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FLCL (Anime) add (All reviews)
Apr 30, 2016
Ready to watch an irritating know-it-all douchebag kid growing robots out of his head? FLCL is the name! The total lack of sense and proper storyline is very surprising. It's so ridiculously bad hat you'll start asking yourself ''How the heck did this make it's way to an anime?''. Catch phrase: "Nothing happens here but the ordinary''. Oh, so growing robots out of your head after getting hit by a guitar and flying 20 meters forward (and not dying) is ordinary?

-Story (2/10):

I don't know whether you can even call this a story. It's like the writer wrote a couple of ideas in his memo and then just mixed them together, making it a totally not-linked, messed up piece of junk. Mr. Kusogaki, I mean, Naota is your typical wanna-be-cool-and-intelligent-and-sound-mature 6th grader. His brother, a pro baseballer moves to America, leaving his girlfriend (??) Mamimi (she's homeless) behind, whom Naota hangs out with afterwards. Then, a crazy woman called Haruha Raharu (or something like that) riding a Vespa hits Naota on his forehead with all her might (with a guitar), causing him to fly from the impact and growing a horn. OK. Btw, this is chapter 1. She ends up living in his house as an ''''''house maid'''''' (don't remember seeing her do anything) and shortly afterwards, Mr. Kusogaki will grow a TV robot out of his head, who turns out to be the all-mighty forgot-his-name and Raharu will smash it for no reason at all and it'll turn into Naota's new house-maid. Anyway. He spawns a couple of robots more out of his head (who are baddies for some reason) and then he'll be able to control the TV robot because 'I'm fabulous'. Well, enough spoilers.
The ending is terrible, too. I don't want to give out too many details, but 'pooooooooowerrrrrrruuuuuuup!!! Yay, the earth is saved (from what, though?)!!!'

The pace of the 'story' itself isn't too bad- it's quite quick (yes, you guessed right, that's why there are only 6 chapters), actually so quick that sometimes you might not understand what's going on (actually you'll never quite understand what's going on, simply because it makes no sense)
Also, there are no flashbacks, fillers or fanservice (obviously).

-Art (6/10):

Overall bad animation, reminds of Toppa Tengen Gurren Lagann (so you can imagine). It's kind of like when they make a cheap anime film. Ah well, I've seen worse. That to be said, those South Park scenes were totally unnecesary and not funny. This is an anime, right?!

-Sound (6/10):

Well, at least the sound wasn't too bad. I liked the OST's, but they used them too much for such a short anime.
The voice acting wasn't the best either. Rather disappointing, especially Raharu's voice acting. It didn't feel right, as if the actors were half sleeping of boredom while recording.

-Characters (3/10):

Disappointing, in one word. There was no background explanation whatsoever except the couple of details given in the beginning (like for example Naota's brother leaving to America and leaving her girlfriend behind), meaning no character had actually any motives.
The only one who experienced a change (apart from the physical change, you know, sprouting out robots from his head) was Naota, and it wasn't such an enormous psychological change, either. The rest had just shallow, easy-predictable and boring personalities.
I only liked the guy with the nori eyebrows (and because of his eyebrows). The rest was too plain and not funny at all (is this supposed to be a comedy?), becoming rather annoying very quickly.

-Enjoyment (3/10):

I didn't find any liking to this. It was boring, and even got me annoyed. There's no point for me in watching this again. More like, I shouldnt've wasted my time with this.
You could see this coming.

-Overall (4/10):

I can't recommend this. I'm not saying this is crap and that you shouldn't watch this (well, actually yeah). Since it's only 6 chapters, if you have a lot of free time, you might as well give it a shot. Maybe you can find a liking to this. However (remember that this is a mere opinion), I wouldn't bother wasting my lot-of-free-time on this.

Hope this helped you make up your mind. Thank you for your attention.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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