Due to popular demand I have posted the music made in this video on another channel. Thank so much for the support! ruclips.net/p/PLRbkvBt3IB8EhcTE4DaBMp-j2uyy9KDng
hi bionic , is there an extended version at 0:12 - 0:13 ? i really like to know if that's a remix or something you made that was inspired by The Pillows
im glad i saw flcl at like 11 or 12 years old. it was the first like piece of media that ever made me cry (lol in a good way). Im glad as an adult I can go back and see all this depth and nuance. such a beautiful piece of art
I can't go back. It has to remain as it was, a question?. That unsure but need to know feel. The peak feel of the adolescent feels. Those guitar sounds at the intro. Questioning.
3:33 It's more than 'inspiration' for Kill La Kill, Gurren Lagaan, and basically anything from trigger. Hiroyuki Imaishi-San is literally the Animation director for alot of these shows, or at least some of the episodes or fight scenes. He worked for both Gainax AND Trigger, even doing work on Eva... he's by far my favorite animator of all time because his style is so good, especially in action scenes.
Thanks for saying it, I was going to as well. He’s also a founder of Trigger. I have a lot of his art books, as well as Yoh Yoshinari and Sushio. Any studio trigger art book I have is amongst my top ten. Their animation is just so wacky, fun, dynamic, and unexpecting. And they’re always pushing their shapes, I love it.
Goddamn if you released the music you created for this as an album, I would buy it so fast. It fits FLCL so well, and the inspiration from The Pillows is felt as honoring them instead of just copying them, which is always a risk when drawing inspiration. Love the video, and now I gotta go give FLCL a rewatch again!
Around 10 years ago a team mate on my HS baseball team said "check out this anime dude, it'll change your mind about the whole genre". I watched it and it did...what a great series w/ great music and probably the best dub, one of the only dubs I really love. Now I love anime and I love the Pillows too.
There were times as a kid where I never “swung the bat”, especially when it came to tests. I never gave myself the chance to show what I learned or thought I learned. I was so embarrassed of getting answers wrong, I sometimes just answered nothing. My fear of failing is what made me fail. I’m so glad I eventually overcame that. Thanks for the video! I never realized I wanted or needed to watch FLCL more than once, but I’m intrigued now.
I consider FLCL one of the foundational anime that hooked me into the genre as a whole. Something about seeing those 6 episodes when I was a teenager fascinated me so much that it stuck with me to this day. And as an adult, I see them so differently, but just as lovingly to this day. I couldn't love anime without it. Great job covering this brilliant show!
FLCL was the first piece of media that I resonated with on an emotional level. I didn't even fully realize what I was feeling, or why, at the time. I just knew that it made me feel something that other media, I liked and loved, didn't.
Same. I was in my early teens when it aired in the States and was one of the "weird kids" in school. This show felt like it was just made for me. I still go back every now and then and pop in the DVD when I'm having a rough time and let myself melt away for a bit.
I remember watching FLCL the night it aired on Adult Swim as a teen/preteen and just falling in love with it from episode one. I have rewatched it every year since. It is and always will be my favorite anime that will always resonate with me even at 34 years old.
Initially, I recorded these on vhs tapes, cutting timing the pauses to cut out commercials. Then I watched them on loop. The music, everything. Beautiful.
man, I did that all through high school. I made sure I could get all of flcl front to back with all commercials cut out on one tape. I didn't care that I recorded my anime with 8 hour EP vhs tapes at the time. I was watching most stuff on a small 13in tv in my room
Seeing Fooly Cooly (FLCL) on my feed is amazing. It was the first anime that I watched as a kid (not counting Pokémon). I used to listen to the Pillows for hours on windows equalizer. What a nostalgic trip. Looking forward to listening to the video. Thanks BPig ❤️
Thanks for mentioning Studio Trigger, I'm taking a look at their catalogue, and they have so many good shows. Though, many of them only run for1-2 seasons.
Thank you for this video. I have made arguments about Evangeleon vs FLCL for years. You have hit all the things I loved about FLCL and really expressed why it was such a great series.
Wow, man... The combination of your words, your music, and the imagery brought me right back to being 12 and watching FLCL on adult swim. I almost forgot just how much of a mark this one left on a lot of us around my age. It was just such a masterpiece, even kids who didn't like anime got it. Like spirited away levels of popularity.
imma just point out one of the things that was awesome about this video because there are too many to count and it happens in the end. The crossfading of the voiceover and the music! I really love how the audio did not get louder, the voice over just got quieter as the music came in to take its place. just works perfectly so thank you
When you quoted the swing the bat line, it brought so many memories and tears to my eyes. FLCL was so influential for me growing up! I’ve rewatched at least 6 times since first viewing it like a decade ago. Loved your analysis!
Fooly Cooy has helped me thru alot in my life. Every time I feel down/depressed, I'll watch old school flcl, Still kick the soundtrack to this day. Thank you, BionicPig for the amazing video, and hate to sound cheesy, but thank you flcl for saving my life.
YAAY MORE BIONIC PIG MUSIC!!!!! you dunno how long I've wanted to hear more music from you man even if it's just background music, I love fallen pine sm!
FLCL was a masterpiece of art, and had such an impact on how i looked at and appreciated art. I remember watching it on the original toonami run. That first time, i wasn't entirely sure what I saw, but I just loved it and WANTED to get it. To this day I still listen to the soundtrack, and I still think about this anime when i imagine the most memorable fight scenes and the best story writing in anime. It is so satisfying to see someone genuinely appreciate it. Awesome video my friend.
Holy shit I love when RUclips comes through with new content that immediately has my attention and is so dope. This break down and back story is cut so amazingly and and oh man I’m missing the teen titans part that I can’t wait to reach watch when I when it’s over. After going back and checking out some of the titles I haven’t seen. Awesome work bro
I did not realize how influential FLCL was on other works, nor did I know about The Pillows being given a blank canvas for their album. It's not the type of music I listen to, but it's among the best soundtracks I've ever heard.
"you'll be playing the soundtrack the rest of your life" yes. Your Pillows inspired music is incredible in this video! The Spotify playlist "If FLCL didn't have the pillows" is excellent. Once they started streaming on Spotify for real, I was reunited with all the songs i'd burned onto CD's ages ago.
Fooly Cooly is a fever dream as a 10 year old kid. Watching on channel 42 at 12am-2am on Saturday, randomly picked episodes, not understanding anything. And wanting more! Then the Cowboy Bebop fridge episode came on.....
i think this is one of the most sincere and insightful analysis that i ever saw. You can feel the appreciation for the craft of storytelling and animation. thank you Bionic Pig
Personalized music. Good commentary. Great video. I was just checking earlier today to see if a new one had dropped and it hadn't. Glad I checked twice
I found this anime back when I was in elementary school on late night cartoon network and I instantly fell in love with it! I'd stay up till 2 am just to watch one of the episodes and it launched my love for anime. While I was watching your video you just hit the nail on the head with everything and brought back that feeling I had back in the day that made me love the series. It's sad when you bring it up to people and they say they've never heard of it. But to see someone who loves and appreciates it and is able to explain in detail why this show is so damn amazing just brings peace to my heart. So thank you my dude! Keep doing what you're doing!
I can’t believe the amount of goosebumps I got just from rewatching the old clips! It’s been almost 20 years at this point…and I don’t think any show has managed to move me in quite the same way.
That guitar riff that plays when he’s freed started me on a whole Spanish guitar trip 18 years ago, now I’m a surf guitar hero and play riffs like that all over Texas. Thank you flcl
EXCELLENT video Pig. FLCL means so much to me from the art, the animation and the music. I enjoy that sound track to this day. I’m so happy to see someone else appreciates it as much as I do.
Dude the music you made for this video was insane, it captured the show so perfectly it made me nostalgic for scenes that never happened. Thank you sm bro
I'm so happy you made this ♥ thank you! FLCL is my favorite show of all time. Back in high school I had the whole script in japanese memorized and would hear that pillows album on loop every single day. I was obsessed. What an amazing show.
You have good taste! I adore FLCL for its mind bending creativity. That’s amazing you memorized the Japanese script. Listening to these clips I was horrified at the English voices. I guess it would take some real passion to bring across the magic of the original.
Man you music was so on point! Thanks for sharing it! The pillows have stuck with me since ~2003, when i first watched the show, and everything you say about the score is so true
FLCL is one of my favorite shows of all time. I love the gray middle ground characters, who are packed full of flaws and good aspects, I love how consistent their motivations are. I love the soundtrack and animation and themes. It is as good as I think storytelling can get. I really wish this level of creativity from the 2000s was still around, but it looks like medical mechanicus was able to flatten our creativity with corporations getting their grubby fingers into every aspect of the entertainment industry and Corraling everything towards mass appeal for maximum profit while paying the artists beans and discouraging creative types from every entering the field professionally.
Studio Gainax was responsible for making the first FCLC anime and they have been making iconic anime’s such as evangelion and green lagaan, etc., etc., etc., and these anime’s were unforgettable coz they’re unique and fun to watch.
FLCL!!! Watched this one late at night, went to bed right after, then woke up a different person. 10/10 experience. There's really nothing I can say about the theme that hasn't already been said, but at the very least I can say that one thing that really hit me was "The fog that makes the world look so much smaller." I grew up in a place that, simply put, was bad. My family? Also bad. My childhood was spent dreaming of a life of freedom where I could do anything, and go wherever I wanted. My teenage years were spent in long bouts of silent depression and outbursts of misplaced rage at the realization that I COULD HAVE had those things, but was robbed of them. Adulthood? We'll see. The bat's in-hand and swinging, it's just a matter of finally hitting something!
Watched when it came out. Love the pillows. Opened my eyes to some great music and art. Thanks for showing this show the love and respect it’s owed. I grew up on this and felt like this as a punk nyc kid.
The Pillows, was such a mood. The main vocals are great. The dreamy vibes and rifts in their songs... So many good ones imo. I used to listen to them when I was by myself a lot, and it was like this bubble disconnected from things.
Mannnnn what a blast from the past! I remember watching this as a kid and not having any clue what I was watching, but man the show was so much fun. I could tell it was a special show back then. You talking about this this way makes so much sense. They communicated and entertained in such a way without words. I feel like the music did most of the story telling. When I hear people talk about this show its universally beloved.
Watching this video made me remember the feels I had the first time I watched the show.. Like a deep Melancholy and tad of sadness, I resonated with this anime so much at the time being in a really tough time in my life.
Thank you bionic!🙏🙏 I remember watching flcl on adult swim and man, did the first episode every hook me. This my coming of age anime that made me really think. Top 5 for sure. Also, if it wasn't for the pillows doing the soundtrack, I never would've picked up a guitar. Thanks again!
I LOVE FLCL. It was a fundamental point in my youth (graduated HS in '04). The messages, music, and style are so great at capturing the feelings of a teenage boy. I own it on DVD (which comes with booklets that breakdown all the jokes, references, and the anime scenes)
I still remember when I first saw this anime. It was 2003 at Anime USA in Virginia. We had just finished our Mystery Anime Theater 3000 showing we had done, and after everyone left we stayed in the room and one of the people who stayed back took out his laptop and we watched some new fan subs he had brought with him. One of which was the entirety of FLCL. We were up until nearly 8am the following morning but I still remember how amazing and epic it was watching it for the first time on a projector. God what I wouldn’t give to experience that weekend all over again with my friends.
@@SeveralGhost 3% of people with epilepsy actually have photosensitive epilepsy I myself am not part of that percentage so I wouldn't know but I do know it's severity varies from person to person and that us epileptics support each other so they might have a list of films and TV shows reviewed by other people with how "flashy" they are but the reason there are warnings despite it only being 3% is because a fit can if lasting for more than 5mins means brain damage and even death which is kinda scary so despite me not having it I still panic when I see flashing lights sometimes
@@midit20 I know the dangers, the Porygon episode of Pokemon was referenced a lot when I was a kid. My uncle has non-photo epilepsy, but he doesn't watch anime so I couldnt ask him. Appreciate your response!
I’m pretty sure former trigger staff were gainax artist so it’s seem logic that by their work on FLCL (and also NGE) influenced every other anime they produced. We can compare the first anime of trigger (Kill la Kill) to evangelion or gurren lagann, they share the alien invader part :). Gainax and Trigger are bond together and i will love forever the fact that the story is deep and always carry multiple messages.
Thanks for this deep dive, this really brought me back, I got introduced to FLCL through adult swim's Toonami over 20 years ago. This show really hit so many emotions while watching it that when it was over I had to keep going back to pick up on things I missed the first time around. Then I ended up getting the Pillow's album just to bring back some of the nostalgia of this show and the emotions some of the scenes produced.
Naoto gets abused. FLCL is a story about Naoto getting abused, while he's too young and naive to do anything about it. He enjoys being around the people who abuse him because he doesn't fully understand what love really is.
I have an FLCL tattoo on my chest and the amount of times I have put people on this anime is the past 9 years since getting this tattoo is countless. This anime has always and will always be my #1 anime in heart and soul
I remember when this aired on Cartoon Network and going into school the next day and discussing the madness of each episode with my friend. I am not sure I ever fully grasped what was really going on in this show but I loved every second of it. I watched the recent iteration of the series and had a similar result no idea what is going on but still loved it. After watching this though I feel like I need to watch it all over again and really let it sink in because FLCL has lived inside my head for over 2 decades and I dont think I truly ever gave it the attention it deserves.
That scene where he swings the back, the pillows shredding in the background, the animation, the energy....goosebumps every single time. Single favorite moment in anime.
Out of all the anime you mention in this video FLCL is the only one I've seen. When watching it for the first time on adult swim all those years ago as a young teenager, it truly was an experience. It made me feel a certain way, I enjoy thinking back to that feeling from time to time, it's something I can't put in words.
I was 22 when FLCL came out, and it stuck with me because my early teen years were very similar to Naota, suffering similar manipulations from those I had feelings for. So when he finally said "I love you" in that somber way, it made me cry, because I knew the feeling he had in his gut at that moment. I will always love fooly cooly
You can probably see it sooner than 12:22, and it's blurry, but the FLCL omnibus in on his bookshelf. You know, the white and blue thing under the plushie. Man loves this show.
I remember being 13. Stumbling on FLCL on Stars network back in 2004 or 5. feeling like Naota. Just stuck, in a mundane life, look up at the sky wondering. I remember how much i fucking LOVED listening to the Pillows. man . . . . thats some powerful Nostalgia I just unlocked from 20 years ago 😶I never truly understood the entire story, and aways felt like it was symbolic.
Having grown up watching FLCL then recently watching EVA, I loved seeing where FLCL took entire scenes or ideas the team had making EVA, but just made them better. To me it seemed like whatever the team learned making EVA, they pumped straight into FLCL, making it comedic and fast paced, which makes it a classic. And super easy to rewatch.
Neon Genesis Evangelion hit me so hard as a kid as it resonated with my passion for mythology, mysticism and spirituality... But FLCL and Gurren Lagan engraved themselves in my soul and made me grow as a person. It's time I re-watch FLCL.
You should also mention Dead Leaves, a movie by the same studio that came out before FLCL, I think. FLCL came into my life in college alongside Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Escaflowne, Macross Plus. What a time that was. Pure gold.
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Due to popular demand I have posted the music made in this video on another channel. Thank so much for the support!
ruclips.net/p/PLRbkvBt3IB8EhcTE4DaBMp-j2uyy9KDng
hi bionic , is there an extended version at 0:12 - 0:13 ? i really like to know if that's a remix or something you made that was inspired by The Pillows
will you add them to spotify
Its just the pillows?
@BionicPIGtv were you aware that some studio trigger staff came from Ginax?
3:15 Had that growth... ffs wtf is that thing.
FLCL was so beyond me at the age I watched it, but it forever stood out for its animation and the … energy? I guess lol. It was outstanding
im glad i saw flcl at like 11 or 12 years old. it was the first like piece of media that ever made me cry (lol in a good way). Im glad as an adult I can go back and see all this depth and nuance. such a beautiful piece of art
I can't go back. It has to remain as it was, a question?. That unsure but need to know feel. The peak feel of the adolescent feels.
Those guitar sounds at the intro. Questioning.
FLCL blew my mind open watching as a teen on AS. so instrumental. absolute classic.
i feel this so much
If you've never seen the Daicon-IV video, it's gonna blow your mind.
“After all, you’re still just a kid.” Dude….that never doesn’t hit me right in my soul even to this day being 30 now
Never Knows Best my friend....Never Knows Best.
Wait, till you hit 40 and you're totally irrelevant
Neon Genesis changed my life, and FLCL changed my outlook on art and helped me become a better artist
CONGRATULATIONS 👏👏👏 🐧
Yeah I recognized flcl with one frame lol
Evangelion was a right of passage for young men.
@@beginnereasy hehe, me too. Sick memory.
gona destroy your whole carier by one PROPER PROMPT stfu
3:33 It's more than 'inspiration' for Kill La Kill, Gurren Lagaan, and basically anything from trigger. Hiroyuki Imaishi-San is literally the Animation director for alot of these shows, or at least some of the episodes or fight scenes. He worked for both Gainax AND Trigger, even doing work on Eva... he's by far my favorite animator of all time because his style is so good, especially in action scenes.
Yeah, also he did episode 5 of FLCL, check the animation style if you got time
Thanks for saying it, I was going to as well. He’s also a founder of Trigger. I have a lot of his art books, as well as Yoh Yoshinari and Sushio. Any studio trigger art book I have is amongst my top ten. Their animation is just so wacky, fun, dynamic, and unexpecting. And they’re always pushing their shapes, I love it.
Goddamn if you released the music you created for this as an album, I would buy it so fast. It fits FLCL so well, and the inspiration from The Pillows is felt as honoring them instead of just copying them, which is always a risk when drawing inspiration.
Love the video, and now I gotta go give FLCL a rewatch again!
Preach my guy. I was so happy getting people an entire decade younger than me to give it a shot and they loved it from the music alone
Update have you re watched it?
@@rielmora2472 not yet! But only because I’ve been finishing a rewatch of 90s Trigun. It’s up next on my list.
The soundtrack is available. Mitsumune Shinkichi & The Pillows were just perfect 😁
I wouldn't have discovered The Pillows if it wasn't for FLCL. This show is amazing. I can never get over it.
Around 10 years ago a team mate on my HS baseball team said "check out this anime dude, it'll change your mind about the whole genre". I watched it and it did...what a great series w/ great music and probably the best dub, one of the only dubs I really love. Now I love anime and I love the Pillows too.
@Peanutdenver Yeah I love this anime so much as well. I think the only dubs I'm willing to watch are FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, and Trigun.
@@bakaraider You're a man of good taste my friend.
I haven’t watched it yet but I’m glad that I found the songs by chance
@kayagorzan I love The Pillows. Them and Asian Kungfu Generation are really good bands.
There were times as a kid where I never “swung the bat”, especially when it came to tests. I never gave myself the chance to show what I learned or thought I learned. I was so embarrassed of getting answers wrong, I sometimes just answered nothing. My fear of failing is what made me fail. I’m so glad I eventually overcame that. Thanks for the video! I never realized I wanted or needed to watch FLCL more than once, but I’m intrigued now.
LMAO... It's about a kid going through puberty 🤣
how?
Real
@@glorbog So a coming of age story, whats mid about that?
@@lunyxappocalypse7071 where In my post did I use that stupid ass word "mid"?
I consider FLCL one of the foundational anime that hooked me into the genre as a whole. Something about seeing those 6 episodes when I was a teenager fascinated me so much that it stuck with me to this day. And as an adult, I see them so differently, but just as lovingly to this day. I couldn't love anime without it. Great job covering this brilliant show!
FLCL was the first piece of media that I resonated with on an emotional level. I didn't even fully realize what I was feeling, or why, at the time. I just knew that it made me feel something that other media, I liked and loved, didn't.
Same. I was in my early teens when it aired in the States and was one of the "weird kids" in school. This show felt like it was just made for me. I still go back every now and then and pop in the DVD when I'm having a rough time and let myself melt away for a bit.
Same
FLCL is the single best coming of age story I've ever seen. I realized that somewhere around the 4th time I watched it.
so true bro
Mob Psycho and Ranking of kings are good ones also.
@@513gposey ranking of Kings def scratched the same itch
The Pillows give me the biggest goosebumps everytime I hear them. ❤
They really are one of the greatest bands ever.
If it weren't for them I would have never gotten into the Japanese scene in music
heck yeah! one of my favorite japanese bands for sure!
Brand new love song hits my soul
such an amazing band. i love the fuck out of the pillows lol
I remember watching FLCL the night it aired on Adult Swim as a teen/preteen and just falling in love with it from episode one. I have rewatched it every year since. It is and always will be my favorite anime that will always resonate with me even at 34 years old.
Bro, he made this anime sound like an archival piece, we’re old and cooked 😭😭😭
@@Jrocker18 I'm sorry! lol
have you seen FLCL progressive or alternative?
Neon Genesis, Lain, Boogiepop Phantom, Fooly Cooly. These are the anime that formed my love for the art form. Timeless masterpieces.
Cowboy bebop too
Akira too
akira too
A boogie pop phantom name-drop, fantastic! I haven't thought about that one in a long time.
I did not expect anyone else to list Serial Experiment Lain. What a mind FK that was.
Initially, I recorded these on vhs tapes, cutting timing the pauses to cut out commercials. Then I watched them on loop. The music, everything. Beautiful.
I have teen titan movie on vhs
man, I did that all through high school. I made sure I could get all of flcl front to back with all commercials cut out on one tape. I didn't care that I recorded my anime with 8 hour EP vhs tapes at the time. I was watching most stuff on a small 13in tv in my room
Nice
Same brother!! Core memory unlocked
Seeing Fooly Cooly (FLCL) on my feed is amazing. It was the first anime that I watched as a kid (not counting Pokémon). I used to listen to the Pillows for hours on windows equalizer.
What a nostalgic trip. Looking forward to listening to the video.
Thanks BPig ❤️
Your Pillows-inspired music for this video is so good. Great job man. Truly.
As someone who watched the run on toonami in 2003, I always love these indepth looks at FLCL's original run.
2003 was the first year my family had directTV, I got so lucky to happen to catch this show. It was mind blowing to see back then as a kid
Man this takes me back
Good God has it been that long?
@@Rustwraith sadly, we're old now. 🤣
Being the same age group as Naota during it's original run, especially on Adult Swim later on, was something special
So actually a lot of the writers and artists from Gainax left to find Studio Trigger which is why there’s so many references and similarities!
Thanks for mentioning Studio Trigger, I'm taking a look at their catalogue, and they have so many good shows. Though, many of them only run for1-2 seasons.
Honestly the similarities are so close I tend to think of Gurren Lagann as a Trigger production.
@@yendorimus yeah that’s the bummer because it’s so good you want more! But I’m glad they know how to write a short show and not jump the shark
@@neminemMaxime it was directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi at Gainax who then went on to co-found Studio Trigger
@@neminemMaxime Not to mention they ( Studio Trigger ) making secound season of Panty and Stocking
Thank you for this video. I have made arguments about Evangeleon vs FLCL for years. You have hit all the things I loved about FLCL and really expressed why it was such a great series.
Wow, man... The combination of your words, your music, and the imagery brought me right back to being 12 and watching FLCL on adult swim. I almost forgot just how much of a mark this one left on a lot of us around my age. It was just such a masterpiece, even kids who didn't like anime got it. Like spirited away levels of popularity.
imma just point out one of the things that was awesome about this video because there are too many to count and it happens in the end. The crossfading of the voiceover and the music! I really love how the audio did not get louder, the voice over just got quieter as the music came in to take its place. just works perfectly so thank you
When you quoted the swing the bat line, it brought so many memories and tears to my eyes. FLCL was so influential for me growing up! I’ve rewatched at least 6 times since first viewing it like a decade ago. Loved your analysis!
Fooly Cooy has helped me thru alot in my life. Every time I feel down/depressed, I'll watch old school flcl, Still kick the soundtrack to this day. Thank you, BionicPig for the amazing video, and hate to sound cheesy, but thank you flcl for saving my life.
YAAY MORE BIONIC PIG MUSIC!!!!! you dunno how long I've wanted to hear more music from you man even if it's just background music, I love fallen pine sm!
Came here to say this. Fallen Pines still shows up in my radios
FLCL was a masterpiece of art, and had such an impact on how i looked at and appreciated art. I remember watching it on the original toonami run. That first time, i wasn't entirely sure what I saw, but I just loved it and WANTED to get it. To this day I still listen to the soundtrack, and I still think about this anime when i imagine the most memorable fight scenes and the best story writing in anime. It is so satisfying to see someone genuinely appreciate it. Awesome video my friend.
dude, this video gets a like immediately for having original music, and it really DOES feel like listening to a pillows jam session. Excellent.
You know those rare RUclips videos that you know are pure, unadulterated quality? This is one of them!
Thanks a lot dude for this!
bro this is the best video you've ever made.
Your music in the background is so sick.
Holy shit I love when RUclips comes through with new content that immediately has my attention and is so dope. This break down and back story is cut so amazingly and and oh man I’m missing the teen titans part that I can’t wait to reach watch when I when it’s over. After going back and checking out some of the titles I haven’t seen. Awesome work bro
Some old anime animation is better than the new ones
*most old anime animation is better than the newer ones
I mean it’s made by the same anime studio that animated all the Evangelion series and Gurren Legann so you know your getting good quality
Yeah i think it's a studio thing
@@anguishedcarpetdemon slayer (lowkey want it remade in the 90's style)
@@anguishedcarpet no its just not
I did not realize how influential FLCL was on other works, nor did I know about The Pillows being given a blank canvas for their album. It's not the type of music I listen to, but it's among the best soundtracks I've ever heard.
The Arby's ad with the vespas made me cry. Maybe im just seeking comfort from a show when everything was simpler
That’s some sh:t I would do tbh
Nah me to bro, my girl just looked at me weird. We need to keep this old shows on mind so we can stay true to ourselves
Glad I'm not the only one who reacted that one.
16:20
I like what you did, what the music, narration, and editing here. Proper energy match.
"you'll be playing the soundtrack the rest of your life" yes. Your Pillows inspired music is incredible in this video! The Spotify playlist "If FLCL didn't have the pillows" is excellent. Once they started streaming on Spotify for real, I was reunited with all the songs i'd burned onto CD's ages ago.
Fooly Cooly is a fever dream as a 10 year old kid.
Watching on channel 42 at 12am-2am on Saturday, randomly picked episodes, not understanding anything.
And wanting more!
Then the Cowboy Bebop fridge episode came on.....
OH! I remember that night. The fridge episode,Man Yikes!
i think this is one of the most sincere and insightful analysis that i ever saw. You can feel the appreciation for the craft of storytelling and animation. thank you Bionic Pig
Personalized music. Good commentary. Great video.
I was just checking earlier today to see if a new one had dropped and it hadn't. Glad I checked twice
I found this anime back when I was in elementary school on late night cartoon network and I instantly fell in love with it! I'd stay up till 2 am just to watch one of the episodes and it launched my love for anime. While I was watching your video you just hit the nail on the head with everything and brought back that feeling I had back in the day that made me love the series. It's sad when you bring it up to people and they say they've never heard of it. But to see someone who loves and appreciates it and is able to explain in detail why this show is so damn amazing just brings peace to my heart. So thank you my dude! Keep doing what you're doing!
I can’t believe the amount of goosebumps I got just from rewatching the old clips! It’s been almost 20 years at this point…and I don’t think any show has managed to move me in quite the same way.
That guitar riff that plays when he’s freed started me on a whole Spanish guitar trip 18 years ago, now I’m a surf guitar hero and play riffs like that all over Texas. Thank you flcl
EXCELLENT video Pig. FLCL means so much to me from the art, the animation and the music. I enjoy that sound track to this day. I’m so happy to see someone else appreciates it as much as I do.
Thank you for bring more attention to such an amazing show! I remember watching this late night on the anime block of adult swim!
You making an FLCL vid was NEVER on my list of things I expected
Dude the music you made for this video was insane, it captured the show so perfectly it made me nostalgic for scenes that never happened. Thank you sm bro
I am liking the background music.
the feeling of knowing that your favorite anime created the rest of anime is parallel to none
I'm so happy you made this ♥ thank you! FLCL is my favorite show of all time. Back in high school I had the whole script in japanese memorized and would hear that pillows album on loop every single day. I was obsessed. What an amazing show.
You have good taste! I adore FLCL for its mind bending creativity. That’s amazing you memorized the Japanese script. Listening to these clips I was horrified at the English voices. I guess it would take some real passion to bring across the magic of the original.
Fun fact, Hiroyuki Imaishi who made Gurren laggan, and then founded Studio trigger is the one in charge of animation in episode 5 of FLCL
Just can’t say how much you capture stuff I think about but never share because my friends don’t care but I love that you do it
FLCL is favorite series because of the style, the screenshots in almost every scene, and the soundtrack is so good
Every generation has its masterpieces among its typical par for the course stories. FLCL was one of those, it changed the medium with its presence
Man you music was so on point! Thanks for sharing it! The pillows have stuck with me since ~2003, when i first watched the show, and everything you say about the score is so true
God, I fucking love FLCL.
Dude this was pro the most slept on anime.
FLCL is one of my favorite shows of all time. I love the gray middle ground characters, who are packed full of flaws and good aspects, I love how consistent their motivations are. I love the soundtrack and animation and themes. It is as good as I think storytelling can get.
I really wish this level of creativity from the 2000s was still around, but it looks like medical mechanicus was able to flatten our creativity with corporations getting their grubby fingers into every aspect of the entertainment industry and Corraling everything towards mass appeal for maximum profit while paying the artists beans and discouraging creative types from every entering the field professionally.
Studio Gainax was responsible for making the first FCLC anime and they have been making iconic anime’s such as evangelion and green lagaan, etc., etc., etc., and these anime’s were unforgettable coz they’re unique and fun to watch.
FLCL!!! Watched this one late at night, went to bed right after, then woke up a different person. 10/10 experience.
There's really nothing I can say about the theme that hasn't already been said, but at the very least I can say that one thing that really hit me was "The fog that makes the world look so much smaller."
I grew up in a place that, simply put, was bad. My family? Also bad.
My childhood was spent dreaming of a life of freedom where I could do anything, and go wherever I wanted.
My teenage years were spent in long bouts of silent depression and outbursts of misplaced rage at the realization that I COULD HAVE had those things, but was robbed of them.
Adulthood? We'll see. The bat's in-hand and swinging, it's just a matter of finally hitting something!
Watched when it came out. Love the pillows. Opened my eyes to some great music and art. Thanks for showing this show the love and respect it’s owed. I grew up on this and felt like this as a punk nyc kid.
Flcl is just so nostalgic thanks for covering this pig
The Pillows, was such a mood. The main vocals are great. The dreamy vibes and rifts in their songs... So many good ones imo. I used to listen to them when I was by myself a lot, and it was like this bubble disconnected from things.
You nailed that Pillows sound, love it!
Mannnnn what a blast from the past!
I remember watching this as a kid and not having any clue what I was watching, but man the show was so much fun. I could tell it was a special show back then.
You talking about this this way makes so much sense. They communicated and entertained in such a way without words. I feel like the music did most of the story telling.
When I hear people talk about this show its universally beloved.
you're one of my favorite creators on this platform, thank you for sharing your work with the world
Watching this video made me remember the feels I had the first time I watched the show..
Like a deep Melancholy and tad of sadness, I resonated with this anime so much at the time being in a really tough time in my life.
Thank you bionic!🙏🙏 I remember watching flcl on adult swim and man, did the first episode every hook me. This my coming of age anime that made me really think. Top 5 for sure. Also, if it wasn't for the pillows doing the soundtrack, I never would've picked up a guitar. Thanks again!
I LOVE FLCL. It was a fundamental point in my youth (graduated HS in '04). The messages, music, and style are so great at capturing the feelings of a teenage boy. I own it on DVD (which comes with booklets that breakdown all the jokes, references, and the anime scenes)
Your music in this video is killer man! I’d love to see you at a show playing some of those songs that you played here live!
I still remember when I first saw this anime. It was 2003 at Anime USA in Virginia. We had just finished our Mystery Anime Theater 3000 showing we had done, and after everyone left we stayed in the room and one of the people who stayed back took out his laptop and we watched some new fan subs he had brought with him. One of which was the entirety of FLCL. We were up until nearly 8am the following morning but I still remember how amazing and epic it was watching it for the first time on a projector. God what I wouldn’t give to experience that weekend all over again with my friends.
0:30 massive photosensitive epilepsy warning
As someone with epilepsy thank you there should be more warnings in stuff
Out of curiosity, how is it navigating anime content with epilepsy? I can't imagine it's very easy
@@SeveralGhost 3% of people with epilepsy actually have photosensitive epilepsy I myself am not part of that percentage so I wouldn't know but I do know it's severity varies from person to person and that us epileptics support each other so they might have a list of films and TV shows reviewed by other people with how "flashy" they are but the reason there are warnings despite it only being 3% is because a fit can if lasting for more than 5mins means brain damage and even death which is kinda scary so despite me not having it I still panic when I see flashing lights sometimes
@@midit20 I know the dangers, the Porygon episode of Pokemon was referenced a lot when I was a kid. My uncle has non-photo epilepsy, but he doesn't watch anime so I couldnt ask him. Appreciate your response!
FLCL was an absolute pinnacle of my childhood. Glad to see it getting some real love many many years later.
I’m pretty sure former trigger staff were gainax artist so it’s seem logic that by their work on FLCL (and also NGE) influenced every other anime they produced.
We can compare the first anime of trigger (Kill la Kill) to evangelion or gurren lagann, they share the alien invader part :).
Gainax and Trigger are bond together and i will love forever the fact that the story is deep and always carry multiple messages.
Thanks for this deep dive, this really brought me back, I got introduced to FLCL through adult swim's Toonami over 20 years ago. This show really hit so many emotions while watching it that when it was over I had to keep going back to pick up on things I missed the first time around. Then I ended up getting the Pillow's album just to bring back some of the nostalgia of this show and the emotions some of the scenes produced.
Naoto gets abused. FLCL is a story about Naoto getting abused, while he's too young and naive to do anything about it. He enjoys being around the people who abuse him because he doesn't fully understand what love really is.
Yes, he does, and the story is about how the difficult aspects of life sometimes help shape our characters for the better.
Women, amirite
@rclaws3230 a child has a full understanding of what love is?
if the comment comes from someone without a profile picture, it's best to just ignore it, they have negative iQ
I prefer BionicPIG's interpretation. Growing up is bittersweet. You lose something, got you gain something too.
FLCL and Paranoia Agent..... these animes were a staple for me.
I feel like you would really like Son of The White Mare, it’s an Hungarian animated movie with some insane designs and animations
I love that movie!! Feherlofia for life!!
One thing many miss is that the satellite is crashing only because one of Haruko's home runs in the baseball game hits and damages it.
Glad the sponsor finally gave you the go ahead to upload. Especially on a topic that touches you deep and are passionate about.
I have an FLCL tattoo on my chest and the amount of times I have put people on this anime is the past 9 years since getting this tattoo is countless. This anime has always and will always be my #1 anime in heart and soul
0:06, confirmed same universe as One Piece, lol
I remember when this aired on Cartoon Network and going into school the next day and discussing the madness of each episode with my friend. I am not sure I ever fully grasped what was really going on in this show but I loved every second of it. I watched the recent iteration of the series and had a similar result no idea what is going on but still loved it. After watching this though I feel like I need to watch it all over again and really let it sink in because FLCL has lived inside my head for over 2 decades and I dont think I truly ever gave it the attention it deserves.
Please post the montage song
Thank you for this, I'm 41 now but the nostalgia watching this deep dive brought back feelings from my younger days I had long since buried.
That scene where he swings the back, the pillows shredding in the background, the animation, the energy....goosebumps every single time. Single favorite moment in anime.
FLCL is the greatest anime I've never understood. Watching it was a wild ride.
Out of all the anime you mention in this video FLCL is the only one I've seen. When watching it for the first time on adult swim all those years ago as a young teenager, it truly was an experience. It made me feel a certain way, I enjoy thinking back to that feeling from time to time, it's something I can't put in words.
Since the firs time I watched FLCL in 2003 in Adult Swim it has held the No. 1 place in my heart. Well, I like it more than hard bread
The guitar riff during the pan-up on Naota lives rent free in my head
incredible video and the music REALLY felt like the pillows music, I LOVED that ^^
I was 22 when FLCL came out, and it stuck with me because my early teen years were very similar to Naota, suffering similar manipulations from those I had feelings for. So when he finally said "I love you" in that somber way, it made me cry, because I knew the feeling he had in his gut at that moment. I will always love fooly cooly
You can probably see it sooner than 12:22, and it's blurry, but the FLCL omnibus in on his bookshelf. You know, the white and blue thing under the plushie. Man loves this show.
I remember being 13. Stumbling on FLCL on Stars network back in 2004 or 5. feeling like Naota. Just stuck, in a mundane life, look up at the sky wondering. I remember how much i fucking LOVED listening to the Pillows. man . . . . thats some powerful Nostalgia I just unlocked from 20 years ago 😶I never truly understood the entire story, and aways felt like it was symbolic.
FLCL was what reignited my love of anime, and this was the first episode I saw, I fell asleep with my TV on, woke up to this.
Having grown up watching FLCL then recently watching EVA, I loved seeing where FLCL took entire scenes or ideas the team had making EVA, but just made them better. To me it seemed like whatever the team learned making EVA, they pumped straight into FLCL, making it comedic and fast paced, which makes it a classic. And super easy to rewatch.
This man started out with, "it only had 6 episodes". Looking back it felt like more.
Imagine going to work and someone tells you that you suck and to watch a six episode acid trip in order to "git gud". (boss man was right)
Neon Genesis Evangelion hit me so hard as a kid as it resonated with my passion for mythology, mysticism and spirituality... But FLCL and Gurren Lagan engraved themselves in my soul and made me grow as a person.
It's time I re-watch FLCL.
Flcl always brings a tear to my eye. Manipulation fucking hurts.
You should also mention Dead Leaves, a movie by the same studio that came out before FLCL, I think. FLCL came into my life in college alongside Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Escaflowne, Macross Plus. What a time that was. Pure gold.
Thanks for this.
FLCL certainly left an impact on me.