FLCL
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Naota is a detached sixth grader afflicted by the pangs of puberty. He's fooling around with his brother's ex-girlfriend when a crazed girl on a motor scooter runs him over, brains him with a bass guitar, and moves into his house. This pink-haired girl, Haruko - who claims she's an alien - hurls Naota into the middle of a mega-corporation's secret agenda. Oh, and now giant battling robots shoot from his skull. Mix in mind-bending animation and tunes that echo through your cerebellum to top off the trip that will have you falling hard for FLCL. (Source: Funimation)
FLCL is a ova with 6 episodes, from Spring 2000, produced by Gainax, Production I.G, rated 7.9/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
Naota is a detached sixth grader afflicted by the pangs of puberty. He's fooling around with his brother's ex-girlfriend when a crazed girl on a motor scooter runs him over, brains him with a bass guitar, and moves into his house. This pink-haired girl, Haruko - who claims she's an alien - hurls Naota into the middle of a mega-corporation's secret agenda. Oh, and now giant battling robots shoot from his skull. Mix in mind-bending animation and tunes that echo through your cerebellum to top off the trip that will have you falling hard for FLCL. (Source: Funimation)
Main Characters
Tags
- Coming of Age — Centers around a character's transition from childhood to adulthood.
- Surreal Comedy — Prominently features comedic moments that defy casual reasoning, resulting in illogical events.
- Psychosexual — Work that involves the psychological aspects of sexual impulses.
- Male Protagonist — Main character is male.
- Age Gap — Prominently features romantic relations between people with a significant age difference.
- Meta — Features fourth wall-breaking references to itself or genre tropes.
- Female Protagonist — Main character is female.
- Philosophy — Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
- Robots — Prominently features humanoid machines.
- Primarily Teen Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of teen characters.
- Slapstick — Prominently features comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions or embarrassing events.
- Denpa — Works that feature themes of social dissociation, delusions, and other issues like suicide, bullying, self-isolation, paranoia, and technological necessity in daily lives. Classic iconography: telephone poles, rooftops, and trains.