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FLCL Volume 1 
Details
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Catalogue Number: MVD2222
Certificate: 12
Date Released: April 28th 2008
Screen: Fullscreen 4:3
Languages: English; Japanese
Subtitles: English
Duration: 60 minutes
Special Features
- Director's Audio Commentary (With English Subtitles)
- The Pillows' "Ride On Shooting Star" Music Video
- Character Sketches
- Japanese Promo
- Japanese Closing
- Cast Profiles
- Trailers
- English And Japanese (With English Subtitles) Audio Options
Synopsis
Fooly Cooly: Naota has enough to deal with at home. His older brother went to the US to play baseball. And his father and grandfather never behave like normal adults. Not to mention his brother's girlfriend is now making advances on him. Plus there's a so called alien girl hitting on him. Literally. With a bass guitar. Oh, did we mention the robots that keep springing from his head.
Fire Starter: Hanging out by the river and playing with cars, no one would suspect that Mamimi is a girl with a dark past. She's been obsessed with the videogame 'Fire Starter'. Coincidentally, there's been a string of fires around town. Fires like the one that burned down the school 6 years ago, where Naota first met Mamimi. And if that's not enough, there's something growing inside Naota's head.
Cover
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To view the whole cover... click here
Review
How does one describe FLCL? An intense assualt on the senses,
a superkinetic, hilarious analysis on formative teenage years. It's a
good show. It revolves around Naota, a young boy from Mabase- a Japanese
suburb where 'nothing ever happens'. Of course, with a quote like that,
nothing will remain normal, surely? What follows is the first part of
a wonderful, heartwarming, clever, action-packed saga, with extraterrastrial
maids, jilted girlfriends, a mad father, and mute robots. With some truly
great fightscenes (Firestarter certainly ends on a high), a fantastic,
rocking score, and a lovable, fleshed-out, yet flawed inside characters,
it has to be watched by every anime fan. It's a bit like a cross between
Evangelion and Excel Saga.
There are some gripes, however. There are only two episodes per disc (still
great, though), and it's hard not to crave more. The voice acting, while
almost exactly the same in the dub and sub (except the languages, of course),
the voice acting is... interesting. Mamimi sounds slightly drained, but
the rest of the cast live to the series' mad standard. It's also an acquired
taste. Not everybody can 'get' the series' odd ideas.
But, really, if you can understand it, it'll probably be one of your favourite
animes. BUY IT!