FLCL Manga

[Enigmatic_Delugar]

Man, I love this manga series it is my favorite manga and anime series of all time even though its only 6 episodes. But one thing that confuses me is the storyline. Can someone clear that up for me?

[Hiltz]

Manga/Anime plot summary:

Naota is a normal Japanese 6th grade boy (although a little cynical), but when his older brother leaves for America to play baseball, his brother leaves his homeless 17 year old girlfriend Mamimi behind. Mamimi is sending mixed signals and advances to Naota, and he doesn't know what to do about her. But to make matters worse, Naota's world is totally turned upside down when he is run over by a woman on a Vespa. During their first encounter, she hits him over the head with her guitar, which then causes a horn to grow out of his forehead. She calls herself "Haruko" and her presence changes Naota's life to even further insanity. -Anime N. Network

This is really just the basic plot but in general the story is all about random events and encounters. Although some of it doesn't seem to make sense it is fun to watch lol.Unfortunetly, that doesn't explain all the wacky stuff like the wierd robots, the big iron and fist located in the city or reveal much about the alien girl's orign let alone what her mission is for all i know.

[slice]

It's seems the story is just about random stuff to me.

Someone just felt like writing a story that had almost no point.

I still love it though! Maybe I liked it so much because it is so strange!

(I saw the anime, but I haven't read the manga. Is it exactly the same as the anime, or were there some differences?)

[Completen]

I haven't seen FLCL for awhile, but the whole storyline is basically a coming of age story on crack. I loved the anime, but really hated the manga. Both are completely random, but the anime's randomness is actually funny. It doesn't help that the manga was crammed even smaller in to two books, either...

[Hiltz]

One of the wierdest parts of the anime I saw was when that fast talking guy with the "thick eye brows" gives the main character that little boy, a pair of thick eyebrows to wear..I still never really understood that part. :shock:

[jwbomt]

hmmm... does anyone know where i can "get" the manga for a "reduced" price?? eh???

i've seen the first two episodes of the anime and im likein it... confused... but likeing it

[Completen]

if you can find a way to get to north dakota, you can have my copy of the manga for free

[Hiltz]

What's like the average price for a manga, $10 or so?

With the holidays coming soon book stores maybe getting ready for some special sales if they haven't already done so. Too bad Adult Swim didn't air FLCL as many times as they did with Trigun and Cowboy Bebop.

[noah of the howards]

As far as plot I basically have to go with what Adult Swim said..."This is what Gainax does when they are bored". But, if you watch it enough you can start to see some underlaying plot stuff. The eyebrows for example are apparently some sort of Jammers that prevent haruko from drawing objects through your head. Basically you have to be really good at symbolism to get the whole story...but I'm not, so...someone else tie it all in.

I think it has something to do with corporations and government trying to make everything level and politically correct, hence the iron. "THey want to smoothe out all the wrinkles" I think at one point they said that they wanted to smooth out the wrinkles on the brain. So it seems that industry and government are calling for an end to abstract thought and haruko of course is abstract thought. Or something liek that.

[Hiltz]

The worst an anime series can generate is a franchise like that of pokemon,yugioh,even DBZ or any other of those series that are used as a second profit and opportunity to make cheap toys and stupid movies that no one asked for. Lol, you know when an anime series is bad when fast food restuarants start selling happy meals with an anime toy in it.

[noah of the howards]

I don't know, DBZ is pretty much Legendary, it didn't start out as a money making scam.

[Enigmatic_Delugar]

Ohh uhh thanks for clearing the plot up for me. Ohh yeah back in the day almost everyone liked dbz (atleast almost everyone I know).

[jwbomt]

its the origional dragonball thats the good stuff. dbz and the dragonball gt are nothing but "AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" for 3 episodes then blur for the next 5.

anyways... i say "cheap" because the book stores in my area are crap. CRAP I SAY!!

[Hiltz]

I agree that DBZ was alright in the beginning , I liked it up to the end of the Frieza saga. DB:GT, that series should have never been made and I thought Super Saiyan 3 looked stupid. They turned Vegeta into a pure wimp and Goku was a kid the entire time, how boring I didn't want to watch a wannabe supped up dragon ball when Goku was a kid for most of the series. Heck, kid Majin Buu makes the GT villains look like wimps.

[noah of the howards]

I was happy all the way through tthe end of the Cell Saga... Gohan was ******* awesome...then he became a nerd. I had to try and figure out if they had to bring Goku back to save the seiries or if it was planned for everyone else to become pussies.

[Knifewing]

I've had this manga for a long time. . . actually, it was the second one I bought (some Gundam stuff being the first).

The art is what got me so into it. The story didn't make a whole lot of sense.

[FigureFour]

I think that FLCL was created when Hidikai Anno realised how much people were reading into Evangelion, then decided to make a series that looked like it ment something, but was actually just complete insanity.


Seriously, I think there's some hidden meaning there, I just have no clue what it is . . .


:shifty

[oolong]

ff, i think you're onto something with the eva thing.. :unibrow:


anyway i have the FLCL manga if anyone wants to buy it.

[FigureFour]

So do I.

It was rather disapointing I thought.

[noah of the howards]

How Much Oolong....oh and is it the English V or the Jap?

[Luster]

i had no idea mamimi was homeless but hiltz hit it right on the head i feel

[Robosockmonkey]

Alright, I'm not going to go into hidden meaning or anything, but here is what the anime is about (I haven't read the manga). Sorry if I spell their names wrong, but I don't care enough to see how they are really spelled.

The whole thing about Mamimi and Naota, as well as Haruko hitting him on her vespa just sort of sets the stage. What it is about is Haruko is an alien from somewhere else in the universe who has come to earth to free the Pirate King (I think that is his name), who is another alien that is being held captive be Medical Mechanical (that may be without the 'L's, i don't remember).

Medical Mechanical is an alien organization that is smoothing out the entire universe with giant irons, so that everything will be the same. Haruko starts to use Naota's head as a sort of portal to transport stuff from across the universe to Earth, hense the robots. She doesn't really care what happens to Earth, she just wants the Pirate King back, who she was fighting, but I think she was really in love with him.

This is as best as I can put it, and it may be more confusing than the actual show, but I hope it helped somone.

[Knifewing]

It sure helps me, so thanks. I read the first manga volume in the store, then went back later to buy both of them, but they only had volume 2. So I've owned that one for a long time, and still haven't been able to find volume 1 in any stores, so I can't exactly remember what goes on in that one.

[K_x_uksami]

I haven't gotten around to watching FLCL, but it sounds like an anime version of Theatre of the Absurd (it's like The Bald Soprano but with mecha or something).

[Juni_Korozuke]

The story happens to be about growing up. The anime didn't necessarily key on it as much as the manga did, but both happened to bring it up here and there. There's also a possibility that FLCL was a response to the unhappy Evangelion fans. Then again.... maybe not.
Anyways, watered down, the entire thing is about growing up and being a mature adult... so... um... whatever. Enjoy!

[Cativo]

IMHO the anime, haven't read the manga, is not so much about growing up but about kids(and some adults) trying to act 'adult-like'...Ninamori pretending not to care about her family problems, Naota forcing himself, from time to time, to drink sour stuff(what adults would like, right?)....on the other hand we have the older characters who(to Naota) seem to act childish, his dad, Mammimi, Haruku etc...hence "Fooly(acting foolish) Cooly(acting cool)"....but that's only my opinion...

[Robosockmonkey]

The story happens to be about growing up. The anime didn't necessarily key on it as much as the manga did, but both happened to bring it up here and there. There's also a possibility that FLCL was a response to the unhappy Evangelion fans. Then again.... maybe not.
Anyways, watered down, the entire thing is about growing up and being a mature adult... so... um... whatever. Enjoy!

Yep, that and it is a sort of boy meets girl love story. I was watching the first episode with director commentary, and he said it started off as just some boy meets girl story, and then they were thinking "How can we make this interesting? I know, lets give the boy a horn". And that is how it all began.