are the <i>same</i>. They just tend to look that way from a great distance. :) Hundreds, most likely. It’s indeed a fairly broad brushstroke, and I’d never suggest that all the shows that can be described by it are the same.

They just tend to look that way from a great distance. :)

]]> By: Wonderduck http://www.smalleyesbigmouth.com/2006/12/18/elfen-lied/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Wonderduck Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:57:07 +0000 http://www.smalleyesbigmouth.com/2006/12/18/elfen-lied/#comment-6 To be fair to the ADVocates folks, they put an episode or two of whatever they happen to be releasing that month. Heck, when they released the Platinum Edition Boxset for Neon Genesis Evangelion, there was an episode on the screener DVD. So they were just doing what they always do with EL... for fair or ill. And, for what it's worth, distilled to the basics, the "hapless male lead/supernatural woman" plotline is that of EL. There's more to it than that, of course... otherwise EL, Ah My Goddess! and Clubbed-to-Death-Angel Dokuro-chan could all be said to have the same plot, not to mention dozens (hundreds?) of others. To be fair to the ADVocates folks, they put an episode or two of whatever they happen to be releasing that month. Heck, when they released the Platinum Edition Boxset for Neon Genesis Evangelion, there was an episode on the screener DVD.

So they were just doing what they always do with EL… for fair or ill.

And, for what it’s worth, distilled to the basics, the “hapless male lead/supernatural woman” plotline is that of EL. There’s more to it than that, of course… otherwise EL, Ah My Goddess! and Clubbed-to-Death-Angel Dokuro-chan could all be said to have the same plot, not to mention dozens (hundreds?) of others.

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