elfen lie be probably one of the great anime cartoon ever make till date . it garb you and pull you in straight from the first episode and doesn not let go right through to the final thirteenth episode . it all about how a girl name lucy escape from a facility and start her adventure from the time she become her spilt personality or alter ego after a shot to the head nyu on a rollercoster ride of love and sadness and death and hatred and love and laugh . it have a very gripping storyline and isn not for people who can not stand gore and brutality and cruelty ( basically the faint of heart ) . i have watch all sort of anime but none shock me as most a elfen lie and make me use all my emotion to the max . even if you do not like anime you have to watch elfen lie . it will give you an entirely different perspective on anime itself but also life .