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Lucy from Elfen Lied

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Elfen Lied

Elfen Lied Volume 9

Character Cover: Bandō is an operative in his mid-30's for the National Police Agency's Special Assault Team (SAT). Though he is fully human, he is as homicidal and apathetic to other people as the worst diclonius are. He is a hardy and effective soldier. After being maimed by Lucy and repaired with bionic, cybernetic and prosthetic implants, he escapes on a quest for revenge against her. He gets two or more Desert Eagle hand guns. In the manga he gets other weapons such as an RPG. The guns fire custom .50 Action Express rounds which are so powerful the rounds can not be blocked with vectors. But the bullets can be pushed off course at long range though; however at close range not even Lucy can stop them. He gets sidetracked several times in this quest, and ultimately receives aid from Kurama to "kill a diclonius that was coming." Bandō is driven by the will to fight and to prove his superior ability in combat, not to mention avenge the wounds he suffered at Lucy's hands. At the end of the anime he is crippled again by Lucy. In the manga his role is extended a bit more and he is shown to have a more compassionate side, such as saving Kurama, and burying the dead. He is reluctant to accept positive emotions from others, such as Mayu and Nana. While he is violent, ruthless and all too willing to kill, he takes great offense to acts of perversion, such as child molestation; when Mayu asks for his aid when she is attacked by the Unknown man (see below), Bando expresses intense disgust over the Unknown man's actions. In the manga, Bandō eventually dies while protecting Mayu from an attack by Lucy after the latter is exposed as a killer to the young girl. Lucy rips off his remaining arm and cuts him in half, then flees. While dying in Mayu's arms, Bandō reflects that he had always wanted someone to cry for him after he died, since he had isolated himself from human contact for all his life. He seems to be at peace when he dies; Mayu continues cleaning the beach where Bandō had come to live in his memory. - answers.com

Elfen Lied Volume 10

Character Cover: Kurama is the chief of research, aged in his mid-30's, of the diclonius children in the research containment facility. He is also the surrogate father of Nana and biological father of Mariko. His wife, Hiromi Kurama, died from Caesarean section complications shortly after she gave birth to Mariko. Although he had previously been tasked with killing all diclonius births, he falters when he must kill his own daughter. Lucy carries a deep hatred toward Kurama, stemming from his failure to save Aikon Takada (seen in the Elfen Lied OVA); however, she states that she will not kill him but will kill everything that loves him. It is revealed late in the series that the General Director of the diclonius research program kept his daughter alive, increasing Kurama's perceived debt to him. Kurama dies at the end of the anime after the explosives inside Mariko (whom he is cradling in his arms while walking away) are detonated at his command. It should be noted that right before the explosion, Kurama has a series of images flash in his mind. In them, his wife is still alive and Mariko is a normal baby, and together the images make up Kurama's idea of how life presumably would have played out if Mariko had been born normal (Mariko as a toddler, Mariko on her first day of school, etc.). Kurama does not die in the manga; Mariko (worried about the safety of her father) confronts Lucy and clings to her as the bomb inside her detonates; this results in Lucy's horns being destroyed and turning back into Nyuu, as well as Mariko's death. Kurama, depressed by his pathetic ability as a father, attempts to commit suicide with a nearby MP5, but is saved by Bandō. Kurama now lives in a small shed on the beach and is partially insane. He clings to a dead body of what he thinks is his daughter, Mariko, and won't let anyone come near him. Later, Nana finds him but he shuns her away, still clinging to the clone Mariko. Another clone Mariko shows up and Kurama tries to embrace her too. She however attacks him and fights with Nana. When she is about to finish Nana off, Kurama shoots her in the head and regains his sanity. He survives throughout the rest of the series. - answers.com

Elfen Lied Volume 11

Character Cover: Arakawa is a young researcher in her mid-20's who is also Professor Kakuzawa's partner who works alongside him to create a vaccine in order to counter the threat of the Diclonius virus. She along with Kohta inadvertently discovered Professor Kakuzawa's severed head and warned the boy not to disclose anything of what he saw or heard with anybody else. Afterwards, she reported her finding to Director Kakuzawa at his compound facility, but he wouldn't let her go scot-free after seeing his son's horns. She was threatened by Chief Kakuzawa to take charge of his deceased son's research or else be killed. In the anime, Arakawa is a minor character whose role provides little or no contribution at all for advancing the plot, as later she's often seen complaining about that being so busy does not allows her to take a shower which becomes a recurrent gag in the series. However, her character eventually plays an important, key role for humanity's salvation in the last story arc of the manga. - answers.com

Elfen Lied Volume 12

Character Cover: Kohta is a 18 year-old student and one of the main characters of the series. Kohta enters the story when Yuka's family rents him a closed down inn as long as he maintains it, and begins living there while going to a university. Kohta has traumatic memories of the deaths of his father and sister, late in the series revealed to be by Lucy's hand, which he has repressed. Due in part to his loss, Kohta has a "soft-spot" for girls in trouble and is extremely generous and protective to the girls around him. He is more forgiving in the anime, but once he gets his memories back in the manga, he is truly unforgiving towards Lucy for killing his father and sister. Voiced by: Chihiro Suzuki (Japanese), Adam Conlon (English) - answers.com

Elfen Lied Volume 5

Character Cover: Nozomi is a 15-17 year old soft-spoken and shy friend of Yuka who only appears in the manga from chapter 43 onwards. She has a bladder problem and therefore wears diapers. Kohta first encounters her while walking to the store (not realising they both know Yuka), and both are embarrassed when the wind blows her skirt up. They later meet at the inn and Nozomi is revealed to have a great talent for singing. Nozomi is the person that sings the song "Elfenlied", while teaching Nyū how to sing. - answers.com

Elfen Lied Volume 6

Character Cover: Mariko Kurama, also known as Number 35, she is a young girl described as the only surviving "third generation" Silpelit(a Silpelit born from one infected by another Silpelit, as opposed to one born from one infected by a Diclonius), and the daughter of Kurama at five years old. During an escape attempt by Number Three (who was actually Nana's sister), Kurama was infected by her vectors and thus turned into a carrier of the diclonius virus, and his daughter was born a silpelit. In the anime she possesses 26 vectors (up to fifty in the manga), each with an approximate range of 11 meters (the number and range is much higher in the manga). Mariko was imprisoned as an infant and raised inside a steel container with human contact consisting of nothing more than a scientist acting as a sort of foster mother through speakers and monitors. Her physical impairment is seen in her atrophied limbs as she moves around in a wheelchair. Despite the environment she was raised in, she is relatively well developed psychologically. She is extremely homicidal and sadistic, and enjoys torturing and dismembering her victims. However, her personality is not blatantly evil. She is only having fun, and the pleasure she gets from it is equivalent to a child playing with toys. In order to keep Mariko under control, the research institute implanted at least two bombs (probably more) in her body during infancy; one is used to remove her right arm after she attacks scientists at the institute. Kurama later orders the other bomb(s) to be detonated as he walks away embracing his daughter, killing not only Mariko, but himself as well. Since Mariko possesses 26 vectors and has a wider range then Lucy (whose range is two meters) she seems to be more powerful than her. Also she was able to tear off one of Lucy's horns, leaving Lucy in possible shock, being as after their battle, Lucy is unconscious and is completely white-eyed. In the manga she and Kurama maintain their love for each other and Mariko attempts to kill Lucy (who looks as if she will kill Kurama though it is unknown what she was planning at the time) by using her bomb as a kamikaze method. She only however manages to destroy both of Lucy's horns and return Lucy to her Nyu state. But nonetheless Kurama is agitated by her death. Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Luci Christian (English) - answers.com

Elfen Lied Volume 7

Character Cover: Shirakawa is another member of the Diclonius research and termination staff, as also Kurama's right-hand woman in her mid-30's. Though her personality on the surface reflects a business-like demeanor, she holds a secret affection and genuine concern for Kurama and on all the matters related with his mysterious past, implicitly hinted from time to time in the series. However, Kurama does not return the feelings because most of his time he focuses on attempting to find and terminate Lucy, therefore, keeping the relationship strictly professional. Her personality in the manga is mostly servile and submissive, going to such extents as letting Chief Kakuzawa to sexually abuse and play humiliation games on her (to get information from him). In the manga she has feelings for him and considers admitting it before being decapitated by Lucy. Nonetheless, her character plays a more important role in the manga than in the anime, and literally meets her demise at the hands (pun) of Lucy. - answers.com

Elfen Lied Volume 8

Character Cover: Anna Kakuzawa only appears in the manga. She is Chief Kakuzawa's daughter. She looks up to him in a similar fashion to Nana and Kurama's relationship. She was good at running and struggled to meet her father's expectations, for he considered her "superior" due to her Diclonius heritage. Her grandmother apparently did not agree, stating that Anna's performance was disappointing when compared to that of her brother's. She underwent an operation on her father's request, to make her "more superior". The results of the operation have increased her mental capacity and therefore she can predict estimates of what the future may be. However the operation has turned her into a giant deformed Diclonius. Her previous self is seen in a number of flashbacks. At the end of the manga, she is returned to her original self, some time after Kaede's death. - answers.com