Trapped in a computer simulation? Now that's some storytelling efficiency, right there.
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Come to think of it, Elfen Lied tells you what it's all about even before it begins.
Keiichi himself is found dead a bit later, but the police aren't exactly sure what killed him.
Lucy then gets taken in by a pair of hapless dolts who try their best to help her, but they quickly find themselves in danger as well, as the mysterious agency Lucy escaped from continues to hunt her.
There's also a husband and wife who can't conceive a child, so they build a robot daughter, but then that daughter falls in love with her dad.
First, a major character is brutally killed by a monster.
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