ACGISM

Key word: Bloody Loli Violence Cruelty Adult only The doomsday Tragedy

When the miserable tone of the opining “Lilium” starts, the anime as a whole seems to be crying.

In the beginning of the anime, the massacre is kind of apparent advice. After subjecting to the shock it created, I have made a prevision for the following blood killing process.

With the music of dark ballad, all the government officials were slaughtered without mercy, even including the innocent clerk—-it’s indeed the most bloody anime I have never seen before, the violence it contain is set regardless of the consciousness and sympathy, till you are accustomed to the blood cover all the screen , you might be able to know the the source of the deep grief, more or less.

One of the most impacting scene: Lucy and Nana meet each other first time, two girls with the Loli look fight against fiercely, and then one of the Bishyojo (Lucy) successfully breaks up the other’s body(Nana), cut her legs and hands ,make her become a misshapen one. Besides this there are many similar scene existing in the anime, so I just call this like “bloody banquet”.” Some people say that the violence in Elfen Lied” should be accused most, they are afraid that this anime might convert a misleading information to the audience; the violence is commonplace, a inevitable instinct of human being. We are all told since our childhood that killing and violence is bad, fight and hurt should be forbidden. According to the mainstream ideology of our society, there is no doubt that a anime which has so much violence factors like this should be suppressed completely and threw to the rubbish bin, in most time it’s a prevailed thought.

So, if you are feeling not comfortable or even sick during you watching this anime, you had better stop; or you are kinda person who feel so excited about the performance of the anime, you should stop as well……XD

OK, let’s be more rational to valuate this anime made by Japanese.

Many a Japanese Comic/Anime producer or author is treated as sadism, due to their cute feeling of devastation like their country is isolated in the ocean. Tokyo or the whole Japan has been ruined infinite times under their brush-pencil, the world is also not exception. Perhaps is the only country which has suffered the attack of nuclear boom, so their literacy works are full filled with the disposition of doomsday. The main guys in Japan anime always act themselves as the savior role, most time the fate of all human being are depending on their hands. In“Elfen Lied” the heroic is also born to extinguish all the human being, so it’s easy to understand why she is so incline to kill and fordo. It just refreshes my memory of fascist, in their eyes the Judah is an inferior ethic, in comparison, they Nordic is the most noble ethic in the world, So it’s their responsibility to eliminate the Judah and rule other ethics, killing is just the best way to achieve the goal. Even in our day life, we may have the similar experience, people who in their childhood using water to poor the ant hole…. At that time in your eye it just a trivial matter for fun, but you are ruining a kingdom of ant indeed. So the god say: you all the people are guilty. When we destroyed ourselves more seriously, we have the position to devastate the world more fiercely.

It is to say that “ using violence to deracinate itself” ? the history of our human being virtually is the history of war and killing. During this history we only could find one bright shine is the campaign leaded by Mahatma Gandhi , Nonviolent and No cooperation Movements. His faithful belief towards Buddhism help him to make this crucial choice which is acceptable in that period.“’an eye for an eye’ just making our world to be blind”, its Gandhi’s viewpoint. This unprecedented illustrious campaign in human’s history might become the peak of poetic perfection, nowadays people are prone to warship the fables which can bring them the benefit, they are just follow their instinct or finding a shield for their fragility, but not out from their spirit of life. So there is no longer a second Gandhi will occur, as well as the God will not sent Jesus come to the world to save people again. “Elfen Lied” in a way try to show the human nature in the frantic violence, but it is of little vain, because when it show up some human nature, it also abandoned the humanism. The mood of this anime is sad and ugly. Gandhi’s “Nonviolentism” is a form of humanism, but it restrain the human nature, because it restrict the instinct of fighting and violence.

However, the violence in “Elfen Lied” is sad and woeful, with the desperate devastation. It’s violence mainly derived from human’s degeneration, so , the killing is not guilty but ought to, only the love could be save the killing itself, the love can embrace and quench the fire of violence. The author try to observe his characters from the visual angle of god, as for a writer(of course, after-hours one) I could understand what he is thinking, and what he is angry with. Among the people who are affecting by the disposition of doomsday could not find a savior as Gandhi, but either Elfen Lied or Gandhi’s”Nonviolentism” to the end just has one purpose, that is: stop the killing and hurt, cherish the life and love.

When the main guy whose family members are killed entirely crying to death:“Please！Stop it! Please!” he is sublimed as a god and doesn’t want to make any revenge with hurting anyone. In contrary, he is more liberal than any other. AS the g grievous melodies rise from music box rise on his hand, we might think all along what these melodies are
Grieve for, and what story are telling with sadness……The script of OP“Lilium”is said that come from the Bible, and the singer Kumiko Noma sing this song in Latin

ELFEN LIED——Lilium
Singer Kumiko Noma (小西香叶)

os iusti meditabitur sapientiam
The wisdom are told by the sage

et lingua eius loquetur iudicium
The justice are wised by the sage

beatus vir qui suffert tentationem
gospel belong to the people subject to the trail

quoniam cum probatus fruerit accipiet coronam vitae
‘Cause after the trail, he get the corona of life surely

kyrie, ignis divine eleison
Yahveh with holy fire show mercy

o quam sancta
a, how holy it is

quam serena
How peaceful it is

quam benigna
How warm it is

quam amoena
How comfortable it is

o castitatis lilium
Aa, as white as lilium.

The song seems to be sounds of nature, the soft voice with both grief and mercy appeasing the soul which suffered a lot from the trample, just like the calling from the heaven, back to the sacred status, forgets all the sadness.

Eventually, how we could back to the Eden, and reclaim the love from the lord? Only after the death? How could we cleanse this filthy world and get rid of our sin? War and conflict could stop on infinite time? May be I should not have any expectation, ‘cause I don’t believe there has another world existing, never. So , people like me don’t have any religion belief, and I am not wander the salvation.

The world in a way is beyond hope, but luckily, we still have some people worth loving. The heaven might be good, but I don’t to go. As for me, I will choose the way to live in a deprived world to love my love.

PS: This aritical is interpreted by Pony Mark . Following is the manuscript.

manuscript:

当凄惨的主题曲“Lilium”的旋律响起时，整部片子都仿佛在哭。

开篇的大屠杀是一个全剧的“温馨提示”，大屠杀的震撼之后，我对后来的肢解杀戮之类情节都有了充分的心理准备。在黑歌谣的旋律中，成群的政府机器被割裂，甚至包括无辜的办事员——因此这是我看过最血腥残酷的动画片，它所设置的暴力情节完全不体会观看者的悲悯，直到他们已经可以漠视满屏幕淋漓的鲜血，而真正的去体会悲伤的源头。

最彪悍的镜头之一，露茜与娜娜的第一次相遇。两位Loli形象的美少女互殴，然后其中一名美少女清晰利落地肢解了另一位美少女，变成人彘娃娃。寒……类似的镜头以后还会有不少，称为“血腥的盛宴”也不为过。《妖精的旋律》中的血腥暴力镜头一直是被人诟病的标志，很多人怕教坏了小孩子。我们的本能明白——“杀戮”是不好的，从小我们的教育就告诉我们“打架”是不好的，从国家意识形态机器教育出来的我们，看到这样偏执暴力的动画片，产生不可理喻的情绪，是很正常的。

因此您在观赏中遇到精神不适，还是终止得好；如果越看越兴奋觉得遇到同道中人，也还是终止得好。笑~~

让我们更理智些，去看待这部东洋动画。

被称为虐待狂的日本动漫作家，那种孤岛一般尖锐存在的毁灭感，使得整个东京乃至日本在他们的手上毁灭过无数次，当然全世界也没逃掉。大概因为日本是唯一遭受过核弹的国家吧，所以文艺作品都透露出强烈的末世情怀。日本动漫的主角总是以救世主自居，动不动就全世界濒临毁灭而系于一人身。《妖精的旋律》女主角也是为了毁灭人类而生的，这就不难理解她强烈的嗜杀成性，让我想起《封神榜》里“群仙大破万仙阵”时的仙界大屠杀，书曰：“……将万仙阵罩住，凡封神三上有名者，就如砍瓜切菜一般，但遭杀戳；子牙祭打神鞭，任意施为。”动画片里的无名者，就是这样被屠杀的。有些人童年时用水去浇蚂蚁洞之类的，那种屠杀的感觉与其类似。上帝说我们都是有罪的，我们对自身的破坏越严重，毁灭感就愈发强烈。

这是“以杀止杀”或者是“以暴止暴”吗？人类的历史就是一部卓越的暴力史，这个历史上唯一的亮点就是出现了莫汉达斯·卡拉姆昌德·甘地领导的“非暴力不合作运动”。骨子里的佛性使得他选择了适应时局的最合理方式，“以眼还眼使整个世界都盲目了”甘地说。这次人类历史上绝无仅有的辉煌的“非暴力运动”成为绝响，当前的人们乏力无谓的信仰着可以带来利益的神话，再没有圣雄甘地一样的精神导师出现。在暴力中彰显人性的动画片依旧是狭隘的，它“人性”却不“人道”。甘地的“非暴力主义”是人道的，而却禁锢人性的，它约束着人类斗争本能。

《妖精的旋律》中的暴力是悲伤的，无奈的，带着绝望的毁灭感。它的暴力主旋律在于人类的堕落，因此杀戮是无罪的，惟有爱才能拯救杀戮本身，爱为杀戮敞开怀抱。作者从“神”的角度去观察他笔下的角色，身为创作者的我非常明白他在想什么，他在悲愤什么。被末世情绪影响的人群中是诞生不了圣雄的，然而无论是《妖精的旋律》还是甘地的“非暴力主义”最后只有一个目的——停止杀戮，珍惜生命。

被杀了全家的男主角撕心裂肺地喊“你停手吧！你停手吧！！”这位在动画片中已被神化的男主角并没有去报复任何人，相反，他比一般人都更宽容。八音盒的旋律从他手中响起，我们一直想这旋律在悲伤什么，凄惨的述说什么——主题曲“Lilium”的歌词据说来自圣经的段落，我猜名字可能是百合的意思。演唱者Kumiko Noma使用拉丁文演唱。

ELFEN LIED——Lilium

歌手 小西香叶Kumiko Noma

os iusti meditabitur sapientiam

义人的口道出智慧

et lingua eius loquetur iudicium

义人的舌诉出正道

beatus vir qui suffert tentationem

经历试炼的人得到福气

quoniam cum probatus fruerit accipiet coronam vitae

因为试炼过后 他必得生命冠冕

kyrie, ignis divine eleison

耶和华 圣火 怜悯

o quam sancta

啊 何等神圣

quam serena

何等安详

quam benigna

何等慈爱

quam amoena

何等舒坦

o castitatis lilium

啊 洁白若百合

歌声仿如天籁，柔和的女声既悲伤又充满怜爱地安抚着饱受杀戮蹂躏的灵魂，仿佛在召唤我们回到天堂圣洁的怀抱，忘记一切悲伤。

而究竟怎么样才能让我们回到伊甸园、极乐净土或者九天之上，难道要等到死后吗？《Wolf’s rain》中狼群苦苦寻找的以血为指引的乐园，是我们内心渴望的结果吗？我从不期待另一个世界存在，所以我这样的人没有任何宗教信仰，也不奢望救赎。

世界令人太绝望，好在还有爱让人类有羁绊。天堂再好，我也不想去，我要在绝望中继续纯洁地爱下去。