Influenced Matt and Ross Duffer (the Duffer brothers) in their creation of the Netflix series: "Stranger Things", which has a similar plot.
The title "Elfen Lied" is actually German. "Lied" is pronounced leet not lah-yd.
Lucy's original design was dark brown hair, blue eyes, and sharper horns.
Elfen Lied means "song of elves" in German.
Jason Douglas, the voice of Bando, would later go on to star in The Walking Dead as the character Tobin.