Elfen Lied (pronounced 'lead') it is an anime redemption story with your typical senseless dismembered body parts and a love triangle that (conveiently) keeps the protagonist safe. In actuality the whole series is a gigantic fan service with pathetic attempts to build a plot. It suffers the same problems that animes today seems to suffer. They include, but not exclusively: attempts to build humor by showing women in various stages of undressing, use of German to cover ignorance and superficiality of the artists, and flashbacks.
The only redeeming quality is the opening music cutscene with the main characters transposed into Gustav Klimt's pictures.
