A group of innocents may die, but she will get that step up..
“Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted...” - Willy Wonka, 1971, who will have a nicer answer for Charlie Bucket than Arakawa is ever likely to find.
There is almost no one in the Elfen Lied manga or anime who stays in one place from start to finish, presuming they live to see the end of the series. Lucy, who seems merely a killer with no heart, is found to have too much heart and the deepest love for the one she hurt worst of all. Kouta, who seems merely an addled fool, is shown to be unsparing in his devotion to his makeshift family. So the story goes, as even the monstrous Chief Kakuzawa is demonstrated to have one thing he loves - the daughter who does not meet the measure of his twisted clan. Yet no one's story flips quite as far as that of Doctor Arakawa, who starts out as almost a parody character in a deadly serious series chiefly known for gore and ecchi ends up atop the large heap of schemers and claims the prize of worldwide fame, acclaim and historic standing verging on immortality. But in her moment of triumph, it is evident that all she has done and seen has taken the taste of victory and turned it to ashes in her mouth. She is a genius reduced to a gofer, a gofer made into a disposable pillar of a madman's plans, and a pawn who robs father and son - and even Lucy herself - of what should have been world dominance. She is a false friend to a houseful of kids who suffer a brutal home invasion based on her need to beat a psychopath she doesn't even know is already dead. She is a laughable sort who should be having the last laugh but is somehow denied this, a fact so evident even the 'dense' Kouta can spot her discomfort. Arakawa won, but what price victory? How and when did the comic relief slip past everyone to grab at a Grail filled with Divine Water, only to discover it was a plastic trophy filled with stale soda pop? Here, we shall look at the abrupt shifts in her journey and how an attempt to be God instead rendered her an unhappier version of Dragon Ball's Mister Satan.
"What does it profit one to gain the whole world and lose their own soul?" - A light paraphrasing of The Gospel Of Mark 8:36
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