One of the best animes I have watched in a long time!
I was reading some stuff on quora as to which Animes had the most gore and storyline, was surprised I didnt watch this, but yes this was released in an odd time somewhere before 2010( to be clear around 2004-2006)
Coming to the storyline, yeah there is nudity, so what? The opening theme still stays in my head! One of the best opening theme, it was just soo beautiful. Lucy is a mutant diclonii who is naked in the theme showing her perky breasts, so what? It shows the beauty of any woman! She did it mainly out of LOVE guys!
They were also normal people who were bullied by selfish people! It shows how we as humans have FAILED when it came to welcoming others, just like in reality, different cultures, giving them equal amount of respect etc. Please watch all the eps ALONG WITH THE OVA to understand certain key elements. I wont be giving many spoilers(just some, so feel free to skip if you dont want to read), but I genuinely felt this was a great anime at that time, and thus the ratings! I did feel at some places Lucy could have had a change of heart, but you realise WHY she killed those people in the starting episode ONLY BY WATCHING the OVA special episode. There are good and bad people in this world, if they really dont deserve to live, and they are wrong, and in this anime they have shown people who were so bad and cruel, for example a foolish girl who didnt keep her mouth shut(she even smiled, as if she wanted those 3 idiotic kids to kill that puppy), and 3 idiotic kids who kill a puppy with a vase(and they know they cant be put into jail cuz of juvenile junk). If these IDIOTIC KIDS dont deserve cleansing then what future lies to this world if they are spared? They might end up becoming the biggest sadists or rapists or torturers, at that time I genuinely felt what Lucy did was 100% right, she should have rather tortured that person who kept beating that puppy. And I just wanted the pedophile who used to constantly rape poor Nana to have died miserably in the hands of Lucy's vectors! They showed all the shades which made me QUESTION a lot.
Overall a beautiful anime
IT IS NOT THE ANIME FOR WEAK HEARTED PEOPLE
and a lot of people will just give 1 star mainly cuz they have their own opinion, so thus please give it a try
Nudity (if sidelined) - tbh really sexy scenes 10/10
Gore - 11/10
Storyline - I will give it 8/10 cuz they missed some stuff, like how Lucy
was born, why they loved getting naked and all that stuff
Shades/portrayal of character - 10/10