FLCL – "It's Okay To Feel Stupid"
FLCL – "It's Okay To Feel Stupid"
There have been a lot of essays and video essays made about the deeper meaning of FLCL.
This is not one of those.
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July 24, 2022 @ 4:17 am
It aint flcl if takkun aint there
July 24, 2022 @ 4:19 am
this anime does not look as good as SAO, Just saying
July 24, 2022 @ 4:23 am
FLCL is as deep as it gets.
July 24, 2022 @ 4:24 am
i’ve watched this show, over and over. For years and I still am so lost 😭💀
July 24, 2022 @ 4:26 am
I remembered when Adult Swim aired this show, I was like 12 years old. my older sister, my best friend and I were waiting to watch Blue Gender if you remember that anime but FLCL was on first. After that first episode the three of us looked at each other wondering "what the fuck did we just watch"? and were hooked. Reading some of these comments I’m glad to see we weren’t the only ones with that reaction.
July 24, 2022 @ 4:27 am
great video man
July 24, 2022 @ 4:27 am
Oh I get it now FLCL was about
July 24, 2022 @ 4:28 am
Hamtaro?
July 24, 2022 @ 4:28 am
If you’re watching this
What’s up spillius -sanixels one of the boys from buried
July 24, 2022 @ 4:28 am
the "only 1% of players can beat this game" add that only 1% could get
July 24, 2022 @ 4:30 am
I’m 27 years old . First watched this on adult swim when I was 12 years old & idk why but I’ve always had love for this anime . I grew up threw away all my old manga books just cause I wasn’t into them anymore yet still kept my flcl books . Matter of fact their still in my room today haha . . Funny thing is i don’t even know why I liked it so much or still do . Lol 🧐
July 24, 2022 @ 4:31 am
Idk about you guys but this was just a show where my boy gets hurt a lot idk I love dot but I feel really bad
July 24, 2022 @ 4:32 am
this was a terrible anime! The soundtrack was good but that was about it. Anime was stupid, made no sense and horrible characters. I have no idea why it was so popular.
July 24, 2022 @ 4:33 am
Brooo this was the first anime i ever watched when i was 8 years old at 2:30 in the morning it literally birthed my love and appreciation for all animations i always wanted ti make a cartoon/anime just like this
July 24, 2022 @ 4:34 am
The fact that you backhandedly neg TTGL/FLCLthe way you do here is why people think you are corporate grugbrain hack. Don’t get me wrong HOTD is great but TGL/FLCL are anime of the decade tier and intellectually profound well beyond “just feel broo like lol”.
July 24, 2022 @ 4:35 am
If I could describe flcl it’s like a dream, you don’t know what’s going on or what’s what but you still enjoyed it. People prob already said this but yea
July 24, 2022 @ 4:36 am
I had just watched FLCL and my first and last response was "wtf is actually happening".
I have spent many years watching anime, DBZ being my first, and I am really drawn towards deep-natured ones (Serial Experiments Lain, Steins;Gate etc.). All that to say by the end I absolutely love FLCL and it really reminded me why I started watching anime in the first place. I found this video wanting to know more about it and am leaving not wanting to know a damn thing
July 24, 2022 @ 4:36 am
so basically, i shouldn’t have watched this video
July 24, 2022 @ 4:39 am
‘’Thinking is dumb”
– Me, an intellectual
July 24, 2022 @ 4:41 am
you can probably apply this to mumble rap
July 24, 2022 @ 4:42 am
I fucking love flcl
July 24, 2022 @ 4:43 am
“It takes an idiot to do cool things. Thats why its cool.”
July 24, 2022 @ 4:43 am
This is all nonsense.
July 24, 2022 @ 4:46 am
“ sometimes it’s ok to not have a message” ………”and sometimes I think that’s what flcl’s actual message was”…… so it messaged you that not everything has a point ……pretty sure that’s what we call a message sir…….
July 24, 2022 @ 4:46 am
4:15 I needed this thank you
July 24, 2022 @ 4:47 am
The beginning of flcl progressive gave me goosebumps so hard
July 24, 2022 @ 4:48 am
Only on episode two of FLCL and understand what this video is saying about the series. Honestly it’s that very basic fun animation, not knowing what’s up next, let your brain rest and enjoy the ride that got me into One Piece just a few months ago. It just is fun nonsense with a storyline. Talking reindeer, fishmen, moonwalking hypnotists, strange yet fun colorful characters and locations what’s not to love?
July 24, 2022 @ 4:48 am
I just finished the first season to show, but that’s exactly how it feels. What the hell just happened.
July 24, 2022 @ 4:48 am
FLCL – Just laugh and STFU.
July 24, 2022 @ 4:49 am
It’s okay to be stupid, just dont get caught lmao
July 24, 2022 @ 4:49 am
Life cycle of a FLCL fan
1st time watching: I don’t understand >:(
63rd time watching: I don’t understand 🙂
July 24, 2022 @ 4:51 am
Its designed to be extremely rewatchable and you will catch new things each time. If you revisit it again after significant personal growth it will certainly open upto you in new and exciting ways. Masterpieces are few and far between but this is one. ❤️
July 24, 2022 @ 4:54 am
If you just walk away from the show feeling good for whatever reason , or feeling confused for whatever reason of course that’s ok , but it doesn’t change the fact that metaphors motifs and analogies were present in the show and placed in there directly by the creators . It’s fine if you don’t want to see it but it doesn’t change the fact they are there ………fun fact, they are
July 24, 2022 @ 4:55 am
My take on FLCL
"Anything doesn’t need to make any sense to be enjoyable and entertaining… ANYTHING"
July 24, 2022 @ 4:56 am
FLCL is my favorite anime because I don’t need to overthink it, I just look at the animation and the music and I just feel moved and emotional for no fucking reason. I get goosebumps everytime I see it.
July 24, 2022 @ 4:58 am
Interesting
July 24, 2022 @ 4:58 am
Jesus is God & He loves you
Jesus will soon be seen by all men, women, and children up in the clouds. Jesus is returning now! Believe and be saved.
Exodus 3:14 (God speaking)
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
John 8:58 (Jesus speaking)
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
John 10:30 (Jesus speaking)
I and my Father are one.
Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, *The everlasting Father,* The Prince of Peace.
Matthew 1:23.
Behold, a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, *God with us*
John 1:1 & 14
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14 And the Word was made flesh (Lord Jesus), and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 8:24 (Jesus speaking)
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins; for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins!
John 14:9 (Jesus speaking)
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
Hebrews 1:1-3 & 8 (God calls His Son "O God" because Jesus IS God in the flesh)
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
1 John 5:7
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
Titus 2:13.
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Revelation 1:7
Behold, he cometh with clouds; *and every eye shall see him,* and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Isaiah 44:6 (God speaking)
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Revelation 1:8 (Jesus speaking)
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, *the Almighty.*
Revelation 22:13 (Jesus speaking)
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
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There Are None Righteous / How To Be Saved
Romans 3:10 & 23
10 As it is written There is none righteous, no, not one
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Luke 5:31-32 (Jesus speaking)
31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance
1 Peter 3:18 (The word “quicken” means “to make alive”)
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Acts 4:12
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Ephesians 2:8-9
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
July 24, 2022 @ 4:59 am
Who the hell finds deeper meaning in high school of the dead?
July 24, 2022 @ 5:00 am
Alright let’s be real
A bad anime is a bad anime however you view it
But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not enjoyable
It may be trash to some people but it’s a gold for us
July 24, 2022 @ 5:03 am
Yeah I uh, just don’t know what’s going on. I just like it
July 24, 2022 @ 5:07 am
i not sure what it is about flcl that makes me like it so much im smiling the whole time i watch it and having a great time its the perferct mix of great animation a great soundtrack and really entertaining and good characters
July 24, 2022 @ 5:07 am
🙏🙏Blessings forever
GOD loves y’all too forever tell everyone you know and don’t know. Jesus loves y’all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too foreversm
July 24, 2022 @ 5:08 am
I’m just going to say it this show was kind of weird but the sequels to it took the weird boat and decided you know what we’re going to jack this sucker up a couple notches
July 24, 2022 @ 5:08 am
ok but what is the anime about
July 24, 2022 @ 5:08 am
Just finished this show and people call it a masterpiece, they say that with every anime but I’ll rate it a 8/10
July 24, 2022 @ 5:09 am
I was so confused for like 70% of this show.
10/10 would watch again.
July 24, 2022 @ 5:09 am
Oh yes, HOTD, TTGL, NGNL and FLCL. My favorite anime.
July 24, 2022 @ 5:09 am
I agree but why is HSOTD in this? wut? Thats just fan service?
July 24, 2022 @ 5:10 am
The way I’ve described FLCL for a long time now is that "To watch it only once doesn’t do the series justice. To watch it more than once doesn’t do justice to your sanity." I’ve seen it… many times. Not to analyze it… but just to experience it, because it is, in many ways, a mood piece. It is there to invoke feelings more than it is to invoke rational analysis.
July 24, 2022 @ 5:16 am
I’m sitting at my desk eating some microwaved spaghetti topped with tons of parmesian cheese and the flavor of juicy meatsauce and the soft and slippery noodles whilst listening to this seamless commentary on just having fun is pure bliss
I have tomatoe sauce on my white shirt and I dont care
this is the ultimate video on enjoying things cause you enjoy them and trying to delve further does lead to interesting analysis on meta level of shows, cinemotography, and general storytelling but theres always a bedrock to every analysis that doesn’t impede further introspection but rather its a casual reminder to just enjoy these things without pressure
I love my introspective sci-fi shows but I also like seeing a kid get slammed into with a vespa or seeing a robot jam his way out of his brain, swallow him up, and then proceed to crap him out all the while going for groceries