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Key facts
- Genre
- Dark fantasy Science fiction
- Written by
- Lynn Okamoto
- Published by
- Shueisha
- English publisher
- NA : Dark Horse Comics
- Imprint
- Young Jump Comics
- Magazine
- Weekly Young Jump
- Original run
- June 6, 2002 – August 25, 2005
- Volumes
- 12 ( List of volumes )
- Directed by
- Mamoru Kanbe
- Produced by
- Kazuaki Morijiri Manabu Tamura Osamu Koshinaka
- Music by
- Kayō Konishi Yukio Kondō
- Studio
- Arms
- Licensed by
- AUS : Madman Entertainment NA : Sentai Filmworks UK : 101 Films (expired) Anime Limited
- Original network
- AT-X
- English network
- NA : Anime Network UK : Propeller TV ZA : Animax
- Episodes
- 13 + OVA ( List of episodes )
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Wikidata facts
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- start time
- 2002-06-06
- Commons category
- Elfen Lied
- end time
- 2005-08-25
- number of parts of this work
- 12
- title
- エルフェンリート
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Elfen Lied (Japanese: エルフェンリート, Hepburn: Erufen Rīto) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Lynn Okamoto. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from June 2002 to August 2005, with its 107 chapters collected into twelve tankōbon volumes. Elfen Lied revolves around the interactions, views, emotions, and differences between human beings and the Diclonii, a mutant species similar to humans in build but distinguishable by two horns on their heads and "vectors", transparent telekinetically controlled arms that have the power to manipulate and cut objects within their reach. The series is centered on the teenage Diclonius girl "Lucy" who was rejected by human beings and subsequently wants revenge.
The series takes its name from the poem "Elfenlied", German for "song of the fairies", which is featured in the story. Elfen Lied involves themes of discrimination, social alienation, identity, prejudice, revenge, abuse, jealousy, regret, and the value of humanity. It is also noted for the graphic violence, emotional themes of how the characters change through, and the overall transgressive subject matter of the whole story.