A Hollow Anime Review: FLCL/Fooly Cooly | Video Review
A Hollow Anime Review: FLCL/Fooly Cooly | Video Review
Fooly Cooly (FLCL) belongs to Gainax, Production I.G, Starchild Records, FUNimation Entertainment, and GANSIS. Any footage used is meant for use in critique and criticism. This is just an anime review, people!
End Song: “Little Busters” by The Pillows (from the FLCL Soundtrack – Addict)
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WHAT IS A FOOLY COOLY?!
This is a question that’s been permeating my cranial mass since the invention of the Slap-Chop. For years, the legend of the “fooly cooly” has been the subject of discussion among the elite minds throughout the galaxy. From the sullen lands of the beaver people, to the cosmic wonderland of the Jellians (jelly people), the answer has and still is beyond the reach of the most intelligent of mortals. Lord only knows what such splendors may be brought upon when our galactic hive-mind finally seizes the truth about “fooly cooly,” but until then, we are doomed to be eradicated by constant attacks by the burger monsters of Sintax 47-34-69B12.
We’ve searched and searched, but the goal seems only farther than anticipated. We need a new weapon. A weapon the can propel us towards the edge of our evolutionary potential and achieve the holy might of “fooly cooly.” Guitars… I think we need guitars. And sandpaper and glue and meth made of candy-corn apple trees. YEAH! AND INSTANT REPAIR BUCKETS AND SLIM JIMS AND HONEY MADE FROM BRICKS! Yeah, those will work. Hey guys, let’s fucking throw a fooly cooly party! FOOLY COOLY! We must push ourselves and the way we do that is to prepare for the coming diabetic brigade storm! What’s a diabetic brigade storm?! I DON’T FUCKING KNOW, JUST ROLL WITH IT YOU JUMBO PLEB.
I even made a review of something else called Fooly Cooly. I don’t know why there’s already an anime called Fooly Cooly, but I don’t care! PARTY PARTY PARTY PARTY PARTY PARTY!!! AKAGI, WHERE ARE THE GODDAMN INSTANT REPAIR BUCKETS?! I WANT TO REPAIR MYSELF WITH GREEN SHIT! AKAGI! AAAAAAKKAAAAAAAAAGIIIIIIII!! WE ARE ABOUT TO WATCH MY REVIEW OF FOOLY COOLY! GET YOUR SHIP ASS OUT HERE! AND BRING THE BUCKETS… AND SAMMICHES! We must go forward towards a new dawn and ride into the astral belt in search for “fooly cooly.”
HARDER, BETTER FASTER, STRONGER! IT’S FOOLY COOLY TIME!
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Clips from:
– Fooly Cooly/FLCL (Gainax & Production I.G & Funimation
– Read or Die OVA (Studio Deen & Aniplex)
– Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 (Bones & Funimation)
– OH! Super Milk Chan (Studio Pierrot & Genco & framegraphics & Suplex & Geneon Entertainment)
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July 24, 2019 @ 12:31 pm
Oh FLCL, One of the few Bluerays I actually rewatch over and over. I loved this when I was a younger kid. Samurai Champloo and this really shaped those late nights.
July 24, 2019 @ 12:36 pm
FLCL is one of those anime that I can just watch over and over again. Partly because it’s so short while also being fulfilling unlike most series where I watch season after season for a feeling of fulfillment to finally reach me, but rarely ever get it since they stop making the series or because they draw it out so long that I just drop it. But the main reason FLCL is so enjoying is because I can pick up on knew things that I hadn’t before each time I watch it.
July 24, 2019 @ 12:37 pm
What a great review. I really do adore the series. Probably one of my favorite if not my favorite anime I’ve seen. The series hit me hard like a stray baseball.
July 24, 2019 @ 12:38 pm
I’ve seen it two weeks ago and it Instantly become one of my favorites. Great review!
July 24, 2019 @ 12:38 pm
Just popped by here again to say how epic this review was. 🙂
July 24, 2019 @ 12:38 pm
I no longer know how to view anime anymore…
July 24, 2019 @ 12:39 pm
Dude can you do black lagoon please?
July 24, 2019 @ 12:39 pm
Says he doesn’t have a musical cue for the intro, followed by the piece of Pillows music that brings back the sweet nostalgia of randomly tuning into this anime in 2003
I didn’t, and still don’t, even like anime all that much. My mom let me stay up to watch family guy one night, and after she went to bed I didn’t wanna stop watching after that, so I turned the volume down and sat nice and close to the ole tube TV we still hadn’t upgraded from.
I wish I’d of kept the VHS tape I recorded that on (commercials and all) during the series second run on Adult Swim. Ugh, I hate nostalgia.
The feels are real folks.
July 24, 2019 @ 12:40 pm
i tried watching this show for over 4 years and i still have not gotten past episode 5
July 24, 2019 @ 12:42 pm
Glad to see that you got your new video out. It turned out well 🙂
July 24, 2019 @ 12:44 pm
You put the exact words of why i love this anime…
July 24, 2019 @ 12:46 pm
Holy crap… I just watched it for the first time tonight.. I was recommended to consume mushrooms and watch this. I don’t regret anything. HOLY FUCK
July 24, 2019 @ 12:46 pm
Such a great review , might be the best. And i havent even seen the show. This is deffo on top of my ptw list now
July 24, 2019 @ 12:47 pm
I remember catching the last 10 minutes of FLCL on Adult Swim years and years ago, at a time when I’d tried to ditch "childish" things like anime, and I remember thinking to myself "What the hell was that, this is why I don’t like anime."
Flash forward to about 6 months ago, when I’d started watching anime on Netflix and found that I really enjoyed it and appreciated the adult themes in stories in the medium. I remember looking for a few classics to buy and since FLCL’s on that list, I bought the Blu-ray and loved every second of it. When I got to that last 10 minutes I immediately recognized it and remembered how stupid I was for trying to be someone I wasn’t, and thus denying myself something that, had I given it a chance, I would have really enjoyed.
July 24, 2019 @ 12:47 pm
really great review, I might have to check this one out
July 24, 2019 @ 12:49 pm
I first watched FLCL about 3 years ago (when I was 17). It was really underwhelming from what I can remember. However, some of what you said and the visuals in this review do make me want to rewatch it someday. That probably won’t be for a long time, but I do want to try and reevaluate it. 🙂
July 24, 2019 @ 12:50 pm
Adult swim announce that toonami and Production I.G are producing two new seasons of FLCL and will be a sequel to the OVA. what’s your thought about it?
July 24, 2019 @ 12:50 pm
You had the exact same experience as me lol, just an elementary kid watching anime when I was younger, and fucking loved it,
July 24, 2019 @ 12:55 pm
Great job analyzing the series. From a critical analysis standpoint (considering the subject) I am very impressed.
July 24, 2019 @ 12:55 pm
Woa, this was great!
July 24, 2019 @ 12:56 pm
Pretty good review. To be honest though, I think you over-analyzed the show. I do think there’s more to it than just ti being mindless insanity but I think you took it too far. Either way it was a good video.
July 24, 2019 @ 12:56 pm
My love for this anime is unending. I revisit it every few months and always catch something new. The things that leave the biggest impressions on me are the music & the facial expressions. It’s like they took actual human expressions and made them better. You could watch a scene and guess what they’re talking about just by the expressions. In most anime today, I doubt the animators even know how a real face works…
July 24, 2019 @ 12:57 pm
This was a mind blowing review! Thank you!
July 24, 2019 @ 12:59 pm
one of the best animes of all time. I heard that flcl influenced the comedy in works like avatar the last airbender. Great vid! the soundtrack definitely kick ass 🙂
July 24, 2019 @ 1:02 pm
This review was great, imma go watch FLCL again real quick
July 24, 2019 @ 1:08 pm
Great review man. i couldn’t have said it any better.
July 24, 2019 @ 1:08 pm
Nice review man. You just make might motivate me to watch it again. I already liked it and saw some of the themes it had, but damn! There’s a lot I didn’t realize!
July 24, 2019 @ 1:08 pm
Really liked your points about Ninamori and how the crazy events are the backdrop for the slower scenes, the real meat of the story.
I wrote an article a while back on how FLCL works as a coming of age story. Would love to hear your thoughts on it. http://www.ign.com/blogs/fiercealchemist/2014/03/14/coming-of-age-fantasy-vs-reality-in-flcl
July 24, 2019 @ 1:13 pm
FLCL is probably better than most anime coming out today and it’s only 6 episodes long
July 24, 2019 @ 1:14 pm
Who cares if is fooly or cooly?
July 24, 2019 @ 1:17 pm
I did watch it as a kid and was like this is weird and now as an adult it is still weird and I do not like it.
July 24, 2019 @ 1:20 pm
Jeezus 2000-2001 I can’t believe how old this show is. Hell the English release isn’t that much younger at 2003. Damn I was in 3rd grade when this aired in the US. No wonder I don’t remember this at all. Someday I’ll have to go back and watch this.
July 24, 2019 @ 1:21 pm
Gainax at it’s absolute prime, FLCL, Gurren lagann and Evangelion are THE Holy Trinity of coming to age Anime. 11/10
July 24, 2019 @ 1:22 pm
fooli cooli is a badgered translation of furi curi the name of the wrighter who focoused on the simbolic and coming of age aspect
July 24, 2019 @ 1:24 pm
My #1 favorite anime. And sir, thank you for giving it a review it deserves. Excellent job.
July 24, 2019 @ 1:26 pm
Now review Alien 9.