CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

er so yes.


i was up late last night, and i saw that flcl was on. and theres like this whole big hubaballoo about this show so im like 'lets take a lil peakaroo'

and yeah.


by the end of the episode i was like ....


...


what just happend?

the last 30 min of my life i have no idea what was going on.


and it was the first episode.
you would think the first episode would explain some things. i have no idea whats HAPPENING AHHH.

what does flcf stand for?

teen4truth wrote:what does flcf stand for?

Fooly Cooly, I think. What does Fooly Cooly mean? That is the question.

Nothing really ever gets explained. Just accept it for the wierdness that it is. I think the closest you could come to assigning a meaning to anything is a coming of age story.

I've heard of it. What's it about (if it can be explained)?

Myoti wrote:I've heard of it. What's it about (if it can be explained)?

theres this guy, and a girl, and a robot

and stuff happens

thats alll that happens

lol you think FLCL is weird? try Paranoia Agent!!!

Crazy alien girl hits boy on head. Robots grow out of said boy's head. Robots fight each other.

So basically, all you can say about it is... WTF?!

and people are eating eggs... in provocative ways

Yeah. That show is just surreal. I tried to sit down and understadn the story, then I realized that it wasn't worth the trauma to the logic center of my brain.

CDLviking wrote:Fooly Cooly, I think. What does Fooly Cooly mean? That is the question.

Nothing really ever gets explained. Just accept it for the wierdness that it is. I think the closest you could come to assigning a meaning to anything is a coming of age story.

"Fooly Cooly was just the moronic way the American distributor transliterated "Furi Kuri" or [size=100]フ] in Japanese. In Japan it is FLCL.

And I think it will go on Gainax' "Bad Idea" list

and I believe furi kuri is an onotopeia (sp?)

This show is pointless...if you don't want your innocent eyes burned..I suggest STAY AWAY FROM THIS ANIME!

This show is pointless...if you don't want your innocent eyes burned..I suggest STAY AWAY FROM THIS ANIME!

thats not true if your into a crazy world where alian girls go around hitting boys on the head with a guitar and a robot comes out and eats the boy. Over all it is pointless but its funny.

I'd have to agree with Mythmaster on this one...It's an interesting work...And it has good animation. I can't really justify it though because it has to much inopriate junk in it.

Here's a question for those of you who have seen the dubbed version of FLCL: what went on during the section of the first episode where the animation consisted of slightly altered versions of the manga panels? In Japanese, at least, it seemed to be some sort of lengthy, complicated word play, so I was wondering how this section of the episode would be translated for the dub.

It's still mostly word play, though most of that scene goes by so fast that it's hard to catch anything.

The reason FLCL makes so little sence is that Gainax just did it to blow off steam (and probobly to try and kill lingering post-Eva expectations)

Ok...::cracks knuckles:: (Note: the spoiler does have a sexual tone...though said in a professional manner, I do use a sexual term.)

Fooly Cooly, in eccescence (sp?) means kneading bread in a twsting type fashion. This is however taken out of context to in conjuction with the series main theme: Naota-kun sexual desires (or furstrations) as a kid his age. So when you take it in this context (and Fooly Cool is English's best translation to this) the Japanese word Furi Kuri would translate into [spoiler]tweaking of the breasts[/spoiler].

The mostly sexual themes are mostly subliminal and hardly comes across off in the Dubbed. Even the scenes that may appear sexual (Episode Brittle Bullet comes to mind) are not even sexual in itself in that sort of way in watching in it's orginal context. But the word play used is highly suggestive of the sexual themes when you look into the series itself.

This anime I would not suggest to someone who is highly sensitive to sexual themes however I enjoy it as a intresting pieice of work of good sub/dub, animation, music, and randomness.

Reasons to watch FLCL:
*Haruko's demented behavior
*Ride On Shooting Star,the end theme by The Pillows
*Baseball
*Noata's forehead sprouting robots
*Haruko's Vespa
*The entire weirdness of the last ep.
*Gainax also created MAgical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi so the
weirdness is spread out.
*It's just a weird show.

...if you think this is bad enough with weridness, try Cat Soup. Actually DON'T... some movies and series... just should never have been made :/

mitsuki lover wrote:Reasons to watch FLCL:
*Haruko's demented behavior
*Ride On Shooting Star,the end theme by The Pillows
*Baseball
*Noata's forehead sprouting robots
*Haruko's Vespa
*The entire weirdness of the last ep.
*Gainax also created MAgical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi so the
weirdness is spread out.
*It's just a weird show.

* Not only the ending theme song but the entire soundtrack of FLCL
* the animation
* Canti, the Robot God
* Awesome quotes (sub and dub)
* Fun battle sequences
* Two manga sequences

ah. yeah. i was sitting thru the whole first episode like 'wtf?'


lol.

very confused was me. :3

It's a very wierd show, but it is very deep. It all starts to make sense after a while. The character development is awesome, and of course the insanity of it all is appealing too.

oooo

Watching this made me want a Rickenbacker bass and a Vespa for the longest time.

I couldn't touch a guitar for the longest time without the urge to start bashing it against giant evil robots.

CDLviking wrote:I couldn't touch a guitar for the longest time without the urge to start bashing it against giant evil robots.

Personally...I'd rather hit one against my head just to see if a robot with a television screen as an head would come out...oh what a joy what would be. Then I could put a apron on it.

I am so glad I decided to purchase the DVD's. They have a nice booklet that explains alot about the series.

I kinda felt the same as CDL..

I have the first volume of the manga.Since there are only two volumes in the manga I am half way to completing the entire FLCL manga set!

Gainax also created the equally weird Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi.

I've been watching FLCL for the past two or three years it's been on Adult Swim...and i'm only JUST trying to understand it! And don't get me started on Paranoia Agent! I'm still lost.

"There's noting in your brain!"Haruko to Naota.