O lily of purity, how the phrase is so ironic. Nothing in the world could be more beautiful that purity and something or someone who exudes that virtue. The absence of purity or as we call it sin is despicable, is it really?
I question if sin exists, or if we made it up. What is sin, who decides what is right and decent? Whenever I think of this, I can only answer it with “What you do to others, will be done to you” in other words, treat people the same way you want people to treat you. Which satisfies most people. The problem is not all people want to be treated in a similar fashion.
For example, I don’t want to be patronised, I don’t want to be told I can’t do things, I don’t want to be told that I am good at something. I value my privacy and I’d rather that people don’t ask anything about or of me. But can we really live life alone?
The answer to that question is simply: No.
We have Lucy, a lonely girl who is a mutant. She has little stubby horns on her head and she has incredible telekinetic powers. She also has homicidal tendencies which amplifies because of constant bullying and psychological abuse she faces in the orphanage. She runs away and kills a family to stay in their house, and she moves to another house every few days to evade police. During this time, she meets Kohta a young boy by chance who notices that she is upset and tries to cheer her up by playing with her, soon they become friends. A festival takes place and Kohta takes his cousin a girl to it, which Lucy sees and realises that she wants Kohta all to herself and loses control. She starts killing people and panic ensues, She also confronts Kohta why he didn’t chose her over his cousin and in the process beheads and kills Kohta’s sister and Father.
Kohta is stunned and becomes catatonic for almost a year and seems to have suppressed this memory instead believing that his father died in a car crash and his sister died of a disease sometime after his father passed away. Lucy on the other hand is trapped by an organization which studies mutants and is grown in a lab. She faces extreme physical torture in the form of experiments being run on her.
After a ten years, Lucy finds a way to escape, she kills her way out of the research center. Her powers have increased and she deflects bullets and walks past them unscathed.
She is however hit by a high caliber sniper bullet which is fired from pretty far away so that she wouldn’t notice. The bullet hits her head, which does not kill her but makes her jump off a cliff into the ocean. She washes ashore and reaches Kohta’s place. She has no memory and her personality has changed to that of someone with a heart which is akin to the lily of purity, a total contrast from her actual personality.
I felt that this anime is incredibly rich with disturbing imagery and content, I feel that this anime is one of the heart wrenching stories ever told and I feel that this anime is awesome.
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