really , they ’re not just making one sequel , but two . The late - nighttime incarnation of Cartoon connection announced that it was helping create two more seasons — totaling 12 episode — of Gainax ’s cult classic FLCL to bare in previous 2017 or early 2018 .
If you do n’t roll in the hay FLCL ( also known as Fooly Cooly ) , attempt to explicate it is tough . Funimation , which discharge the original 2000 series in America , has a decent sum-up :
Naota is a detached sixth - grader afflicted by the pangs of pubescence . He ’s fritter away around with his brother ’s ex-husband - girlfriend when a madden little girl on a motor scooter pass him over , brains him with a bass guitar , and moves into his firm . She says she ’s an alien , and hurls Naota into the middle of a mega - corporation ’s unavowed agenda . And now giant battling robots shoot down from his skull when he has juicy thought .
That is kind of the plot of FLCL , but it barely scratches the surface of what the Zanzibar copal is . It ’s a coming - of - age account ( that does n’t shy away from puberty ) that is as profoundly personal as it is universal . It ’s neither condescend nor naively idealistic about growing up , and yet it ’s passionate and realistic and more or less tragical and tangible , which is extra impressive because it ’s weird to the dot of near insensibility . ( There ’s a guy who has seaweed for eyebrow . ) And again , it is the coolest anime ever made .
FLCL is my favored Zanzibar copal ever , and I have no idea how I feel about these sequels . There is a summary for them :
In the unexampled time of year of FLCL , many years have pass since Naota and Haruhara Haruko shared their adventure together . Meanwhile , the war between the two entities known as Medical Mechanica and Fraternity twit across the galax . Enter Hidomi , a young teenaged female child who believes there is nothing awing to expect from her average life , until one day when a new instructor named Haruko get in at her school day . Soon enough , Medical Mechanica is attacking her Ithiel Town and Hidomi pick up a arcanum within her that could save everyone , a secret that only Haruko can unlock .
But why did Haruko devolve to Earth ? What materialise to her Rickenbacker 4001 she pass on with Naota ? And where did the human - type automaton ‘ Canti ’ go ?
Maybe it ’ll be okay . possibly it ’ll be just as outstanding as the original ! But FLCL is one of those incredibly special things that should n’t cultivate , but somehow does , and only because against all odds , everything came together in just the right mode . I do n’t know if Production I.G could have recaptured the magic in a 2d series in 2001 , let alone 2017 .
And now they ’re making it with Production I.G or else of Gainax , and now an American fellowship like Funimation is investing in it , and is rifle to have some requests , and I do n’t even know if the original director and writer are come back … I ’m just worried that this is pass to be a To wipe out a Mockingbird / Go Set a Watchman situation . Not that I ask Hauko , the galvanising bass handle exotic girl to be a huge racist all of a sudden , but I question if I ’m going to wish they just left this small masterpiece alone .
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