Anime Discussion Thread - Page 874

After watching it this time around, I've changed my interpretation from the first time. I think Lucy is dead now, after finally reconciling with Kouta (which she said was her one aim in life) she didn't really have a reason to live on as she also points out that she's not going to fuck over the human race. Then the scene where she gets confronted by the army and her horn flies off, last time I thought she survived but now ... Seems to me to be symbolic of the demise of the Diclonius, since their distinguishing characteristic is the horns, and now Lucy has no horns and she's the queen, indicates to me that their over. But Nana lives on as the exception to the rule, as she was the only Diclonius that didn't actively want to harm humans.

But the final scene still baffles me. I just can't figure who's at the door , the music box playing Lilium stops playing which was what brought Lucy and Kouta together in the first place (which reaffirms to me that she is dead) and the clock chimes on the hour which seems to show the only good thing left behind by Lucy was what she did when she was Nyu. But then there's still that person at the gate for which if I roll with what I just said, can't be Lucy so I got no idea who it could possibly be

Anyone else have a different idea?

Also I still don't understand why Yuka is so into Kouta, arn't they like cousins ... shit's illegal man ><

EL manga is pretty different, but Lucy is alive long beyond that part so...

Then again, the anime could easily have a totally different ending.

In the end, Lucy Died, but entities of her kind are incapable of understanding the concept of Death. Instead, she reverted to her original form, a pulsating, writhing mass of pseudo-flesh and slime. In truth, this was but a shadow of her extra-planar self encroaching onto the third dimension, the likes of which was never meant to be gazed upon by human eyes.

Kouta's mind, unable to fathom the shape of this non-Euclidean horror, projected the shape of a young girl in a feeble attempt to preserve the last vestiges of his sanity. As a testament to the creature's power, a nearby music box was rendered mute as its innards were warped along with a large section of the surrounding space-time continuum. In an ironic act, the swath of destruction gave rise to the rebirth of an Eternally Broken grandfather clock, which chimed as if to signal the end of the Earth.


So yeah, my interpretation was always that Lucy died (eg. music box stops), and that the person of the door was her, reborn as Nyu (eg. working grandfather clock).