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 ****.

Rectangular_businessman I don't know why some people criticize this anime mini-series for being absurd and random: While it is true that "FLCL" is completely absurd and random, those are the main reasons of why this is so entertaining to watch, being a completely unpredictable animation that is also very funny and well done.I liked very much the characters of this series, which were very likable, strange and interesting: The contrast of the "sanity" of more "down to earth" characters as Naota, with the craziness of characters as Haruko, combined with the many eccentric events that take place in the course of this story results in something very original and fascinating, which never fails to entertain.It also helps the fact that this incredibly well animated and has nice music.Also, the little South Park homage in one of the episodes was simply awesome."FLCL" is something crazy and wonderful at the same time: I'm not sure if this is supposed to be something "deep" or "symbolic", but personally I enjoyed it very much.

Wegra So...How do I explain the plot? I honestly don't know I watched All six episodes and I still have no idea what's going on here but I'll try to explain it the best I can.Some random kid 12 year old kid named Naota Nandaba has some kinda puberty thing going and one day this crazy b*tch with pink hair on a motorcycle hits him with a guitar and a giant computer robot comes out of his forehead....I am not making any of this up folks a Giant robot climbs out of a 12 year-old boys forehead. And it turns out she's living with his wacko family and has some kinda love interest thing with her and the military....Screw it I can't explain the plot if you got Netflix check it out for yourself Aside from all of this it's an epic acid trip like none other. Weird animation style changes, the facial expressions are priceless and it's fun to watch over and over again trying to make sense out of it...which no one can.That said if you're a fan of anime this is a must see in any dub Japanese or English 8/10

ssandyhholland FLCL, to me was a great creation, made absolutely splendidly not only in plot, but in visual and audio effect. The beginning, with naota having his brothers girlfriend hanging onto him like that, had me perplexed, as once before I had seen part of one episode(Hitting the giant baseball) and From that I had a sense that this would be different. Then, him throwing away the can(And the indirect kiss)made me think that he was refusing her. But then as the episode progressed, and I saw more and more hilarity, I thought that this was simply a comedy, that while extremely funny, was no more. It knocked me down with its darker tones though as robots attacked, and I saw that naota just wanted to grow up.Even then, as time went on and I saw more and more action, hilarity, and insanity, I felt the deeper tones underneath it all. His growing attachment for haruko, his loosening dependence on mamimi, and his development as a person grew into a core piece of the story that was what truly made it a good show. Somehow, it was that separated feeling that made it all the more comedic. And it was that zany insane comedy that made it all the more deep. This show was more like a movie, being only six episodes long, each episode around twenty two minutes long, minus the credits, and if you added this all the episodes together, it could genuinely be called a movie.When he hit the ball, it created that sense that "swinging the bat" was simply being able to do what needed to be done. When he stood by mamimi, despite her repeated acts of arson, it created that sense that loyalty was an important part of life. When he gave up the power of atomsk, it created the sense that he was choosing love and life over power. Throughout the whole thing, Naota was the embodiment of growing up, and Haruko was the embodiment of maturity when necessary. Throughout it all, Haruko was zany, hilarious, and even somewhat insane, but when it really counted, she was mature, smart, and this part of her was what made Naota replace her as his role model. Maturity is not required at all times, and Haruko was the soul of this strong plot point.At its best, FLCL was funny and light hearted, yet had a very deep set plot and was a great representation of the world.At its worst, FLCL was hard to understand, far too fast paced, and seemed to be absolutely nothing but slapstick jokes.Really, whether its good or bad completely depends on the viewer, not upon their opinion or preference, but upon their ability to understand, comprehend, and implement.