Ian Gear (psychogoatee) FLCL is so worth a watch, if you're at all interested you'd be doing yourself a favor to check it out. It's got feels, it's got heart, it's got a moving and rockin' score by band The Pillows. It's not about some kind of weirdness value like you're maybe thinking, it's a unique work of art that just might click with you.FLCL is a coming of age story that immerses us in the topsy turvy world of a teenage lad. And does it better than most movies or shows I've seen trying to tackle it, at least for me. It tackles that awkwardness and sadness with a sense of fun and adventure, among many other great things about FLCL.One of my favorites, and really just thinking about it is moving to me, I think FLCL will stand the test of time very well.

rjkeefer It's a story about sex, drugs, rock & roll, robots, maids, magazines, baseball, hands, arson, puberty, more robots, cats, mopeds, jealousy, coming-of-age...and at the same time, none of that. It's more a rite of passage than anything else, something you have to be able to say you saw. If you don't 'get' it, that's cool, this show doesn't take itself seriously enough for that sort of thing. Soundtrack is absolutely awesome, The Pillows were and are fantastic. It doesn't have a point, and doesn't care about not having one.

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robert heinrich For some years I was convinced that Elfenlied was the best and most touching anime series ever produced. So I was quite disappointed to find out that the winner of the first American Anime Awards in 2007 was not my beloved Elfenlied (nor any other of my favourite animes), but a comedy named "Fooly Coolly" aka "FLCL" which I had never heard of until then. I decided to give it a try to find out what all that fuss was about...At first sight, FLCL overwhelms the viewer with its weirdness and seemingly random events. One example for this is the main character's head being clubbed repeatedly by a mysterious woman with an electric bass guitar. A little later a giant robot and some kind of alien creature grow out of his head and start fighting each other. One such WTF moment follows the other in breathtaking speed, underlined by an awesome soundtrack from the Japanese rock band "The Pillows".Therefore, when watching FLCL for the first time, you will most probably understand only a tiny bit (if anything) of the storyline. Many viewers will not be able to endure all the weirdness and stop watching after the first or second episode, I guess. And I am quite sure that the (few) negative reviews found here come from narrow-minded people who watched only one maybe two episodes, and then decided that FLCL is too random and whacky. Shame on them.But many others will be fascinated (like I was) by the beautifully psychedelic scenes and continue watching, if only to find out if it can get any weirder (believe me, it can!).And those who watch the whole series open minded and pay attention to the story will be rewarded by far more than having experienced an one- of-its-kind anime LSD trip - suddenly it will all make sense. Nearly every weird twist of the story is explained in later episodes, and in the end you will suddenly gain deep understanding, maybe even some kind of revelation. At some point you will realize that most of the crazy stuff which at first sight seemed to be mere eye candy and sick ideas randomly put together in fact are rather metaphors. And that parallel to all the craziness FLCL actually delivers an insightful story.If you don't get it the first time, don't bother and give it another try. FLCL is so dense and fast-paced that you might have to watch it multiple times to discover all the hidden puzzle pieces you need to understand it.In conclusion and retrospective, I still have a place in my heart for the above mentioned Elfenlied, and other great animes (like Mononoke, Nausicaä, Spirited Away to mention just some few), of course. And I still regard them as, well, best productions inside their sub-genre. But FLCL kind of transcends all of these, mostly since it cannot be nailed down to one specific subgenre. FLCL is all that manga/anime stands for. One of its own kind, as I said before. If you don't know it yet, you must give it a try. But maybe you should start with watching a trailer on youtube first to find out if you can cope with it's weirdness.