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Based on the best-selling manga and anime. The series begins with her memorably violent escape from the research facility that held her captive, and how she is subsequently taken in by two college-bound cousins, Kouta and Yuka. A bullet wound to the head sustained during her escape creates a split personality for her, and in this childlike persona she is found and taken in by the cousins and named Nyu (or Nyuu). Though Nyu is often the dominant personality, Lucy still emerges again at different times, especially when Nyu feels threatened. Lucy's escape prompts the research facility to send out forces, both human and Diclonius alike, to recapture her, which puts a strain on the otherwise peaceful life she comes to find the cousins and their growing "family." As the series goes on, new characters get introduced and past connections, which are often tragic, are revealed among the main characters, especially Lucy and Kouta.

Elfen Lied: The Novel Series

Nana wakes up from a nightmare about multiple Yen Notes attacking her, for which she blames Mayu, who offers to cook her up some rice for a midday meal since she overslept. Nana is overwhelmed by how delicious her meal is, having never tasted properly prepared food before, while Kouta feels a bit hungry due to the meal being spread out so thinly for the extra guests. Yuka pokes fun at him and then suggests they take a walk in Enoshima Park. Nana at first rejects her suggestion that she change her clothes, owing to her torn dress, but Nozomi offers to sew up the sleeve while Nana and Mayu take a bath. Kouta is seemingly reluctant to agree about Nana staying and is tasked by Yuka for it.


In the bath, Mayu tells Nana that Kouta is likely holding a grudge against her for the attack on Nyu, but Nana luxuriates in the onsen, and remarks to herself on a cleansing markedly different from the harsh ones she got at the Diclonius Research Institute. The evening is capped off by her first taste of ice cream, which she loves so much, she also gets her first brain freeze. Nana is thrown by how different this life is to one of pain and suffering, a life of possible happiness, but for her stubbornness and Kouta's seeming pronouncement. Kouta then reveals that he was playing a bit of a wordplay game with Nana and that in fact, she can stay, so long as she aids in the house cleaning, a trick for which Yuka rides him, but he defends this by citing her obstinacy. Nana cries tears of joy at having a real home, apologizes for being stubborn, and realizes that she doesn't need to be afraid or alone anymore.


On the beach at Kamakura, Nana encounters Bando, to whom she denies having found Lucy, not wanting to destroy her new happiness. At that same moment, Nana senses another Diclonius in a helicopter passing overhead, containing Isobe and Mariko, who asks if she can kill the one she senses below since she apparently has orders not to kill Lucy.


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