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[sharplittleteeth]

Amongst the l3wt that A* and I scored last Friday was the first two DVDs of FLCL.

Even for anime, this show is weird.

Partly it’s the translation. The DVDs come with a little booklet explaining all the puns, double-meanings and cultural references. But it can’t really bridge the language gap.

So it’s partly the translation. But mostly it’s just weird.

A twelve year old boy. Who gets hit on the head by a bass guitar-wielding girl on a Vespa. The boy’s lumps turn into horns. Which he tries to hide in public. These horns sporadically discharge giant robots. Who fight. And meanwhile, the Vespa girl tries to seduce the boy’s father.

Nothing Freudian going on here. No sir.

But the jump cuts, battle scenes and panty shots are tied together with scenes of bittersweet adolescent loneliness and longing. The show feels like an epileptic’s seizure: trance-like moments of unearthly beauty that collapse into wild spasms.

I think I like it.

It’s too weird to be sure.

Comments

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

don't forget he also has the other girlfriend, who was his older brothers girlfriend..
who likes to set fire to things when shes not showing off her panties.

and there's kitties that bounce and say mroow

I do like it

its actually taking the amine and reminding that its also a cartoon, i also love the cartoony things about it that don't happen in alot of anime, and the matrixy things that turn into cartoony bits ^_^

[jujulilianan.livejournal.com]

damn. that's so weird I'd *have* to like it..... where did you get it from again? do they do mail order? and how much?

oh, by the way - hi!!!

[sharplittlteeth.livejournal.com]

Hi Julian.

We won our copies in a nightclub raffle. But the DVDs are out through Madman Entertainment. Which means any store that has an anime sectio should have it. JB Hi Fi stocks it, for example.

Furi-Kuri

[morgan303.livejournal.com]

And the music's fabulous. The Pillows are Japanese Britpop and they are electric.

...Speaking of weird anime, have you seen Excel Saga?

[sharplittlteeth.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't. There were previews on the FLCL DVDs. But like most anime previews, they were incomprehensible. Something about giant robots and girls in frilly maid outfits.

As for the Pillows... I like that the DVD has subtitles for the theme song has both the translation and the transliteration. So you can pretend to sing along in Japanese.

[morgan303.livejournal.com]

Excel Saga's mad. You can get it on tape from Hobby Japan if you can't be bothered buying the DVD. It doesn't have the intelligent and disturbing Freudian qualities of FLCL, but it's clever, and utterly mental.

So you can pretend to sing along in Japanese.


Isn't it great? Thank the gods for karaoke.

Re: Furi-Kuri

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

yeah japanese britpop! thats describes it exactly :]
it's a damn catchy theme song, i need to get it ;p

Re: Furi-Kuri

[morgan303.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine downloaded all the music and burnt it onto a CD for me. I don't have a CD burner, but if I brought it into SharpLittleTeeth's workplace (very easy for me to do, seeing as I live just around the corner), he could probably run a copy in no time flat for you, if you're interested.

Re: Furi-Kuri

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

yeah I'm interested
that would be ace :]