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Opening "Lilium": Beautful artwork and the same can be said for the song... which is in Latin so I don't understand it at all...
Ending "be your girl": Song's okay. All there is in the way of animation is just a zoom into a picture of Nyuu.

I hope y'all can stand blood since there's plenty to go around this first episode. Tempy said that the manga was pretty bloody and the anime is definitely that. Anyways... yes, it starts off bloody. A girl is confined.. but she's already killed the guards around her with some strange power.. she works her way through the place she's been kept, killing numerous guards.. decapiting more than a few. Yeah... she makes her way out and is shot by a sniper, but he doesn't kill her. She falls into the ocean....

A cousin of Kouta's, Yuka has come. They played often on the beach as kids so they both go there. And that girl from earlier is there.. she's unclothed and hurt and can only say "nyuu". She also has two horns on her head. They take her back with them. Kouta gives her the name, "Nyuu", since that's all she's said. It doesn't seem like she can do anything on her own.. As Nyuu's looking through a bag of Kouta's she gets out a shell that Kouta's younger sister gave him when he was a child. That sister died from an illness.. Nyuu breaks the shell, probably thinking it was something bad since Kouta was about to cry, but Kouta gets angry and yells at Nyuu and she runs away..

Back to the place where Nyuu was confined. She's called Lucy by the people there. A team has been sent to get rid of her, including one tough guy. Really tough guy, punches a woman out saying "Don't stand behind me".

And that's it for now. To say the least, I'm interested. The music for the show is interesting.. Given that's it Elfen Lied there's a choral song (the opening is a solo of the song) like something you'd hear in a church that's repeated a couple of times. The title's "Lilium", "lily" in Latin, and the song is in Latin as well (as best I can tell. I'm going to have to ask a favor of my Latin-speaking friends, I guess). The title for the next ep is given in Japanese as 掃討 soutou, meaning "cleaning up". But written in the background is vernichtung, meaning "destruction" in German. Interesting..

I will keep blogging elfen lied if somebody out there wants me to. The title's already been licensed by ADV, so I dunno if a major fansub group will pick it up.

Edited 6:25PM: Been doing some Googling on some of the text of "Lilium". Seems like it's been taken from some medieval Catholic liturgy. I found the last couple of lines:

O quam sancta, quam serena, quam benigna, quam amoena
O castitatis lilium

in a chant called "Ave mundi spes Maria". castitatis lilium means "pure lily", but I don't know what anything else there means. You'll also hear "Kyrie eleison" in the song. It means "Lord have mercy", from Greek.