No matter how you say the name of this anime it ROCKS! its my absolute favorite anime. It has the best music ever. The characters stick with you, and i love it! talk about FLCL and all its greatness here.

oooo i love me some FLCL! i saw the series in japanese last year but just recently picked up the english dvds.

What is it about?

tough question...if you need to know anything about the series or are interested you should check My site. i sugest you find someway to see it. I got all 6 episodes on 1 dvd. only cost me 28 bucks. Thankyou ebay. it is showing on adult swim on saturday nites...at 1:30 eastern time you can see the last 3 episodes there.

The only thing about this anime that's good is the music. Killer soundtrack. Absolutely top notch.

Everything else is stupid. This is quite possibly one of the worst anime I've been forced to sit through. A buddy of mine likes this anime too and it is only through him that I have any respect for what this show calls, 'story.' His favorite thing to say to me whenever we watch it is "I know it hurts. Try not to think." It's this phrase that makes me give even a little recognition to FLCL aside from the soundtrack.

(Rambling and opinion alert. Read at your own risk)

To say it's one of the best anime is far from the truth. The first episode is comprised of a kid who gets wacked on the head (I can't remember much here because it was that bad) and suddenly has a robotic arm sprout out of his brains which kills something that was chasing him. And all the while a cheesy biker chick is riding around, making noise and hitting things with a guitar that has a pull-start like a chainsaw! If that doesn't deter you from ever putting yourself through this mind-boggling ordeal that's called episode 1, I don't know how else to stop you from hurting yourself. :sad:

h-h-h-ow can you say that?! this is one of the greates animes ever! it has a verty inticeing storylines, but you have to look for it, and just seeing the first episode dosent help, because it dosent explain anything, and isint one of the best either. The story really begins to pick up around ep3 or 4.

cheesy biker chick? hardly she rides a vespa, and carrys a rickenbacker with a gun in it. She uses it like both a clobbering item and a gun.

and nothing is stupid, more random. and behind all of the randomness and comedy is a deep story line and characters. the whole purpose of the first episode is to get you interested enough to watch the next ones. it leaves lots of holes on purpose.

I've seen the whole series and I wasn't impressed in the slightest except for the soundtrack, as I already mentioned.

I'll apologize for calling it stupid. That was far too harsh and unrefined. However, the random structure of the story is too much for me. I can’t comprehend it. Even my friends who claim to understand all the plot details have yet to explain it to me in a satisfactory manner. As for the Vespa and the Rickenbacker, I’m not a motorcycle enthusiast and I understand just about as much about guitars. However, I do know one thing. A guitar that doubles as a gun can be summed up in one word: CHEESY. It was cheesy in Devil May Cry and it’s cheesy in FLCL.

Personally, I think the comedy is too Americanized. I watch anime for the Japanese culture. This is how I compare Japanese humor to American humor:

American humor makes you laugh, then think.

Japanese humor makes you think, then laugh.

FLCL is the kind of humor that’s so easy to understand it’s boring. Come up with something a little better. Maybe the plot is something others can see and it’s just too far beyond me. Or perhaps it’s so simple that I’m overshooting it completely. However, all I know is that FLCL makes my head hurt.

Is that the anime that canti is from? I remember he used to talk about it a lot, a long time ago...

well ill tell you the story is rather complex, more so than i realized untill i watched the series a few times over. ill try and give you a breif plot summary:

Here's some of my musings:

I personally think FLCL also focused on a few other issues.

1. Where reality/truth ends and the lie begins.

Reality is a mixture of truth and lies. Naota encounters a lot of lies in his time in FLCL.

Firstly, Mamimi is never honest about her feeligns towards him. She's simply obsessed with his brother and uses Naota as a substitue for her heurt and lust for revenge. It took Naota until ep6 to finally get that though.

Secondly, there's the issue of that girl at school. She has to live within the lies fed to the media and the ones the media circulaate about her father. She practially is living a lie. She's also looking for release and change...whcih she eventually gets after the end of ep 3, which can be noted by the fact she starts wearing glasses and acts less snide.

Third, there's Haruko. Haruko is equally a mixture of truth and lies. It takes until the end to finally understand what Haruko is really up to, but in retrospect, she was the one that was most honest/caring towards him, and that's why Naota stuck with her until she left. Even if Haruko was selfish and a liar at times,s he was the only one that didn't treat Naota like an immature brat or a plaything. In the end, Haruko was the most honest to Naota.

Fourth, Naota himself. Initially, due to immaturity and angst, Naota lies about how he feels and thinks about other people. But as the saga continues, he begins to admit what he really feels and begins to act them out. Admitting he really likes Haruko is a big step for him.

2. Change.

All the characters want change. Naota is sick of the everyday life where nothing happens. Mamimi is stuck in a self-destreuctive rut, that schoolgirl is stuck in a lie and hates herself, Haruko is after what she wants...they're all screaming for change.

Change is a part of life and happens no matter what. It's a big aprt of growing up. We have to change to mature. And though Naota isn't fully mature at the end, he's more mature and generally mroe accepting of those around him. Mamimi ends up finding inspiration, class president ends up being honest to herself. Change happened. Change made Naota's lfie more interesting. Change is essential.

As Haruko says: "If you want soemthing to happen, you have to swing the bat first"

3. Relationships.

There's a simple lot of fooling around and slight love here. COnsidering FUrki Kuri does mean sex in some way and Kuri Kuri is stroking/cuddling, no surprise. There's moments where Haruko is caught with almost everyone. Mamimi puts advances on Noata.

Most importantly is how Noata reacts. Intially, he's not interested in any of it. He's too young and imamture too, even though he has some sort of sexual desires.

Then Haruko comes. Even though she's selfish and reckless, she's exciting. By ep3, Naota is bragging about being associatged with her. By ep 6, he confesses. Another part of growing up is the whole hormaonal/desire/love/sex thing. That we desire people we can't be with, that love ain't easy, that we have crushes that might not amount to anything. All the same, there was something between Naota and Haruko, depsite the age gap. The moemnt in ep6 where Haruko hugs a sobbing Naota is pretty touching. It's one fo the few moments without chaos and where both peopel are truly honest.

any more...ill have to add later i have more to explain.


EDIT :a lot of spoilers...probably...

ok girls....and boys too...i see that you have problems with understanding this anime...and i am not suprised cause this anime was made by Gainax..the same Gainax that made NGE. So..............it can suprise you but it's plot, and meaning is simple as it can be. The main character is Naota...and this story is about him...we see word of FLCL through his eyes...AND HE IS STILL A CHILD....and like every child he "manipulate" the world around him....you said yourself that you belived in some stupid stuff when you were children.

ok girls lets get further.....boys can go home...j/k Very Happy

Like i said he is a child and like every child he wants to be adult already...so he is trying to act like a grown up...he is calm, serious, he never joke, and he looks, in comparison to other characters in FLCL, as normal as possible..don't you agree?

.....you remember that i said it is his imagination of world? it is word through his eyes? ok..so...

in his opinion all adults around are childish, he sees them as a bunch of crazy ppl, so we see them in that way too..through his eyes, remember?

in short....he is a child that want to be adult and can't understand why all adults he knows, even his dad, acts stupid, strange and crazy.

The robots and all crazy stuff are just funny bonuses in this anime, just like in NGE.

and that"s not all girls...lesson isn't finished yet...sit down Malaki Laughing


FLCL is also standard love story....he is a kid, and she (haruko) is grown up...he loves her but can't stand when she acts like a child...of course at the end he overcomes his "atraction to be grown up" (for him love is childish), and tells her he loves her.

Yeah. I dislike this anime so much that I forgot it was made by Gainax. You see, I'm a huge Evangelion fan. For the longest time I had an Asuka signature. But more to the point, I think that Evangelion is 1000 times better than Furi Kuri. FLCL is like the last two episodes of the NGE series stretched out into six episodes: extremely difficult to understand. That same friend I told you about who likes FLCL is also a NGE fan. We've probably watched the last two episodes of Evangelion about fifty times and we're pretty sure of what's going on. While FLCL has that same kind of hard-to-catch theme, it doesn't have any of the cool and flashy catches that draw you in like Evangelion does. Personally, I can see FLCL and Evangelion having almost exactly the same underlying theme and story developments. However, a mediocre setting and the busybody known as Haruko just don't cut it for me. I need more substance to keep me interested than that. Evangelion comes through with that crazy sci-fi that I love.

Well ill cease this arguement seeing as i can see your point, but i still love it, and, i dont want to piss off the Admin during my first few days here.

Hey its good to see another hadcore Eva fan. I know the endingf is strange a freind of mina and i wached it about as many times as you did...but we got it eventaually.

Yes, this is the anime Canti's from. I have seen 3 or so episodes of it. It's just plain weird randomness '_'

About evangelion, it freaks me out too much, that I haven't dared watching it again. Robots with intestines?? Robots that eat meat?? Robots with eyes? Robots that mutate and stuff? Robots that allow your wishes to come true?? o_O o_O o_O
What's with the ending? Rei turns really big and then everyone dies, and all of a sudden Asuka and.. I forgot his name are on a white beach with bloody water. And then he strangles her, and she like dies. Or something. Wh--What... why?? When?? Where? How???? >.< Sorry to trouble you '-_-

WIERD RANDOMNESS!!!! count me in! Maybe I will download this sometime.

the ending to NGE is very very confusing...but FLCL is only randomness on the outside, read my previous post. the long one.

Well that ending is the "End of Evangelion" ending. No, Shinji doesn't kill Asuka. It is a bit of a cliffhanger, but all of the stuff you see in the end of the world sequence is based on christian mythology with a couple Greek twists here and there. You need to be something of a historian and a mythology/religion guru to completely appreciate all of the references they make. I think there's already an Evangelion topic somewhere. If you're interested, I can retell the details there. I don't want to get Atomsk's topic more sidetracked than it already is.

Oh, and Atomsk? Don't worry about making me angry over an opinion. You might like to know that I love to argue. However, I think we've reached agreement on this subject. B)

i too like to argue, but ya we have an agreement, and just so you know windseer the ending to NGE is confusing as all hell. i couldnt grasp it the first few times...

Well, I've missed this whole thing... Um... well... Furi Kuri is my 2nd favorite anime, 1st being Fullmetal Alchemist. And I don't particularly like NGE all that much, even though I have all the episode DVDs and have seen the "movies". I guess I'm the type that likes that kind of random stupid humor. '-_- You guys have said pretty much everything there is to say though, so, I'm done.

ya FMA does have its moments of random humor, and i like it its definatly high on my list.

daaammmm! i read that plot of Atomsks and im like WOW!!1!

well i loved FLCL i also had a shirt btu what makes me mad is what marlin said >.< that he waches Anime to get Japanese culcher and FLCL was to Americanised #-_- talk about you stariotypes! i mean, come on! you cant say someone took something some somewhere if your ne even them or know what there thinking. you can say all anime is taken from america because that dont even LOOK japanese!!! >.< the last show i saw that anyone looked japanese was speed racer!

i hate it when people say anime is only japanese and it shouldnt be americanised! hay! did you know jazz in the only American made form of music what other kind of music would coboy bebop use if it didnt take jazz?

i remeber reading that most if not all of japanese music today it taken from American pop singers. u_u

*huff huff* im out of breath......

yes thank you it took a while to create. But CU does make some good points here. Hes right about cowboy bebop. Anf the same goes for Samurai Champloo whith its hip-hop theme.

There are other animes like Gungrave whos basis is Mafia and organizerd crime, definatly an american theme. So compared to things like this FLCl is hardly americanized.

i just hate it when people ask "your not japanese why do you draw japanese art?? ah, dah?" my answer. "because anime is not a culter its an ART!" #-_-

it pissises me off sometimes

well anime is sort of Japanese culture, really. but whats wrong with learning or watching or even mixing cultures? i mean tons of small white kids listen to rap music? so whats wrong with americans drawing anime?

FLCL.. watched one episode and was so bored and annoyed that I just turned it to some UFO thing on History channel, which I found far more intriguing. I could literally feel my IQ being stripped from me as I watched FLCL. Same with that.. Milk Chan thing. Gaaaah. *shudders, gags*

I prefer the deep things in Evangelion, Wolf's Rain, etc. Randomness bores me.

ok if you even cares to look into it, FLCL is from the exact same creator as Evangellion. He created FLCL as a counterpart to Evangellion.

"FLCL is the story of boy meets girl. For me it is also about how it's ok to feel stupid. With Evangelion there was this feeling that you had better be smart to understand it, or even just to work on it. With FLCL I want to say that it's okay to feel stupid."-Kazuya Tsurumaki (for those who dont know also created Evangellion along with Hideaki Anno)

you may ask, why dosent FLCL follow one main story?

In the third episode Ninamori was almost a main character, a kid who, like Naota, has to act like an adult. After episode three her problem was solved so she was written out. FLCL was to portray the entire history of Gainax, and each episode has symbols of what happened behind the scenes on each of Gainax's shows. Episode one has many elements of Karekano; episode two, a lot of Evangelion references, etc.

when it comes down to it its really style versus substance. FLCL is a stylish, visual show, a frantically-paced rock and roll thrillride, but told in such an unconventional manner that it's sometimes difficult to establish even the most basic facts of the storyline (like who is Amarao and who does he work for?). Many viewers leave the show saying, "cool!" but scratching their heads.

But believe it or not, there's plenty of depth to FLCL. Like most Gainax shows, it's about a boy growing up and experiencing the turbulence of adolescence. Haruko represents sexual awakening in general, while the bizarre horns and robots that mysteriously pop out of Naota's forehead are the surprising desires first experienced by teenagers (literally, boners). These weird feelings are accompanied by a big, exciting mix of rock and roll, expensive clothes, guitars, baseball, trendy drinks, and, of course, Vespas. At the same time, Medical Mechanica, a big ugly company, looms in the distance, while the town's mayor is rocked with a public affair scandal. Adults, it seems, have problems of their own.

FLCL is unlike anything else, and correctly dubbed "the first anime of the 21st century."

rebudle that.

I FINALLY SAW AN EPISODE OF FLCL!!!!
:biglaugh: :heart: :happy: :grin:


Whew...sorry about that. I just finally got to see an episode of this, and it was crazily awesome! I guess episode 3 was the one I saw. I....must...see.......more....

Wow... if you liked episode 3 that much you'll probably love the rest. Cuz episode 3 was my least favorite (It's not that it's bad, it's that the other ones are just better. There's gotta be a least favorite one.)

well 2 was my least favorite, 5 being my fave, with 4 in second. but three was very good, and stranger than others. seriously try to watch the rest.

I love 2.... it's my 3rd-least favorite, or 4th-favorite... yeah. it goes like, 6, 5, 4, 2, 1, 3. My favorite part of 2 is in the middle of the fight at the end. It's a fraction of a second long, but every time it happens, it makes me feel awesome, because it's one of the most brilliant occurances I've ever seen. Ok, y'know when Canti eat's Naota, and he starts turning red, right? When the intro to Little Busters starts playing, and it's not very loud. And then Canti (well, Atomsk now) sticks his arm out and it smashes against the enemy robot thing, and then the louder, lyrical part of Little Busters abruptly begins right after it. I love that bit.

ya then atomsk does that awsome spinnig kick. i agree that was one of the better fight scenes. my order is 5,4,6,1,3,2.

My favorite is 6. The climax is awsome. Great series :happy:

I finished watching it last night :happy:
My favorite episode was 5,6 was pretty good too. I noticed quite a few references/parallels to eva, like when his friends drive by in the truck, and they're like "we heard that you piloted that robot and saved the town." I think at some point Haruko also quotes something from eva, and Naota replies "where did you get that line...some anime?"
This show makes me happy. I'm going to have to watch it through a number of times :heart:

Ah yes, what a great show FLCL is. It's kind of complex too, so it isn't boring to watch it over and over. Plus, so much happens in one episode that it seems like you've watched atleast three.

Yeah, I've already watched it through again. On second thought, I do like 6 a little better than 5, but only a little. My least favorite is 1. I'd been wanting to see this show ever since I first joined here and heard about it from Canti, and it really surpassed my expectations. I even showed it to my brother, and he liked it too, although I'm not really sure if he understood it at all.

you should read what i posted earlier. It really does take some one of maturity to understand all the layering involved in FLCL, which was made by the very same person who made eva, to be a counterpart to eva, hence all the parallels.

Yeah I know it was made by the same guy. I read the episode guides on that site you posted a while ago too.

I've finally watched this anime, and wow! It roxxors!

you should buy the OST's, they arent that hard to find actually. they are "Addict" and "King of Pirates" seriously get both. they are a huge part of what makes FLCL so funking awsome

Yeah, this is now my favorite anime, even better than Outlaw Star(my old favorite). I've watched it through like 5 times now, and it still isn't getting old.
I will try to find those and tell my parents, since my birthday is in less than a month :gsgrin:

FLCL is great, but I still like Bleach better.

Could I find torrents for "Addict" and "King of Pirates"?

I found it for sale, and I plan on buying at least 1.
http://www.animenation.com/cds-anime-music...furi-kuri-.html
EDIT: I ordered ost 3(apparently there is one.) It has a bunch of my favorite tracks, like Hybrid Rainbow, Last Dinosaur, etc.
EDIT2: CD1 for ten bucks: http://www.bestprices.com/cgi-bin/vlink/01...?source=froogle