What was it about the original 6 episode series that made it so special? Was it really some sort of transcendence of the medium that sort of directly connected with a viewers emotions on some unspoken level? Or was it just so new, original, and full of confidence that it couldn't help but make an impact?
What's it got that the later few series don't have?
What's it got that the later few series don't have?
it's more manlier than other series
more manlier
You could benefit from getting more smarter and more better at English
original: creators having fun and doing what they want
sequels: SEE THAT COW MILK IT NOW
FLCL is dogshit
okay, but what makes that mean the sequel people aren't having fun?
or is your actual complaint that the people involved with the sequel series just weren't the original people and thus are just ransacking and parading an old IP's corpse around pretending to be something they're not?
watching it as an adult, it doesn't hit me the same way for certain, but there are flashes in the way it does things that pull some sort of strings that i haven't felt since i was 13. is that just nostalgia or is it actually hitting me in some place i thought i forgot?
You gotta understand it released on Adult Swim in 2003. Adult Swim was only 2 years old at that point. That era was lightning in a bottle. It all still felt new and interesting and experimental, which that was a big part of it. FLCL hit at the right time in the right place for the right audience.
I think a big flaw in the sequels is not telling us what happened to most of the original cast.
The best thing from the FLCL sequels is the music
doesn't naota show up in some form in the latest one? or was it just flashback shit
pillows disbanded this year
it's officially over, then, isn't it?
Yeah it's dead
Sequels felt soulless. Like they just copypasted the original gags, le robot and le pillows without understanding what made them good and ended up with a slop lacking any substance that nobody would watch if it wasn't hanging off the famous names
my point in starting this thread was to go further into this. i often hear this being stated, but how can you explain that feeling? you say "le robot and le pillows without understanding what made them good and ended up with a slop lacking any substance" but that's exactly what i'm asking. what gave the original substance where the sequels somehow lacked it?
It just works no matter how you look on it :like a coorazy animation with tons of references and in studio jokes , like a coming of age story about kids who pretend to be adults or even like music videos for The Pillows, etc. It works from the first to the last scene.
Dead Leaves for example doesn't work it lacks of substance
It knew its limitations, 6 eps wasn't long enough to wear out its retarded premise.
Heart
dead leaves also looks like some mtv western animation.
The thing that differentiates from other well-directed, well-animated series is Enokido's writing. FLCL instead of being overindulgent in its own visuals and letting individualistic impulses from all the disparate talent on board take over the project, managed to keep a tight focus on the meaning of everything that was being put to screen. Other projects of similar nature aren't really like that.
directly connected with a viewers emotions on some unspoken level
This is it for me, it's a deeply personal and tender show. It speaks to the confused, frustrating, love struck inner child.
the retardation perfectly balanced. if it was any later there would have been so much reddit-random that nothing could sit and land for appropriate amount of time to have any emotional impact. pacing the jumps between hectic and dead still is really hard to get right.
thats just any good coming of age shit though.
FLCL was very down to Earth with its setting, so the viewer sorta feels familiar with it the mundane aspect of it. The stuff about Medical Mechanica and Atomsk don't really matter as everything is told from Naota's point of view, so it doesn't need to jump into lore besides the basics of N.O. The sequels felt unrealistic with not just the setting, but character designs and even the animation. The thing with the animation in the original felt like a exaggeration of how the characters and scenery acted and behaved to just to give it that appealing visual style. In Progressive, everything is acting like out of a Tom and Jerry cartoon, and its subpar animation doesn't help.
Had only seen Prog and Alt and I don't think there was much variety from The Pillows. Prog started strong with Thank You My Twilight, but often they used original music from a different composer or just silence. The original FLCL had Pillows playing in almost every scene and the songs used would perfectly set the mood. It just seems like they were limited of what could be used in the sequels. Thank You My Twilight plays again once near the end of Alt, despite it seemed to be a more important theme in Prog.
Whatever the final version of Progressive is seems not to be what the original intentions were, based on some concept art. I really want to like some of the characters, but [as] clearly mishandled the production.
They should have gotten away from the pillows. Honestly, it's just repetitive at this point. The FlCl sound track is essentially the Pillows greatest hits and I've listened to it a thousand times since I burned my copy back in high-school. There are other Japanese punk bands that sound just as cool. But all FlCl sequels are money grabs that don't even realize that FlCl is about adults taking advantage of children, so I don't expect them to make the connection to new cool music either. Fuck everything FlCl is now.
What's it got that the later few series don't have?
comedy
animation. the writing has always been dogshit
no one gave a shit what do you mean, maybe if you were a normalfag and only watched like one other anime at the time and then like the "top 10" on myanimelist or some shit. this anime was kind of dog shit or at least, very forgettable. like i've never known anyone else highly into anime that didn't think this anime was that great, there's nothing to talk about with it
very forgettable.
yes i'm sure that's why we're talking about it right now, anon, 22 years later
yeah, it's not like it's on american streaming services to this day or in the first place because even in japan no one gave a shit, so hulu and probably even netflix bought up the rights to distribute it cheaply and now a bunch of dumbass caucasians who've never seen good cartoons in their life lose their shit over the 8 japanese ones they did watch. that's why you're talking about it, this was garbage when it came out and passed around like the cheap ass it is, you're just fucking bitch that likes parroting crap, there's literally nothing to this, no one fucking talked about it when it was barely relevant. like THIS IS IT. like 2021 or something was most definitely the height of it's relevancy.
so are you like a self hating westerner or are you actually japanese but hanging out on the american version of futaba for fun
Nta but hating toonami faggots is a Anon Babble tradition(not that I dislike flcl)
Nah because things like Aria, Ping Pong, Gurren Lagaan only capture certain feelings and feel limited to certain themes. Those are some of my favorite shows but FLCL in just six episodes make me feel the strongest things and I think really gets to the essence of growing up. I think the music, vague atmosphere, and dialogue are what makes it the best one of its kind to me.
It's just got an amazing spontaneous soulful energy. Perfect crazy representation of awkward suburban boyhood the 90's/2000's in a way. The style so appealing and unique too. Felt like lightning in a bottle.
Sequel series are like poor attempts at recapturing all that long after the fact, but you can't.
Most people found anime through toonami tbf
Give us your top 5 anime then
extremely skilled and experienced team given free reign over a properly scoped original project
That might be true but toonami faggots have always been hated on Anon Babble.
Anon Babble is full of fags who hate on everything
literally means nothing because Anon Babble is so up their own ass about shit that the boards taste as a result is so fucking out of touch it's not even funny.
you know what nobody hates? techtv anime unleashed
So go shitpost in one of the several perpetual Dragon Ball threads, faggot.
I meant old Anon Babble, not nu-Anon Babble. hell nu-Anon Babble might actually accept them considering how many normalfags and dub retards are on this board nowadays.
Those are the exact faggots that watched DB on toonami/CN.
You don't fit in as well as you think you do.
Whenever people get called out they always spout the some "y-you don't fit in" cope.
What was it about the original 6 episode series that made it so special?
Animation
And?
Nothing. It was just animation porn, nothing else.
to be fair you need to have a very high iq to understand flcl