Elfen Lied is definitely among the mature animes... (80s and 90s had some really violent/mature stuff, both in japanese anime/manga and american media: tv shows, movies, comics or graphic novels, and etc, which surprises a lot of people) ------- Shonen animes: pg/pg-13/teen/light-rated-R: violence/action, fanservice/nudity, and/or light profanity/vulgarity is the worst of their content Seinen animes: heavy-rated-R/nc-17/adults-only/mature: very graphic gruesome gory violence/action, graphic sex scenes, heavy profanity/vulgarity, and/or other taboo stuff (rape, cannibalism, torture, brutality/cruelty, necrophilia, pedophilia, homosexuality, beastiality, incest, and/or etc) officially, very few animes have/get the seinen rating as its a death sentence for profits (same with the rare 'nc-17' rating for hollywood movies): very bad for their profits: its an UN-desirable rating ---- the US equivalent to seinen anime/manga are graphic novels like sin city by frank miller (which was also made into a fkn awesome movie too) -------- but here's some of the few seinen contented animes that I know of (and in my opinion as having seinen content): (not ranked, just listed) "the big 3 seinens": 1. Berserk 2. Gantz 3. Hellsing Ultimate and 4. Elfen Lied (only due me being a dog lover, otherwise it's not "that" bad)\ and now there's also: 19. Redo of a Healer (has quite the mature/taboo stuff in it, as it's about "revenge r'pe/etc") these aren't as bad (in my opinion): 5. Goblin Slayer 6. Black Lagoon 7. Claymore 8. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 9. Prison School 10. Blood C 11. Attack On Titan 12. Blood+ 13. Ga-Rei: Zero 14. Triage X 15. Samurai Champloo 16. Shimoneta 17. Puella Magi Madoka Magica 18. Interspecies Reviewers (mostly just very mature raunchiness, as it's about "bed" performance reviewing, which interestingly now a good many years back, there was a college girl who would review/rate every college guy she slept with, and share that information with other girls for them to "shop" guys, who was the best/worst in bed, who was "biggest/smallest", etc etc etc, which the guys didn't exactly like, it went to court and the judge/jury sided with the college women that it was okay for her to rate/review the male performances in bed and make it publically available, of course... sighs) 20. Monster Musume (more raunchiness, not quite at interspecies reviewers level, as it's slightly more fanservice-y/comedy type of maturity, then pure straight up.. s'x.. stuff like interspecies reviewers) also... there's some more really violent and/or whatever mature/seinen content, popular/well-known animes, but I've not watched them (I don’t like the torture/cruelty/brutality type of violence stuff, but “normal” blood and guts is fine with me, I like blood and guts / violence, just not the sadistic and really extreme/graphic violence/torture/cruelty/brutality type of stuff, which is usually in the horror genre of animes, so I don’t watch too much of them): 1. Devilman: Crybaby 2. Another 3. Tokyo Ghoul 4. Higurashi no naku koro ni (US: When they cry) 5. Monster 6. Shiki 7. Deadman Wonderland 8. Parasyte and there's also... 9. Nana (this is for females, though guys can enjoy it too, so-but I've not watched it myself, but it is considered one of the best animes for females, an old legendary classic anime, as it just deals with relationships, being for females, and such mature content that is involved in relationships, not for little girls, but older female teens / young female adults, pretty sure it has s'x scenes in it, but could be wrong) (and probably a lot more that I'm leaving off and/or not aware of)
Really sad you guys didn't choose the dub for this. It's really hard to read the tiny subtitles and watch your reactions at the same time. Dub for reactions Sub for personal viewing imho. 😥
Good call on the cyborg come back 😂
Hell yeah! If you keep it up the story gets really intense and I bet you'll feel it on more than one occasion. I am following for sure :)
We’re keeping it going! Might be a little out of order because this month and next are our birthday months but we’re definitely keeping it going!!
The answer is simple... Nana is simply more obedient than Lucy.
Elfen Lied is definitely among the mature animes...
(80s and 90s had some really violent/mature stuff, both in japanese anime/manga and american media: tv shows, movies, comics or graphic novels, and etc, which surprises a lot of people)
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Shonen animes: pg/pg-13/teen/light-rated-R: violence/action, fanservice/nudity, and/or light profanity/vulgarity is the worst of their content
Seinen animes: heavy-rated-R/nc-17/adults-only/mature: very graphic gruesome gory violence/action, graphic sex scenes, heavy profanity/vulgarity, and/or other taboo stuff (rape, cannibalism, torture, brutality/cruelty, necrophilia, pedophilia, homosexuality, beastiality, incest, and/or etc)
officially, very few animes have/get the seinen rating as its a death sentence for profits (same with the rare 'nc-17' rating for hollywood movies): very bad for their profits: its an UN-desirable rating
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the US equivalent to seinen anime/manga are graphic novels like sin city by frank miller (which was also made into a fkn awesome movie too)
--------
but here's some of the few seinen contented animes that I know of (and in my opinion as having seinen content):
(not ranked, just listed)
"the big 3 seinens":
1. Berserk
2. Gantz
3. Hellsing Ultimate
and
4. Elfen Lied (only due me being a dog lover, otherwise it's not "that" bad)\
and now there's also:
19. Redo of a Healer (has quite the mature/taboo stuff in it, as it's about "revenge r'pe/etc")
these aren't as bad (in my opinion):
5. Goblin Slayer
6. Black Lagoon
7. Claymore
8. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
9. Prison School
10. Blood C
11. Attack On Titan
12. Blood+
13. Ga-Rei: Zero
14. Triage X
15. Samurai Champloo
16. Shimoneta
17. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
18. Interspecies Reviewers (mostly just very mature raunchiness, as it's about "bed" performance reviewing, which interestingly now a good many years back, there was a college girl who would review/rate every college guy she slept with, and share that information with other girls for them to "shop" guys, who was the best/worst in bed, who was "biggest/smallest", etc etc etc, which the guys didn't exactly like, it went to court and the judge/jury sided with the college women that it was okay for her to rate/review the male performances in bed and make it publically available, of course... sighs)
20. Monster Musume (more raunchiness, not quite at interspecies reviewers level, as it's slightly more fanservice-y/comedy type of maturity, then pure straight up.. s'x.. stuff like interspecies reviewers)
also...
there's some more really violent and/or whatever mature/seinen content, popular/well-known animes, but I've not watched them (I don’t like the torture/cruelty/brutality type of violence stuff, but “normal” blood and guts is fine with me, I like blood and guts / violence, just not the sadistic and really extreme/graphic violence/torture/cruelty/brutality type of stuff, which is usually in the horror genre of animes, so I don’t watch too much of them):
1. Devilman: Crybaby
2. Another
3. Tokyo Ghoul
4. Higurashi no naku koro ni (US: When they cry)
5. Monster
6. Shiki
7. Deadman Wonderland
8. Parasyte
and there's also...
9. Nana (this is for females, though guys can enjoy it too, so-but I've not watched it myself, but it is considered one of the best animes for females, an old legendary classic anime, as it just deals with relationships, being for females, and such mature content that is involved in relationships, not for little girls, but older female teens / young female adults, pretty sure it has s'x scenes in it, but could be wrong)
(and probably a lot more that I'm leaving off and/or not aware of)
I think you forgot the goriest most violent anime in the history of anime: Genocyber
Another creeped me out and i was traumatized for a few days lol
Blue Gender is worth a watch too
Really sad you guys didn't choose the dub for this. It's really hard to read the tiny subtitles and watch your reactions at the same time. Dub for reactions Sub for personal viewing imho. 😥
plus dub Lucy's voice is gooooorgeous