FLCL

Show summary: punk-era Sogo Ishii raped Andy Warhol, shat a son, that son married Freud's mother, took LSD and decided to rewrite Neon Genesis Evangelion. And that only scratches the surface of this surreal and ultimately hypnotic descent into the existential macabre, but one painted with bold primaries and Looney Tunes logic. There's even an extended South Park reference! and is therefore pure gold.

As an introduction to anime it's an eye-opener, the attitude being to kick arse first and screw your questions. A dazzling amalgam of visual styles comprise the action sequences, the cutting sharp and inventive, stopping short of being epileptic. A warped yet playful humour extends itself to the inscrutable plot, winking as it give you the finger. In its quieter moments character touches are spot on; emotions rendered and nuances captured. A mind-blowingly odd experience.

Hyperactive inter-textual romp through endless phallic imagery and all the awkward parts of puberty. Ofttimes hilarious; occasionally subtly warm.

If an A.D.D.-affected David Lynch made a self-referential anime coming-of-age story, I think it might play like this. What... about... eyebrows?

It helps if you're coming to this with some experience in anime. Things like Akira, Evangelion, etc. are more or less prerequisites. The Revolutionary Girl Utena movie claimed to be an "adolescence apocalypse," but this was the true postmodern coming of age in anime, and the first true anime for the 21st century. Here we have all kinds of sexualized confusion, erections in the form of robots emerging from a boy's head, plenty of other Freudian madness, plus Looney Tunes kinetics.

It's level of awesomeness is equaled only by it's level of making no sense whatsoever.

what a blast! great kind of surrealistic humour, incredibly good animations and a super-weird story. just forget everyting you know about comics and anime and be... stunned. i loved it.

It'd didn't make much sense the first time but it doesn't matter because the freneticism and joyful nature of this series made me love it.

Completely crazy. The manga scene of "FLCL" is my favorite anime scene in any series. Incredibly fun, some great work and a kick ass soundtrack to say the least. One of a kind.

I didn't care for some of the absurd shit, but I thought it was a pretty cool portrayal of adolescent apathy and hot anime girls hitting people in the head with guitars.