Reason #12007 not to trust a series by its cover. Other manga by :"When you're miserable, you need someone more miserable than yourself." And the Adventure Continues / No Ending: The manga leaves off on a wild card: Anna, who is revealed to be (or regresses nack into) an intact human, awakens to Nousou's Bifauxnen assistant/bodyguard, Nozomi's voice recovers, and Kouta begins his life married to (presumably) Yuka. The last page shows two twins (who are likely the reborn Lucy and Nyu) about a decade later arriving at the grave of Lucy's pet dog, to an older Kouta and his daughter. Apocalypse Wow: The manga has some fun nearing the ending, including an impressive ten or so pages pages dedicated to Lucy destroying the world when she accidentally thinks Kouta is Killed Off for Real; don't worry, he's not. There's also many treats to the eventual destruction of the research facility, which is ripped apart from below the ground up with Lucy's vectors after she kills Kakuzawa. Attack of the Town Festival: The end of Lucy's Start of Darkness involves a bloody rampage in the middle of a town festival.

Bolivian Army Ending: In the anime... kind of. Later revealed to be a plain old Cliffhanger. Contrived Coincidence: Once it's revealed that Lucy and Kouta met as children, it gets hard to believe that Lucy washing up on that beach would coincide perfectly with Kouta's return to that village for the first time in several years, and that both would have Laser-Guided Amnesia, and that Kouta's university teacher is the son of the Big Bad, and that Mayu happens to witness the fight between Lucy and Nana... Well, you can see where this is going. Fantastic Racism: Played straight in the fact that humans believe Diclonii to be murderous monsters that will wipe out humanity and hunt them down without mercy. Subverted by the fact, that this time humanity is right! raising See Informed Ability below. It's a complex problem. Diclonii begin to use vectors around age 3, when Kids Are Cruel as well as intractable and still without inhibitions, notwithstanding that they can't even properly understand death.

It's pretty hard for a 3 year old child with the power to destroy anything nearby with minimal effort to NOT commit brutal murders and antagonize humanity, and set in motion the whole conflict. It takes an exceedingly gentle personality, in fact, which is not a survival advantage and therefore rare. Even Diclonii would have trouble raising Diclonius children, except if they kept them at vector's length all the time, which is impractical. Although the Institute completely screwed it up with the whole torture business, the best bet is probably raising such children in isolation and gradually socializing them and increasing human contact AFTER they know that, well, tearing people apart with vectors is... well, wrong. Rental Car Diminished Value CoverageGory Discretion Shot: Subverted, surprisingly enough: in episode 3, what looks like a Gory Discretion Shot implies that Lucy has done her usual job on Wanta that was barking at her. Chive T Shirts Amazon

Soon after, it's revealed that she simply cut its leash. Subverted so often that after a decent percentage of the manga, if someone isn't dismembered or beheaded in-panel you know they're probably okay. Even being chopped in half might not kill you, especially if you're Bando. But there is a straight Gory Discretion Shot in the first episode. And another one in the eighth episode during Lucy's backstory, the animators were kind enough not to show the three bullies beating a puppy to death. Pug Puppies For Sale Central FloridaKill 'em All: Explicitly states that Lucy could singlehandedly cause Diclonii to outnumber humans (guaranteeing their extinction), but doesn't actually occur in the series. And then the situation is turned around in the manga: through various genetic-modifying Techno Babble, humans create a "vaccine" that removes the Diclonii genes from humans, extinguishing them as a racial offshoot.

the Diclonii end up being the victims of genocide and rendered totally extinct. A case of Grey and Gray Morality in that, no matter what happened one species was going to wipe out the other. Power Degeneration: By the end of the series, Lucy's vectors are so strong, using them causes her body to melt as a result of entropic backlash, even though entropy doesn't work that way. Serial Escalation: How far can a Diclonius reach with their vectors? To a helicopter, to land from several thousand meters below, and to outer space. What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Zig-zagged, particularly in the manga. The trope at first appears to be played straight, with Mayu and the "cute" diclonii (Nyu and Nana) winding up on the good guys' side while evil diclonii are either given Dull Eyes of Unhappiness or are outright masked to make them appear less cute. However, as the series continues, even cute diclonii like suffer gruesome deaths and the penultimate event of the entire manga is Lucy suffering a horrific and painful death where she basically melts herself with the entropy of her own powers.

Oh, and while cuteness provides you with a measure of protection against sudden, messy deaths, it's no protection against maiming, torture, or psychological breakdown. Where It All Began: Slightly subverted since this place is not the earliest shown. In the final pages of the manga, Kouta visits the orphanage, specifically the grave of Lucy's pet dog, once a day due to a strange whim. He does this for at least a decade, until his daughter finds a Message in a Bottle and two familiar faces.Edit ArticleHow to Be Horror Punk Horror punk is a style that was defined by a band called The Misfits, blending horror movie gimmicks and costumes with a more punk attitude and persona. Wear a lot of black; in the eyes of the public, there is nothing scarier than that. Wear dark clothes with skeleton prints on them, and horror movie t-shirts. You can also wear black shiny leather, just as long as it's not too tight. You can even make your own shirts. They can be for your favorite band, movie, novel.

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