Rating: 
Summary: Amazing
Review: Utterly amazing. I watched this fansubbed and was completely blown away. FLCL (which is what I call it) Fooly Cooly, Furi Kuri or whatever the hell you call it, exceeds anything ever done before in anime.
FLCL is a show about a kid, who lives in a boring town, with a boring life, taking care of his brother's girlfriend, because his brother's in america. Naota (the kid) stopped beleiving that there's a world outside of his town, and it seems Mammimi (the older brother's girlriend) has given up hope too. Then everything gets a little...wacked. On the head. With a bass guitar.
What I hate about people reviewing FLCl though, is that they leave out ONE EXCELLENT CHARACTER. Mamimi Samejima, the smoking pyromaniacal, homeless, older brother's girlfriend. Truly, this show revolves less around just Naota and Haruko in my eyes than it revolves around Naota, Mamimi and Haruko. And I truly like Mamimi and Naota love side story than the main finding atomsk plot. Haruko is nice though. I like her hair.
I realize the this is impossible to understand unless you've seen the seriees or are me (wondeful writing skills, huh?). So just watch it. Seriously. Do it. Now.
Rating:
Summary: Gainax goes "Fooly"
Review: Let me start off by saying that FLCL (pronounced "Furi-Kuri" or "Fooly Cooly") is not for everyone. Don't let this discourage you from buying this DVD. This first volume is anything but sensical and humorless. The first episode is a blazing barrage of off beat humor and crazy antics. FLCL is beatufully animated and the character designs are phoenominal. Through out the first half of the move I found myself confused, excited, and utterly enjoying myself while watching robots read 'hussler' magazine. In the opening sequence the camera pans out and a huge monolith in the shape or a cloths iron. It's this kind of whacked out animitation that makes FLCL wonderful. There are even giant mech robot fights that start when the main protagonist, Naota, has biomechanical robots spring from his forehead. While the first episode is a scream, the second dosen't foucus as much on the quirky humor than developing a plot (even if the plot maybe so out there it makes no sense when I try to think aobut it). And while it still maintains it's odd nature, i couldn't help but feel like the humor in the last 8 minutes or so felt forced. This isn't a bad thing though. The humor in the end didn't feel right because there was a heavily somber (but wierd as ever) mood and I couldn't help but care about the different characters in the situations. It's the mark of a good anime when you can't help but think about it for the next hour or so. When it ended i just kept wanting more, more, more FOOLY COOLY! So you're probably wondering as to why I gave FLCL five stars when the humor sometimes felt forced. Because that was just nit picking. This only stood out because the overall product was so good!! FLCL gets it's five stars for it's fun factor not for it's perfection. If you're even considering buying this anime, do it. You will not regret it, I promise.
Rating:
Summary: I'm writing a research paper on it.
Review: It simply doesn't get any better than this folks. I've watched more Furi Kuri than anything else ever produced, even though they only made six episodes. Still I have to show it to more people! Ye of faint heart and closed mind, stay away from FLCL, you just won't get it. Everyone else... enjoy!
Rating:
Summary: Quite possibly the greatest anime of all time...
Review: FLCL, it's hard to speak intelligently about it. Watching this for the first time, I think my brain turned into mush. It mocks your senses at every turn with it's superior animation, awesome soundtrack (performed by the Pillows), unique premise, and multitudes of subliminal messages.Just what is FLCL? Difficult to say. A few of the main themes I've been able to grasp include: relationship of older girls towards younger boys, kids existing in an adult-oriented world, middle-school life, living in the shadows of those who came before you... and that's just one episode worth. FLCL greatly benefits from repetetive viewing. I've personally watched each episode about 20 times, and I still fail to grasp the full ideas it presents. If you tear away at the pretty pictures it throws at you, and look into the deeper messages it presents, it will indefinately change the way you look at the world. If you don't, then your still left with a witty satire of adolescence and adulthood.
Rating:
Summary: Great.
Review: Simply great. FLCL's random kookynes and unique animation style are simply enticing. But beyond the shell of a wild Japanese Comedy, FLCL is really just a story of growing up, its also a story of the same ol same ol being turned upside down by a new character, or a Deus Ex Machina, coming into some ones life, and changing it forever. The show balances the undertones of Growing up and Comedy perfectly, in fact, if you wanted you could study this anime and see the theme about matruing and growing up. But I do have one problem. Two episodes a disc. Its quite a lot, and FLCL will certianly turn certian crowds away, so I suguest thinking this over before getting it, unless you saw it on Adult swim and liked it a lot, or saw it fansubed.
Rating:
Summary: Gainax goes "Fooly"
Review: Let me start off by saying that FLCL (pronounced "Furi-Kuri" or "Fooly Cooly") is not for everyone. Don't let this discourage you from buying this DVD. This first volume is anything but sensical and humorless. The first episode is a blazing barrage of off beat humor and crazy antics. FLCL is beatufully animated and the character designs are phoenominal. Through out the first half of the move I found myself confused, excited, and utterly enjoying myself while watching robots read 'hussler' magazine. In the opening sequence the camera pans out and a huge monolith in the shape or a cloths iron. It's this kind of whacked out animitation that makes FLCL wonderful. There are even giant mech robot fights that start when the main protagonist, Naota, has biomechanical robots spring from his forehead. While the first episode is a scream, the second dosen't foucus as much on the quirky humor than developing a plot (even if the plot maybe so out there it makes no sense when I try to think aobut it). And while it still maintains it's odd nature, i couldn't help but feel like the humor in the last 8 minutes or so felt forced. This isn't a bad thing though. The humor in the end didn't feel right because there was a heavily somber (but wierd as ever) mood and I couldn't help but care about the different characters in the situations. It's the mark of a good anime when you can't help but think about it for the next hour or so. When it ended i just kept wanting more, more, more FOOLY COOLY! So you're probably wondering as to why I gave FLCL five stars when the humor sometimes felt forced. Because that was just nit picking. This only stood out because the overall product was so good!! FLCL gets it's five stars for it's fun factor not for it's perfection. If you're even considering buying this anime, do it. You will not regret it, I promise.
Rating: 
Summary: Some Things You Will See:
Review: a left-handed Rickenbacker bass that can be started like a chain saw, a motor scooter that can fly, snapshots, gameboys, bunk beds, baseball, overweight cats, and preteen angst. 12-year-old Naota leads a very strange life surrounded by some very strange people. His brother's ex-girlfriend is a chain-smoking arsonist, his father is a mudslinging propagandist, and his grandfather has a habit of sending the family robot down to the corner store to purchase "adult literature". Situations constantly waver between psychotic and surreal, quickly unfolding beneath the gaze of a factory shaped like an iron. Add enough puberty related symbolism to make Freud's head explode and you have a truly original, if not linear, anime. The quality of the artwork, including both backgrounds and animation, is topnotch. The soundtrack is equally good, scored by the underrated J-rock band, The Pillows. The only reason I'm giving FLCL four out of five stars is because I think the two episodes per disc in a three volume series is a total rip-off. Here's an idea: release all six episodes on one dvd with an additional cd containing the soundtrack and various audio promo clips. Just an idea.
Rating:
Summary: Best. Show. Ever.
Review: If you haven't seen FLCL, you are missing the best anime show ever made (despite its short six episodes). If you have only seen it once, you're probably thinking "That made absolutely no sense" and you're not far off. It can take a few viewings to catch all the details and random jokes. It's worth it. Even if you don't like anime, don't knock it without seeing it thrice (once to view it, once to catch what you missed and once to enjoy it). I hate most anime, but this is my favorite show.
If you haven't seen it and are interested but don't know what its about, FLCL is the story of a normal boy (Naota) who has loads of chicks all over him and robots coming out of his head. One of the females seemingly interested in this twelve year old is an alien who hit him periodically in the head with a Rickenbacker bass. It is a great, funny, short show. It's also got a great soundtrack featuring the pillows. Check it out, you won't regret it.
Rating:
Summary: Fooly Cooly man what a wild ride.
Review: FLCL(Fooly Cooly)- The first disc is phenomenal, some of the best animation you will find. This series had me from the first time they had it on Adult Swim. It looked kind of stupid when i first saw it, but after i started to watch it i saw something i've never seen before (the way anime's should be). If you've never seen this series before i recomend you go to Best Buy, Sam Goody's or wherever you can get movies and pick it up (trust me you will not be disapointed). It is a great series for anime lovers of all kind's, and for the people that are just starting out. Some people will not like this series, they might find it stupid or pointless but take it from me you will end up wanting more after you've seen it.
Rating:
Summary: Very weird series.....I love it!
Review: FLCL is one of the coolest animes I've ever seen.
The story is good, though some parts confused me.
The animation is excellent. And the series just flat out rocks. But I have to agree with the other reviewer. 25 dollars is way to much especially when each episode is half and hour. But still this series is great. I don't have any money to get volume 2, but I'm working on it.
Man I want volume 2 so bad!!!
Overall this is a must see series. FLCL rules......
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