Discovering the Magic of FLCL: A Fooly Cooly Video Essay | Anime Explained in English
Nothing amazing is ever on TV. Everything is ordinary. But then FLCL (Fooly Cooly / Furi Kuri / フリクリ) premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and changed everything. In anticipation of the upcoming FLCL Grunge, travel back to 2003 with Nerd Talk Dan's retrospective (video essay) as he looks back on one of the most whimsical and fun anime to ever come from Japan: FLCL (Fooly Cooly / Furi Kuri / フリクリ).
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:53 Chapter 1: Background
4:46 Chapter 2: The Aesthetics of Adolescence
10:11 Chapter 3: Ride on Shooting Star
16:24 Chapter 4: Dub-le your Pleasure
20:01 Chapter 5: Meaning from Chaos
22:29 Chapter 6: Eschewing Evangelion's Darkness
25:58 Conclusion
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FLCL Grunge's predecessor FLCL (Fooly Cooly / Furi Kuri / フリクリ) is an OVA from Gainex, the infamous studio responsible for Neon Genesis Evangelion. Despite lukewarm reception in Japan, FLCL was a smash hit in America with Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim unabashedly admitting FLCL is among their favorite anime of all time. So much so that Adult Swim co-produced FLCL: Progressive (FLCL season 2), and FLCL: Alternative (FLCL season 3).
Taking place in the fictional Japanese town of Mabase, FLCL centers on the young Naota Nandaba as he meets the free-spirited Haruhara Haruko (Kari Wahlgren) and begins his journey to adulthood.
FLCL (Fooly Cooly / Furi Kuri / フリクリ) is a departure from it's legendary predecessor Neon Genesis Evangelion by moving away from the dour and self serious tone that defined Gainex and Hideaki Anno's most defining work.
Nerd Talk Dan discusses how Fooly Cooly uses chaos and whimsy to show a variety of roads to maturity but ultimately reassuring us that we have the power to forge our own path and make the world a better place. FLCL showed us a symphony of chaos and the beauty of whimsy.
So, as we await FLCL Grunge, sit back, grab your bass guitar and enjoy Discovering the Magic of FLCL: A Fooly Cooly Video Essay | Anime Explained in English
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