FLCL review

FLCL, Fooly Cooly or Furi Kuri, depending on what variation of the name you hear doesn’t matter they are all the same anime. FLCL is a pure spoof comedy, taking random things and placing them in the show to make it funny, but at the same time it keeps the mind working in a psychological way. FLCL was viewable a few years ago on Adult Swim but was taken off the air, no reason said but I have a feeling people complained about it, perhaps for over airing it since FLCL is a 6 episode anime it ran over and over many times, least 10 run through which normally it is hard to have Animes run through twice in a month while FLCL had 4 runs in one weekend.

FLCL is about Naoto a 12 year old boy who encounters an alien woman Haruko who is on Earth for her own personal reasons; mainly it looks like she just wants to cause trouble always getting Naoto into bad situations. The first episode she even ran him over with her vespa, if that isn’t a weird hello then I do not know what it. There are other major characters, Mamimi, Naoto’s brother (who is never seen in the anime)’s ex girlfriend who shows she is also close to Naoto, though I think it is just her way of coping with the lost of her boyfriend who is studying aboard in America at the time of the show. Canti, who is a robot from Medical Machina, a supposed to be governmental organization whose plans for  the town are not revealed until the end, I won’t say what they are since that would spoil the ending.

There are also Minor characters,Kamon, and Shigekuni, who are Naoto’s father and grandfather, Amarao and Kitsurubami who are agents of Interstellar Immigration in charge of getting rid of Haruko. Then Ninamroi and Naoto’s other class mates, their importance is minimal. Then there is another character that in my mind is important but he is never seen till the end, Atomsk, you will learn about him if you watch FLCL.

FLCL is a crazy anime featuring spoofs of South park, and Lupin the III, among other things, it even uses manga style art as a joke in it for humor. It is a highly recommended anime if you ever have a rainy day with nothing to do and need a laugh. It gets a 4 out of 5 rating.