![]() ![]() When Riko discovers evidence that her mother, a famous explorer, may have finally found the bottom of the Abyss, and might also need her help, Riko and Reg decide to venture into the Abyss to rescue her. Though many have explored the Abyss, it's never been fully mapped. Our story begins in Orth, a town which sits on the edge of an enormous opening in the ground that leads into the Abyss, a mysterious subterranean realm full of both deadly monsters and valuable relics. No better metaphor exists for this show's unique mixture of high art philosophy and low-rent B-movie exploitation. The opening credits feature imagery inspired by Gustav Klimpt paintings mixed with nude anime babes. Elfen Lied has a philosophical streak to it as well, tackling issues like prejudice, compassion, and vengeance with a decent degree of nuance. One final warning: in addition to the adult content already mentioned, this show features and a subplot about child molestation.īasically it's Stranger Things, if the cute parts were even cuter and the dark parts were way darker. Come to think of it, Elfen Lied tells you what it's all about even before it begins. ![]() It isn't all mindless action and boobs, though. Lucy then gets taken in by a pair of hapless dolts who try their best to help her, but they quickly find themselves in danger as well, as the mysterious agency Lucy escaped from continues to hunt her. Her name is Lucy, and she does indeed escape, but not before suffering a gunshot to the head that gives her amnesia. Now that's some storytelling efficiency, right there. Panty has sex with three separate men in a single 11-minute episode. Once the insanity finally ends, your relationship with your parents will never be the same, but you'll have to admit that the show was endlessly inventive, and delightfully smutty, if you're into that sort of thing. That means that Stocking can removing one of her eponymous stockings and transform it into a sword, and Panty can remove her underwear and transform it into a gun. In order to repent, they'll need to protect humanity from evil ghosts, using their "angelic garments" to do so. The only people who can save us from the poo are Panty and Stocking, a pair of angels who were banished from heaven for their many, many sins. ![]() Then, the villain of the first episode arrives, a giant poo monster, and you start to realize that you've made a huge mistake. You gather your parents, fire up the first episode, and immediately encounter a density of swear words that rivals South Park. We cannot oversell just how upsetting this scene is. Rape is an ever present plot device throughout the show, but the real kick in the teeth comes when Casca herself is brutally raped, on screen, in the final episode. And these levels of violence were actually toned down from the original manga, in which sword fights usually end with intestines, brains, and eyeballs spilling out all over the place. The volume of blood spilled in this cartoon is enough to make Quentin Tarantino blush. But then, in a Game of Throne s-esque fashion, things go very wrong very fast for our heroes.ĭespite everything that's great about it, Berserk is sometimes a hard watch. Along the way, Guts develops a romance with another member of the Hawks named Casca. Berserk tells the story of Guts' time in a mercenary group called "The Band of the Hawk," and of that group's bloody rise to the top, until they eventually become the King's personal guard. Our protagonist, the swordsman Guts, was born from the corpse of a hanged woman, and his life only got harder from there. ![]()
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