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> I don't know of that anime but yes, I have felt that.
Elfen Lied is basically entirely torture porn.
> A good example would be Mugen no Juunin: Immortal. It has a fair amount of pointless, grotesque and vulgar scenes that don't add anything but only detract. Often there will be rape in the story both were it does not serve a purpose but even where it goes against the point the anime tries to make. Like right from the start the protagonist has her father killed and her mother raped and abducted right in front of her so goes out for revenge and the story tries to equate her lusts for revenge with the act that set it off in the first place they try to make it look like she is just as bad as they are or worse. If they had just killed her father and left it at that then sure, but once you add rape into it it becomes incomparable
It's extremely difficult to do rape well, You have to either 1) Justify it which is really difficult to do. It's difficult to make rape seem natural. Usually you need to make the villain entirely evil or really spiteful. Even then if it's not done on an essential character then it's pretty much worthless except for making boys horny. Most of the time rape is done to irrelevant characters making it seem like it was just thrown in for the purpose of a deviant fetish. Things like violence is entirely different. Even things like torture can be easily more justified than rape. Death is an entirely different thing. Most of the time death enhances a story even lesser characters can make a story feel more dangerous for the MC.