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FLCL
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FLCL (pronounced "Fooly Cooly"note (or "Flee Klee" if you're feeling silly), but never "Eff-ell-see-ell"), later given the retronym FLCL Classic after its sequels released, is a 6-episode OVA, released intermittently between 2000 and 2001.It follows the story of Naota, a Japanese twelve-year-old who lives with his father and grandfather. Naota has become annoyed at the inappropriate attention from his brother's ex-girlfriend Mamimi, and he thinks his life and his hometown are boring. His entire life changes when Haruko Haruhara, a manic older girl, runs over Naota with her Vespa.Haruko claims she's an intergalactic police officer, but she wields a Rickenbacker bass guitar with a chainsaw-like pullstring motor on the back as a blunt instrument and physically and sexually harasses Naota, making it clear something is weird about her. After his initial contact with Haruko, Naota's forehead begins spawning giant robots, and the insanity increases exponentially from there.While FLCL's literal "plot" resembles something of a Space Opera, its real appeal lies in one of two places: as a Coming of Age Story filled with allegorical and symbolism-soaked writing, off-the-wall humor, and imagery that ranges from obvious to clever to brilliant... or as a bunch of insane almost-nonsense strung together to form a big ball of crazy that fascinates viewers as it offers loads of laughs and plays fast and loose with the fourth wall.A manga version of the story was later released. Created by Hajime Ueda, the manga's story differs heavily from the anime as it goes on, sticking with a darker and less over-the-top tone (though it still has some comedic parts) while keeping the frenetic and confusing nature of the OVA.In September 2015, Studio Gainax announced that the property was for sale; Production I.G, a longtime Gainax partner and the other entity credited for FLCL's animation, subsequently purchased the rights. In March 2016 — six months after the purchase and over fifteen years after the original series ended — [adult swim] announced they would collaborate with Production I.G to create two new six-episode seasons for its Toonami block titled FLCL Progressive & Alternative, which released in 2018.In March 2022, AS announced that it was celebrating Toonami's 25th anniversary by ordering two new FLCL seasons, FLCL Grunge & Shoegaze. They premiered in 2023. | |
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FLCL / int_1171ed72 | type |
Sexy Shirt Switch | |
FLCL / int_1171ed72 | comment |
Sexy Shirt Switch In the anime — Ninamori and Naota's pajamas. In the manga — Ninamori and Tasuku's shirt. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
FLCL / int_127fc252 | comment |
Creator Cameo: Miyu Miyu, the Nandaba family cat, is voiced by Hideaki Anno, co-founder of Studio Gainax, who co-produced the series. The giant hand in Episode 5 is actually a rotoscope of Kazuya Tsurumaki's hand. | |
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Abnormal Ammo | |
FLCL / int_12c65d9b | comment |
Abnormal Ammo: Guess what Canti's gun uses as ammo? Naota himself, of course because he fits so well. Naota thought he was piloting Canti when in fact he was cannon fodder the whole time. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
FLCL / int_135b9977 | comment |
Bloodless Carnage: Haruko mows down dozens of men in black with a shotgun-type weapon in Episode 5, with no blood to show for it. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: The manga takes a very different approach to the story, including Naota actually killing his father over Haruko, a full-on assault on the Medical Mechanica factory, and Haruko's feelings for Naota being more oblique. Rather than leaving him on the notion that he should grow up as a regular child, she leaves him with a Vespa he can use to pursue her, which he desperately tries to work to the point of making his hands bleed. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: There are dozens of examples of both, mainly sexual, though not always. To summarize the first episode, a kid meets a girl he falls in love with, he feels like he got ran over, and has trouble keeping something on his body from sticking out. | |
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Hidden Agenda Villain | |
FLCL / int_161fa3b8 | comment |
Hidden Agenda Villain: Medical Mechanica's goals and motives are never really explained. All the viewer knows is that they have Atomsk and a bunch of killer robots stashed away somewhere, and Amarao (who proves himself to be an Unreliable Narrator by the end of the series) talks about the purpose of the irons being to "iron out the wrinkles" in the human brain to eliminate thought. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
FLCL / int_1645005b | comment |
Evil Versus Evil: The main conflict in the series and its sequels involves Haruko and Medical Mechanica trying to utilize Atomsk's power for their own selfish reasons. | |
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FLCL / int_16bff523 | type |
TV Head Robot | |
FLCL / int_16bff523 | comment |
TV Head Robot: Canti. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: AV Club's review of the series serves up a lot of details people are likely to miss. | |
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FLCL / int_18d15922 | type |
Title Drop | |
FLCL / int_18d15922 | comment |
Title Drop: They happen often, and the earliest one happens in Episode 1: The characters also have several conversations about the meaning of the words "Fooly Cooly". In the manga, when Haruko gives a weird explanation for the growths on his head that FLCL is an acronym for, Naota responds "Fuli? Culi?" | |
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FLCL / int_1b5c9c48 | type |
The Blank | |
FLCL / int_1b5c9c48 | comment |
The Blank: Canti has a TV for a head. A head that can display Japanese kanji to communicate, though only done once. | |
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The Ghost | |
FLCL / int_1ba17583 | comment |
The Ghost: Tasuku Nandaba, Naota's older brother. We only catch a very brief and vague, envelope-obscured profile of him on a postcard in Episode 6, with his American girlfriend (to Mamimi's utter despair), Worse yet, the postcard has writing scribbled all over it. | |
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FLCL / int_1ba8eb64 | type |
Visual Pun | |
FLCL / int_1ba8eb64 | comment |
Visual Pun: Ninamori tells her classmates that she worked things out with her parents, right before she does a high jump. She cleared her hurdle. | |
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The Klutz | |
FLCL / int_1bdbbbae | comment |
And that she still hasn't. | |
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FLCL / int_1d0b6a7b | type |
Insert Cameo | |
FLCL / int_1d0b6a7b | comment |
Insert Cameo: The enormous animated hand is actually rotoscoped from the director's hand. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
FLCL / int_1e7487cd | comment |
Breaking the Fourth Wall: The "Behind the Scenes" aside for the Bullet Time scene in Episode 1. In the fourth episode Haruko talks to the viewers while riding her Vespa down the Medical Mechanica building. In episode 5 Naota actually gives the audience an Aside Glance and asks "Do you find this difficult to understand?" during one of Haruko's more out-there moments. "Let's just stay with anime. It's hard to be in manga form. Takes time and it's a lot of work. After the first episode they said not to do the manga thing again, but then we get accused of being lazy." The best part is that Naota apparently isn't in on the break. When Kamon mentions anime, he responds, "anime?" Immediately afterwards, Kamon and Shigekuni demand he explain what FLCL means, with Kamon insisting that he has to know because he's the main character. | |
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FLCL / int_1ee9819e | type |
Scary Shiny Glasses | |
FLCL / int_1ee9819e | comment |
Scary Shiny Glasses: Episode 1 "Fooly Cooly" and Episode 3 "Marquis de Carabas". | |
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FLCL / int_2292c854 | type |
Between My Legs | |
FLCL / int_2292c854 | comment |
Between My Legs: Mamimi in episode 2, Haruko in episode 4, and Ninamori in episode 6. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
FLCL / int_22cf536c | comment |
Chekhov's Gun: Ninamori uses a water gun she had been showing off for the entire episode to cool off Naota after he's ejected from Canti. | |
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FLCL / int_235a2706 | type |
Baseball Episode | |
FLCL / int_235a2706 | comment |
Baseball Episode: Episode 4 "Full Swing". Naturally, because it's this show, it manages to be one of the most confusing, frightening, and badass episodes, as opposed to any other anime's Baseball Episode. | |
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FLCL / int_237404cc | type |
Ironic Echo | |
FLCL / int_237404cc | comment |
Ironic Echo: Watch episode 1 and listen to how Haruko uses the words "Lunch time". Now go back to "FLCLimax" and listen to how she she pronounces "Launch time". | |
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Animated Actors | |
FLCL / int_254fc1c6 | comment |
Animated Actors: Parodied in the very first episode, and combined with the show's first (but far from last) fourth wall break, implying that Haruko, Mamimi and Naota are all actors performing a role. | |
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FLCL / int_26d1f65f | type |
Verbal Tic | |
FLCL / int_26d1f65f | comment |
Verbal Tic: Haruko adds "nya" and "pyon" at times, especially during Naota's nekomimi incident in Episode 3, to come across as manic and mischievous. The English dub worked in said tic and others like it — which helped to make it better. | |
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FLCL / int_2937826d | type |
Hurricane of Puns | |
FLCL / int_2937826d | comment |
Hurricane of Puns: The series is loaded with wordplay, but the beginning of episode 5 has something like a dozen Japanese puns back-to-back, none of which translate to English. The dubbers, who had done a fantastic job up to that point, pretty much had to throw their hands in the air for this scene, which meant English viewers got a bizarre caption about the correct way to spell "mackerel." Instead of a joke about confusing the kanji for "blue" and "mackerel" (which the dubbers obviously couldn't work with, as noted), they tried to find another joke that fit the formula and ended up with a relatively obscure joke about how "if Seven of Nine heaves a sigh" you get a "sigh-borg," referring to Canti. Mamimi points out that "confusing robots with cyborgs is a common mistake." | |
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More Dakka | |
FLCL / int_2b706ca | comment |
More Dakka: Episode 5 contains nearly too much dakka to comprehend. | |
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Autobots, Rock Out! | |
FLCL / int_2d395ee9 | comment |
Autobots, Rock Out!: The number of non-rock tracks can be counted on one hand. | |
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FLCL / int_2d4fa515 | type |
Ax-Crazy | |
FLCL / int_2d4fa515 | comment |
Ax-Crazy (punverted): At least once per episode Haruko gets a crazy (if purposeful) look on her face and wields her bass (or 'axe' in old jazz slang) like an axe. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
FLCL / int_2e6a41e0 | comment |
Gratuitous English: Not so much in the show, but various songs on the show's soundtrack - including the ending theme, "Ride on Shooting Star" - are filled with it. Though we still have to point out Ninamori's red "USSR" t-shirt in Episode 3. | |
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Theme Music Power-Up | |
FLCL / int_2f50c5bf | comment |
Theme Music Power-Up: "Little Busters" is sometimes used as a cue that Canti is about to kick some serious ass just in time for the end credits. | |
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Accidental Pervert | |
FLCL / int_2f52c0af | comment |
Accidental Pervert: In Episode 4, Mamimi startles Naota by jumping up in a flash and he ends up reaching for her... only to end up holding her panties. | |
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FLCL / int_33ee2e71 | type |
Symbolic Wings | |
FLCL / int_33ee2e71 | comment |
Symbolic Wings: Canti has small fake wings stuck to him at one point. | |
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Mugged for Disguise | |
FLCL / int_3403abfc | comment |
Mugged for Disguise: In episode 1 Haruko overpowers a hospital nurse and steals her uniform to gain access to Naota. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: Let's see... The most powerful weapons in the universe? Guitars. Some of which have pullstring motors. Haruko's preposterous moped tricks during the ending. Haruko fights the Humongous Mecha in episode 5 wearing a Playboy Bunny outfit. | |
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Rule of Sexy | |
FLCL / int_36ed5d0b | comment |
Rule of Sexy: Why is Haruko fighting the Gunslinger while wearing a Playboy Bunny outfit? Seemingly solely for this trope.Actually...It's a Shout-Out to Gainax's famous previous work Otaku no Video where it was worn by the original Misty May herself, but that doesn't discount the influence of this trope. | |
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Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher | |
FLCL / int_3a679ead | comment |
Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher: Junko Miyaji. At the beginning of the final episode, we see her teaching her class of sixth-graders how to properly hold chopsticks... something they already learned years earlier. And that she still hasn't. | |
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No Swastikas | |
FLCL / int_3ccaf3ac | comment |
No Swastikas: Averted in Episode 5, when Kamon is seen wearing a Nazi officer's uniform with a legitimate swastika on the sash. Not even the [adult swim] version altered/digitally edited it (and this is from the same channel that banned the Lupin III episode "To Be or Nazi Be" and had to air classic theatrical cartoons from World War II as part of a documentary). Given that Japan played a major role during World War II, this is defying the censors at its finest. | |
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FLCL / int_3d699462 | type |
Curb-Stomp Battle | |
FLCL / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: Many of the fights are noticeably one-sided. The most prominent ones include almost all of Canti's fights against the robots that spout out of Naota's head. They usually knock Canti around for a little while, until Naota merges, or something, with it and the one-sided fight gets turned to their favor. Another is Haruko against The Men in Black agents, who all go down without too much of a fight. The last is Haruko against a Naota fused with Atomsk's power. The only thing that stopped him from finishing her off her was his love for her. | |
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The Greatest Story Never Told | |
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The Greatest Story Never Told: There seems to be a grand Space Opera in the background of this show. | |
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Head Smashes Screen | |
FLCL / int_3fa77b51 | comment |
Head Smashes Screen: In "Brittle Bullet", Naota and his grandfather are watching TV when Naota's father flies through a wall and ends up headfirst in the TV set. It turns out Haruko had punched him with an extendable boxing glove. | |
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Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory | |
FLCL / int_42148628 | comment |
Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: Or Kamon seems to believe. invoked | |
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FLCL / int_42a055ac | type |
Happy Place | |
FLCL / int_42a055ac | comment |
Happy Place: Gainax's. The director outright said this series was them blowing off steam after Eva. | |
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Cat Stereotype | |
FLCL / int_44109de3 | comment |
Cat Stereotype: Naota's cat fits the old, fat and lazy grey cat stereotype. | |
FLCL / int_44109de3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_44109de3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_44109de3 | |
FLCL / int_44606d14 | type |
Becoming the Mask | |
FLCL / int_44606d14 | comment |
Becoming the Mask: Ninamori tries very hard to be more mature than she is actually is, to the point that she goes on a rant about how she idealizes Puss in Boots for transcending the mask and becoming what he is pretending to be. | |
FLCL / int_44606d14 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_44606d14 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_44606d14 | |
FLCL / int_46290b93 | type |
Manic Pixie Dream Girl | |
FLCL / int_46290b93 | comment |
Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Haruko is this towards Naota. It's a subverted trope; Haruko acts like one of these, but in the end she has her own ulterior motives that do not involve Naota at all. | |
FLCL / int_46290b93 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
FLCL / int_46290b93 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_46290b93 | |
FLCL / int_4856ac40 | type |
Stock Footage | |
FLCL / int_4856ac40 | comment |
Stock Footage: Some. You can see they've reused sequences here and there; Ninamori's "'It's no big deal.' (eats a spoonful of curry)" sequence is the most obvious. This is usually for a reason, though, either for comedic effect or to provide a parallel between two scenes. | |
FLCL / int_4856ac40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_4856ac40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_4856ac40 | |
FLCL / int_4a0cd65f | type |
WomanChild | |
FLCL / int_4a0cd65f | comment |
Womanchild: Junko Miyaji, Naota's teacher, is very energetic and somewhat immature. | |
FLCL / int_4a0cd65f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_4a0cd65f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_4a0cd65f | |
FLCL / int_4b86a724 | type |
Getting Crap Past the Radar | |
FLCL / int_4b86a724 | comment |
Getting Crap Past the Radar: Somehow only got a G rating upon its initial video release despite being jam-packed with nudity and double entendres that go far beyond "brief" and "infrequent". It seems like someone actually bothered to watch the DVD, because that release was upped to PG. | |
FLCL / int_4b86a724 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_4b86a724 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_4b86a724 | |
FLCL / int_4f2195d7 | type |
Honorifics | |
FLCL / int_4f2195d7 | comment |
Honorifics: Many of them get left in the dub, especially from Kamon and Mamimi. | |
FLCL / int_4f2195d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_4f2195d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_4f2195d7 | |
FLCL / int_500696c6 | type |
Seinfeldian Conversation | |
FLCL / int_500696c6 | comment |
Seinfeldian Conversation: Kitsurubami and Amarao have one in Episode 6 as the former muses over how the giant hand that's left of the last Monster of the Week looks ready to grab the iron-shaped Medical Mechanica building and iron something "like the wrinkles in the brain, maybe." Amarao counters that those wrinkles are how people think. Turns out Kitsurubami was right on the money. | |
FLCL / int_500696c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_500696c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_500696c6 | |
FLCL / int_5080221 | type |
Faux Horrific | |
FLCL / int_5080221 | comment |
Faux Horrific: Seeing one of Amarao's fake eyebrows fall off is apparently horrifying to Kitsurubami. | |
FLCL / int_5080221 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_5080221 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_5080221 | |
FLCL / int_50d71a78 | type |
Dual Wielding | |
FLCL / int_50d71a78 | comment |
Dual Wielding: Naota in the final episode, who dual wields guitars. More specifically, his own Flying V and Atomsk's Gibson EB-0. | |
FLCL / int_50d71a78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_50d71a78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_50d71a78 | |
FLCL / int_50f17484 | type |
Fake-Out Opening | |
FLCL / int_50f17484 | comment |
Fake-Out Opening: The series begins as your typical Slice of Life story... for the first few seconds, that is, until Haruko comes charging in out of nowhere on her moped, runs Naota over and beans him on the head with her guitar and a giant horn spontaneously sprouts out of his head. Then things manage to briefly return to yet another Fake-Out Opening, until Haruko shows up at his home, giant robots start shooting out of his skull, and all hell breaks loose. | |
FLCL / int_50f17484 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_50f17484 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_50f17484 | |
FLCL / int_517266f6 | type |
Kiss of Life | |
FLCL / int_517266f6 | comment |
Kiss of Life: Haruko reviving Naota via CPR naturally plays this trope for all it's worth. | |
FLCL / int_517266f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_517266f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_517266f6 | |
FLCL / int_53ea03ee | type |
Last Girl Wins | |
FLCL / int_53ea03ee | comment |
Last Girl Wins: Ninamori is the last one of Naota's Love Interests introduced in the show, but by the end of the show, it's clear she has the purest affection for him, and will probably be with him when they're both older. However, Yoji Enokido's novelization of this episode has a much older Ninamori narrating it as a frame story, and she says that she didn't see Naota again after high school. | |
FLCL / int_53ea03ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_53ea03ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_53ea03ee | |
FLCL / int_54cbd0cb | type |
This Is Unforgivable! | |
FLCL / int_54cbd0cb | comment |
This Is Unforgivable!: Naota's father to Naota in "Brittle Bullet" after he catches Naota kissing Haruko, followed up by challenging Naota to a duel for Haruko's affections. | |
FLCL / int_54cbd0cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_54cbd0cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_54cbd0cb | |
FLCL / int_5558641 | type |
Gratuitous Japanese | |
FLCL / int_5558641 | comment |
Gratuitous Japanese: The dub often doesn't translate things like sound effects (Mamimi says "kakiiii~n!" while describing how to hit a baseball to Naota), grunts (Americans don't say "yoisho" when picking up heavy things, Haruko), that kind of thing. Unlike most dubs that do this, this one isn't ruined by it, probably because the show is already insane. | |
FLCL / int_5558641 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_5558641 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_5558641 | |
FLCL / int_562abd51 | type |
Let's Get Dangerous! | |
FLCL / int_562abd51 | comment |
Let's Get Dangerous!: In the final episode, Haruko goes absolutely berserk after finding out Naota absorbed Atomsk's power. She'd shown plenty of skill before, but this time she's able to fly under her own power and clash guitars with Naota hard enough to part the clouds. | |
FLCL / int_562abd51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_562abd51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_562abd51 | |
FLCL / int_56c63b42 | type |
Didn't We Use This Joke Already? | |
FLCL / int_56c63b42 | comment |
Didn't We Use This Joke Already?: During the second round of scenes done in manga style, Kamon wonders why they are doing more manga scenes again. | |
FLCL / int_56c63b42 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_56c63b42 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_56c63b42 | |
FLCL / int_58626d87 | type |
Genius Ditz | |
FLCL / int_58626d87 | comment |
Genius Ditz: Naota's dad, Kamon, can seem very moronic, childish, and perverted at times, but can also be very astute and wise in the next second. For example when Naota runs away from home, his teacher questions where he went and Kamon goes off on a random tangent about when he failed to take care of the class hamster it died, only to swing back around and | |
FLCL / int_58626d87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_58626d87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_58626d87 | |
FLCL / int_59292b86 | type |
Seiza Squirm | |
FLCL / int_59292b86 | comment |
Seiza Squirm: A typically bizarre subversion—after Haruko runs over Naota in the first episode, while freaking out about what to do she seemingly rolls and slides around at random, while staying in seiza. | |
FLCL / int_59292b86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_59292b86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_59292b86 | |
FLCL / int_5a23602 | type |
Big Ol' Eyebrows | |
FLCL / int_5a23602 | comment |
Big Ol' Eyebrows: Amarao's massive nori sheet eyebrows, which he uses to block Haruko from using him as an N.O. channel. | |
FLCL / int_5a23602 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_5a23602 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_5a23602 | |
FLCL / int_5a40d6a | type |
Adaptation Distillation | |
FLCL / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: One useful fan theory states that the entire plot is just Neon Genesis Evangelion boiled down to six episodes and served hyperactive on a bed of heartwarming comedy. It's a deconstruction of a deconstruction, with the Mind Screw left intact, and not a single phallic symbol removed. | |
FLCL / int_5a40d6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_5a40d6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_5a40d6a | |
FLCL / int_5b83ab12 | type |
Exposition Diagram | |
FLCL / int_5b83ab12 | comment |
Exposition Diagram: In episode 3 "Marquis de Carabas" and episode 5 "Brittle Bullet". | |
FLCL / int_5b83ab12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_5b83ab12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_5b83ab12 | |
FLCL / int_5bb17c1e | type |
Murderous Thighs | |
FLCL / int_5bb17c1e | comment |
Murderous Thighs: Ninamori pulls this in episode 3 when a robot emerges from her head and temporarily takes control of her, first attacking Naota then Canti in this fashion. Neither one are seriously harmed though. | |
FLCL / int_5bb17c1e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_5bb17c1e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_5bb17c1e | |
FLCL / int_5caef4ca | type |
Chainsaw Good | |
FLCL / int_5caef4ca | comment |
The most powerful weapons in the universe? Guitars. Some of which have pullstring motors. | |
FLCL / int_5caef4ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_5caef4ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_5caef4ca | |
FLCL / int_5e01640d | type |
X-Ray Sparks | |
FLCL / int_5e01640d | comment |
X-Ray Sparks: At the end of "Fire Starter", Haruko is electrocuted by the giant hand and you can briefly see her skeleton. | |
FLCL / int_5e01640d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_5e01640d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_5e01640d | |
FLCL / int_603f1a80 | type |
Pragmatic Adaptation | |
FLCL / int_603f1a80 | comment |
Pragmatic Adaptation: The manga adaptation isn't so much a retelling of the anime as it is a completely different story with the same premise and characters. | |
FLCL / int_603f1a80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_603f1a80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_603f1a80 | |
FLCL / int_62f9d08e | type |
Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
FLCL / int_62f9d08e | comment |
A Freeze-Frame Bonus during the end credits shows Haruko suggestively licking her guitar. | |
FLCL / int_62f9d08e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_62f9d08e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_62f9d08e | |
FLCL / int_630f60bd | type |
Prayer Pose | |
FLCL / int_630f60bd | comment |
Prayer Pose: Episode 2, "Firestarter". After Canti the robot floats into the sky filled with Rays from Heaven, he assumes a kneeling position with his hands clasped in prayer. | |
FLCL / int_630f60bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_630f60bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_630f60bd | |
FLCL / int_6377d6e6 | type |
Grievous Harm with a Body | |
FLCL / int_6377d6e6 | comment |
Grievous Harm with a Body: The robot that comes out of Ninamori's head starts using her as a weapon against Canti. | |
FLCL / int_6377d6e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_6377d6e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_6377d6e6 | |
FLCL / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
FLCL / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Badass Normal: Amarao bikes 80 kilometers in an afternoon on his exercise bike and can last longer against the inhumanly powerful Haruko as long as he has bullets in his gun (as opposed to The Men in Black red shirts that fall in the dozens to her). In addition, Amarao and his MIB red shirts work for the government in the Immigration Department. Said Immigration Department outfits all of its agents with guns, has access to high-powered anti-tank rifles, and sports a high-tech NASA-esque Central Command Center which can monitor intruders IN SPACE.note He might not be all that normal. Haruko uses his head to open an N.O. channel, much as she uses Naota (though less successfully), and Naota gets run over by scooters, shot out of cannons, chewed up by... whatever that is in Canti's chest. | |
FLCL / int_6411dac8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_6411dac8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_6411dac8 | |
FLCL / int_655d406a | type |
Instrument of Murder | |
FLCL / int_655d406a | comment |
Instrument of Murder: In the manga, at one point Haruko spends time plinking around on a ukelele. When one of the rogue robots attacks Mamimi and Canti, it's revealed to contain a gun. | |
FLCL / int_655d406a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_655d406a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_655d406a | |
FLCL / int_66dfe36a | type |
Missing Mom | |
FLCL / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: Naota's mom gets only one blink-and-you-miss-it mention, indirectly referred to as deceased by Amarao while he's giving a quick rundown of Naota's family situation. There's also the implication in said rundown that this may be related to Kamon's bizarre personality in the series – he had been an assistant editor at a counter-culture magazine before suddenly quitting to...open up a bakery (or move in with his father who might have already owned the bakery), write about the deep mysteries of EVA, and publish a trashy tabloid 'zine. Perhaps the death of his wife precipitated the dramatic change in lifestyle. This might also explain Naota's attraction to Haruko. The moment where he embraces her in his room after she returns during episode six can easily be interpreted as Haruko functioning as a stand in for some one else who is no longer in Naota's life. | |
FLCL / int_66dfe36a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_66dfe36a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_66dfe36a | |
FLCL / int_67711aa | type |
Company Town | |
FLCL / int_67711aa | comment |
Company Town: Medical Mechanica, maybe. Or it might just be a giant alien steam-iron. | |
FLCL / int_67711aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_67711aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_67711aa | |
FLCL / int_6a2ae11f | type |
Improbable Weapon User | |
FLCL / int_6a2ae11f | comment |
Improbable Weapon User: Haruko and her Rickenbacker bass; even weirder, it incorporates a pull-start gasoline motor. Oh, and did we mention that it's also a pump action shotgun, smashing weapon, anti-tank baseball bat, a machine gun, and a hoverboard? | |
FLCL / int_6a2ae11f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_6a2ae11f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_6a2ae11f | |
FLCL / int_6a6b23ff | type |
Unfazed Everyman | |
FLCL / int_6a6b23ff | comment |
Unfazed Everyman: Ninamori's response to all the crazy stuff happening to her. In fact, "It's no big deal" is something of a Survival Mantra that she uses when she spends the night at Naota's house, especially in response to everything Kamon has to say about the scandals. | |
FLCL / int_6a6b23ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_6a6b23ff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_6a6b23ff | |
FLCL / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
FLCL / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Kitsurubami's skin tone is a light, traditional Japanese brown called kitsurubami. | |
FLCL / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_6bda9a30 | |
FLCL / int_6d7026fa | type |
Punny Name | |
FLCL / int_6d7026fa | comment |
Punny Name: Kitsurubami's skin tone is a light, traditional Japanese brown called kitsurubami. | |
FLCL / int_6d7026fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_6d7026fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_6d7026fa | |
FLCL / int_6f189981 | type |
Unusual Ears | |
FLCL / int_6f189981 | comment |
Unusual Ears: The cat type, sported by Naota in one episode. | |
FLCL / int_6f189981 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_6f189981 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_6f189981 | |
FLCL / int_6f22eb4d | type |
Let Him Choose | |
FLCL / int_6f22eb4d | comment |
Let Him Choose: In the final episode, Commander Amarao attempts to talk Naota out of helping Haruko. Naota ignores him, turns around, and walks to Haruko. | |
FLCL / int_6f22eb4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_6f22eb4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_6f22eb4d | |
FLCL / int_6fd83482 | type |
Ocular Gushers | |
FLCL / int_6fd83482 | comment |
Ocular Gushers: Commander Amarao during the final confrontation in "FLClimax". | |
FLCL / int_6fd83482 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_6fd83482 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_6fd83482 | |
FLCL / int_73731600 | type |
Lecherous Licking | |
FLCL / int_73731600 | comment |
Lecherous Licking: In "Marquis de Carabas" and "Brittle Bullet". A Freeze-Frame Bonus during the end credits shows Haruko suggestively licking her guitar. | |
FLCL / int_73731600 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_73731600 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_73731600 | |
FLCL / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
FLCL / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: The title itself, appearing at least Once an Episode, although it's never really explained to either the viewer or the characters. Kamon later lampshades this, asking Naota just what it means. Supposedly, "furi kuri" is a covert way of saying "sex," but used here, it also has a deeper meaning—the way an adolescent would picture thoughts of sexual encounters and eventually maturing to understand them when they come of age. This is the underlying development Naota's character undertakes. | |
FLCL / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_7464705c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_7464705c | |
FLCL / int_76c02df6 | type |
Hero's Classic Car | |
FLCL / int_76c02df6 | comment |
Hero's Classic Car: Harukos' Vespa scooter for a two - wheeled example. Either Naotas' dad or Grandpa also owns a Citroen GSA wagon. Kitsurubami ferries her boss around in a slightly distressed Fiat 126 as he only has his scooter licence, and Naotas' friends have use of a Daihatsu three-wheeler. Some of these would be considered as bangers in Y2k-ish, and not cheap ones either considering Japans' onerous MOT requirements. | |
FLCL / int_76c02df6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_76c02df6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_76c02df6 | |
FLCL / int_77922c8c | type |
Batter Up! | |
FLCL / int_77922c8c | comment |
Batter Up!: Usually, guitars are used in place of bats, but Naota still wields a bat when he attacks his father in episode 4. In the manga, they're used even more—Canti has one near the end, and the fifth enemy robot (the one with the Badass Longcoat) brings one up from down there. | |
FLCL / int_77922c8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_77922c8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_77922c8c | |
FLCL / int_7a12aabf | type |
New Media Are Evil | |
FLCL / int_7a12aabf | comment |
New Media Are Evil: Played with. Mamimi's Firestarter game is implied to be what inspired her to burn down her elementary school and she's even convinced Canti is the Lord of Black Flame from the game. But on the other hand, she clearly has a myriad of other problems and the game only gave her the idea. | |
FLCL / int_7a12aabf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_7a12aabf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_7a12aabf | |
FLCL / int_7d75077c | type |
Age-Stereotypical Food | |
FLCL / int_7d75077c | comment |
Age-Stereotypical Food: Naota and Amarao both have a Sweet Tooth and hate spicy food. Naota tries to deny it because he wants to look more mature, while the show itself uses it to signal Amarao's immaturity. | |
FLCL / int_7d75077c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_7d75077c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_7d75077c | |
FLCL / int_7dafc482 | type |
ChewToy | |
FLCL / int_7dafc482 | comment |
Chew Toy: Hitting Naota with a guitar is a legitimate plot point. Hitting Naota with a Vespa is a Running Gag. | |
FLCL / int_7dafc482 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_7dafc482 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_7dafc482 | |
FLCL / int_7e081ea0 | type |
Slice of Life | |
FLCL / int_7e081ea0 | comment |
Slice of Life: Begins this way until Haruko arrives, and carries traces of it throughout the course of the series, although this would be a very broad definition of the term "Slice of Life". | |
FLCL / int_7e081ea0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_7e081ea0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_7e081ea0 | |
FLCL / int_7ec94d53 | type |
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
FLCL / int_7ec94d53 | comment |
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Mamimi, in Episode 6, comes off as one of these. | |
FLCL / int_7ec94d53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_7ec94d53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_7ec94d53 | |
FLCL / int_816c63d4 | type |
Dramatic Wind | |
FLCL / int_816c63d4 | comment |
Dramatic Wind | |
FLCL / int_816c63d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_816c63d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_816c63d4 | |
FLCL / int_82accf22 | type |
Gainax Ending | |
FLCL / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: Surprisingly averted, and almost inverted since the ending is what makes the rest of the series make sense. Sorta. Also lampshaded. In the preview before the final episode, Mr. Director is asked whether the show will end properly. His response? "Uhhhhm... maybe." | |
FLCL / int_82accf22 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
FLCL / int_82accf22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_82accf22 | |
FLCL / int_83445b04 | type |
Pun | |
FLCL / int_83445b04 | comment |
Pun: The extremely complex airsoft fight scene was complicated even for this series; mixed into the fray was musing on the Japanese word saba (the Japanese name for the mackerel) and its kanji that is pretty tough to wrap your head around without an appreciation of the Japanese Language, both written and spoken. What you might appreciate without it is that they are participating in a "survival game", or saba-gē. | |
FLCL / int_83445b04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_83445b04 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_83445b04 | |
FLCL / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
FLCL / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: Ah, Ninamori, trying so hard to pretend not to be a twelve-year-old girl with a twelve-year-old girl's desires. She even goes off on a fairly unsettling rant about how she idealizes Puss in Boots because he represents her desire to Become the Mask. | |
FLCL / int_83a903f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_83a903f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_83a903f6 | |
FLCL / int_83f0971b | type |
Mexican Standoff | |
FLCL / int_83f0971b | comment |
Mexican Standoff: Haruko and Commander Amarao end up in one in "Brittle Bullet". | |
FLCL / int_83f0971b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_83f0971b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_83f0971b | |
FLCL / int_844b6779 | type |
Super Mode | |
FLCL / int_844b6779 | comment |
In Episode 6, he absorbs the power of Atomsk and enters a sort of Super Mode. | |
FLCL / int_844b6779 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_844b6779 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_844b6779 | |
FLCL / int_85ca9dab | type |
Second Love | |
FLCL / int_85ca9dab | comment |
Second Love: Haruko for Naota because he did have feelings for Mamimi at first. | |
FLCL / int_85ca9dab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_85ca9dab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_85ca9dab | |
FLCL / int_8657c5 | type |
Rhyming Title | |
FLCL / int_8657c5 | comment |
Rhyming Title: The anime's title is pronounced "Fooly Cooly". | |
FLCL / int_8657c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_8657c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_8657c5 | |
FLCL / int_86cffd8e | type |
Action Insurance Gag | |
FLCL / int_86cffd8e | comment |
Action Insurance Gag: In Episode 3, Canti falls off the roof of the school building and smashes into the car belonging to Naota's teacher, wrecking it. One of the other students leaning out a window says the teacher was still paying off the car's loan. | |
FLCL / int_86cffd8e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_86cffd8e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_86cffd8e | |
FLCL / int_8af25294 | type |
Bullet Time | |
FLCL / int_8af25294 | comment |
The "Behind the Scenes" aside for the Bullet Time scene in Episode 1. | |
FLCL / int_8af25294 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_8af25294 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_8af25294 | |
FLCL / int_8c99369f | type |
Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic | |
FLCL / int_8c99369f | comment |
Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic: Far, far on the fantastic end. | |
FLCL / int_8c99369f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_8c99369f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_8c99369f | |
FLCL / int_8e1aef2d | type |
Reference Overdosed | |
FLCL / int_8e1aef2d | comment |
Reference Overdosed | |
FLCL / int_8e1aef2d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_8e1aef2d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_8e1aef2d | |
FLCL / int_8e92e125 | type |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
FLCL / int_8e92e125 | comment |
Naota gives a Lawyer Friendly Lampshade Hanging in the fourth episode, when Haruko answers his question of who she really is with "I'm an illusion of your youth; the manifestation of the feelings of your adolescent heart." | |
FLCL / int_8e92e125 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_8e92e125 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_8e92e125 | |
FLCL / int_90c018ac | type |
Justified Trope | |
FLCL / int_90c018ac | comment |
What happened to Ninamori in episode 3; doesn't Haruko have to smack her with the bat for that to happen? Justified in this case. There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment where Ninamori and Naota knock heads at the subway. For a second you see both of their heads light up red, like Ninamori just briefly picked up Naota's N.O. potential. | |
FLCL / int_90c018ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_90c018ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_90c018ac | |
FLCL / int_912b24c4 | type |
Art Shift | |
FLCL / int_912b24c4 | comment |
Art Shift: Frequently throughout the series, with a major one Once an Episode, as well as several more subtle ones scattered around. Most memorably, there are two different sequences done to look like a manga, and at one point, it even goes South Park for a few scenes. | |
FLCL / int_912b24c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_912b24c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_912b24c4 | |
FLCL / int_916c72b3 | type |
Rule of Symbolism | |
FLCL / int_916c72b3 | comment |
Rule of Symbolism: Spicy, sour, and bitter food and drink are treated as "adult" things, while sweet things are childish (Amarao having a Sweet Tooth is meant to accentuate his being a Manchild). | |
FLCL / int_916c72b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_916c72b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_916c72b3 | |
FLCL / int_9438e550 | type |
The Big Damn Kiss | |
FLCL / int_9438e550 | comment |
The Big Damn Kiss: Final episode, epic battle, then it happens with our protagonist. Also happens in the manga. | |
FLCL / int_9438e550 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_9438e550 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_9438e550 | |
FLCL / int_94e4c8ab | type |
Betty and Veronica | |
FLCL / int_94e4c8ab | comment |
Betty and Veronica: Mamimi (Betty) and Haruko (Veronica). Ninamori is the Third-Option Love Interest. However, he loses both girls in the end. Mamimi gradually loses interest in Naota as he grows more independent and closer to Haruko, and Naota inevitably rejects Mamimi altogether when he realizes that Mamimi never once had feelings for him and still loved Tasuku, Naota's older brother, instead. She leaves at the end of the series. Haruko does this as well. As for Ninamori, she is the most likely girl (and out of all of Naota's Love Interests, she had the most sincere affection for him) to end up with Naota in the future. | |
FLCL / int_94e4c8ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_94e4c8ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_94e4c8ab | |
FLCL / int_957e5fc2 | type |
Villainous Breakdown | |
FLCL / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: Haruko becomes absolutely livid after Naota absorbs Atomsk's power. But then he kisses her, she forgives him, and then offers him to come with her into space, just like she had asked him before the previous night to continue their relationship. However, they both realize that he is still a kid and isn't ready to leave everything and go with her. | |
FLCL / int_957e5fc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_957e5fc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_957e5fc2 | |
FLCL / int_985795ab | type |
Medium Blending | |
FLCL / int_985795ab | comment |
Medium Blending: The live action moped in the end credits. | |
FLCL / int_985795ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_985795ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_985795ab | |
FLCL / int_9b0f37de | type |
Contemplate Our Navels | |
FLCL / int_9b0f37de | comment |
Contemplate Our Navels: In "Fire Starter", Naota yells at Kamon not to let Canti be seen in public, only for Kamon to counter with a long-winded discourse on the implications of such an advanced piece of technology being introduced to an otherwise normal family. | |
FLCL / int_9b0f37de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_9b0f37de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_9b0f37de | |
FLCL / int_9bcd82c0 | type |
Took a Level in Badass | |
FLCL / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: During the climax of Episode 5, Naota breaks free of his dependence and desire for Mamimi's affection — by outright rejecting it — and summons Canti to fight the giant gunslinger robot. In Episode 6, he absorbs the power of Atomsk and enters a sort of Super Mode. A number of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann fans think of Simon's "rebirth" scene as a Spiritual Successor to Naota's "rebirth" in FLCL. | |
FLCL / int_9bcd82c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_9bcd82c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_9bcd82c0 | |
FLCL / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
FLCL / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: During Kamon's "electric chin massage", there's a brief shot with a plug in the foreground with the cord leading up to Kamon hinting that he's a robotic body double. | |
FLCL / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_9d12bbc1 | |
FLCL / int_a036d3df | type |
Sarcastic Confession | |
FLCL / int_a036d3df | comment |
Sarcastic Confession: Haruko tells Naota she's an alien in the first episode. | |
FLCL / int_a036d3df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_a036d3df | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_a036d3df | |
FLCL / int_a2b38d3b | type |
Eye Scream | |
FLCL / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: Naota controls Canti by having the robot plug into him via a sharp syringe-like plug that goes right into his eye. Naota understandably screams horrifically when it happens. | |
FLCL / int_a2b38d3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_a2b38d3b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_a2b38d3b | |
FLCL / int_a33ff511 | type |
Indirect Kiss | |
FLCL / int_a33ff511 | comment |
Indirect Kiss: Kitsurubami unconsciously takes a sip from Amarao's exercise bottle and promptly goes Blue with Shock, and a couple other colors. | |
FLCL / int_a33ff511 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_a33ff511 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_a33ff511 | |
FLCL / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
FLCL / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Proving that even this Gainax production can't be completely free of angst. It's only briefly touched for a few characters before the show goes back to the gags. | |
FLCL / int_a4c37cbe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_a4c37cbe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_a4c37cbe | |
FLCL / int_a5adbbe7 | type |
Unreliable Expositor | |
FLCL / int_a5adbbe7 | comment |
Unreliable Expositor: When Amarao is explaining Haruko's relationship with Atomsk, he claims that Haruko's trying to free him because she's in love with him, and during the explanation the viewer is shown a rather psychedelic-looking humanoid from behind, suggesting it's him. Atomsk is actually a giant bird monster, and Haruko wants to steal his power instead. | |
FLCL / int_a5adbbe7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_a5adbbe7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_a5adbbe7 | |
FLCL / int_a60f7120 | type |
Physical God | |
FLCL / int_a60f7120 | comment |
Physical God: The Pirate Lord Atomsk is a being capable of stealing solar systems. His mere physical presence on Earth weakens gravity for miles in all directions as everything is pulled into his N.O. channel. | |
FLCL / int_a60f7120 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_a60f7120 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_a60f7120 | |
FLCL / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
FLCL / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Mamimi's apparent pyromania is never questioned. While there is no concrete evidence that she was the one who started the fire at her elementary school, it is very heavily implied, and no one ever thinks to ask about it. In the manga, she tells Haruko that she's been too busy setting fires to hang out with them. Haruko too. Though Naota cost her her best possible chance of capturing and consuming Atomsk, she still got arguably the most powerful "axe" in the Universe as consolation, and is free to keep pursuing her target. | |
FLCL / int_a70223 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_a70223 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_a70223 | |
FLCL / int_a7aef9ff | type |
Obfuscating Stupidity | |
FLCL / int_a7aef9ff | comment |
Obfuscating Stupidity: Haruko. Warning: Do not make her mad. Amarao is an inversion of this. In the beginning, he shows up and nonchalantly explains the mechanics and goings-on of all the events in Mabase and with Haruko. However, when put to task to actually confront and put a stop to these things, he's shown to be weak-willed and ineffectual. This is symbolized by his nori eyebrows. When they're in place, he has an air of authority and almost sagely knowledge about him, but when this façade is broken and he's shown to still be the scared child he always has been, they fall off. | |
FLCL / int_a7aef9ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_a7aef9ff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_a7aef9ff | |
FLCL / int_a7ea5c1c | type |
LesYay | |
FLCL / int_a7ea5c1c | comment |
Les Yay: invoked In the manga, Haruko talks Mamimi into pretending to make out to tease Naota. It's Ninamori who sees them, ruining the gag. | |
FLCL / int_a7ea5c1c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_a7ea5c1c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_a7ea5c1c | |
FLCL / int_a8a4b41e | type |
Not So Stoic | |
FLCL / int_a8a4b41e | comment |
Not So Stoic: Ninamori in episode 3. | |
FLCL / int_a8a4b41e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_a8a4b41e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_a8a4b41e | |
FLCL / int_a939a527 | type |
Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
FLCL / int_a939a527 | comment |
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Ninamori in "Marquis de Carabas", the hand monster in "Brittle Bullet" and Mamimi in "FLCLimax". | |
FLCL / int_a939a527 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_a939a527 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_a939a527 | |
FLCL / int_aa92a5d2 | type |
Mega Neko | |
FLCL / int_aa92a5d2 | comment |
Mega Neko: Naota's cat, who's apparently also used as a medium by Haruko to talk to her superiors. He also seems to be capable of tightly-controlled, high-speed, inertia-lacking flight that can be used as a form of attack in case Haruko has screwed up some how. It's a bit odd the first time you see it. His being voiced by Hideaki "Mind Screw" Anno might have something to do with that. | |
FLCL / int_aa92a5d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_aa92a5d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_aa92a5d2 | |
FLCL / int_ac4ac8e5 | type |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
FLCL / int_ac4ac8e5 | comment |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: They're all four-mora abbreviations of a significant phrase. The English version just renders the full phrase—for example, the second episode's Japanese title is "Fai-Suta" and the English title is "Fire Starter". | |
FLCL / int_ac4ac8e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_ac4ac8e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_ac4ac8e5 | |
FLCL / int_ac5fa94 | type |
Rotoscoping | |
FLCL / int_ac5fa94 | comment |
The giant hand in Episode 5 is actually a rotoscope of Kazuya Tsurumaki's hand. | |
FLCL / int_ac5fa94 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_ac5fa94 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_ac5fa94 | |
FLCL / int_ad5d4c7d | type |
Blue with Shock | |
FLCL / int_ad5d4c7d | comment |
Blue with Shock: Occasionally, but it should be exclusively noted that when Kamon sees Naota kissing Haruko, his face roars through the entire color spectrum. | |
FLCL / int_ad5d4c7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_ad5d4c7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_ad5d4c7d | |
FLCL / int_ad94c7a0 | type |
Scars Are Forever | |
FLCL / int_ad94c7a0 | comment |
Scars are Forever: The ferocious hit Canti takes from being whacked on the head by Haruko's guitar leaves the poor 'bot trying to salvage the back panels she obliterated. By the end of the series, he still hasn't succeeded in piecing his head back together again. | |
FLCL / int_ad94c7a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_ad94c7a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_ad94c7a0 | |
FLCL / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
FLCL / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Pretty much everyone, unless they're unconscious. | |
FLCL / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_ae3d6438 | |
FLCL / int_af616e40 | type |
Accidental Misnaming | |
FLCL / int_af616e40 | comment |
Accidental Misnaming: Haruko and Mamimi both call Naota "Takkun". It doesn't translate well, but it's an affectionate diminutive, like "Jimmy" or "Billy". Naota, with all his hangups about being a grownup, hates being addressed as such. It could also be that Mamimi is attached to the name Takkun because it is a shortening of Tasuku, her ex-boyfriend. She calls Naota the same nickname because it fits for both (TA-suku and Nao-TA), and because she's still fixated on Tasuku. | |
FLCL / int_af616e40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_af616e40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_af616e40 | |
FLCL / int_b11c0ea5 | type |
Medium-Shift Gag | |
FLCL / int_b11c0ea5 | comment |
Medium-Shift Gag: In two of the anime episodes, the art suddenly changes to manga style for a while. It also shifts to South Park-style animation for Amarao's haircut. | |
FLCL / int_b11c0ea5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_b11c0ea5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_b11c0ea5 | |
FLCL / int_b1bd581 | type |
Sprouting Ears | |
FLCL / int_b1bd581 | comment |
Sprouting Ears: Episode 3 has Naota's head growth be a pair of cat ears, that are actually claw leg things from the Monster of the Week, and also get transferred to Ninamori briefly before the robot emerges and takes over her body. | |
FLCL / int_b1bd581 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_b1bd581 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_b1bd581 | |
FLCL / int_b1dde8fd | type |
Loophole Abuse | |
FLCL / int_b1dde8fd | comment |
Loophole Abuse: Ain't No Rule says you can't put a robot on your baseball team roster. Not that it does them any good against Haruko, apparently. | |
FLCL / int_b1dde8fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_b1dde8fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_b1dde8fd | |
FLCL / int_b1e8a3b3 | type |
Coming of Age Story | |
FLCL / int_b1e8a3b3 | comment |
Coming of Age Story: A really, really weird one, but still. It comes to its ultimate conclusion when Naota grows out of his "all-consuming desire to be an adult" phase and matures to realize that he still needs to be a kid while he is one. | |
FLCL / int_b1e8a3b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_b1e8a3b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_b1e8a3b3 | |
FLCL / int_b25547b1 | type |
Pink Is Erotic | |
FLCL / int_b25547b1 | comment |
Pink Is Erotic: Haruko has pink hair and constantly sexually harasses the 12-year-old Naota. After she crashes into him, he starts sprouting weird protrusions out of his forehead, and his contact with her symbolically initiates him into puberty. | |
FLCL / int_b25547b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_b25547b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_b25547b1 | |
FLCL / int_b59bbb0c | type |
Moving Buildings | |
FLCL / int_b59bbb0c | comment |
Moving Buildings: In episode 1 "Fooly Cooly", when Haruko attacks Naota insde the hospital, the building starts moving around and finally jumps into the air and falls back to the ground. | |
FLCL / int_b59bbb0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_b59bbb0c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_b59bbb0c | |
FLCL / int_b7af1f3 | type |
Rays from Heaven | |
FLCL / int_b7af1f3 | comment |
Rays from Heaven: Episode 2 "Fire Starter". As Kanti rises into the sky, rays of sunlight stream down through the clouds as he assumes a Prayer Pose. | |
FLCL / int_b7af1f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_b7af1f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_b7af1f3 | |
FLCL / int_ba0a370c | type |
Color Failure | |
FLCL / int_ba0a370c | comment |
Color Failure | |
FLCL / int_ba0a370c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_ba0a370c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_ba0a370c | |
FLCL / int_bb0197af | type |
Cool Bike | |
FLCL / int_bb0197af | comment |
Cool Bike: Haruko's yellow Vespa, which is apparently sentient, and can be repaired with toy Gundam parts. | |
FLCL / int_bb0197af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_bb0197af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_bb0197af | |
FLCL / int_bcba27a1 | type |
Putting on the Reich | |
FLCL / int_bcba27a1 | comment |
Putting on the Reich: Kamon◊. Now that's Those Wacky Nazis. | |
FLCL / int_bcba27a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_bcba27a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_bcba27a1 | |
FLCL / int_bcbe3097 | type |
EveryOneLives | |
FLCL / int_bcbe3097 | comment |
Everyone Lives: Barring mass destruction of property and the destruction of a bunch of robots, total death: 0 (in the anime, anyhow). Technically, Kamon is dead for part of episode 4, but he got better inexplicably. | |
FLCL / int_bcbe3097 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_bcbe3097 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_bcbe3097 | |
FLCL / int_be009bbc | type |
Alliterative Name | |
FLCL / int_be009bbc | comment |
Alliterative Name: Haruhara Haruko. Har har har. | |
FLCL / int_be009bbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_be009bbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_be009bbc | |
FLCL / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
FLCL / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: The whole series. There are some people who had no idea what the hell they were watching the first time they sat through the series. Some notable moments: The fight at the end of episode 2, where Canti taps into Atomsk's power via Naota and what appears to be a literal Mind Screw◊. The first half of episode 4, where an increasingly stressed Naota begins to suffer hallucinations of murdering both his father and Haruko when he suspects they're sleeping together. Eventually he gets better after working out his frustrations on a vending machine, his TV, a robot duplicate of his father, and a baseball-shaped satellite bomb the size of a house. Our very own Sweet Dreams Fuel page posits that this series is one of the few examples of Consensual Mind Screw. They may be on to something... Forget the supernatural stuff, think about the basic conversations. At least in the dub. | |
FLCL / int_bef696dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_bef696dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_bef696dd | |
FLCL / int_c1b2c63f | type |
Dull Surprise | |
FLCL / int_c1b2c63f | comment |
Dull Surprise: Affects both the Japanese and English dubs, but moreso the former. Manages to be part of the charm, though. | |
FLCL / int_c1b2c63f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_c1b2c63f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_c1b2c63f | |
FLCL / int_c289826f | type |
Double Standard Rape: Female on Male | |
FLCL / int_c289826f | comment |
Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Sexual harassment in this case. Just try picturing the events of the series with the genders swapped. | |
FLCL / int_c289826f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_c289826f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_c289826f | |
FLCL / int_c5c0b2ed | type |
Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000 | |
FLCL / int_c5c0b2ed | comment |
Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000: In Episode 2, a fairly tame monochrome handheld video game about burning down a city inspires Mamimi to go on an arson rampage — but then again, she already had a few screws loose to begin with... | |
FLCL / int_c5c0b2ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_c5c0b2ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_c5c0b2ed | |
FLCL / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
FLCL / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: To lots and lots of other anime, with references ranging from sly and subtle to blatant ripoffs. Lupin III and Neon Genesis Evangelion in particular amount to running gags, and one character is named after a Carmichael Smith novel. There's at least three for South Park. One comes in the form of a 30 second Art Shift, though the other two aren't as blatant. The Pillows gave a musical shout out in the show's closing theme "Ride on Shooting Star"; it ends with the line "Beep beep, beep beep, yeah!", originally from The Beatles' "Drive My Car". A shot of Mamimi's phone in the last episode says "Cyber Dying" which is probably a reference to Cyberdyne. Haruko's sky-surfing on a guitar while dressed as a bunnygirl is an explicit reference to the Daicon IV music video (she even yells "Daicon!" at one point), which was the project that would lead to Studio Gainax's formation. A few references to Gundam as well. Haruko fixes the Vespa with what appears to be a toy Gundam, and Kamon references the infamous Gundam Hammer in the first episode. In episode 3 Naota eats some very spicy curry, and for a split second his face turns into◊ Ghostface's mask. According to the director, one of the meanings of the anime is the history of Gainax itself, which explains a lot of the in-house references. Naota's cat ears in episode 3 get compared to Doraemon (despite that character not having ears). In one episode, someone runs around in a mouse costume saying "chu." In episode 3, the secretary who was caught having an affair with Ninamori's father flees the papparazi while shouting "Bye-Baikin!" In one of the episode previews, Haruko mentions a ton of anime directors, including Mamoru Oshii. Naota gives a Lawyer Friendly Lampshade Hanging in the fourth episode, when Haruko answers his question of who she really is with "I'm an illusion of your youth; the manifestation of the feelings of your adolescent heart." | |
FLCL / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_c75df49a | |
FLCL / int_c8591326 | type |
Demon Head | |
FLCL / int_c8591326 | comment |
Demon Head: In "Brittle Bullet", Haruko gets one when she's wearing an Elvis Presley costume and talking with Naota in his room. | |
FLCL / int_c8591326 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_c8591326 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_c8591326 | |
FLCL / int_caa28b82 | type |
Cloudcuckoolander | |
FLCL / int_caa28b82 | comment |
Cloudcuckoolander: Mamimi; it's played for laughs for the most part, but in episodes 2 and 6 her loose grip on reality is shown to have a nasty, vengeful side. Haruko pretends to be this but it gets more and more apparent that she's a bit twisted by the end of the series. | |
FLCL / int_caa28b82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_caa28b82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_caa28b82 | |
FLCL / int_cc3c365f | type |
Goofy Print Underwear | |
FLCL / int_cc3c365f | comment |
Goofy Print Underwear: Kamon◊, in a Shout-Out to Lupin III. | |
FLCL / int_cc3c365f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_cc3c365f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_cc3c365f | |
FLCL / int_cc6f4612 | type |
Beyond the Impossible | |
FLCL / int_cc6f4612 | comment |
Beyond the Impossible: What happened to Ninamori in episode 3; doesn't Haruko have to smack her with the bat for that to happen? Justified in this case. There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment where Ninamori and Naota knock heads at the subway. For a second you see both of their heads light up red, like Ninamori just briefly picked up Naota's N.O. potential. Canti flying with the fake wings. | |
FLCL / int_cc6f4612 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_cc6f4612 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_cc6f4612 | |
FLCL / int_cc8564b3 | type |
Playboy Bunny | |
FLCL / int_cc8564b3 | comment |
Haruko's sky-surfing on a guitar while dressed as a bunnygirl is an explicit reference to the Daicon IV music video (she even yells "Daicon!" at one point), which was the project that would lead to Studio Gainax's formation. | |
FLCL / int_cc8564b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_cc8564b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_cc8564b3 | |
FLCL / int_ccf46587 | type |
Redshirt Army | |
FLCL / int_ccf46587 | comment |
Red Shirt Army: The fifth episode featured a whole crew of Men in Black that were hired to take out Haruko. They were offed in an incredibly awesome fashion. | |
FLCL / int_ccf46587 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_ccf46587 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_ccf46587 | |
FLCL / int_cd8d5b02 | type |
Nosebleed | |
FLCL / int_cd8d5b02 | comment |
Nosebleed: In "Full Swing," after seeing the guitar pulled by Haruko from Naota's head, all of the female officers at the Bureau of Interstellar Immigration command center break out into profuse ones. Kitsurubami herself goes weak at the knees. | |
FLCL / int_cd8d5b02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_cd8d5b02 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_cd8d5b02 | |
FLCL / int_cdd676a3 | type |
Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
FLCL / int_cdd676a3 | comment |
Hypercompetent Sidekick: Canti. Everyone thinks that Naota is the hero since it's him inside Canti fighting the robot monsters, but he doesn't remember anything about what happened (even if he takes credit for it). Canti also does chores and rescues girls. | |
FLCL / int_cdd676a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_cdd676a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_cdd676a3 | |
FLCL / int_ce104b8e | type |
Serial Escalation | |
FLCL / int_ce104b8e | comment |
Serial Escalation How weird and surreal can this episode be? How many puns and Double Entendres can we fit into this episode? How many guns can one giant robot hold at one time? Compare the first and second episode to the fourth and fifth. The art style, although already malleable early on, becomes completely inconsistent over time. | |
FLCL / int_ce104b8e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_ce104b8e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_ce104b8e | |
FLCL / int_d01cffbc | type |
Badass Longcoat | |
FLCL / int_d01cffbc | comment |
Badass Longcoat: A Humongous Mecha version, complete with revolvers, a shotgun, a lever action rifle (which it twirled with awesome cowboy-badassery when it needed to chamber another round) and a Luger with an extended magazine, first appearing as a crotch gun. | |
FLCL / int_d01cffbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_d01cffbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_d01cffbc | |
FLCL / int_d34cbda2 | type |
Implausible Deniability | |
FLCL / int_d34cbda2 | comment |
Implausible Deniability: Naota's father tries to pass off Canti as the TV. When Ninamori asks why it's walking around, he says it's a TV Walkman. | |
FLCL / int_d34cbda2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_d34cbda2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_d34cbda2 | |
FLCL / int_d99a228f | type |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
FLCL / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The whole series runs on this. Why does no one comment on the strangeness of Ninamori growing a huge monster out of her head?! Mabase's residents find the weird situations and events in the plot somewhat weird, but not nearly enough so. For example, they seem more interested in the mayor's sexual escapades than in the massive robot battle that happens in the elementary school. | |
FLCL / int_d99a228f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_d99a228f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_d99a228f | |
FLCL / int_dbca2c99 | type |
Red Herring | |
FLCL / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: Amarao claims in the final episode that Haruko is chasing after Atomsk because she's in love with him (a theory supported by Haruko swooning over Canti after he gains Atomsk's Gibson EB-0 and calling out his name). Turns out that she just wants his power instead. | |
FLCL / int_dbca2c99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_dbca2c99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_dbca2c99 | |
FLCL / int_dd22df26 | type |
Hands-On Approach | |
FLCL / int_dd22df26 | comment |
Hands-On Approach: Haruko does this with Naota as she's teaching him how to "swing the bat" in ep. 4. | |
FLCL / int_dd22df26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_dd22df26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_dd22df26 | |
FLCL / int_e150c4c7 | type |
Manchild | |
FLCL / int_e150c4c7 | comment |
Manchild: Nearly every adult on the show, to some extent. It really irritates Naota, and ends up being a major plot point as it leads him to try to act older than he is. His father Kamon is the most obvious example, being an unemployed, lecherous anime freak who makes scant money selling a self-published tabloid to convenience stores. In the anime, Naota seems to make some peace with his father, who hints at being a little more intelligent than he first appears. In the manga, their relationship gets ugly. | |
FLCL / int_e150c4c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_e150c4c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_e150c4c7 | |
FLCL / int_e18675e6 | type |
Word Salad Lyrics | |
FLCL / int_e18675e6 | comment |
Word Salad Lyrics: The ending theme, "Ride On Shooting Star", which is about...orange slides and revenge lobsters? | |
FLCL / int_e18675e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_e18675e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_e18675e6 | |
FLCL / int_e2d457 | type |
The Ditz | |
FLCL / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Mamimi again. | |
FLCL / int_e2d457 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_e2d457 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_e2d457 | |
FLCL / int_e32c80d9 | type |
Going Commando | |
FLCL / int_e32c80d9 | comment |
Going Commando: Mamimi does in "Full Swing", though it's because she fails to notice that her panties have been accidentally pulled off...by Naota. | |
FLCL / int_e32c80d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_e32c80d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_e32c80d9 | |
FLCL / int_e430b3a3 | type |
Psychic Block Defense | |
FLCL / int_e430b3a3 | comment |
Psychic Block Defense: Amaro uses his nori eyebrows for largely the same purpose. | |
FLCL / int_e430b3a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_e430b3a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_e430b3a3 | |
FLCL / int_e462893a | type |
Artistic License – Sports | |
FLCL / int_e462893a | comment |
Artistic License – Sports: Naota is shown striking out apparently every inning against Haruko's pitching. The problem is that Mabase isn't scoring any runs, and a given player can only bat at most twice every three innings if the team doesn't score, because the maximum number of batters you can send to the plate without scoring is six, while there are nine in a lineup, and everyone (or their substitutes) must bat once before anyone can bat twice. Possibly justified due to Rule of Symbolism. | |
FLCL / int_e462893a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_e462893a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_e462893a | |
FLCL / int_e52a0cac | type |
He Who Must Not Be Seen | |
FLCL / int_e52a0cac | comment |
He Who Must Not Be Seen: Haruko's superiors (presumably) in the Space Police Brotherhood. Naota's brother Tasuku is never fully shown on-screen. Other than the killer robots that come out of Naota's head, Medical Mechanica, whether it be an individual or an organization, is never seen. | |
FLCL / int_e52a0cac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_e52a0cac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_e52a0cac | |
FLCL / int_e61d9a3c | type |
Clothing Damage | |
FLCL / int_e61d9a3c | comment |
Clothing Damage: Kitsurubami after Haruko lobs her ammo back at her. | |
FLCL / int_e61d9a3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_e61d9a3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_e61d9a3c | |
FLCL / int_e6f18344 | type |
Humongous Mecha | |
FLCL / int_e6f18344 | comment |
Haruko fights the Humongous Mecha in episode 5 wearing a Playboy Bunny outfit. | |
FLCL / int_e6f18344 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_e6f18344 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_e6f18344 | |
FLCL / int_e79b033c | type |
Scooby Stack | |
FLCL / int_e79b033c | comment |
Scooby Stack: Haruko, Kamon, and Canti in "Full Swing". | |
FLCL / int_e79b033c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_e79b033c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_e79b033c | |
FLCL / int_e8e3807 | type |
Aside Glance | |
FLCL / int_e8e3807 | comment |
In episode 5 Naota actually gives the audience an Aside Glance and asks "Do you find this difficult to understand?" during one of Haruko's more out-there moments. | |
FLCL / int_e8e3807 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_e8e3807 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_e8e3807 | |
FLCL / int_eaf5a1ac | type |
Groin Attack | |
FLCL / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: During the manga style sequence in Episode 6, Haruko kicks Naota in the crotch. | |
FLCL / int_eaf5a1ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_eaf5a1ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_eaf5a1ac | |
FLCL / int_eb28ab57 | type |
Bound and Gagged | |
FLCL / int_eb28ab57 | comment |
Bound and Gagged: The hospital nurse in episode 1 after she's Mugged for Disguise by Haruko. | |
FLCL / int_eb28ab57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_eb28ab57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_eb28ab57 | |
FLCL / int_ec40626 | type |
Love Martyr | |
FLCL / int_ec40626 | comment |
Love Martyr: Naota confesses his love for Haruko in the final episode...while she's trying to kill him. At the end of the episode, he wises up and decides not to follow her into space when invited to and she leaves to continue her chase after the Pirate King Atomsk, telling Naota "You're Just a Kid after all." | |
FLCL / int_ec40626 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_ec40626 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_ec40626 | |
FLCL / int_edfacbac | type |
Covert Pervert | |
FLCL / int_edfacbac | comment |
Covert Pervert: Canti, of all characters. Those novels he's seen reading? Porno. | |
FLCL / int_edfacbac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_edfacbac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_edfacbac | |
FLCL / int_eff83d77 | type |
Mundane Utility | |
FLCL / int_eff83d77 | comment |
Mundane Utility: Canti doing housework. | |
FLCL / int_eff83d77 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_eff83d77 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_eff83d77 | |
FLCL / int_f05444a4 | type |
Once per Episode | |
FLCL / int_f05444a4 | comment |
Once per Episode: Every episode ends with "Little Busters" playing in the background. | |
FLCL / int_f05444a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_f05444a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_f05444a4 | |
FLCL / int_f25493f4 | type |
Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here | |
FLCL / int_f25493f4 | comment |
Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: A complaint of Naota's at the start of the series. Despite being proven wrong very quickly, he still makes the same complaint at the end of the series. | |
FLCL / int_f25493f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_f25493f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_f25493f4 | |
FLCL / int_f273b1cb | type |
Devil in Plain Sight | |
FLCL / int_f273b1cb | comment |
Devil in Plain Sight: Haruko, though her over-the-top sexuality and undeniable charisma overwhelm just about everybody's better judgment. | |
FLCL / int_f273b1cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_f273b1cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_f273b1cb | |
FLCL / int_f28de900 | type |
Airplane of Love | |
FLCL / int_f28de900 | comment |
Airplane of Love: It represents Mamimi's longing for Tasuku, as he's in America playing baseball. | |
FLCL / int_f28de900 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_f28de900 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_f28de900 | |
FLCL / int_f2d8e3c2 | type |
Evil Plan | |
FLCL / int_f2d8e3c2 | comment |
Evil Plan: Several. Haruko wants to capture the Pirate King for his power, who wants to escape Medical Mechanica to do more stealing, who in in turn want to 'iron out the wrinkles in human brains'. And that's just the evil plans; the Gambit Pile Up is one reason why this show is so confusing. | |
FLCL / int_f2d8e3c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_f2d8e3c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_f2d8e3c2 | |
FLCL / int_f3faf1d4 | type |
Something Something Leonard Bernstein | |
FLCL / int_f3faf1d4 | comment |
Something Something Leonard Bernstein: The ending theme goes "RIDE ON SHOOTING STAR/ nuhnyenarnenanyeerrrnyerrr". | |
FLCL / int_f3faf1d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_f3faf1d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_f3faf1d4 | |
FLCL / int_f511ea9b | type |
Product Placement | |
FLCL / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: Notice in the third episode that the drink pouches are rendered very realistically; a planned product placement deal fell through, but the producers decided to leave it in, mostly because they'd already spent the time and money to render them. The guitars featured in the show are real guitars. Haruko's bass guitar is a left-handed Rickenbacker 4001 (albeit with an added pull-start motor on the back), Naota gets a Gibson Flying V, and Atomsk's bass is a 1961 Gibson EB-0. Haruko's scooter is a real Vespa as well, the mid-1960s 180 Super Sport model. When Naota finds his dad in the fifth episode, if you look closely at the shots of a ticking clock, you can see it's a Seiko, although it's so brief that's it's probably not intended to be an advertisement. | |
FLCL / int_f511ea9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_f511ea9b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_f511ea9b | |
FLCL / int_f70b20c6 | type |
Imagination Destroyer | |
FLCL / int_f70b20c6 | comment |
Imagination Destroyer: The purpose of the irons seen throughout is to "smooth out the wrinkles" in the human brain, stripping them of their creativity and making everyone equal. | |
FLCL / int_f70b20c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_f70b20c6 | featureConfidence |
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Master of Disguise | |
FLCL / int_fd7267dd | comment |
Master of Disguise: Haruko, in a goofy, seemingly incompetent way. On both occasions where she fully disguises herself, her victims are completely fooled until she decides to drop the act. Her entire goofy personality is an act to lower everyone's guard. Her actions in the final episode reveal her true agenda and true personality. | |
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FLCL / int_fd94c4ac | type |
Theme Naming | |
FLCL / int_fd94c4ac | comment |
Theme Naming: Naota (ナオ太), Haruko (ãƒ�ルå�) and Mamimi (マミ美) all have names that are otherwise written in katakana (syllables) but end with kanji (characters with meanings). | |
FLCL / int_fd94c4ac | featureApplicability |
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FLCL / int_fe26cb03 | type |
Real Name as an Alias | |
FLCL / int_fe26cb03 | comment |
Real Name as an Alias: Amarao reveals Haruhara Haruko's (Western style: "Haruko Haruhara") real name to be "Haruha Raharu" (Western order: "Raharu Haruha"). She moves a syllable over and adds "-ko". On the other hand, we have no idea which, if either, is actually her real name. | |
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FLCL / int_ff0cea73 | type |
Diving Save | |
FLCL / int_ff0cea73 | comment |
Diving Save: Mamimi to Naota in Episode 1 "Fooly Cooly". Naota performs one on Mamimi during the big fight in Episode 2 "Fire Starter". | |
FLCL / int_ff0cea73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_ff0cea73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
FLCL / int_ff0cea73 | |
FLCL / int_ff934825 | type |
Evil, Inc. | |
FLCL / int_ff934825 | comment |
Evil, Inc.: Medical Mechanica. Very few details are given about them, other than that they produce robots (possibly with medical functions, since Canti is capable of taking x-rays), have imprisoned Atomsk for some unspecified reason, and built a giant clothing iron to iron out all human thought. The giant iron is suggested to be a back-up plan by Medical Mechanica in case Atomsk got free, so that he wouldn't have access to N.O. fields. | |
FLCL / int_ff934825 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
FLCL / int_ff934825 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FLCL | hasFeature |
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