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Summary: oh the wonders of anime
Review: i myself am a hard core anime lover...and NEVER have i seen series as wacky and entertaining as FLCL!! the animation is overwhelmingly fluid and fresh...its one of those animes you can watch over and over and over and just keep loving it...the story is about....well....you know i couldnt really tell you...its just too weird to put into words! (^-^) i have only seen the fan subs on my comp...but i absolutly love the japanese voice acting! (heheh haruko has the best voice actress!) but any way...if you wanna see an anime thats vastly under-rated and unique..pick this up!! oh yes..and im a big fan of yoshiyuki sadomoto's character design..and it really shows up in this series.....so please..for the sake of all things good and pure, GET THIS ANIME!!
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Summary: GAINAX succeeds again!!
Review: FLCL (I am NOT calling it Fooly Cooly. It's FLCL or Furi Kuri. Studio GAINAX says so, and they made it.) is one whacked show. Literally whacked, as every review says that the how starts with Naota getting whacked in the head. x_X I've seen these two episodes already, and they messed with my mind. Typical GAINAX, except this seems far more lighthearted than Evangelion and I like the soundtrack INFINITELY better. As it's an OVA, the animation is superb. It's funny at times, overall truly confusing, and worth watching more than once. If you love Studio GAINAX, you'll love FLCL. "Ride on Shooting Star...beep beep mmm beep beep yeah!" (Don't ask.) Be prepared to be confused and love every minute of it. Oh yeah, and unless the official people subtitle more for impression than what the people are saying, the subs in one scene flash by so fast that it's next to impossible to read them. Just a fair warning. But enough of my rambling. FLCL is kewl. FLCL kicks. If you haven't already ran into FLCL, you don't know what you're missing. Trust me, it's hard to regret seeing this.
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Summary: Hoo-boy!
Review: Good lord, is this one incredibly wierd ride!!! FLCL (translated by Synch-Point as "Fooly Cooly," but by others as "Furi Kuri") is simultaneously surreal, dramatic, and absolutely hilarious. Where else can you find a kid with robots coming out of his head, a Vespa-riding alien who swings a mean bass guitar (literally), a South Park-inspired government agent, deadly curry, and a robot with a TV tube for a face? Top it off with some of the best animation you've ever seen and a good, rocking soundtrack, and you've still only scratched the surface. The only real way to fairly summarize the series is to just go ahead and give the reader the script, but even that wouldn't give you much to go on. This is one series that simply must be seen to be believed. A definite must have.
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Summary: One of my favorite series
Review: This series is simply amazing. Hillarious and uniquely stylized, this anime is perfect for anime fans that like to go "huh? what is going on here?." FLCL is certainly not for everybody, it's a very love/hate anime. This show is very wacky, you can see the point where the writers decided to drop the script and take hallucinagentic drugs. Many tiems completely changing animation styles in the middle of a scene (i.e. FLCL suddenly turns into a South Park parody at one point). But it's wackiness is it's best quality, this show had me rolling on the ground laughing (...). But be careful, as I said, this certainly isn't for everyone.
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Summary: This show Rocks my Socks
Review: I couldn't tell you too much about the plot and such, because it would really ruin the experience. What I can say is this anime is extremely unique and absolutely hillarious. I watched the subtitled version myself, and fell in love with the characters and quirky animation.So really, this anime is worth checking out, because it is absolutely amazing.
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Summary: Probably the weirdest, oddest, yet most entertaining animes
Review: The Anime Series FLCL (Fooly Cooly, or as in japan, Furi Kuri) is an very off beat anime created by Gainax, the same people responsable for Neon Genesis Evangelion. This series is basically about a kid who starts growing robots out of his head. no really. although the plot is very odd and sometimes makes no sense, the reactions of the characters, the very odd ball humor (they even have a section where they look like south park characters O_O ), and the BEST SOUNDTRACK (well next to Yoko Kanno stuff :) ) ON ANY ANIME!! The band that does most of the music, the Pillows, is a very awesome band and they should be looked up. this show has great action scenes and you'll love the characters. ^_^ JE NE!!!
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Summary: Lots of fun
Review: While watching all 6 eps of FLCL, I found myself wondering "what is this about?" several times. However, it's VERY funny, and it makes you think a lot. The anime style is unique, and the characters are likeable, unique and interesting. It's totally different from any anime I've ever seen, and don't read any more reviews, because if you hear one thing about the plot it will ruin it, and probably won't make sense anyway. ^_^
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Summary: David Cronenberg's "Looney Tunes"
Review: This show is beyond belief and beyond description. It has something to do with a beautiful alien girl, a boy who has robots being transported through his skull, and eyebrows made out of nori. At first glance it makes absolutely no sense, but after a few viewings (OK, thirty viewings) it all falls into place and makes perfect sense. The show's stream-of-conciousness style means that nothing is really explained, it's all simply put right in front of you and relies on you to put everything together. Of course, many animes are all about visuals. This one manages to pack in some of the best visuals I've ever seen in an anime and still manage to have a good story (as well as lush cinematogrophy which comes off perfectly on the DVD) and a pounding camp-tacular soundtrack by Japanese cult band The Pillows. A great worthwile package despite the price and low episode-per-volume count, which is somewhat redeemed by a great commentary track. William S. Burroughs would be proud.
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Summary: blizz the #1 anime pro
Review: FLCL is an anime show that shines over all that the anime world has ever known.(with the exeption of Love Hina) You may walk away from this show scratching your head the first few times around but stick with it, it'll be worth your while.(if you get bored watch girl-guy circumstances, that'll teach you bordom!)(I'm talking about the whole 6 show DVD, this 1 only gives you 2 shows for 30 bucks, go to anime expo or an explicit anime store and get all 6 episodes on one 15 dollar DVD!)
The show starts with a young, depressed, confused, 12 year old boy named Noata(means truth in Japanese)Nandaba in Mabase, Japan.
He hates imatture adults, which makes him a hipocrite because he initially spends all his time with Samagima Mamimi, who is an immature, moronic 19 year old woman. All of a sudden one day a wierd, inexplicably georgeous woman just pops out of nowhere on a usako bike.(vespa(moterbike)) She hits Noata on the forehead REALLY hard apparently looking for something.
Indeed, that night he has a rather obnoxious huge bump on his head. Out of this bump pops a robot with weird powers.( yeah weird,like the rest of the show)The mysterious womon appears again, and POW, konks the robot on the back of the head and his powers go away.So you want truly weird,........ this woman decides to live with Noata and his dad.(Noata has no mom??????)
She embarases herself all over the place, and finally tells a fake name which she goes by till episode 5, haruko. Episode 2 was all talk and an evil robot for all of 3 min. My favorite episode was episode 3.( mostly cause it had Eri Ninamori, the character my girlfriend Heather voiced.) In this episode which was mostly talk FLCL shows Noata having feelings for Eri(who goes to elementary school with him for gods sake) and then after episode 3 eri has basicly no part.
Episode 4 was auesome when Noata saves the city and the show is finally explained, but that was it.
Episode 5 Haruko (now raharoo) goes to bed with Noatas dad, but was episode 5.
Episode 6 was pro! Kootos to Gainax! All action, Noata fights Haruko, and this machine named terminal core dukes it out with robot man noata and haruko!(HALLAGHUYAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
I made the show sound like crap , i know, but belive me its great!
(BUY LOVE HINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Summary: FLCL
Review: I suppose if your big brother went off to a foreign country, his girlfriend began to flirt with you, and a crazy woman smacked you with a large guitar, it'd be hysterical. At least, that's what Gainax's FLCL (Fooly Cooly) makes us believe.
Noata is a young boy in a small town. His brother has left for America to play baseball, and his 16 year old girlfriend Minami is making plays at Noata. And out of the blue, a woman riding a motorcycle hits him with her motorcycle. To say anymore is give away the entire plot.
The series is confusing, as it has the official Gainax's stamp of strange. Yet the series is not suppose to have an in-depth plot that Eva or Lain had. While many fans complain of FLCL's incoherantness, the reviewer would like to point out that it was made that way. FLCL is a strange mix of stunning animation, and random humor done in such a way that the audience is laughing, in confusion, but still laughing.
Not exactly for kids, it has sexual references, but in such a way that it's not a sick joke, it's a funny laughing-out-loud type of humor. There's plenty of large flying robots, visual jokes, and random humor to keep one on their toes. The music is outstanding, as The Pillows can do no wrong with their lyrics of grungy hamsters, snipers, and lobsters.
What sets FLCL apart from the other anime? What makes it such a cult-spawning series? Why in the world does it not make sense? (The answer: no one knows.) There's just something about the series, an enigmatic, What-The-Hell-Was-That type of feeling that's akin to falling in love. You're not sure why, but it's good. Very good.
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