FLCL - The Perfect Anime for Losers 

I read the title and I comfortably said “yeah, it really was perfect for me”

I took that thumbnail as a compliment.

it's very catchy

Same! Funny story: The big, old box TV my family had back when this show first aired in my country was stuck on a weird audio option that removed certain bits of audio from whatever was on screen (to this day I still have no idea why that was even a thing), so I went through the ENTIRETY of my first FLCL experience never knowing that the kickass rock music in the background and credits actually had lyrics (which meant my mind was absolutely BLOWN when I got my hands on the official soundtrack CD a year later lol).

It's fun to listen to and relatively easy to learn on all instruments (imo)

The pillows!

The entire soundtrack...

anyone who says they forgot about it is someone i dont want to be friends with : P

appreciate you sharing this

I remember watching this at 9 and never forgot it. The animation the allegories to puberty and the designs. I just never learned the name when I watched it so I spent decades doing questionable google searches trying to find

Same. It's been my #1 since the day I first saw it. Watched it in a single sitting, and was hit with the worst case of "post-show emptiness" that I'll likely ever have.

Same! I had seen the cover and heard a thing or two about it, but one night I got reccomended an AMV of it on youtube, and I watched the whole thing that night from 1am to 3am and it was incredible. I have never stopped loving it since then and I will ABSOLUTELY never forget it

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Except it's made for absolutely remarkable people who STILL feel like losers and uncool. The fandom's approach to feign empathy is just parasocial. I'll tell you what is actually for losers supporting each other, Di Gi Charat. And maybe Saishuu Heiki Kanojo, over Kare Kano where a dude casually becomes Japan high school level Kendo champion OFFSCREEN IN THE BACKGROUND. Western people seem to only have eyes for the celebrities. They live by proxy of them, and are blind to the Japanese community or call it unfeeling, because people are allowed to feel for themselves, privately. Not parade as "losers" but only compared to world-class tops of their industry in animation like Imaishi, ffs.

lol

lol

this but for eva, how did FLCL change it for you?

Agreed. First watched FLCL at 10 yrs old it fried my brain

nice profile pic

Yeah they've actually gotten a bit bigger since the anime came out too

Thanks a ton!

Glad you enjoyed it!

No problem!

I don't know if it stuck with me exactly I guess I recall seeing it loosely, sometimes I wonder if I even did or was it another show it was such a long time ago

do it coward

gitaroo man fits the vibe for sure

Thanks for watching!

glad you enjoyed im gonna lay down for a bit lol

Glad I could help!

Rock on!

Very cool!

technically two days hahah for me at least

@@Stevem god bless gil🙇

quite a moment to start with

pillows are very good

glad you enjoyed

thank gil for this one

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what you get out of it probably depends on the person, but watching it for the first time in my 20s it felt more like the point was precisely that the dream girl isnt what you need... its deliberately fun and all the characters are cool and appealing but at the end of the day haruko is lowkey predatory to naota and that much feels deliberately choreographed

In the manga it's clear Haruko ruined Naotas life. You might also want to read Okazaki's River's Edge if you want some cynicism about romance. Both endings hit me hard.

It's a story about losers by losers, like I said you can save the world but your just a kid in a adult world, you were never gonna to be with either of these women, I guess at the very least naota sees that at the end

I completely get what you mean by this sentiment. The "Scott Pilgrim effect" is what I like to call it with series like this.. Urusei Yatsura, and Tenchi Muyo also falling into that category for me. In FLCL I feel its more prominent that this trope is being used for Takkuns sexual awakening and leaving his boyish ways behind. But at the same time we see in the adults around him that they are very immature and childish. Watching the series over, that's the part I resonate with the most now. Takkuns frustration with the adults in his life as he starts to realize they have faults, shortcomings, and sometimes don't make the best decisions. This idea of what's an adult crumbling right before him at a time when he most needs a model to follow. I can look back on the series knowing that's where I was at his age. Now as a 30 year old, I realize "Adult" is what you make of it and were mostly pretending as our thick eyebrows tend to fall off from time to time :)

Glad you enjoyed it

Microman or something there's a source about it in my flcl source doc

Thanks again!

Yeah we're here now

thank you!

i'm gonna be honest I cant stand that dub at all

No way! While the FLCL dub is decent it doesn't compare to Cowboy Bebop.

Never actually heard the dub, the original is so ingrained in my brain I know I will think it sucks even if it's actually good lol. But I saw Edgerunners in English, so maybe?

@Stevem It's one of the first to use honorifics (kun, chan) and treat its audience like they are not to dumb to understand cultural differences. Pluse they put alot into actually understanding the characters and the scope of the project that was very rare for that time

@Gunsight-One well I can't argue with that

No worries!

The vision of flcl is more so blurred creative chaos which is great, reading FLCLicknoise has gives a lot of good insight into the mixing pot it was with enokido & the gainax gang & how they would add bits to every little thing. He might have done it, but he may have more taken a mentor position to give it to Kharas younger staff instead, just off the Japan Animator Expo

Are they still active

Gitaroo Man OST - 13 Resurrection

casette girl is preetty whacky

We're back

all the music in the source doc

Gitaroo Man OST - 13 Resurrection

Metabots was fire ❤️‍🔥 I wish they'd made a good game (instead of a series of duds) to be as big as Digimon

Do you know the name of that song played?

seemed fitting

Well it was certainly written as a contrast

well honda i think did the kiss scene in ponyo & he's ex gainax so probs not

@@Stevem well an hommage then for sure?

maybe idk

It's pretty obvious I thought

@@Stevem I KNOWW but idk it just suddenly appeared lol

No problem!

shout outs to the editor

Abenobashi is a tv show so there wasnt anyway flcl as an ova would get 12 eps, the cramming in thing to the directors recollection is just the style in which him and enokido approached the project from

You should!

It matches well

FLClick Noise episode 3

I've already talked about that in my Hideaki Anno video

yeah similar philosophies too

thank yoU"!

which one

Pipe dream stuff really

last i heard anno said in one of his interviews & supposedly in the production book tsurumaki mentions it also

Glad you enjoyed it

What are you talking about lil bro

The new versions look garbage

Actually there's three spin offs.

fits the vibe

space dandy is cool

Were being spoiled lol

gotta contract to fulfill

seperate days

thank yoU!

im not that invested in the sequels so i doubt i'd talk about them in a long form way

4 sequels