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Summary: GAINAX Masterpiece
Review: Simply the most amazing piece of artwork ever developed. From the stylized use of digitized manga to the amazing group of animators that worked on the projects. Tsurumaki's vision and depth is amazing (especially since he is right handed). Oh, and don't forget the amazing fight scenes with some of the most fantastic robots you can imagine.The final episodes, where the Earth is poised at the brink of destruction, and Naota finally comes to terms with the people around him and finds Atomosk. Amazing episodes, wraps up the series nicely, but definitely left me wanting more (just because the series is amazing). Pretty slim chance of it at this point, with the disbanding and purchase of GAINAX, but one can hope...
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Summary: Most Beautiful Anime Ever Put on Video
Review: The stylistic achievement is simply stunning. Very few, if any, TV anime ever reach this level of eye-candy gorgeousness. Gainax's FLCL combines the palette subtleties of the best of Studio Ghibli with its own distinct character designs, action gestures and emotional expressions. Hilarious manga-style sequences AND this volume's 'Brittle Bullets' features a riff on South Park's faux-construction paper style. If you've never seen FLCL before, just relax, have an open mind and let this bizarrely wonderful world take you in. Let the stream-of-consciousness story wash over you like a KoolAid waterfall. You'll want to see it again just to make sure you saw what you saw the first time.
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Summary: It's the Climax!
Review: This DVD contains the last two episodes of the ridiculously hilarious show FLCL. In the first of these two, Brittle Bullet, we see more action with General Amarao, who first appeared last episode. For those of you not too great with names, that's the guy with red hair and huge dark green eyebrows which occasionally fall off. His confrontation with Haruko is just one of the things to look forward to in this episode. The others include Kitsurabami (his assistant) getting a crush on Canti, Naota going off the deep end a little, a huge fake gun fight, a a giant gunslinging robot that comes out of Naota's head and starts shooting a 100-ft. long shotgun at Haruko, who's wearing a ridiculous bunnygirl suit and toting a slingshot. The second episode is FLCLimax, and it is indeed the climax. In this one, everything that has been growing throughout the series will come out to create a truly insane sequence. At its core (very, very deep) FLCL is a love story about Haruko and Naota, and we finally see the resolution of that in this episode. I'm not going to tell you how it ends, but I'll leave on word: Atomsk. Oh, and did I mention another Manga sequence? Ultimately, while this series is constantly bizarre and often innappropriate, I still find it one of the most hilarious and wonderful series I have ever seen. Perhaps this is because it transcends everything else I have ever seen, becoming something that does not really fit into any category. Whatever it is, it is a great show, one not to be missed.
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Summary: Furi Kuri
Review: This has got to be one of, if not _the_ best anime I've seen. It seems to stimulate a part of the brain that's not normally given much attention, so it's hard to accept at first. The music is top-notch, the animation is high quality, and it runs the gamete of emotions--sadness, laughter, happiness, anger, confusion... In some way, it reminds me of Fear & Loathing in LV (the movie) as it shocks and confuses you so much the first few times that you don't see the cool story and little details until later viewings. And under all that, there even is a nifty story (even if not altogether original in anime).
check it out. at only ~2.5 hours total for the series, even if you don't like it, well, you hardly lost any time at all! If only I could find Haruko biking around my home town...
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Summary: Great great anime
Review: This is by far my favorite anime, and though at first you WON'T understand the plot (this is almost a guarantee) but eventually it will dawn on you. To figure out the significance of the show, you have to pay attention to every spoken line, if you do this, you will learn how complex the series is. I may as well go ahead and tell you now so you don't have to watch it 20 times like i did, being a millenium anime the show revolves around armegeddon (through multiple references to things like Nostradamus and a "god" of the black flame, and one other that escapes me). Anyone who says that there is no plot/purpose and they dont understand it hasnt watched it enough, or was biased against to begin with. Definitely a great buy, well worth the price.
If only there were a box set. . .
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Summary: ...
Review: This is my favorite anime...It's just different and really cool. it's just not like anything else you'll ever see. I won't give any spoilers out, so get it and find out why everyone gives it 5 stars. ITADAKIMASU! ^_~
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Summary: FOOLY COOLY RULES
Review: THIS IS THE BEST ANIME I HAVE EVER SEEN THE FIRST TIME A WACTH I I THOUGHT IT WAS STUPID BUT THEN THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO PLAY ALL OF IT AGAIN AND I SAID ILL WACTH IT ONE MORE TIME AND I DID AND I REALY LIKE IT SO NOW I GOIN TO BUY IT AS SOON AS IM DONE WRITTIN THIS BYE
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Summary: FLCL
Review: This is the best searies I have ever seen!!!
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Summary: So this is what it feels like when doves cry...
Review: Well, here's the end of it all. If it wasn't so friggin' good, and the followup OAV DEAD LEAVES didn't feel like such a pathetic attempt to "take it up a notch," I might want the series to go on. Instead I'll have to watch it a dozen times more, and marvel that they smacked it SO righteously out of the park (by they I mean GAINAX and PRODUCTION I.G.)! This is the kind of stuff that redefines where animation could go...
No matter what people might say, just pay attention, go with its flow, and FLCL makes perfect sense. Might make better sense if you don't watch tons of anime actually. At its heart, its just about growing up and being a man, dammit!
So my friends turned me on to this a couple of years ago, its the best anime in memory, and reinvigorates my interest in the genre. Nothing since has touched its perfection. Short and sweet, spastic as hell, and the dynamics between the characters are bombastic. Its pretty much a distillation and collage of everything in anime since the 90's hit, a punk-rocking parody that suddenly begins to take itself seriously, then upheaves everything.
If you take away all the religious underpinnings and focused on Shinji's sexual tension with older/younger women in all twenty-six+ episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but shoved that in only six episodes, and stuck said confused pubescent boy with the "worst girl for you at the best time" you've pretty much got the narrative. Soundtrack by the PILLOWS alone makes it a classic, it rocks like a J-pop PIXIES.
I give the series itself 5 stars [...] the bonuses aren't that great[...]. "Lord of the Rings:Return of the King" is longer than the whole series combined and costs only $30! [...] I could ALMOST understand 2 volumes at that price since the series narrative naturally splits at the middle anyways... but its still a MUST SEE.
I recommend getting a used copy if you can't afford the steep tag.
EPISODES 5&6 FEATURE:
*Even-BETTER-than-Episode#1's robot hand vs. robot/punk hottie in bunny outfit battling!
*Random-yet-contextually sound South Park style animation!
*Cutest little boy-trying-to-be-a-man moment ever!
*Cute robot growing to monstrous proportions by eating cell phones!
*Incredible stick-it-to-John Woo parody!
*Amazing LUPIN III references!
*Naota's father dressed like a Nazi!
*The very satisfying end of the series!
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Summary: Great Anime, Bad Anime DVDs
Review: 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.
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