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Elfen Lied
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Shiki
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They both develop a similar theme: how forsaken creatures are seen by others. They also seem to criticise the narrow mentality of human beings and to show the darkest part of them. I think the original idea come from Mary Shelly's famous novel.
While Elfen Lied fails to be a good show and falls into a gore anime full of fanservice, Shiki remains thought-provoking and atmospheric, and, of course, surpasses the first one.
Also, the amount of gore is high in both, and the music is simply beautiful.
Both anime contain non-human beings who kill humans. Another similarity is the huge amount of gore and mass killing but worth mentioning is that they also make you pity these non-human beings.
It delves into the idea of humanity being the true monster- and that people are cruel to things they do not understand.
The series focuses around mysterious beings and happenings. Both filled with gore and horror and a bit of romance.
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Recommended by Heta-rashi1
Shiki has a similar theme to Elfen Lied, questioning the humanity of people who aren't entirely... human, along with the humanity of humans themselves. In both cases, the non-human people have an instinct to kill humans, to survive and/or reproduce. There's a lot of moral grey areas; Shiki presents two characters with conflicting opinions, and with Elfen Lied, the question is tackled on a larger scale, although there is one character who is very conflicted about it.
The execution of Shiki is a bit better, both in terms of character and plot development, although both anime are unrealistic with blood, and for some reason breast size
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Recommended by whitefox00
Found it "emotionaly-like" to elfen lied and it contains blood :3
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Recommended by noobminator
Similar themes about how evil people can be, and both are very interesting
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Recommended by KuroAshiSanji
Both have violence, blood, and gore. Both have female characters that are a little bit insane.
It does have so many lore and history, is entertaining for watch and have similar genres
Just rewatched both of these deep masterpieces. They are very similiar, only the presentation for the purpose of the watchers can be interpreted differently. But when you ask yourself how sourrounded hate can feel and which consequences they have, both Anime can show you it perfectly of their special way. While Shiki presents the development of those involved, Elfenlied tries to give the watchers an understanding of the emotional consequences of all different matters of every caracter.
Both Shiki and Elfen Lied show us that even the "monsters" have their reasons for doing something, not out of pure evilness but rather the feeling of loneliness and isolation while also trying to survive.
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Recommended by MegumiShimizuu
Interesting character development, morally grey characters and fantasy powers at war with humans.
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Recommended by haunthospitals