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FLCL (Fooly Cooly) - Vol. 2Rating:
Release Date: 25 February, 2003 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $26.96 You SAVE: $2.99! Cast: |
FLCL (Fooly Cooly) - Vol. 2 Reviews
I can think of PLENTY of ways to describe this series...
Let's start with BRILLIANT, move onto GORGEOUS, a little SHORT AND SWEET, ACTION PACKED... I think talking this series up as "SO wierd & out-there" does it more harm than good.
So this is the middle, and everyone seems to complain about episode three, but I think it really gives a moment for Naoto (our HERO!) to have an a-l-m-o-s-t healthy relationship with another girl which sort of pays off at the end. Its a natural break for the final arc set up in episode 4. No matter what people might say, just pay attention, go with its flow, and FLCL makes perfect sense. Might make better sense if you don't watch tons of anime actually. At its heart, its just about growing up and being a man, dammit!
So my friends turned me on to this a couple of years ago, its the best anime in memory, and reinvigorates my interest in the genre. Nothing since has touched its perfection. Short and sweet, spastic as hell, and the dynamics between the characters are bombastic. Its pretty much a distillation and collage of everything in anime since the 90's hit, a punk-rocking parody that suddenly begins to take itself seriously, then upheaves everything.
If you take away all the religious underpinnings and focused on Shinji's sexual tension with older/younger women in all twenty-six+ episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but shoved that in only six episodes, and stuck said confused pubescent boy with the "worst girl for you at the best time" you've pretty much got the narrative. Soundtrack by the PILLOWS alone makes it a classic, it rocks like a J-pop PIXIES.
I give the series itself 5 stars, but the American DVDs just aren't worth the extra cash, so I had to knock it down to 4. The American dub sucks, the bonuses aren't that great, and you're ending up paying from $75 - $90 for only 2.5 hours of content. "Lord of the Rings:Return of the King" is longer than the whole series combined and costs only $30! I'm tired of supporting anime companies who finally DO release this stateside only to be jerked around by my wallet. I could ALMOST understand 2 volumes at that price since the series narrative naturally splits at the middle anyways... but its still a MUST SEE.
I recommend getting a used copy if you can't afford the steep tag.
EPISODES 3&4 FEATURE:
*Boy vs. Giant Outer Space Baseball Bomb!
*Creepy masseuses!
*Freakey-BIG eyebrows!
*Random Nosebleeds!
*Matrix-style bullet-time kissing!
*Naota exiting a mecha as poo!
*A mutant/mecha (?) with gastro-intestinal distress!
Not just for anime fans
This is an outstanding series. I don't think most anime is worth the plastic dvd's they are printed on, but this series is better than most of the junk Hollywood puts out. There is serious character development that does well envoking emotion.
To fully understand this series it is important to watch it with the director's subtitles. This film was made for a Japanese audience, so some things won't make sense to you unless it is explained. For example, two people drinking from the same cup/can/beverage is considered intimate. This is important to some scenes.
If you enjoy adult swim or Invader Zim you have a good chance of loving this anime.
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