Produced by GAINAX (Neon Genesis Evangelion) and animated by Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell), FLCL takes animation to yet another level. Get ready for this shocking, funny, and right out freaky show about adolescence, expectations and alien intrigue.
Naota wants to be normal. But with a talented brother leaving Japan for the US to play baseball, everyone now looks at him a bit differently. His brothers girlfriend is acting strange and now theres an even stranger girl hitting on him.Literally. With a bass guitar. Oh, did I mention the robots that keep springing from his head?
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March 20, 2010
#1
After enjoying “Cowboy Bebop” and “Samurai Champloo”, someone recommended checking out “FLCL” aka “Fooly Cooly.” If you enjoyed those previous titles, I would suggest steering clear of this particular anime. The art is interesting enough but the story is simply lacking, the characters are completely and utterly undeveloped. It almost seems like they are making fun of you for watching their anime. This the second dvd of three and has 40 minutes of programming. I read somewhere that this was not even a real show and that they threw it together to test out new animation techniques– if you’ve seen all 6 episodes and are still wondering “what the heck was that” this does not seem to be untrue. Please I strongly suggest you skip watching this program because it is, simply put, garbage.
March 20, 2010
#2
Why is good anime often under represented or under understood (if that is a word)? Greed. FLCL is a great anime. But it’s only 6 episodes at around 3 hrs. Yet somehow the DVD makers felt is necessary to split a 3-hour series over 3 DVDs and charge nearly $30.00 bucks a piece for them. I don’t buy my anime in the U.S. I buy it overseas. Sure I may have to read subtitles, and I might occasionally even unintentionally be purchasing a pirated property (which I try to avoid by usually buying from a select number of dealers and by paying attention to the name of the DVDs’ producers) but when I can buy an entire 26-episode series (like Cowboy Bebop or Witch Hunter Robin) on 3 DVDs for less than the price of one of those DVDs in the U.S. that only has three or four episodes of the same series (with all the “extras” – some sketchbook drawings & trailers for other DVDs aren’t exactly extras in my book!), I’ll pick reading any day (especially since dubbed English DVDs are becoming more prevalent overseas). DVD producers will say that they have to charge that much because it’s a niche market, etc. All I can think is that it will never stop being a niche market until people can see an entire series without having to pay $100.00-$300.00 to watch it.
March 20, 2010
#3
When I first saw FLCL, I knew it was pure gold. It was hilarious, strange, crazy, hard to understand, and that is a good Anime in my opinion. Of course, there ARE some serious parts, like the part where Naota Nandaba AKA Ta-kun tells Haruko Haruhara he loves her and kisses her.
Anyway, this Anime is about a boy named Naota Nandaba, and an Alien-girl named Haruko Haruhara nearly runs him over while he is hanging out with Samejima Mamimi, one of his older girl friends. This leaves a mark on his forehead, and before he knows it, Naota has robots and cat ears growing out of his head. And THEN Haruko becomes Naota’s maid and his dad falls in love with her. Strange, hai? This is, it’s just great. Hilarious. GOLD! 10000/10.
March 20, 2010
#4
It doesn’t get much better than this, great animation, all the elements needed to draw in a wide variety of people. My absolute favorite anime. Just don’t come looking for a plot.
March 20, 2010
#5
Kazuya Tsurumaki (original concept/director) is a fun and brilliant person! So since he was the director of this anime everything about this anime relates to him. Some people look too much into this anime and expect it to be religious and have insight to their own lives. However FLCL has nothing at all to do with religion. When you see the hand (which is Mr.Tsurumaki’s hand, just animated) it signifies nothing but one of Tsurumaki’s ideas. So put simply he wanted a giant hand with an old fashioned iron, and that’s exactly what he got.
Now this disc contains two episodes: Marquis de Carabas and Full swing. Marquis de Carabas is focused more on Naota and Ninamori because they are putting on the play “Puss ‘n Boots”. The main reasons I like this episode are I love Ninamori’s character because she has such a deep personality, and Naota has super cute cat ears!
In the episode Full Swing you learn a little bit more about Naota’s brother. In Japan baseball is as popular as football is here. So ofcourse Naota plays baseball, although he never hits the ball. Haruko plays for the other team so the coach of Naota’s team gets Lord Canti(the robot) to play on their team. And something weird goes on with Naota and his dad, I won’t spoil that though. Overall this is a great anime that you have to rewatch a few times to understand fully and you’ll want to rewatch them! I bought my FLCL’s new because they’re worth it!