Flcl: Season Set - Classic [Blu-ray] [US Import]

If you were to see just one ANIME in your life then you may or may not enjoy this work. It is the "Waiting for Godot" of japanese animation. I greatly recommend it but please note that it will be most appealing to experienced viewers.

Anime can be pretty weird -- just look at series like "Paranoia Agent" and "Boogiepop Phantom." Really weird, sometimes impossible to totally understand.But for sheer strangeness and kookiness, the winner has got to be "Fooly Cooly (FLCL)." Even as it pokes fun at typical anime, it tells the surrealist story of a very odd coming-of-age, complete with strange plots, oddball characters, and robots sprouting out of a young boy's head.Naota is a young boy living what he sees as an oppressively dull existance, in a quiet city dominated by the Medical Mechanica building. The closest thing to excitement is fending off the advances of his brother's troubled girlfriend Mamimi.Then sudenly a girl on a Vespa runs him over, resuscitates him with a smooch, and then bashes him over the head with a bass guitar. That evening, Naota finds that instead of a bump, he has a horn growing out of his head, and no idea what it is or how to get rid of it.Despite his efforts to avoid her, Naoto's kooky father has hired the crazy Vespa girl, Haruko, as a housekeeper. To make matters worse, his "horn" turns out to be a robot and a giant mechanical hand -- springing out of a channel in his head. And you thought YOU had problems.The five episodes that follow don't get any more normal, as Naota must deal with the Mayor's daughter getting his strange power, cat ears, more robots, baseball, bombs, the Pirate King Atomsk, seaweed eyebrows, and the interplanetary Medical Mechanica which may or may not be intent on galactic domination. It all clashes in the final episode.For newbies, "FLCL" is probably the WORST anime to start with. It's a parodic mishmash of anime in-jokes -- giant robots, fanservice, boy falls for kooky abusive alien girl -- and a storyline that is bizarre to the point where you may not be able to understand what's going on. But oh, is it a fun ride.As if the plot weren't hyperactive enough, the animation is exaggerated and crazy, full of distorted faces and wild robot battles. Lots of action and overdramatic dialogue ("OH NO.... OOOOOOOOO... an American GIRLFRIEND!"). As if it weren't funny enough, the director sprinkles in homages to other shows, ranging from other anime to "South Park."And the characters are as bizarre as the story itself. Naoto starts off as a typical bored preteen, but slowly gains confidence and guts as he gets immersed in the weirdness. Haruko is a completely off-the-wall kook who is apparently an alien. And there's a bunch of other weird characters -- troubled pyromaniacs, wistful robots, preteen pervs, and a guy from Interstellar Immigration."FLCL" is perhaps the strangest anime in existance. It's also enough to blow the top off of your head, with the strange characters and wildly surrealist plot. Fooly Cooly!

The Bluray========Basically an upscaled, cleaned up version of the DVD release. I had the Synch-Point DVDs but something's wrong with the discs because they're all cracking from the center (none of my other discs do that) so I had to rebuy the damn thing on Bluray again. I swear if this thing breaks again I'm just going to download it, but so far so good.Sync-Point release is pretty good quality and extras wise so it's the same deal here.The Show=======Basically a perfect coming-of-age story/anime parody/music video/mood piece.It transport you to its setting totally and completely and immerse you in its nostalgic mood effortlessly.No other anime show has come close in making me feel that a fictional place with its living and breathing characters actually exists somewhere, sometime.Not going to rehash the praise so many already heaped on it, I liked it not because of other people like it, but because it's a damn good show. So many 20-40 episodes shows can't tell a story as well as FLCL, because of all the fillers. More shows needs to be FLCL, but in terms of return on investment it's going to take another perfect alignment of the planets for that to happen.

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Originally done as a Gainax's first bite into the new millennium, FLCL(also called Fooly Cooly and Furi Kuri), this 6-episode OVA has recently been changed into an ongoing TV series backed up by Adult Swim. Being a meltdown of several anime tropes and gag humor, FLCL went on to being a genre-defining movement within anime, as well as American comics and animation.Naota is a grade school student living in a small Japanese suburb whose popular older brother is in America on a baseball scholorship. This fame has an effect on Naota's trying to live up to his brother's image, as well as his resident ex-girlfriend Mamimi keeps clinging to him. One day, a crazy girl named Haruko shows up riding a scooter and hits Naota on the head with her guitar. This leads to Haruko becoming his family live-in "housekeeper", all while strange robots repeatedly keep appearing out of portal coming from Naota's head, which usually make him look like he's either sporting a horn or a pair of cat ears. This never really defined plot device has unexplained things like Haruko being an alien, a space pirate being captured by the enigmatic company referred to as Medical Mechanica, also a covert military organization keeping tags on all the parties involved. These usually lead to outrageous battles with runaway robots, and Haruko's constant changing from one anime cliche to another in devastating acts of violence filled with fan service.The OVA made a large impact in the otaku community, both in Japan and America, but it soared after it was broadcast on Toonami in nearly endless 6-week loops. This embarked Cartoon Network to ride the current nostalgia train of continuing previous shows like Samurai Jack and Invader Zim by continuing it in two more 6-episode mini-series set for 2018. There was also a 2-volume manga done in a sketchier style based on the anime that was printed in English through Tokyopop. The OVA was first released by Sync-Point, also being one of the anime series that they actually completed before going bankrupt, and then re-released through Funimation. Even though this could've been released as a single feature like Read Or Die, but it works much better in its uncut episode-to-episode format.

Probablemente uno de los shows más excéntricos y geniales que te puedas encontrar. Lo mejor de FLCL es que es ÚNICO, es de esas series que sabes que no tienes otra con cual compararla. Como maneja la trama, acompañado de la grandiosa música de "The Pillows" (banda de la cual me hice devoto gracias a esta serie), las diversas e imaginativas técnicas que animación que se usaron, y los inolvidables diseños de personajes, hacen de esta serie uno de los mejores animes que se han hecho y que en mi humilde opinión todo fan del anime debería de ver al menos una vez.Aunque podría parecer que la serie es pura locura sin sentido, si miras con atención podrás percatarte de que está llena de metáforas sobre la vida y la existencia misma que te harán reflexionar y aprender sobre los personajes que se te presentan a medida que avanza la trama. Si le pudiera dar 6 de cinco estrellas se las daría. Amazon me envió el blu ray en tiempo y forma, con un hermoso slip cover y un arte genial.

Production I.GとGAINAX制作の2000年のOVA「フリクリ」の海外Blu-ray版。funimationから2011年2月にリリース。PS4で視聴OKで、音声は英語2.0と日本語2.0。英字幕の有無は任意に操作が可能。ディスク1枚に全6話が収録されていて、リマスターされた映像はBlu-rayに相応しく充分に鮮明。時代を感じさせないハイクオリティな作画と、先の読めないブっ飛んだ脚本に実験的で斬新な演出。見繕ったかのように映像にフィットしているthe pillowsの切れ味鋭い数々の楽曲。そしてハル子役の新谷真弓の個性溢れる唯一無二のキュートボイス。一生モノといえる、紛うことなき傑作。