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Naota Nandaba is twelve years old, lives in a suburb so boring that nothing ever happens there, and then a woman on a Vespa runs him over and hits him with a bass guitar and robots start coming out of his head.
FLCL is six episodes released between 2000 and 2001 by Gainax and Production I.G. It is also, depending on who you ask: a coming-of-age story, a meditation on adolescence and desire, a surrealist comedy, an experiment in animation pushed to its absolute limits, and one of the greatest things ever made for the medium. The soundtrack is by The Pillows. The animation goes places that had no right to be possible for an OVA budget. Every episode is a different style. Every scene means something even when — especially when — it looks like pure chaos.
Six episodes. Each one about twenty-five minutes. There is no excuse not to have seen this.
FLCL is six episodes released between 2000 and 2001 by Gainax and Production I.G. It is also, depending on who you ask: a coming-of-age story, a meditation on adolescence and desire, a surrealist comedy, an experiment in animation pushed to its absolute limits, and one of the greatest things ever made for the medium. The soundtrack is by The Pillows. The animation goes places that had no right to be possible for an OVA budget. Every episode is a different style. Every scene means something even when — especially when — it looks like pure chaos.
Six episodes. Each one about twenty-five minutes. There is no excuse not to have seen this.
Alt Title
フリクリ
Studio
Gainax / Production I.G
Network
OVA
Aired
2000 – 2001
Episodes
6
Genre
Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age
Status
Completed
Episode List
001
Fooly Cooly
Apr 26, 2000
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Naota Nandaba's boring, ordinary life in the town of Mabase is violently interrupted when a manic, pink-haired woman named Haruko Haruhara runs him over with a Vespa and hits him in the head with a bass guitar, causing a giant robot to sprout from his forehead.
002
Fire Starter
Jun 21, 2000
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Mamimi, Naota's troubled ex-girlfriend (who was actually dating his brother), becomes obsessed with the robot Canti, treating him like a god. Meanwhile, a string of mysterious fires plagues the town, and something terrifying is gestating inside Naota's head.
003
Marquis de Carabas
Aug 23, 2000
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Eri Ninamori, the cynical class president and daughter of the town's mayor, tries to navigate her parents' scandalous divorce. She ends up crashing at Naota's house just as her repressed emotions manifest as a mechanical menace from her own head.
004
Full Swing
Oct 25, 2000
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Naota's father and grandfather become obsessed with baseball, but Naota refuses to swing the bat, afraid of striking out. When a massive, city-destroying satellite hurtles toward Mabase, Haruko forces Naota to step up to the plate with his guitar.
005
Brittle Bullet
Dec 21, 2000
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Naota gets a taste of power and starts carrying real firearms in a desperate bid to act like an adult. A massive, heavily armed Medical Mechanica robot attacks the town, forcing Haruko and Canti into a brutal, beautifully animated firefight.
006
FLCLimax
Mar 16, 2001
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The town of Mabase begins to literally flatten as Medical Mechanica makes its final move. Haruko's true motivations regarding the space pirate Atomsk are revealed, forcing Naota to finally stop acting like a kid and make a choice that will change everything.
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