All you need to know is one thing. When this anime was pitched to the creator of og FLCL he said not to make it because he already felt as if FLCL had a conclusive ending and there was nothing else to be explored in that universe. And yet they continued.
The characters are boring, the art is generic, the story is overly sentimental, the soundtrack is virtually non-existent.
This anime is FLCL in name only; even Haruko, who should be this anime's one saving grace, is a fucking joke. What made OG Haruko (and FLCL as a whole for that matter) great was under her bizarre facade lay a highly nuanced and troubled character whom the audience could interpret in a multitude of ways. What do we get now? A pink haired alien girl who hangs around in the background, only to pop out when shes need to do something "cool" so that the viewers don't fall asleep from the shallow and god awful dialogue. Don't even get me started on some of her jokes. I understand that not all her lines in the original landed with a western audience but OH GOD, YOU DIDNT HAVE TO DO HER LIKE THIS. There's legitimately a rap scene she has that I had to skip because it was so difficult to watch, it wasn't even watchable in a "ironically bad" way, it was just straight up bad.
Then there's the protagonists. All of them are as generic anime protagonist as it gets except for one. The token "fat" kid found in western cartoons. Her entire character is that she's "fat". All her jokes are "haha look at fat person", I heard she doesn't grow to control her eating disorder or accept herself or hell, grow as a character at all! In fact I don't think any of the characters grow.
Basically, remove "alternative" and "progressive" from your memory and pretend 2000s FLCL is the only one that exists. If you want more FLCL after 2000s FLCL then go read the manga (it's a re-imagining of the events of FLCL). Plus its really cheap.
