Elfen Lied

## Elfen Lied A horned mutant with deadly invisible arms escapes a brutal research lab and washes up with a split personality, caught between childlike innocence and a killer's instinct. The Diclonius are a mutant offshoot of humanity, marked by horns and armed with invisible telekinetic limbs called "vectors," feared as harbingers of mankind's extinction. Lucy, a powerful and traumatized Diclonius, escapes her laboratory prison in a savage bloodbath but suffers a head injury that leaves her with the mind of an innocent child, whom two cousins take in and name Nyu. As Lucy's two selves war within her, the facility hunts to recapture or kill her, and flashbacks reveal the cruelty that forged her rage. A graphic, melancholy tragedy about discrimination, abuse, and the desperate longing to be accepted.