Name: FLCL Volume 1
Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)

Gainax

Hajime Ueda

GAINAX (Firm)

Lonely young Naota is having a hard time dealing with his eccentric family members and advances from his brother's ex-girlfriend, but things only get worse when alien robots begin to emerge from his forehead.

FLCL Volume 1

Gavin

Even harder to follow than the difficult tv show, and lacking its crazed garish starburst tricks and that aching soundtrack. The show is the best depiction of my adolescence, better than Dazed and Confused, deeper than Catcher in the Rye, rawer than Infinite Jest, less Jesuitical and specific than Portrait of the Artist. Teen age is an alien smashing your head with a bass at 40 mph, and weird things climbing out of the crater. A blur, a pastiche of childhood and adulthood, a parody that thinks it’s a tragedy. Naota is exploited repeatedly, and is either indifferent or passionately glad of it. Mamimi is flat here, less pathetic and less perverse. Atomsk, the only adult in the universe, is constantly on the way and never arrives.

All the same I might have understood the show on the first watch if I’d had this. As it is I got the presentiment of awe, the IOU of a justification of an entire dumb medium.

4 stars for me, probably not for you

Brandie States

Couldn't get enough, absolutely love Fooly Cooly!

FLCL Volume 1

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