RyothChatty ridiculous rating

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

maxfrum It has been a week now since I finished FLCL, and I thought I would write a short reflection on the series' (past) reception and how I struggled to connect with it.Most of the highest rated reviews for this series are from around 2005-2007, and I think at that time FLCL was refreshing for viewers. It combined vivid artistic expression that hinged upon bright colors and urban backdrops with an engaging soundtrack to produce an ambiguous narrative that challenged the mores of Japanese animation at the time. In short then, the series success relied, and still relies, largely upon its visual/audial components. However watching this series now, in 2018, FLCL doesn't manage to pack that unique punch it once did. Instead, it acts as little more than a foreshadowing of what was to come. To be brief but a bit more specific, FLCL does contain a message and has themes/motifs imbued within its characters, their environments, and even in its audio - but the issue is that none of the aforementioned are ever truly developed. The six-episode series is never able to achieve more than being an ephemeral burst of color and sound which careens into an abrupt end. Which, for me, is simply not enough. What makes a series successful and allows its viewership to revisit it again and again is its depth. To that end, I would recommend that those who appreciate Japanese animation and its rich visual tradition to watch this. However, I would do so with realistic expectations.

rolfesam FLCL is a Japanese animated show that has no real plot to truly speak of. I mean there is of course a plot but that is no the real draw of FLCL, really that honor belongs to the animation and the characters of FLCL. The animation to this show is absurdly good. Like much better than an anime television show usually is. To put that more into context; anime is well known for using pretty much every trick in the book to use as little actual animation as possible to work on a bare bones budget and incredibly constrained time-hacks. FLCL does not do that. It is animated like a strange dream, fluid and beautiful in a way that just doesn't happen normally. Its a joy to watch. The characters are all interesting and act much differently than most other characters in traditional entertainment as they really don't seem to act on a certain drive to achieve some goal, instead they all just act upon feeling. Excitement, Loneliness, lust, anger, they just live how they feel and with animation backing them up their emotion can be sowed into their very reality with art style change or visual gags impossible to achieve in live-action. I would recommend this with a warning that since the show is about following emotion instead of logic I would like to acknowledge that this will turn a lot of people off the show, but I loved my time with it.

Victreebong I'm sorry, I've tried. I've tried to like this 6 episode series, I've tried to link the beginning to end, I've tried to like the characters, the WAY overthetop animation, the erraticism, the niche, the "Fooly Coolly" too Coolly for Schooly everything. No. This anime is the straight schism between what anime had been, and what it is now.The animation is like Bebop took a mountain of cocaine loaded into a pile of thirty strippers various crevices, slapped C4 in the pile, through the pile on a rocket ship, and had Donald Trump shout at the rocket while blasting into space doing line after line of blow out of said women. You know those erratic camera angles that occur when Spike fights someone in Bebop, yeah those happen WAY too often in this series. There's sick, and there's trying too hard.That's before we bring up Haruko. The epitome of millennial YOLO counter culture, this chick is like every spunky Weezer fan with a trust fund in one annoying amalgamation. Completely carefree, violent, no talent, strings along horny men, hit's people on the f*cking head with her guitar...Which is the worst plot device in the history of anime! The protagonist is some poor boy who's surrounded by manipulative teen females that get's smacked on the forehead to shortly thereafter grow a large phallic protrusion that turns into robots fighting one another. I'm not making this up. They explain JUST WHAT I TOLD you in a little more detail by episode 5, but it's about four more words than what I just said to avoid spoilers.Along with these two is a couple more of said manipulative girls, an apathetic horny father, full on uzzi battles where people don't get completely blown to shreds, a creepy chain smoking school girl, a REALLY weird spider-mech battle with a young girls legs, forehead, crotch and panties turning into weapons (again, not making this up), I don't know how many hand motifs. This show is just weird. It's obviously not for everyone, how it's linked to Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop is beyond me. The one cool thing about the show is the mysterious robot who's plot device is never fully understood/explained. Oh well, he makes a cool PVC collection figurine. Until he somehow poops... :/Bring back my classics where villains act like villains, heroines and heroes are relatable (not hate able), drawn camera angles don't turn into Bayformers on speed, and toss this wannabe hipster millennial anime in the garbage. Also, Vespas are ****.

Thedudekid Many people excuse FLCL as the epitome of stupid anime. However, if you watch it carefully, you would see that it is genius and one of the most original stories of all time. Underneath all of the insanity of the story, lies a good theme of growing up. Other themes are jealousy, the desire for freedom, and adolescent sexual tension. If you find this anime hard to understand, then that's good. That's what gainax intended. I gave this one a 9/10. It lost a point because it's not for anyone and I definitely wouldn't recommend it to someone who is new to anime (I would normally advise them to start with a classic like Dragon ball or Ranma 1/2).