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).
FLCL was the thing that got me into the whole Gainax aesthetic and the wonderful web of all the anime projects carrying it. Many people say how they watched FLCL when they were 13, forgot about it, and then felt nostalgia watching it years later, but i never forgot about it. 5 years since watching it for the first time i hold it close to my heart, and it has shaped what things i enjoy and want to make. Guess I'll just leave this fact here.
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
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.
I got into FLCL at the age of 17 (a year ago essentially) and since then I can say that it has changed my life, and I know that sounds a bit corny saying that an anime changed your life but it’s the truth. Now I can certainly say there’s really a world out there.
I left my crappy home town, explored all over the country I live in, and went broke and ended up even more trapped in my hometown again. It was then that I ironically decided to watch FLCL at the perfect time. I walked in blind but saw the stellar animation clips and knew I had to feast my eyes. Boy oh boy did I underestimate the underbelly of this story's whacky plot. I will always swear by this show!
@@Armored_Ariete I guess a better understanding of what exactly I want out of life, and more emphasis on wanting to see more of the world and do things I wouldn’t think I would after being stuck in a small town for so long and not taking any chances at the same time.
I’ll spare everyone the 200 word essay, and just say… I’m very fortunate to have watched this show when I did. And revisiting it being older and realizing even more things. It really is the perfect anime for me and I’m just realizing I’ve rocked this Canti pfp for years lol
I love FLCL. It is a totally bizzare anime with an amazing soundtrack. Good to see you produce an awesome video about it Stevem. I'm always stoked to see one of your videos pop up in my UA-cam notifications. Excellent work as always. 😎👍
I had a really similar FLCL experience. I saw the first episode at midnight when I was 13, thought it was weird, but maybe enchanting, yet didn't seek it out again until I was an adult. But for some reason, that memory of seeing that first episode, the late night quiet, the whistle of the iron on a TV set turned low, whispering about it with my friends at school the following Monday because there was a (gasp) hickey scene, sick with me so vividly, and I think that's kind of the beauty of FLCL. Even if you only see one episode, it sticks on your craw and makes itself known.
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
The show got me into the Pillows, and they are a great band. I love that you feel that the Pillows are more like the Breeders than the Pixies, I have always thought that too (the Pixies are my favorite band of all time tho). This show first aired in the US as I was a teenager in highschool and I resonated so deeply with it. Great video dude.
Incredible video, was waiting for you to touch on this 6 episodes masterpiece ! I love learning the staff connexions with other media ! Also jumped on the video notification as soon as i got it !
Gainex was my life growing up, and flcl is one of the few anime i give close to ten to bc the animation levels were beyond anything at the time. So glad to have experienced it at the time.
I really love your channel because it perfectly mirrors the way I get lost in thought/research about my favorite musicians. People like you are why I make my music in the way that I do so I thank you. This is what art is all about imo: the proof we existed.
Maybe it’s just me…but now that I’m a grown adult and I tried going back to FLCL it just didn’t resonate anymore. I still listen to the OST to this day. But being through my share of women and just seeing Haruko manipulate Naota, as well had Mamimi getting her own uses out of him reminded me of the broken and damaged girlfriends of yesteryear that at that point in my life I was just as vulnerable to. It made me cringe reliving the false notion that a manic pixie dream girl will be what a young lost soul needs to find who they are.
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 :)
FLCL is a great anime and was fortunate enough to see it basically the same age as you were but on adult swim. It came full circle for me when I got to see The Pillows on my 20th birthday back on 2018 for touring the new series. The new seasons have a soft spot on my heart thanks to them coming to the USA, otherwise I’m sure that tour wouldn’t happen. Thanks for doing this project man, definitely brings back a lot of memories. Nice gitaroo man referenced too, hella obscure there.
I first found flcl on adult swim in like 2004. I was 11. We were on vacation to Myrtle Beach and my parents let me stay up late. That very night I heard Naota's dad moaning as the egg hanged from the wall. I was never the same.
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
After watching this, I watched episode 1 again. And already nostalgia hits like a brick. Surely my own past (watching it as a young teen in the early 00s) does its part, but I think the soundtrack plays a huge role. The Pillows are awesome!
My complete DVD set of FLCL remains one of my most prized pieces of media from my youth. IMO the closest I’ve seen something approach the perfectly offbeat absurdity of FLCL since FLCL was maybe Tatami Galaxy.
randomly picked this show up after being intensely frustrated with Evangelion, and it was an insane contrast. Loved every second of this bizarre fever-dream of a series
Stevem releases a video (Vince Macmahon making a face) The second in 2 days (face intensifies) About a Gainax show (face contorts with excitement and expectation) It’s FLCL (Vince Macmahon’s face smashed by an electric guitar just before being dragged to prison)
4:447:12 ah,, Daicon IV girl! Speaking of which, have you heard of an animated short called *Cassette Girl (2018)?* Someone timed the ELO song to the animation and it fits perfectly! Just look for "Cassette Girl - Japan Animator Expo" and "Cassette Girl ELO Twilight"
FoolyCooly has that "vibe".. I remember coming of the high from the Animatrix in 2003, hearing or reading about it somewhere and downloading the dvd ISO, either through Limewire or Kazaa. The music, the animation and overall craziness stuck with me. Probably also the reason why I like a lot of the Trigger shows. Ow, and did Miyazaki rip off the spinning kiss scene and used it at the end of Ponyo?
flcl has been my favorite show since childhood and i don't think i'm ever going to find anything that tops. it's a shame that we now have 4 newer seasons that were just not it. like some aspects of the new flcl were good but a lot of it makes you go "why did they make this?"
I respect FLCL for some of its central messages about taking chances to try something new and opening up about one's true self as well as its unique animation and fantastic soundtrack. It's not one of my favorites, but it's still great and should be watched by any anime fan at least once.
I obviously like the OVA but it dropped in my estimation on rewatch as it feels like someone had 13 ep scripts and then filtered them through half the runtime. EP 3 especially. Abenobashi (starts fun and freefalls halfway through) and FLCL should have swapped episode counts.
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
No wonder Kare Kano has stayed with me ever since i watched it (and later read the manga). Never would have imagined it was made by the same ppl from FLCL
Excellent, sir … Love(d) this show from the second I saw it- in my late 20s, 2000. 😊 a time capsule is a perfect allegory in more ways than you may mean.
its so funny with ur last episode I was thinking I wish stevem would cover flcl and you did! I was concerned though because what else can be said about flcl but I love your videos because you go into the production more than other people do and show that while this was mostly tsurumakis vision, lots of other people were involved also! I know you briefly mentioned it at the end but I really wonder if tsurumaki would have made a sequel to flcl if khara got the rights to it I am also sad that tsurumaki has been tied to eva for so long and I hope with his new project khara he will be able to express himself and create something new anyway love your videos! keep on keepin on
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
You did it! You made a FLCL video! rad! after your hideaki series I really wanted to hear what details you'd have on this one, my favorite. I feel like most FLCL content is pretty dumb!
I love me some Fooly Cooly but can we really talk about some karekano( His and Her Circumatances) please?! A series so greatly overlooked which had such a crazy production history; I think it deserves some love!❤❤❤
As a loser, I 100% agree with this! (I know everyone's gonna bash at me for this, but I actually like the sequels, except for Grunge.) My favorite sequel is Shoegaze!
You earned a sub from the production value and the time you spent compiling interviews with the production staff. But you got a dislike for the lack of understanding of character arcs and symbolism of the various facets of this series. Hope you can do better in the future.
Maybe because I didn't watch FLCL when I was younger, like so many people did, but I personally didn't enjoy watching it. The humor, the sporadic animation, idk nothing about FLCL (for lack of better words) impressed me. I understand its messages and took a while to understand its story, but being honest, I was not entertained watching a single second of the show, especially on my second time rewatching it. Also I know people are gonna get mad, but I watched FLCL in Sub not Dub 😅 I like Kari Wahlgren as Haruko but that's the only voice I liked in the dub.
There's parts where the melody is similar, but the aesthetic and flavour are coming from two different places. When Oasis did a tour in Japan it's said the label asked the pillows to open but they declined, which is the only major link i've seen between them.
I´m just flushed by the vividness of the animation. Nowadays it needs an OPM or CSM or the solo leveling to get anywhere close to these kinds of action scenes. It´s perspectives, movement, style..You don´t wanna tell me that a scene like the one at 7:30 running over the giant gun would still be animated anything like that. We probably would get a close up of the face, maybe some perfectly blue canvas sky with some white action line to feint movement, constant cuts and everything looking too clean to feel right. Of course this one got the same still frames and clunky scenes and the old time style of reusing one frame with some repeated movement to point out special scenes. But even today this one would stand out, the animation has style and direction that isn´t instantly forgettable.
This is an OVA not a tv animation so already the set up & time between them is very different. The boards too are coming from some pretty killer talent, from masayuki, tsurumaki, imaishi & even yo yoshinari. Not even mentioning how stacked the animators are which we do in the video. FLCL was pretty of its own when it came out also. Although trigger is still pulling out whacky and interesting comps, even in their newest show Dungeon Meshi
I was, like, 9 or 10, when I first watched FLCL on adult swim. My older cousin who had got me into manga by lending me her copies of Kodocha and Fruits Basket, told me to watch it. I was too young and just didn't get it. When I watched it a few years later, though, I finally got it, and it's been one of my favorites ever since. Maybe one of the best to ever do it. I'd say that along with Gantz, FLCL was what _really_ opened my eyes to what anime could be.
STEVEM, I love your channel and your deep dive videos but for some reason, I cannot bring myself to like this anime. I watched its Adult Swim run twice and hated it each time.
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The only time when someone will call a favourite "for losers" and said losers will agree wholeheartedly
I read the title and I comfortably said “yeah, it really was perfect for me”
I took that thumbnail as a compliment.
The ending song for FLCL lives rent free in my head.
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...
FLCL was the thing that got me into the whole Gainax aesthetic and the wonderful web of all the anime projects carrying it. Many people say how they watched FLCL when they were 13, forgot about it, and then felt nostalgia watching it years later, but i never forgot about it. 5 years since watching it for the first time i hold it close to my heart, and it has shaped what things i enjoy and want to make.
Guess I'll just leave this fact here.
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
it’s made for me fr
lol
lol
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
I got into FLCL at the age of 17 (a year ago essentially) and since then I can say that it has changed my life, and I know that sounds a bit corny saying that an anime changed your life but it’s the truth.
Now I can certainly say there’s really a world out there.
this but for eva, how did FLCL change it for you?
Agreed. First watched FLCL at 10 yrs old it fried my brain
I left my crappy home town, explored all over the country I live in, and went broke and ended up even more trapped in my hometown again. It was then that I ironically decided to watch FLCL at the perfect time. I walked in blind but saw the stellar animation clips and knew I had to feast my eyes.
Boy oh boy did I underestimate the underbelly of this story's whacky plot. I will always swear by this show!
@@Armored_Ariete I guess a better understanding of what exactly I want out of life, and more emphasis on wanting to see more of the world and do things I wouldn’t think I would after being stuck in a small town for so long and not taking any chances at the same time.
I’ll spare everyone the 200 word essay, and just say… I’m very fortunate to have watched this show when I did. And revisiting it being older and realizing even more things. It really is the perfect anime for me and I’m just realizing I’ve rocked this Canti pfp for years lol
nice profile pic
I love FLCL. It is a totally bizzare anime with an amazing soundtrack. Good to see you produce an awesome video about it Stevem. I'm always stoked to see one of your videos pop up in my UA-cam notifications. Excellent work as always. 😎👍
Thanks a ton!
I had a really similar FLCL experience. I saw the first episode at midnight when I was 13, thought it was weird, but maybe enchanting, yet didn't seek it out again until I was an adult. But for some reason, that memory of seeing that first episode, the late night quiet, the whistle of the iron on a TV set turned low, whispering about it with my friends at school the following Monday because there was a (gasp) hickey scene, sick with me so vividly, and I think that's kind of the beauty of FLCL. Even if you only see one episode, it sticks on your craw and makes itself known.
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
Finally figured out why flcl has the perfect mix of realistic moody beautiful stuff and off the wall crazy cartoony stuff. Thank you
No problem!
The show got me into the Pillows, and they are a great band. I love that you feel that the Pillows are more like the Breeders than the Pixies, I have always thought that too (the Pixies are my favorite band of all time tho). This show first aired in the US as I was a teenager in highschool and I resonated so deeply with it. Great video dude.
Yeah they've actually gotten a bit bigger since the anime came out too
Incredible video, was waiting for you to touch on this 6 episodes masterpiece ! I love learning the staff connexions with other media !
Also jumped on the video notification as soon as i got it !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Gainex was my life growing up, and flcl is one of the few anime i give close to ten to bc the animation levels were beyond anything at the time. So glad to have experienced it at the time.
I really love your channel because it perfectly mirrors the way I get lost in thought/research about my favorite musicians.
People like you are why I make my music in the way that I do so I thank you. This is what art is all about imo: the proof we existed.
Thanks for watching!
Maybe it’s just me…but now that I’m a grown adult and I tried going back to FLCL it just didn’t resonate anymore. I still listen to the OST to this day. But being through my share of women and just seeing Haruko manipulate Naota, as well had Mamimi getting her own uses out of him reminded me of the broken and damaged girlfriends of yesteryear that at that point in my life I was just as vulnerable to. It made me cringe reliving the false notion that a manic pixie dream girl will be what a young lost soul needs to find who they are.
✊️😥
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 :)
FLCL is a great anime and was fortunate enough to see it basically the same age as you were but on adult swim. It came full circle for me when I got to see The Pillows on my 20th birthday back on 2018 for touring the new series. The new seasons have a soft spot on my heart thanks to them coming to the USA, otherwise I’m sure that tour wouldn’t happen. Thanks for doing this project man, definitely brings back a lot of memories. Nice gitaroo man referenced too, hella obscure there.
gitaroo man fits the vibe for sure
Oh _suuuuure._ Make me wanna rewatch FLCL all over again, again (again).
do it coward
私は当時、フリクリはリアルタイムで1巻づつDVDを購入して観ていました。
毎回楽しく観ていたのですが5話終了時点で6話で完結できるとはとても思えませんでした。
不安と期待で迎えた最終話を初めて見た時、少し思っていたのと違っていたことに物足りなさを感じました。
その後、何度か全話見直してみるとあれこそが十代の時の甘酸っぱさなのだとしみじみと思い満足しています。
それから、フリクリを語る際にまさか社会学者の宮台真司氏が登場するとは思いもよらず、STEVEMさんの日本文化の造詣の深さに尊敬の念を抱きました。
I first found flcl on adult swim in like 2004. I was 11. We were on vacation to Myrtle Beach and my parents let me stay up late. That very night I heard Naota's dad moaning as the egg hanged from the wall. I was never the same.
quite a moment to start with
FLCL is one of the best anime and is the 1# dub of all time ...better than ghost stories
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
Two stevem videos the same day feels like a life improvement only black magic can enact.
technically two days hahah for me at least
@@Stevem god bless gil🙇
Love learning more about Gainax and the production process. I was fortunate to meet Masahiko Otsuka at a con during the Summer. Lovely time.
Very cool!
After watching this, I watched episode 1 again. And already nostalgia hits like a brick. Surely my own past (watching it as a young teen in the early 00s) does its part, but I think the soundtrack plays a huge role. The Pillows are awesome!
pillows are very good
The late night FLCL watching on Cartoon Network is still in my memory banks. I'm 39 now...
Masterfully done. Great video. The only time I feel good being a loser, watching FLCL.
My complete DVD set of FLCL remains one of my most prized pieces of media from my youth. IMO the closest I’ve seen something approach the perfectly offbeat absurdity of FLCL since FLCL was maybe Tatami Galaxy.
pleasantly surprised to see you upload two vids in a day! much more so when the second vid is on one of my fave animes of all time!
good stuff!
glad you enjoyed im gonna lay down for a bit lol
FLCL is a piece of art that will stick with me forever.
Dude!! Great use of The Legendary Theme in the background! Gitaroo Man had a lot of the same energy as FLCL.
Rock on!
It's a shame FLCL never had any follow up seasons or spin offs and never will. But it's perfect as it is with just 6 episodes. Yep.
What are you talking about lil bro
The new versions look garbage
Actually there's three spin offs.
FLCL is such a vibe i need to rewatch it!
I’m Japanese and I often go to the pillows concert. there are a few people from other countries and I’m sure they must be FLCL fans!! Arigato!!
Are they still active
"He who conquers the left side conquers the world"
I was in my mid twenties when FLCL came out on adult swim and changed my world. The Pillows loving the Breeders makes a lot of sense in retrospect.
FLCL is such a parody and inversion of 2000s anime, it just works. Whenever I remember it my brain automatically jumps to Space Dandy.
randomly picked this show up after being intensely frustrated with Evangelion, and it was an insane contrast. Loved every second of this bizarre fever-dream of a series
Well it was certainly written as a contrast
Stevem releases a video (Vince Macmahon making a face)
The second in 2 days (face intensifies)
About a Gainax show (face contorts with excitement and expectation)
It’s FLCL (Vince Macmahon’s face smashed by an electric guitar just before being dragged to prison)
4:44 7:12 ah,, Daicon IV girl! Speaking of which, have you heard of an animated short called *Cassette Girl (2018)?* Someone timed the ELO song to the animation and it fits perfectly!
Just look for "Cassette Girl - Japan Animator Expo" and "Cassette Girl ELO Twilight"
casette girl is preetty whacky
"slacker content" -> my actual favorite film
good cut
I rewatched this anime a few months ago, introducing it to friends, so it's still fresh in my mind. Thanks for teaching me more about it!
Glad I could help!
holyyyyy -FUDGE dude that commercial went hard as heck 10:56
ion even drink but that makes me wanna roll up w/ the boys ten mins before the dot lol
I like how you do research into the production human real element and tie it with the message of the shows and its portrayal
glad you enjoyed
FoolyCooly has that "vibe".. I remember coming of the high from the Animatrix in 2003, hearing or reading about it somewhere and downloading the dvd ISO, either through Limewire or Kazaa. The music, the animation and overall craziness stuck with me. Probably also the reason why I like a lot of the Trigger shows.
Ow, and did Miyazaki rip off the spinning kiss scene and used it at the end of Ponyo?
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
flcl has been my favorite show since childhood and i don't think i'm ever going to find anything that tops. it's a shame that we now have 4 newer seasons that were just not it. like some aspects of the new flcl were good but a lot of it makes you go "why did they make this?"
"What does it mean to become an adult?" ....pain. imo anyhow, been over 15 years now.
The Pillows are amazing, but I never knew how well the Gitaroo Man OST would fit with FLCL's visuals!
It matches well
I respect FLCL for some of its central messages about taking chances to try something new and opening up about one's true self as well as its unique animation and fantastic soundtrack. It's not one of my favorites, but it's still great and should be watched by any anime fan at least once.
These just keep geting more and more well made
thank gil for this one
After reading Scott Pilgrim, that's exactly the impression I got. This was made for 20 yo losers like me who love alternative rock and anime.
Flcl is one of the best anime ever I recently rewatched it for the first time since inwas a kid and it was the perfect time for me
My brother let me keep his dvd box set when I was 10 and it’s been my prized possession ever since.
I remember so many anime kids back in the day basing their entire personalities on the wrong things that they got from this anime.
I obviously like the OVA but it dropped in my estimation on rewatch as it feels like someone had 13 ep scripts and then filtered them through half the runtime. EP 3 especially. Abenobashi (starts fun and freefalls halfway through) and FLCL should have swapped episode counts.
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
credibility is one of a hell to enjoy a video
No wonder Kare Kano has stayed with me ever since i watched it (and later read the manga). Never would have imagined it was made by the same ppl from FLCL
yeah similar philosophies too
I always compared The Pillows to a Japanese Cage the Elephant personally. Maybe not a 1 to 1 comparison, but pretty close.
A friend borrowed it to me on DVD so since it was well worn episode 4 was something I would see for over 10 years
Metabots was fire ❤️🔥 I wish they'd made a good game (instead of a series of duds) to be as big as Digimon
Excellent, sir …
Love(d) this show from the second I saw it- in my late 20s, 2000.
😊 a time capsule is a perfect allegory in more ways than you may mean.
Glad you enjoyed it
its so funny with ur last episode I was thinking I wish stevem would cover flcl and you did!
I was concerned though because what else can be said about flcl but I love your videos because you go into the production more than other people do and show that while this was mostly tsurumakis vision, lots of other people were involved
also! I know you briefly mentioned it at the end but I really wonder if tsurumaki would have made a sequel to flcl if khara got the rights to it
I am also sad that tsurumaki has been tied to eva for so long and I hope with his new project khara he will be able to express himself and create something new
anyway love your videos! keep on keepin on
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
You did it! You made a FLCL video! rad! after your hideaki series I really wanted to hear what details you'd have on this one, my favorite. I feel like most FLCL content is pretty dumb!
Yeah we're here now
I love me some Fooly Cooly but can we really talk about some karekano( His and Her Circumatances) please?! A series so greatly overlooked which had such a crazy production history; I think it deserves some love!❤❤❤
I've already talked about that in my Hideaki Anno video
I suppose the closest we have gotten to a spiritual successor to FLCL in terms of direction would be Space Dandy.
space dandy is cool
As a loser, I 100% agree with this!
(I know everyone's gonna bash at me for this, but I actually like the sequels, except for Grunge.) My favorite sequel is Shoegaze!
My first anime, at age 11 was Blue Gender.
Second was FLCL.
No regrets, now 31.
As someone who watch ghost in the shell stand alone complex I had no idea what happened in FLCL.
I think the real sequel to flcl, the one everyone wants, is the animation by Studio Flint "False Memory"
flcl alternative and shoegaze were nice tho
man, now i wish we got a mix tape like FLCL sequel instead of the garbage we got! that's such a great idea
Pipe dream stuff really
i was watching normally but when you mentioned that you were from the UK, i immediately recognized your accent
It's pretty obvious I thought
@@Stevem I KNOWW but idk it just suddenly appeared lol
Awesome video again lets freaking go
Thanks again!
gotta love the gitaroo man music in the background
seemed fitting
nice vid man. What was that song in the outro? It sounds awesome and was wondering if I could add it to my playlist
all the music in the source doc
Two videos in 24 hours? Why are we being treated so wonderfully?
Were being spoiled lol
gotta contract to fulfill
Thanks for reminding me that I need to play through Gitaroo Man again.
You should!
You earned a sub from the production value and the time you spent compiling interviews with the production staff. But you got a dislike for the lack of understanding of character arcs and symbolism of the various facets of this series. Hope you can do better in the future.
what lol
Oh boy! STEVEM is made a new gainax video!
We're back
Has it been confirmed that the next khara project is gonna be a Tsurumaki one? Great video btw, as usual
last i heard anno said in one of his interviews & supposedly in the production book tsurumaki mentions it also
Song at 18:51 ?
Stalker instrumental
I love seeing more talk about FLCL great video
thank you!
The original run of FLCL is some of the best anime on the planet and I don't give a shit what anyone says about that.
Thanks for this one Stevem !
No worries!
We don't talk about the sequels in this house
Maybe because I didn't watch FLCL when I was younger, like so many people did, but I personally didn't enjoy watching it. The humor, the sporadic animation, idk nothing about FLCL (for lack of better words) impressed me. I understand its messages and took a while to understand its story, but being honest, I was not entertained watching a single second of the show, especially on my second time rewatching it. Also I know people are gonna get mad, but I watched FLCL in Sub not Dub 😅 I like Kari Wahlgren as Haruko but that's the only voice I liked in the dub.
sub is better, but i wouldnt say its for everyone i think its fair not to like it
Let's gooooooooo💪💪💪
shout outs to the editor
That last flcl season was actually pretty good
which one
If FLCL is for losers, then I'll gladly take the moniker in stride.
Baccano had arguably the best English dub up there with Cowboy Bebop.
what's the mech anime used to exemplify imaishi-kun at 6:39? I see how it was directly referenced in flcl, I wanna check it out.
Microman or something there's a source about it in my flcl source doc
Why did the title call me out like that?
FLCL is one of the best things ever made
Animation that is second only to the Gurren Lagann films.
Breeders? I always thought The Pillows sounded more like Oasis.
Not in the slightest lol
@@Stevem 'One Life' is basically 'Don't look back in Anger'.
There's parts where the melody is similar, but the aesthetic and flavour are coming from two different places. When Oasis did a tour in Japan it's said the label asked the pillows to open but they declined, which is the only major link i've seen between them.
@@Stevem 'Little Busters' also reminded me of 'Roll with It'. And 'Patricia' is 'She's Electric'.
True!
I´m just flushed by the vividness of the animation. Nowadays it needs an OPM or CSM or the solo leveling to get anywhere close to these kinds of action scenes. It´s perspectives, movement, style..You don´t wanna tell me that a scene like the one at 7:30 running over the giant gun would still be animated anything like that. We probably would get a close up of the face, maybe some perfectly blue canvas sky with some white action line to feint movement, constant cuts and everything looking too clean to feel right. Of course this one got the same still frames and clunky scenes and the old time style of reusing one frame with some repeated movement to point out special scenes. But even today this one would stand out, the animation has style and direction that isn´t instantly forgettable.
This is an OVA not a tv animation so already the set up & time between them is very different. The boards too are coming from some pretty killer talent, from masayuki, tsurumaki, imaishi & even yo yoshinari. Not even mentioning how stacked the animators are which we do in the video. FLCL was pretty of its own when it came out also. Although trigger is still pulling out whacky and interesting comps, even in their newest show Dungeon Meshi
No wonder I love it so much
Could anyone please tell me what is the song playing at 18:51 ?
Gitaroo Man OST - 13 Resurrection
I was, like, 9 or 10, when I first watched FLCL on adult swim. My older cousin who had got me into manga by lending me her copies of Kodocha and Fruits Basket, told me to watch it. I was too young and just didn't get it. When I watched it a few years later, though, I finally got it, and it's been one of my favorites ever since. Maybe one of the best to ever do it. I'd say that along with Gantz, FLCL was what _really_ opened my eyes to what anime could be.
FLCL remains one of my favourite anime.. that is the original
I tried the two sequels and they didnt resonate like the first one did
There are four sequels now. FLCL Gurenge and FLCL Shoegaze released last year.
I thought all anime series were for losers??
Got anything else funny to say, funny man?
True.
@@RedPineaplleStudio Knock knock
Who's there?
@@RedPineaplleStudio Hey, it’s me, Goku.
What is the name of the music that begins at 18:52?
Gitaroo Man OST - 13 Resurrection
STEVEM, I love your channel and your deep dive videos but for some reason, I cannot bring myself to like this anime. I watched its Adult Swim run twice and hated it each time.