Elfen Lied 3

Note: Since I am watching this raw sometimes I run into difficulty understanding some details of what's going on when the discussion gets technical since I'm still learning (though I still get things for the most part). Please bear with me and if you notice any mistakes or important things I've left out please correct me. Thanks :) I should be able to understand things better once I get the manga. Ganbaru!

  
  

This ep starts off with that ecchi-looking scene from last time where Yuka just walked in... and she ain't too happy. She remembers a time when she and Kouta went to a festival as children. Seems like she thinks of Kouta as more than just a friend.... Meanwhile, back at that place that girl that's a Dicronus (that's what Nyuu and the rest with those two horns are called) like Nyuu is asked by her "Papa" to go look for Nyuu. She doesn't want to kill her, however...

There are a few more not-so-serious moments this time.. Kouta comes down with a fever, but Nyuu isn't really being useful. He asks her to get some water, but she brings back random stuff :) Yuka comes back and tends to Kouta and asks him if he remembers that festival, but he doesn't very well. And later on while Kouta is cleaning he accidentally bumps into Nyuu there and... well... it's somewhat ecchi and Yuka comes in and sees it ;)

Mayu, the girl that saw Nyuu last time came to Kouta's to give back the umbrella she picked up, and since she saw what happened Kouta asks her to tell him about it. While they're talking Nyuu is cleaning still but slips and knocks over a music box... and now she's back to evil Nyuu and those "hands" go out towards Kouta.. but she doesn't do anything and runs away.. I really thought she had killed Mayu's dog, but thank goodness we didn't have to see that bloody mess ;) After that, Nyuu waits.. since she can sense that Nana is there. See what happens between those two next time (it doesn't look nice).

Anyways, it's still very interesting so I'll keep on watching. Next time is shokugeki ("touch attack", as best I can tell), and the German title is aufeinandertreffen, "to hit each other"... I think ;)

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Or maybe that's not quite right, lol. Uber-blogger Jeff from Nowhere has a comment:

"Aufeinandertreffen" is one of those funky German compound nouns (actually, it can be used as a verb as well) that can be easier to figure out after breaking it down into its individual elements. The verb "treffen" can mean "to hit", but the more common usage is "to meet". That's the meaning we're looking for here. "Einader" means "each other", and the prefix auf just kind of finishes it all off with the meaning of "to meet each other".

The thing is, there's sometimes an implication of a violent "meeting" in the word - like "to collide". It varies. Is such the flavor in this case? Beats me. And that's why learning German sucks.

Thanks! :)