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FLCL

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2000–20012000–2001
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  • 2h 31m
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FLCL (2000)
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Mysterious things start happening when 12-year-old Naota meets a strange woman on a Vespa wielding a big guitar.Mysterious things start happening when 12-year-old Naota meets a strange woman on a Vespa wielding a big guitar.Mysterious things start happening when 12-year-old Naota meets a strange woman on a Vespa wielding a big guitar.

IMDb RATING
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  • Stars
    • Jun Mizuki
    • Mayumi Shintani
    • Izumi Kasagi
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  • Stars
    • Jun Mizuki
    • Mayumi Shintani
    • Izumi Kasagi
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    • 114User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

    Episodes6

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    1 Season
    2003

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    FLCL: The Complete Series
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    FLCL: The Complete Series

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    Jun Mizuki and Mayumi Shintani in FLCL (2000)
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    Mayumi Shintani in FLCL (2000)
    Izumi Kasagi in FLCL (2000)
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    Top cast

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    Jun Mizuki
    • Naota Nandabaas Naota Nandaba
    6 episodes6 eps • 2000–2001
    Mayumi Shintani
    • Haruko Haruharaas Haruko Haruhara
    6 episodes6 eps • 2000–2001
    Izumi Kasagi
    • Mamimi Samejimaas Mamimi Samejima
    6 episodes6 eps • 2000–2001
    Suzuki Matsuo
    • Kamon Nandabaas Kamon Nandaba
    6 episodes6 eps • 2000–2001
    Hiroshi Ito
    • Shigekuni Nandabaas Shigekuni Nandaba
    5 episodes5 eps • 2000–2001
    Mika Itô
    • Eri Ninamorias Eri Ninamori
    5 episodes5 eps • 2000–2001
    Kazuhito Suzuki
    • Masashi Masamuneas Masashi Masamune
    5 episodes5 eps • 2000–2001
    Sho Miyajima
    • Gaku Manabeas Gaku Manabe
    3 episodes3 eps • 2000
    Kôji Ohkura
    • Amaraoas Amarao
    3 episodes3 eps • 2000–2001
    Chiemi Chiba
    • Kiturubamias Kiturubami
    3 episodes3 eps • 2000–2001
    Kari Wahlgren
    Kari Wahlgren
    • Haruko Haruharaas Haruko Haruhara
    3 episodes3 eps • 2000
    Steve Blum
    Steve Blum
    • Masashias Masashi…
    3 episodes3 eps • 2000
    Barbara Goodson
    Barbara Goodson
    • Naota Nandabaas Naota Nandaba
    3 episodes3 eps • 2000
    Stephanie Sheh
    Stephanie Sheh
    • Additional Voicesas Additional Voices…
    3 episodes3 eps • 2000
    Melissa Fahn
    Melissa Fahn
    • Eri Ninamorias Eri Ninamori
    3 episodes3 eps • 2000
    Steve Kramer
    Steve Kramer
    • Shigekunias Shigekuni…
    3 episodes3 eps • 2000
    R. Martin Klein
    R. Martin Klein
    • Gakuas Gaku…
    3 episodes3 eps • 2000
    Joe Martin
    • Kamon Nandabaas Kamon Nandaba
    3 episodes3 eps • 2000
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    Storyline

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    Naota is a normal student living with his abnormal father and grandfather. One day, a seemingly insane girl named Haruko blazes in from out of nowhere on her Vespa, wielding an electric guitar with a buzzsaw! Haruko moves in with Naota under the pretense of being a housekeeper, but Naota knows there's something obviously strange about her. To make matters worse, large shapes are growing out of his head, hatching into large monsters that Haruko makes her mission to kill. Who is Haruko really, and what is she after? You won't find out until the end of this bizarre story. —Anonymous
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    • Genres
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      • Sci-Fi
    • Certificate
      • TV-14
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Though credited with a question mark, the voice of Miyu Miyu is provided by Evangelion director Hideaki Anno.
    • Goofs
      When there's a bird's eye view of the floor, 'medical mechanica' was misspelled 'medical meccanica.'
    • Quotes

      Naota: When you're in a town like this all covered with smoke, you forget that there's a world outside. Nothing amazing happens here. And you get used to that, used to a world where everything is ordinary. Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly. But now Haruko is here. That's how I know there really is a world outside.

    • Crazy credits
      Miyu Miyu - ?
    • Alternate versions
      When screened on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in the US, the ending credits are displayed in untranslated Japanese. The North American DVD however, released by Synch-Point, only has the ending credits translated in English.
    • Connections
      Featured in AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture (2005)
    • Soundtracks
      Ride on shooting star
      Performed by the pillows

      Lyrics and Music by Sawao Yamanaka

      Arrangement by the pillows

    User reviews114

    Review
    Top review
    10/10
    Puts You Back 90 Bucks- $89.99 Of It
    I stayed up late one night when my friend told me to "Change the channel to Cartoon Network, FLCL is on". I asked him what it was and he told me it was an anime show. I told him to die, but then he said that "You'll like it"...FINE.

    Episode Four: Full Swing. An epic. from the opening to the closing of this slightly sexually over-toned episode to the end, I was GLUED to the television. For 30 minutes, moans and screams and...jeez. It was what I imagine an acid trip would be. I love it.

    3 days later I had my money ready to buy all three dvds, which was gonna set me back ninety dollars. Psh. 2 episodes a DVD. So why is it worth only 89.99 of that ninety? The booklet and subtitles. The subtitles are the LITERAL translations from Japanese, while the actual dubbing is superb and fits well in overall. It would have been nice though to have the captions from what I was really hearing. The booklets are kinda hit and miss because they made a mistake in the first one and "made up" for it in the second one spending over 3 pages with some boring talking about stuff that people in general just don't care about.

    I digress. Buy it. Love it. Pick up the Cd's too. The music is superb and is a great influence for rock and roll bands.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 5, 2003 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official site
      • gainax.co. (Japan)
    • Languages
      • Japanese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Fooly Cooly
    • Production companies
      • Gainax
      • Production I.G.
      • Star Child Recording
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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