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Summary: la morte de la realite
Review: ...i woke up. i fell asleep, into a world of furi kuri.
if my reality was even one-fifth as engrossing, i wouldn't
mind staying awake forever.
this is my medicine
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Summary: Four Stars for Creativity!
Review: Ah, this is an imaginative book, to be certain.Though I've not yet been honored with the chance to watch the anime, I've heard that the manga greatly differs from it. So if you're looking for a follow-up or the manga-version of the original shows, you'd best stay away. Listen, if you're the type to love by-the-book mangas and that type of art style, you'd better prepare yourself for this. The storyline is incredibly, there's no other way to say this, WHACKY. The art can also, at major points of action in the story, be scrawly and hard to follow. VERY hard to follow. Well, you were warned. I personally find the art style cute, especially Mamimi (she's a dear ^^). Being totally new to this, this manga was my first experience with Fooly Cooly, I was wholly bamboozled and pleased with this purchase (well, gift, really). All in all, this book, in it's onesome, has greatly diversified my 63-book collection. Thanks, FlCl ^^!
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Summary: Good, if you can accept the difference
Review: Alot of people are disappointed about this, but I find it to be fine. A twist in the art style is good. The art has a very sketchy, distinct look to it. The style changes alot, and that fits FLCL perectly. There are also some interesting moments in it that weren't in the anime, that are pretty amusing. I recommend this to any fan, strictly to those who've seen the anime. If you haven't, you won't understand a word of it. ;) -This is Pooch, signing out!
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Summary: Strange, Yet Quite Powerful
Review: FLCL, I saw first in anime form. Then I noticed the title peeking out in the manga section of a local book store. Fearing for my sanity, yet totally sold on the manga I started reading. Basic plot: Naota is an average kid, who likes his life average. His brother moved to America and is getting along well. But his brother's girlfriend is obsessed with him and follows Naota around treating him like his brother. Then along comes this crazy chick on a Vespa, Haruko, who brains Naota on the head with a guitar, then runs him over. The insuing head trauma opens a kid of portal in his head, through which robots come through and fight each other. The one robot, Canti, lives at Naota's home with his perveted father and crazy grandfather. Haruko starts hanging around at his home. She wants something, but itsn't telling. Yet.
For those who pick up this manga, I swear all this happens. This book is kind of hard to follow. The plot seems to be kind of jumbled up in a series of flashbacks and cut scenes involving dialogue that doesn't seem to pertain to the story. But it all fits. This such a well done manga. True the art is not as beautiful as in Battle Royale or Rurouni Kenshin, but it fits very well with the mood of the story. It's chaotic and confusing. You will probably have to read it through several times to figure out what's actually going on. Don't worry if you don't understand it quickly. The second part fills up lots of holes. Its a cool little manga GAINAX has on its hands with a adistic streak a mile wide. Check it for good times or some thinking time. Or non-thinking moments. Whatever you want.
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Summary: Mindb-blower ( figurative and literally )
Review: Gainax really gets in your mind and twists it around with FLCL. The show is engenious the way it throws itself into manga form sometimes, referances to other gainax shows and to anime, and they even make fun of American animation. Beautiful. Still the book is more confusing, more seductive, and wrong in all the right ways. My favorite.
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Summary: Decent for a first foray...
Review: I find the manga to be much more interesting than the show at times, because it seems even more random and dream-like than the anime OAV. Try the first one; the second volume appears to be delayed, as it was supposed to be out on the 4th but I've yet to receive word about it.
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Summary: Very Distinctive and Unusual Manga
Review: I think Kazuya Tsurumaki, the director of the anime FLCL (which came out first) said somewhere that they purposely chose someone with a distinctive, different drawing style to do the manga. Mission accomplished: Hajime Ueda's style is so bold, rough and sketchy that you may not initially realize how good it really is. Page after page are masterpieces of beautiful layout, done in the most subtle and minimalist style, a great example of the kind of offbeat manga that we almost never see translated, even by Tokyopop. On the down side: some of his panels are so crazy and experimental that they go over the top and don't work. Narrative continuity is admittedly somewhat fractured, worse in the second volume where characters appear and disappear without explanation, and the story -- such as it is -- doesn't really follow the anime (which is common in manga adaptations). In fact, I think the anime story is a little better than the one Ueda chose to tell, but don't worry about it; this is a wild and unique manga, so check it out and give it time to grow on you.
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Summary: Something new, just what manga needed!
Review: Im a die hard manga fan, and Ive read many manga, some good, and others bad. This fits into something entirley diffrent! Its unique art style and comedic characters, definitely make it worth buying, especially since theres only 2 books. Dont let that discourage you though! If your looking for a manga thats spans many many books, one you can keep collecting for time to come, this isnt what your looking for, try again. If you want somethig new and fun to read, this is perfect and like I said before, only 2 books... nice and affordable. Not as good as the anime so on par with that, its roughly 4 stars, but on its own, I give it my highest recommendation. Can be hard to understand if your just casually looking for something to read, but buy the anime, read the books, it all comes together, and your left with a series that truely fills 'short but sweet'.
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Summary: 2 stars for the drawings
Review: The artwork for this manga is pretty interesting to me, but after reading 2 volumes, I feel I have wasted my money as far as the story goes. The story is totally incoherent, and I have heard from people that watching the anime is the only way to understand the manga (which I feel makes for bad manga) and so I cannot reccomend this manga as a stand alone product. I've watched a lot of anime and read a fair amount of manga, and so I'm able to put together even strange stories... however this manga has almost no story and jumps around so much that nothing is ever developed.
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Summary: An unusual read
Review: The FLCL manga corresponds to the anime, but only just. There are many places where the manga and the anime split up. Overall though the storylines are similar. The artwork to this manga is a little sketchy, but it has an interesting feel. The storyline has a little more sexual innuendo than the anime, so that's something to keep in the back of your mind as you purchase this, especially if it is for a child.
The storyline is what really kept my attention though. I had to read it twice to figure out just how deep the story ran at points. Overall though it is a whimsy and fun story, and I really enjoyed the artwork. If you like FLCL, it couldn't hurt to check it out.
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