Hey, SP.

Elfen Lied.

Drama, repressed childhood memories, blood, limbs, mad scientist, guns, love, nudity, heart break, and long walks along the beach all in 13 episodes. What more can you ask for?

Indeed. I think Greg might have a good time. However, I'm going to pull up an old quote from Kyle on this one:

Yes, the manga is way better than the anime. Anime was short, boring and not even that great besides the initial allure from the first episode. Anime covers like...barely half of the manga story. And ironically, the latter half (all the stuff after the anime ends) is my favorite.

I'd recommend the manga way over the anime. The fights were pretty bad in the anime; something that didn't quite hit me when I was reading it because of pacing matters between how it plays out on the screen and how I read it. Art-wise, it was pretty inferior, especially with the gore; but Lilium was pretty neat. Story-wise, it didn't quite go as far; and the direction the story went after where the anime ended was much better and my favorite part of the series as well. There was only one scene that seemed really nicely done in the anime, and that was the very first ten minutes.

However, this wasn't a manga recommendation thread, but an anime one; but if Greg is trying to get into anime and manga, this is a pretty nice manga.