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[Malaki (#40410)]

 Fooly Crappy?

[Animal4890 (#469)]

i see this anime in a pessimistic light as well. However I'm willing to give it another chance. A while ago I watched the first 2 or 3 eps, but have yet to continue due to lack of interest.

[Malaki (#40410)]

*whew* I thought I would get ripped apart for posting this, but I just don't see anything interesting in it. I have a very odd, and sometimes disturbing sense of humor, and I find almost anything funny, but FLCL just sucks.
I MIGHT give it another chance, after a lobotomy or two.

[Animal4890 (#469)]

[Nifty (#29681)]

I'm not gonna tear anybody apart for their opinions, but I will say that mine differ. I thought that Furi Kuri was an incredibly enjoyable OVA series. I loved the soundtrack, the humor and the action. Almost every aspect of the anime excited me.

Of course I haven't watched it a second time through. Maybe my initial reaction was just a fluke. I'll see if I can add it to my "watch" list for the week and let you know if my opinion changes.

[Shun Yada (#43434)]

ok.... this is why .. MAYBE you people don't enjoy ir as much as i do.. ok in this anime it makes fun of a lot of things that you mite not know about or notice... like in one episode it makes fun of south park and lupin III and also makes fun of many popular japanese commercials that don't air here.. you mite miss some comedy there and there is a very abstract story line that people mite not understand... so maybe thats why u don't enjoy it as much as i did... YES IM GONNA TEAR U 2 PEICES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jk...

[CupNoodles (#42384)]

This Anime is also good if you want something on in the background while your doing other things. I have seen it a bunch of times but I can still get a quick laugh by turning my attention to it. Plus it’s dope when Noata goes into Kanti. As far as more eps are concerned, there already seems to be some filler (character development?) in the six eps, so unless a sequel is carefully written (movie!) I don’t see a need.

Yeah the Lupin stuff is hilarious and everyone keeps spending their money on Inspector C.....

[Caddberry (#27690)]

I was goign to say something earlier but then thought against it.. however i will say it now since someone revived it..

Maybe i missed some of the humor or whatever, but i pretty much hated this anime.. I didnt like it at all..

[Malaki (#40410)]

Heh, guess what? I wasn't tired at all, so I decided to stay up and give FLCL another chance. You know what happened? I fell asleep the first ten minutes. And that pissed me off because I was going to work on my website. -_-
The pure suck from this series will have to be removed from my brain with a saudering iron.

[Wizard-of-Oz (#21859)]

I know most people hate this series, I dont know why. Maybe its because they dont understand the humor, which is mostly making fun of stuff that is in Japan. I guess your allowed to hate it and im not going to "tear you apart" or anything, but I really liked this series, for several reasons. 1)The action in the series was actually better then a lot of other action shows. 2) After reading the translations booklets I understood almost all of the humor that refers to Japanese culture and language. 3) The twisted story line was funny as hell to me anyway.

[andy (#32885)]

I think the story line in FLCL is odd, and a bit hokey but insanely funny. I don't think tha'ts the focus of it. The things that make FLCL unique is the wild slapstick humor, and all the themes that don't neccessarily have to do with the plot, but rather to people in general. Growing up, fooling yourself vs. fooling others, going beyond the norm occasionally but sticking with what you like other times.

These things aren't part of the story, but you can see them if u pay close attention. I would say, anyone new to anime shouldn't watch it. Most anime explain things very blatantly. Like in Naruto, Kakashi says all his opinions openly rather than showing them.

I do resent the fact that you're so close minded to the show though. Don't just say it sucks after watching 2 episodes.

[Malaki (#40410)]

[rossoline (#40078)]

I didn't think that this show was funny, or really even interesting.

But i did really really love the animation style. Especially with the character designs and how they used the kind of soft midtone shades for color. This is actually one of my favorite animes in terms of how it looks, even if evrything else about it pretty much sucks.

I don't know, just what I think. Did anyone else like that about it?

[Malaki (#40410)]

[andy (#32885)]

the animation is pretty bad sometimes. The character designs are great, but tehre are lots of freeze frame things and stuff. Sure it's only 6 episodes, but watch it all before you judge it. Especially since it's so short.

[Nifty (#29681)]

[slippy (#46880)]

First time I saw FLCL was at Anime Expo. I remember my heart pounding through the last episode, one las sequence of hyperviolence and that Pixies-ish soundtrack, ending with a simple kiss. I thought "my God, somebody has finally done it. Somebody has turned mecha into ballet."

I think the show is hands-down the most realized project Gainax has ever done. NGE introduced a hit-and-miss grabbag of expositional ideas to me. Kare Kano refined those ideas into exploring how manga's aesthetics could be adapted into anime. But where KK is about impressions and moody still-shots -- as befitting shoujo romance -- FLCL is all external concepts (abstract expressionism, surrealism, bombast) -- as befitting shounen mecha. Unlike the first two shows, FLCL sustained its vision through the end, and creates what comes to anime's "Portrait of an Artist." A surreal, romantic yet unsentimentally observed memoir to otaku-dom and a lonely, awkward adolescence in a small town.

Now if you've read Portrait of an Artist, you also know it's a big headache. You have to read it without analyzing it literally, rather trying to let its stream-of-conscious fragmentia seep into your subconscious and evoke an aesthetic memory of time and place. Of course, this is hard to do with books and even harder with shows. So, FLCL is also a monumental headache.

And FLCL is a satirical take on its own subject. As much as Naota romanticizes or misunderstands the people around him, he by definition doesn't see them for what they are, or what he is to them. And so you get the pervasive disconnect between his longing to belong and their strange curiosity in this boy. He probably loves both girls, poor fool.

I love individual moments, when it captures the "Can't Explain" ache in the same way great indie/punk rock can. But I don't love the series. Its pacing is monotonously relentless; its tone is acerbic and unsentimental; it drops you off its fever dream. But I think Gainax can look at the piece and say "yeah, we did it, and just one take finally."

Well, anyway, at least the show makes you wonder just how much coke and speed post-Eva profit could buy.

[Nos (#35530)]

I'm not gunna rip anyone apart for their ideas, but I do have a couple quick comments. Not just on FLCL, but on the nature of how you started this thread. If you wanna dislike FLCL, that's FINE. But keep in mind, it is an opinion. Some people like what FLCL is, some don't. That's their choice. But it's one thing to say, "I don't like FLCL" and it's another thing to say "FLCL SUCKS!" Saying you don't like it is recognizing that it's your opinion, and others will state theirs. FLCL SUCKS! is claiming that the very nature of the anime, at it's core, is inherently bad and sucks. It is essentially throwing that in the face of anyone who likes it, and saying they're wrong for liking it. THAT is what will get you torn apart, because people will get defensive about their right to have their opinion differ from yours. So don't come on and claim you hope you don't get torn apart, then say something so stupid.

Anyway, I liked FLCL, as you may be able to tell. I didn't "get it" and I still don't "get it" and honestly I don't know if it's as simple as some would like to say, or even more complicated and in depth than I percieve it to be. What I can say, though, is that if you only watched 3 episodes, it's highly unlikely that you 'get it'. Yes, there's only 6 episodes, but that's still only 50% of the series. I don't want to stereotype, but your avatar picture makes me think of those Tool fans, or Fight Club fanboys, who always claim that they're the ones that "get it" and no one else does. Know what I mean?

Anyway, I apologize for straying so far off topic, I just really had to get that off my chest. That's why flaming wars start, shitting on other people's opinions by claiming something SUCKS and, in that way, saying anyone that likes it is wrong. I respect that everyone who posted had enough heart to be civil and not respond to that, but I can't just let that slip by.

Sidenote: Kudos, again, to slippy for doing a wonderful job at encompassing what it is I suspect one is supposed to carry away from watching this anime. You must write essays often, huh?

[Last Exile (#35342)]

1. FLCL is fun...very.
2. FLCL is the teenager's guide to life.
3. FLCL takes the piss out of everything.
4. FLCL has lessons worth elarning for everyone.
5. Haruko is one of the pinnacles of female characters.
6. FLCL is worthy of replacing the Bible.

That's my two cents.

[Nos (#35530)]

Amen!

[slippy (#46880)]

[charn (#40191)]

I don't like FLCL either. It's just insane, confusing, noisy, and just very roughly animated.. Not my cup of tea.. I can't come to like anything this show has to offer.. But I won't use the word "suck".. maybe it's not suck (I repeat, maybe) but I can't see any of its brilliance..

[Last Exile (#35342)]

[slippy (#46880)]

divided response. FLCL isn't by any means a perfect anime show, but it's perfect for what it is. And, when you think of it, FLCL is more nakedly Gainax than any other show they've done.

The difference between FLCL and, say, Abenobashi (a very Gainax show in its sense of otaku entitlement) is that I felt the former really does arrive past the homage of mecha and shounen into a sort of associative expressionism. That is, the explosions is SO chaotic and SO crazy and SO rock and roll that you finally arrive at a free-think zen where all mecha fanboys see in their dreams, where romantic longing/lust, parental rage, boredom, whatever, can be arrived through robots blowing up stuff. Dude I nearly wept when I saw the last episode, because it spoke to my adolescent, mecha heart.

Recently I've been watching Revolutionary Girl Utena -- in its own ways, the melee sequences, puppet theatre, and so on (especially toward the last arc of the series) goes into that free associative expressionism. What you're seeing doesn't really make a lot of literal sense, but on a more primal, reductive level, it feels sexual, dangerous, and exciting. That portion of Utena is to "magical girl" what FLCL is to mecha.

[Caddberry (#27690)]

I didnt realize that Abenobashi came from the same company as FLCL did.. I stopped watching Abenobashi in the middle.. I sat through FLCL.. Charn wont use the word "suck" ... But I will

FLCL sucked.. Abenobashi sucked too.. I'll probably never watch either of them again.. and I never see myself sitting through the rest of Abenobashi..

I kept it anyway figuring that maybe someday if I had kids they might like it..

[charn (#40191)]

[slippy (#46880)]

[Doff (#45012)]

I really liked FLCL furi kuri...
It was something WAY out of the ordinairy, "freaked out" if i can use those words..
The characters were great.. they totally rocked, and the "mood", athmosphere in it were also suge...

[IILooney (#46888)]

I see you haven't taken my advice and you're still continuing to broadcast your idiocy over the internet. Oh well what do I expect from a mind repressed simian such as you.

[Doff (#45012)]

[charn (#40191)]

[Doff (#45012)]

haha.. LOL.. yes it's wasn't easy to understand.. ^^ lol...
I sent you a pm charn, im too lazy right now to find out ^^ :

[charn (#40191)]

well good that you know now..

Slippy just PMed me and I already told him who it is too ! He hasn't got back to me yet whether he agrees with me or not.. but I'm sure he will..

BTW, Thank you slippy for your detailed explanation on FLCL. I have to admit that I didn't like FLCL at all when I watched it the first time.. but reading your detailed analysis of it I think I may have a chance to like it if I watch it for the second time.. But what discourages me big time is the music in FLCL.. I think everyone here knows that I love classical music and I don't like noisy rock music.. and FLCL's music is very noisy.. so it would take me a while to get used to.. But slippy your analysis made me want to see it again.. Doff used to try to convince me, but he didn't succeed.. but you succeeded... so congratulations.. I'll tell you if I like it the second time I watch it..

[Last Exile (#35342)]

On first watch, FLCL is weird.

Second watch, the themes/plot are a lot more apparent because you now know the jokes but you now see beyond the leis and now see the truth.

[slippy (#46880)]

[Caddberry (#27690)]

[Last Exile (#35342)]

The only Gainax product I like is FLCL. Otherwise I'd send them flame mail for eternity.

[slippy (#46880)]

Seriously Last Exile, have you heard the Martika version of "Toy Soldiers"? It's SO good!

[Last Exile (#35342)]

IRL, I use Furi Kuri and Azumanga Daioh to see whether I like a person or not.

It works 99.9% of the time.

[Nikke (#114249)]

Re: Fooly Crappy?

[Funda (#115016)]

This SERIES IS NOT ABOUT MECHA OR SOME ROMANCE STORY, the series itself is just suppose to be funny its just random and funny if you dont find it funny you prob either just dont like that kind of humor or you dont understand it. Also if you watch this on CN they cut some of the ecchi humor out so you miss some of it sadly.

[tryton (#115043)]

I didnt read what people said after you made your complaint

[Hideki (#120201)]

I watched FLCL two times didn't understand it but after the third time I finally understand FLCL and I love it! ^^ For other ppl I say give it a shot and check out FLCL ^^

[MushroomFarmer (#127827)]

I think Nikke post pretty much enlightend me on why I love it so much. It seems to me to have a similar insane humor as Monty Python. . I love the series so much because it can keep my attention.. with the attention span of a squirrel its not that easy to do. And the Pillows music in there was awesome. Mad it feel really BA.

[Freddy C (#31563)]

FLCL appealed to me for 2 reasons: one because it was fast and action packed with a splash of weird humour, two because it was short.