FLCL: Fooly Cooly. Whats the Hype?

[JustJack]

Have any of you heard of this anime "FLCL"..which is otherwise known as Fooly Cooly?
The best I can figure, its about a kid, who wants to be normal, but as his "big star" brother leaves, & all the attention falls on him, alien girls & robots fall into place.
And its made by the peoples who did Eva & GITS, am I right?

So, who knows what about this? Is it any good?

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

The hype is that it's made by Gainax. That explains everything.

And Gainax had nothing to do with GITS, if you mean GHOST IN THE SHELL.

[Lachesis]

I love the end credits guitar theme-thingy. . .

You're pretty much right on all counts. Very bizarre, very cool, and too short.

[oranthal]

i thought it was supposed to be "Furi Curi?" whatever. anyway, i ran into a website that had the following quote:

"Watch End of Evangelion when crack is not enough. When End of Evangelion is not enough, watch Furi Kuri."

[VinceA]

Furi Kiri (sp?) is what all the fans thought it would be called but due to pronounciation difference between English & Japanese (if I remember right they don't have different sounds for r & l hence the reason many non-US native Japanese & Chinese have trouble with words with those letters) the actual name is Fooly Cooly (hence FLCL). That's official title expansion according to the director (or producer). It raised quite a few hackles on the AnimeOnDVD.COM message boards (not enough to make anyone not want to buy the DVDs, though)

[Nightwing]

Yeah there's a lot of confusion about DBZ names too cuz of that. Like, we write "foo" while the Japanese language writes "fu." Same sound.

Well a dear dear friend of mime who provided me with the DBZ movies I have told me to ALSO download the first episode to "FLCL" and it confused the bajeebas out of me! I had no idea what was going on! All I remember was a kid with a bandaid on his head where a gigantic robot shot out of. :) Crazy times, crazy times. The animation was nice though...