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(ESP-ENG) FLCL (Fooly Cooly) - Anime Review!@javyeslava.photo558d

Hello friends, good vibes to all.

Hola amigos, buenas vibras para todos.

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I'm pretty sure that all of us here yearn to find those really weird anime but that in the end are amazing everywhere you look, luckily and throughout my stay in this community I have found some and I must say that today is no exception. This extravagant anime was made by none other than Gainax, the same creators of Evangelion, among others. And so much so that the winks we see throughout its episodes are quite noticeable. A crazy anime that only has 6 episodes but with an intensity and unique personality that you will surely not see anywhere else.

Estoy muy seguro que todos acá anhelamos encontrar esos anime verdaderamente raros pero que al final son sorprendentes por donde lo mires, por suerte y a lo largo de mi estadía en esta comunidad he encontrado algunos y debo decir que el día de hoy no es la excepción. Este extravagante anime estuvo a cargo de nada más y nada menos que de Gainax, los mismos creadores de Evangelion, entre otros. Y es tan así que los guiños que vemos a lo largo de sus episodios son bastantes notorios. Una locura de anime que solo cuenta con 6 capítulos pero con una intensidad y personalidad única que muy seguramente no verán en otro lado.

It may not make sense that you are about to read it but believe me it is worth it. Naota is a 12 year old boy, a boy like any other who admires his brother but who went to the United States to play baseball, leaving him alone in a boring town where nothing happens. There he hangs out with Mamimi, his brother's ex-girlfriend, with whom he has a very curious relationship. Naota is extremely mature for his age, so despite being a child, he understands everything around him very well. This neutrality changes when out of nowhere comes into his life Haruko, a super strange girl who rides a motorcycle and always carries a bass on her back.

Puede que no tenga sentido que lo están a punto de leer pero creanme que vale mucho la pena. Naota es un niño de 12 años, uno como cualquier otro que admira a su hermano pero que se este se fue a Estados Unidos a jugar béisbol quedando así solo en un pueblo aburrido en donde no pasa nada. Allí él se la pasa con Mamimi, la ex novia del hermano, con quien tiene una muy curiosa relación. Naota es extremadamente maduro para su edad por lo que a pesar de ser un niño entiende muy bastante bien todo lo que le rodea. Esta neutralidad cambia cuando de la nada llega a su vida Haruko, una chica super extraña que va en una moto y siempre lleva un bajo encima.

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Now the insanity begins. It turns out that the first encounter between Haruko and Naota was a collision and she intentionally runs him over and then hits him with her bass guitar. As a result of that, things start to happen in Naota's life and because of that hit, things start coming out of his head, things like robots, cat ears, pistol triggers, etc. From here the madness begins, a fight between robots and Haruko and is that in the city there is a factory in the form of iron called Medical Mechanica seeking to get hold of Atomusk, an intergalactic pirate who seeks to literally iron the planets, yes, just as you read it. Maybe with these words everything sounds weird but that is precisely the essence of the anime, it is incredibly weird but for some reason it is a gem that touches on very interesting topics.

Ahora es que empieza la demencia. Resulta que el primer encuentro entre Haruko y Naota fue un choque y es que ella lo atropella intencionalmente para después golpearlo con su bajo. A raíz de eso a Naota le comienzan a pasar cosas en su vida y es que por culpa de aquel golpe le empiezan a salir cosas de su cabeza, cosas como robots, orejas de gato, gatillos de pistolas, etc. A partir de acá inicia la locura, una pelea entre robots y Haruko y es que en la ciudad hay una fábrica en forma de plancha llamada Medical Mechanica que busca hacerse con Atomusk, un pirata intergaláctico que lo que busca es planchar literalmente a los planetas, si, así como lo leen. Puede que con estas palabras todo suene raro pero es que esa es precisamente la esencia del anime, es increíblemente raro pero por alguna razón es una joya que toca temas muy interesantes.

This being a mecha, hence the wink to Evangelion, its animation is crazy. At the beginning I didn't bet anything on it but when these fights start to happen the truth is that one is impressed and even more considering that this anime is from 2000. But the visuals don't stop at the fights and the way everything is developed is top, it is very alternative, very rustic, so much so that there is a scene where it is animated in the form of manga; it is a jumble of many things, they even parody South Park. You don't understand what you're watching but you don't want to stop watching either.

Esto al ser un mecha, de ahí el guiño a Evangelion, su animación es de locos. Al principio no apostaba nada por ella pero cuando comienzan a darse estas peleas la verdad es que uno queda impresionado y más aún teniendo en cuenta que este anime es del 2000. Pero lo visual no se queda en las peleas y es que la forma en como se desarrolla todo es top, es muy alternativo, muy rústico, tanto es así que hay una escena en donde la animan en forma de manga; es un revoltijo de muchas cosas, hasta parodian a South Park. No entiendes que estás viendo pero tampoco quieres dejar de hacerlo.

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At the level of story or plot, although it may not seem so, it is very deep because it touches on transcendental issues of both adolescence and adulthood. It talks a bit about personal relationships, expectations and the maturity you have to have to face certain situations, Naota sometimes acts like a child but other times they get very adult traits so seeing that duality is very comical. There is a lot of sarcasm, the story is sometimes told through many metaphors, there is a very evident black humor that makes watching it a very cool experience; and within the chaos there is substance, there is a very interesting background.

A nivel de historia o trama aunque no lo parezca es muy profunda porque toca temas trascendentales tanto de la adolescencia como de la adultez. Habla un poco de las relaciones personales, de las expectativas y la madurez que tienes que tener para afrontar ciertas situaciones, Naota a veces actúa como un niño pero otra veces les salen rasgos muy de adulto por lo que ver esa dualidad es bien comico. Hay mucho sarcasmo, la historia a veces es contada mediante muchas metáforas, hay un humor negro muy evidente que la verdad hace que verlo sea una experiencia muy cool; y es que dentro del caos hay sustancia, hay un trasfondo muy interesante.

The characters are very top, the development of the protagonists is incredible. We see the evolution of all of them, how they overcome all those traumas and insecurities to finally try to be the best possible version of themselves, even though deep down they may not have learned much. They all have interesting things to tell and show and that is part of the magic of this anime, which is deeper than you can imagine. The soundtrack is brutal, it is full of a well top alternative rock that accompanies some scenes making the result very good and the story comes through more effectively.

Los personajes son muy top, el desarrollo de los protagonistas es increíble. Vemos la evolución de todos, de como van superando todos esos traumas e inseguridades para al final tratar de ser la mejor versión posible aunque en el fondo puede que no hayan aprendido mucho. Todos tienen cosas interesantes que contar y mostrar y eso es parte de la magia de este anime, que es más profundo de lo que se puede imaginar. La banda sonora es brutal, está llena de un rock alternativo bien top que acompaña a algunas escenas haciendo que el resultado sea muy bueno y la historia llegue con más efectividad.

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It is a gem of anime, highly recommended, it has only six chapters but it is well worth a watch. Fiction, drama, action, romance, comedy, it has it all. I leave the trailer here.

Es una joya de anime, muy recomendado, tiene solo seis capítulos pero merece mucho echarle un ojo. Ficción, drama, acción, romance, comedia, lo tiene todo. Les dejo el tráiler por acá.

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Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it. ¡A hug to everyone, see you next time!

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Bueno mi gente por hoy es todo, espero que les haya gustado. ¡Un abrazo a todos, nos vemos en la próxima!

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›FLCL's soundtrack/La banda sonora de FLCL@takeru2552192d

Working as a writer is something interesting, since it forces you to research and always be in production, looking for something to write or inspiration from somewhere. This seems curious to me because I wanted to talk about how interesting it is to work with food when you like to cook, but for writing, most of the time I have background music, and although it has nothing to do with food, I wanted to use FLCL music (anime) to write about it, and I got so deep into the music that I had to erase what I had written and start writing again, this time to talk about how important a soundtrack is.

El trabajo como escritor es algo interesante, ya que te obliga a investigar y siempre estar en producción, buscando de que escribir o inspiración de algún lugar. Esto me parece curioso porque quería hablar de lo interesante que es trabajar con comida cuando te gusta cocinar, pero para escribir, la mayoría del tiempo tengo música de fondo, y aunque no tenga nada que ver con la comida, quise usar la música de FLCL (anime) para escribir sobre eso, y me adentré tanto en la música que tuve que borrar lo que había escrito y empezar a escribir de nuevo, esta vez para hablar de lo importante que es un soundtrack.

If you have not seen FLCL; the truth would not know if to recommend it. An incredible anime in every way, but that is not for everyone, that is very understandable; However, the FLCL soundtrack is pure love, with chill songs but never taking away its essence of rebellious rock for teenagers, which is what the series seeks to show.

Si no han visto FLCL; la verdad no sabría si recomendarlo. Un anime increíble en todo sentido, pero que no es para todo el mundo, eso es muy de entender; sin embargo, el soundtrack de FLCL es amor puro, con canciones tranquilas pero nunca apartando su esencia de rock rebelde para adolescentes, que es lo que busca mostrar la serie.

A perfect soundtrack makes what you see much easier to digest and may even be something necessary for the work, and that's why I want to talk about the FLCL soundtrack, which seen the anime and with the differences that people may have about whether they Like it or not, most accept that the soundtrack is something indispensable that makes this anime something different from everything else seen.

Un soundtrack perfecto hace que lo que veas sea mucho más fácil de digerir y puede incluso ser algo necesario para la obra, y por eso quiero hablar del soundtrack de FLCL, que visto el anime y con las diferencias que pueda tener la gente sobre si le gustó o no, la mayoría acepta que el soundtrack es algo indispensable que hacen a este anime algo diferente a todo lo demás visto.

Besides of FLCL, even though it has a great soundtrack, I want to give another example of a soundtrack that serves as FLCL's, that of Guardians of the Galaxy. I know that not everyone has seen FLCL, but Guardians of the Galaxy is something else, something that pop culture has embraced for itself and has shown us as its own that we should all have seen, and what better example of a good soundtrack that required for a feature film than Starlord's Awesome Mix in his movie

Fuera de FLCL, a pesar de que tiene un soundtrack grandioso, quiero dar otro ejemplo de un soundtrack que sirve como el de FLCL, el de Guardianes de la Galaxia. Sé que no todo el mundo ha visto FLCL, pero Guardianes de la Galaxia es otra cosa, algo que la cultura pop ha acogido para sí y nos ha mostrado como algo propio que todos deberíamos haber visto, y que mejor ejemplo de un buen soundtrack que sea necesario para un largometraje que el Awesome Mix de Starlord en su película.

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›Fooly Cooly@takeru2552307d

Entiendo que hay animes que no son para todo el mundo y que si recomiendas este tipo de animes a alguien que es ajeno al medio, podría decirte que es malo y no verlo completo. Es triste que esto pase porque porque la mayoría de estos animes que son “raros” son la inspiración para animes más populares que la gente si tiende a ver. Es normal escuchar ahora a personas hablando de Naruto, pero cuando hablan de HunterxHunter tildan a esas personas de “Otakus”, a pesar de que Hunterxhunter es uno de los mejores (si no el mejor) anime de este género. Lo mismo me pasa con un anime increíblemente bueno llamado FLCL (fooly cooly), que por ser extraño no encuentro a quien podría recomendárselo.

Historia no tiene, o es algo rara de explicar. El protagonista es un chico de 10 años al que le sale un robot de la frente y gracias a eso se ve involucrado en situaciones muy extrañas. Todo es una analogía para que el chico aprenda a tener más fe en sí mismo mediante a peleas de robots y situaciones incomodas entre sus amigos. Explicar así el anime y pedir que lo vean es algo muy difícil de hacer, pero hay tres cosas que valen mucho en este anime que pueden tomarse una por una, y si quieres agarrarlas las tres al mismo tiempo, verás que es una obra de arte que no puede pasar desapercibida. Yo ya lo he visto varias veces, y creo que así es mejor porque cada vez que se ve se encuentran algunas cosas que no detallaste la vez anterior, o en su defecto, le das otro significado a lo que acabas de ver.

Lo primero que se toma en cuenta podría ser la historia. Ya dije que es una analogía a la adolescencia, y si me conocen saben que me gusta el Slide of Life (o coming of ages). El anime tiene seis capítulos y cada capítulo parece un sketch, una escena tras otra sin mucho significado entre sí aparentemente. Situaciones como que al chico le salgan orejas de gato y no las quiera mostrar, que le guste una chica y no sepa cómo decirlo, o incluso sentirse abrumado por no saber batear bien a la hora de jugar béisbol son hechos en FLCL que solo funcionan para que el chico se lleve al final del capítulo una enseñanza que, también, entrará a nuestra mente.

Lo segundo es la estética. No sé exactamente cuando salió el anime, pero por allá por 2002, tiene una animación INCREÍBLE que para ese año era impensable. Hay un rumor que dice que había tenido presupuesto para doce capítulos, pero el director redujo esos doce capítulos a seis para así crear algo espectacular que nunca se había visto, y la verdad es que lo logra de una forma que se aplaude aún a día de hoy. Lo tercero y último es la música. Cada escena es adrenalina y desorden puro, que se combina por el soundtrack muy bien logrado que es poco visto en el anime, o por lo menos, que para ese entonces era muy poco visto. El soundtrack, hecho casi únicamente con guitarra eléctrica, sirve como un creccendo que nos lleva a una gran hazaña de una forma tan lenta pero orgánica que no nos damos cuenta de ese traslado de animación y escenarios tan brusco que se nos planea en cuestión de minutos, gracias a que nuestra mente está mucho más atenta a la música con las imágenes, que a la historia.

FLC es un anime que muchos podrían decir que se ve en una sentada, ya que son solo seis capítulos, pero yo creo que lo mejor sería ver uno o dos capítulos por día. Cada capítulo te llena tanto de información y nos enseña tantas cosas para pensar que lo mejor sería pararse un poco después de ver un capítulo para así preguntarse “¿qué acabo de ver?”. Puede que esto para algunos sea malo, pero para mí, no hay nada mejor que crear dudas reales que merecen análisis, mediante algún medio como lo es el anime.

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›FLCL Review@osakaghoul2942d

FLCL is a coming-of-age story and revolves around Naota Nandaba, a 12-year-old, working-class boy living with his widowed father and grandfather. His life in the city of Mabase is interrupted by the arrival of Haruko Haruhara, who runs over Naota with her yellow Vespa 180 SS scooter, gives him CPR, then hits him on the head with a blue vintage Rickenbacker 4001 left-handed electric bass guitar.

Naota discovers that the blow to his head created an "N.O." portal, from which giant robots produced by a company known as Medical Mechanica emerge periodically. The first of these robots is hit on the head by Haruko and turns friendly to Naota and his family, doing menial tasks for the family throughout the series, and is later named Canti.

Naota later finds Haruko working in his house as a live-in maid. It is later discovered that Haruko is an investigator for the Galactic Space Police Brotherhood. Haruko uses Naota for her search for the Pirate King, Atomsk. She is at odds with Medical Mechanica, a monolithic industrial corporation. Naota is being watched by Commander Amarao, a special agent of the Bureau of Interstellar Immigration, who believes that Medical Mechanica is out to conquer the galaxy. Medical Mechanica sends three robots through the portal in Naota's head, which he, Haruko, and Canti fight off. In the series finale Medical Mechanica succeed in turning on a world ending device, helped when Haruko combines Naota, Canti, and a device called the Terminal Core. As it turns out, Atomsk was hiding in Canti, and Naota is able to temporarily absorb his powers when they're combined. After stopping the world ending device and briefly fighting Haruko, Atomsk leaves Naota's body and leaves the planet.

Haruko then leaves the planet once again, presumably still chasing after Atomsk on her Vespa, which is also shown to be able to fly. The city has resumed it's normal day-to-day operation, and Naota is shown in a new uniform walking to school with his classmates.

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›Anime Review: FLCL@thatanimesnob3065d
Fooly Cooly is as very polarizing show, since its point is not obvious. If you take it at face value it will seem like a wacky action comedy of complete randomness. If you look for themes, you will find a lot of symbolism, but nothing will seem coherent or developed. A female alien beating an earth boy with a guitar so stuff will sprout out of his head in an attempt to find her lover king or something, is there as the excuse to have something happening to some people that have something to do with sexuality and growing up and something-something erections, something-something-figure-it-out-yourself.

The best way to approach Fooly Cooly is by considering it an anime that makes sense by not making sense. And yes, that’s one of the most overused excuses when it comes to bad characterization. What’s that, the characters seem to be out of character? They are teenagers, they make mistakes, it’s real and happens all the time. The excuse Fooly Cooly is using has to do with subverting expectations when it comes to coming of age stories. Yes, that’s another overused excuse people are using to make any show sound better than what it is. In case you want to believe this one is different, it takes the premise of coming of age, also known as slice of nothing happens, and turns it into slice of every freaking thing can happen. And just like with any good subversion, you get much more than what you usually expect. One could say that the world is seen through the eyes of an insecure boy, scary, bizarre, sexual, and illogical. It’s what goes through the minds of every teenager and thus the randomness helps us visualize their mentality.

This part needs clarification, since in theory almost every anime in existence is the same thing. I mean, what are school comedies, romcoms and harems doing if not creating excitement out of the mundane? The big difference is, they don’t take it up to 11. Whatever happens in an average anime doesn’t seem to matter once it’s over, either because it was never important to begin with, or the characters stop caring about it. Fooly Cooly is about an alien invasion while everybody is hormone crazy. Everything seems super important and the characters treat it as such.

A big part of how this comes across to the viewer has to do with the minimalistic and experimental artwork, as well as the very fast paced animation. Fooly Cooly doesn’t look polished, and obviously its visual fidelity feels dated after so many years, yet because it’s bursting with energy and color it didn’t age as badly as any other show which was basing its appeal simply on pretty colors.

This part also needs clarification, since I constantly nag about pretty colors meaning nothing if the writing is not good, and Fooly Cooly doesn’t have much of a coherent plot. Why do you hate Bones anime when they are all doing the same thing, you Greek fat piece of shit? The big difference is, Fooly Cooly is thematically very rich and doesn’t overstay its welcome. It’s doesn’t try to last for 26 episodes of constant photo-epilepsy. Watching all the episodes at once is like a two hour movie with a satisfying aftertaste, instead of ten movies worth of nothing to give two shits about besides the animation.

Another plus is the characters who manage to grow beyond stereotypes in a short amount of time. Individually, none of them is special, and they are all essentially horny idiots. Yet the way they interact amongst them creates a very specific chemistry that stands out without making you hate them. For example, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi is often praised for also having characters who escape their stereotypes, yet when you really think about what kind of people they are, you despise them. Haruhi is a horrible bitch and Kyon is a chauvinistic harem lead.

Yet another plus is how the show is neither preachy, nor about escapism. Staying true to the vision of the once all mighty Gainax, it is not trying to shove a message down your throat. Although superficially it’s about growing up and taking responsibilities, it’s also showing you how adults can be pretty immature as well. And the solution to all this mess is not getting a broken superpower, running away to some videogame fairyland, or becoming the chosen one of the prophecy who is destined to save the universe with his complete lack of personality.

Fooly Cooly is funny without overstaying its welcome. It’s full of action and the characters treat everything as important. It deals with problems everyone is facing while growing up, without spending too much time on couch philosophies. And it’s still not everyone’s cup of tea, since the plot is all over the place and the sex jokes can become annoying, regardless of being thematically relevant.

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›FLCL is Back@feelsomoon3258d
I feel like I found this out so late. I can't wait for the sequals.

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