FLCL is about Loneliness
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2022
- Today I'm revisiting a little piece of nostalgia from my formative years. Fooly Cooly (or FLCL) spoke to my teenage angst in a very powerful way and it's taken until now for me to really figure out why... oh and stick around to the end for a BIG update!
Oh also Incels take notes...
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FLCL Grunge and FLCL Shoegaze look terrible, just sayin... 
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"Every time something comes out of your head it creates..... Problems for everyone" a gem thats either straight forward or w a dash of riddle and figurative ness..
Idk but your video hit hard, just giving me the language to explain how I feel about this show thanks
a couple days ago it gave me the language to explain my entire life. I cant thank him cause I'm scared of where this leads me
I don't like videos very frequently, but this is one of the most eye-opening analysis videos I've ever seen. Thank you internet stranger for recontextualizing how I perceive my favorite show. I rewatched the entire show with a group of friends last night with this video in mind, and it helped me understand a lot of things I didn't before. Wish you the best and here's to hoping this video gets the attention it deserves
Do you think the story is also kinda incoherent because trauma affects memory? My teens are a huge pile of distorted one-offs with huge stretches of nothing in between due to intense bullying and suicidal ideaton. Makes my teen years very incoherent as a result.
Thats possibly part of the subtext, but its worth remembering that due to the brain pruning synapses over time, a lot of memories get lost in the shuffle regardless of trauma. So don't worry, you're not alone!
Ur lame dude.
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"This is who I am and not afraid of it. Even if you are" damn!!! Mic drop! what a line!!
ayooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo new perspective dropped. My essay for my class finna be amazing, gonna cite you so hard.
bro make me your student wow like brooooooooooo where u learn stuff like this i want to learn and grow to sheesh
Ngl getting cited in a class is like a psych guys dream lol
I don't know anything about this anime, and honestly, I don't care much about it... but as a vehicle for what you speak... this video... this just spoke to me very very deeply. Thank you very much
god this video was so fucking good i just recently rediscovered flcl after like 5+ years and i was mad young then, so watching it again was like going through it for the first time all over again. i can say with confidence its my favorite anime, and this video did an amazing job of putting into words the thoughts in my head that i couldnt :) i will absolutely be bringing this back up to watch in the future and to bond over with a future partner/partners :)
and jesus christ i was choked up for all 28 minutes lmao
watched this 6 episode anime so much over the years but this really brought to the forefront some ideas i was never aware of or I couldn't put into words. that was an incredible breakdown of a less than 2 hour cartoon that has made a massive impact on my life. thanks for doing that! i shed tears!
This soundtrack over your commentary is emotionally killing me
*Haruko voice* THAT'S THE IDEAAA! :D
Same….
Thank you. I really appreciated that video. I'm 38 years old and watched the series for the first time shortly after it came out in Japan back then. But in contrast to most of the other anime I watched back then, FLCL stayed with me for over half of my life. And I think you finally made me understood why. While I've been working on myself, trying to get over past trauma, I still can see way too much of myself in Naota. But me understanding things like that were always the first step into a better future. So seriously: Thank you.
And I'll have to hang my FLCL pvc poster, which was signed by two of Gainax's staff back then, way higher.
You are more than welcome! I wish you well on your journey of recovery :)
at 24:15 exactly I paused and screamed out “you’re right!!”
seriously such an AMAZING video ! Just as good as the show!! this is honestly the best breakdown of flcl I’ve seen yet (and I’ve watched almost all the ones on yt…I really love the show and hearing people’s opinions and take on it)
Fantastic job! Truly!
Thank you for this one. So far, I've finally started reading Beserk because of your videos and now i have a new animé to watch. Awesome
ive always related to naota in a way i couldn't place my finger on, and its this. being surrounded by people who dont actually want a real connection, but are just using me for self gratification. a lifetime of that is so crushing.
you totally got the point. Carl Jung once said that "loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." in the whole show, naota and mamimi, particularly, felt all the way like this. even during occurring events everything sounded so empty, as if things were simply happening without an actual profound reason behind it. naota in the beginning said that "nothing happens here (in this town)", then, since haruko's appearance, things started to happen, and yet, he felt lonely. even his family can't understand or even listen to him properly, he feels like he's the only one conscious there. mamimi is the one who can't communicate her feelings, even if she wanted to, she knows nobody will actually understand and she would be told to move on from the past (which is something she doesn't want to), and during the whole show she's desperately trying to believe in an entity that could understand her struggles; that's why she ends up feeding a robot with other's motorcycles, not only to get revenge on those who cannot understand her but also because that little robot, since it appeared, it helped her get rid of something she couldn't do herself, that is, naota brother's number. complemented by the pillows OST, this anime have a particular melancholic theme that screams how they are lost within themselves, and it's a feeling that couldn't be conveyed by the others FLCL's animations.
btw, i would like to translate your video to brazilian-portuguese. is that possible?
Not lying when I say this is probably my favorite video I've ever watched on yt
I haven't seen this in over 10 years but I'm glad I watched it and your video now. Maybe if I had understood FLCL better back then I'd have had a better time in my teens.
such a great show, and the animation is so good! great breakdown
I love this analysis! You don’t try to strike a formal plot into something that’s meant to be felt overall
Hey, just wanted to thank you, idk who you are realy, but your words helped me understand loneliness and things i maybe never wouldve... not sure to understand everything ofc but still thank you it help!
(also banger video idk why but it is)
i started reading the manga last night. i don’t understand it :) but i like the art
The manga is even more insane and confusing lol A very different story to the anime, a more dark one, but I prefer the anime for keeping it light
Beautifully said, made me appriciate and understand the show much more than i originally did
i've always had like so many animes in a room without a explaning. and flcl it's one of those. it's a strange way of like i've always known that the meaning it's been there, but someone has to show it. i've always felt like that, but never know how to put into words and explained to myself. thanks. i dont even remember what my age was when i've watched it, but the feeling it's the same, when it come to that series. thank you so much. cheers from brazil.
this the best video about flcl actually
im a 17yo boy and ive felt lonely most of my life, geniunly enjoyed flcl but never really understood why, guess i know why thanks man
Before watching video: it's also about the inherent loneliness of puberty, much of the themes and visuals relate back to growing up and going through the awkward phases of puberty.
He likes sweet drinks not the sour ones, same as Amarao who is an analog for Naota if he were to fail to grow as a person and remained childishbwhile trying to act and seem grown up.
Naota is very self conscious about how others perceive him, constantly yelling out of embarassment unable to let any remark simply roll off of him; he is a perfect example of a child who desperately craves to be seen as and treated as a mature adult but is not yet ready to sit in the appropriate headspace.
This contrasts pretty well against Ninamori who exudes a tough and cool exterior unphased by the hectic nature of her parents' lives, while simultaneously embracing a more lighthearted and childish attitude when alone with Naota.
I like how this video gave me the anwer to my biggest problem lol. thx for helping,great video the only one that explained this show with some wisdome and logic
This goes some ways to explaining why I didn't understand this show years ago when I tried to watch it. Wasn't ready for it, might be now.
beautiful video man
This one is a hidden gem
I subscribed, your degree is well deserved my friend
Great break down of FLCL thank you.
This is a really good video essay, amazing work. Completely agree personally the puberty metaphor angle is super weak due to the lack of universality, a really succinct way you put it couldn't put my finger on why. Still have a large issue in this series with the handling of sexual/ emotional abuse and childhood trauma aspect of this series. There is stuff done well like how the men around Naoto are terrible at identifying it as their own gaze clouds their judgement. Still primarily don't think there is enough care and sensitivity here with the handling of abuse. There seems to be barely a fallout after Naoto is literally groomed when in reality people who get groomed have this trauma often manifest in emotionally devastating way via things like repression, emotional stunting, lashing out, trauma perpetrating more trauma etc.
just finished the show, subbed :D
Everything I remember about flcl is like a bad dream that's also horny. Great video. I can"t help but feel disturbed after thinking about flcl to much.
It's about puberty and dealing with young heart break. And dealing with narcissistic personalities with coming of age and tapping into the giant mecca battles for entertainment. Being sexually attracted to someone when you are at the age of between 13-18 years old is different than 30s. You know that a toxic relationship is bad but the sexual attraction is the drug just as powerful as narcotics. It's called limerence. That was harukos addiction to fill a void.And that is an addiction we maybe reaching for to replicate that 13-18 year old feeling we had when we were young ...its nostalgia...To feel young love affection again. But as we get older there are responsibilities and expectations on both ends...as harukos final words in a narcissistic discard the saying goes "your just a kid...." after everything she knowingly made him feel. She was guilty when she had a depressed face in his bed while he showed affection. 17:47 is the message. And it's almost metaphors a toddlers need Like for breast feeding.
I haven’t rewatched the shows but something always resonated with me deeply in these stories. I strongly agree with your interpretation however, you tiptoed on existentialism when everything in the show alludes to a sort of ambiguity and animosity between the characters and plot. You’re right though the story itself contains a lot regarding peoples relationships. But medical mechanica, i feel like that also talks about the new vices people are finding today to help cope with my loneliness. Never knows best, is featured juxtaposed to fool on cool. Except it also has much larger implications about the kinds of mindsets one can arrive in when they feel so isolated. however never knows best can be interpreted in a positive way aswell so i’m not sure whether or not it applies. idk im just spit balling god wish i had someone to talk to about this show.
Everything in this video ultra relatable
Keep making the videos
yup when i watch it i can feel the angst!!!!
What’s the background song at 9:24
....yeah. this resonates.
Based, I be telling nobody how I feel that shit awesome
Great vid! Here's my defense of the Vespa Woman. She represents cool. She's the girl who smoked cigs in your high school biology class. She's the Aunt who moved to San Francisco. She's Hollywood. It's easy for lonely people to envy or even actively resent cool. They fear that they can't emulate. But wisely,the show advises us not to be jealous and resentful. Share a smoke with the cool girl,be cool about it when she shares a smoke with someone else later on. Cool can be a very positive influence in our lives,when we treat that influence in a relaxed and non-expectant way. Be calm about cool.
"Be calm about cool" is a song lyric I might steal one day, so if you ever hear it in a song, reach out and ill give you royalty rights
I hated progressive as much as everyone else but I legit liked Alternative. . . Tho I think Alternative might have been recieved better if it just wasn’t at all attached to FL-CL. Because it’s just a different show entirely that recast Haruka and all the imagery towards a different thematic end goal.
Personally I think that’s the only way to make a FL-CL follow up. Because there’s nothing really to follow up on in the original.
This man fuckin cooked. Excellent analysis.
14:06 Wait, are you saying Haruko's not in love with Atomsk, despite this being further iterated upon in Progressive? Jw what you mean here, not going to debate it. I completely understand why critical reception to that season was less than warm, even though I somewhat enjoyed it.
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I dont really watch anime, but FLCL, soul eater, and cowboybeebop are some of my favorite pieces of art in the world. These shows are just such beautifull creations.
My mom has a FLCL tatto, and it was actually my mom who showed me all these good ass animes. Ive tried to watch other shows that my mom never told me about, but for some reason I just dont like any animes other then those specific few that I heard about from my mom. also im 15 and most people my age watch anime or at least pretend to watch anime, but the type of people who watch these really popular animes are really cringe people to be around. and I dont wanna become apart of that crowed, I mean I understand that not everybody who watched anime act the way they do, but I just feel like watching anime has become less about the art and more about the culture, and im not talking about asian culture, im talking about the american anime culture, americans have turned anime into some sort of flex, and a commen question that you'll be asked from time to time "do you watch anime?" why the hell do you wanna do if I watch an animated show, u never hear a mf ask "do you watch cartoons?" some people nowadays see watching anime as an entire personality trait, and it just makes me mad, so I just distance my self from anime I guess because kids my age gotta ruin everything, I just hate the way the worlds turning out its just so stupid. I already see alot of kids in my age range, and I just think how could somebody be so braindead but do so well in school, and im horrible in school. I was homeschooled from kindergarten all the way to the 5th grade when my parents said "yk what maybe he needs to get a formal education". so I then went to go to the 5th grade and I failed horribly because I had no pryor school knowlage. I ended up dropping out in the 5th grade only 6 - 9 months in, I dropped out to sell my art that id have up in a burger restraunt. then next school year comes rolling around, im 11 at this point and I say "yk what.. ima try middle school and see if everything goes well". (*spoiler alert* it didnt.) I was the worst kid in history to ever go to that school (and I dont say that lightly), acordding to them when they had the meeting with me and my parents saying Im kicked out of the school that I had the record for the most time spent in detention. me and my friends were off the wall crazy, im talkin climbing on the roof during school hours all that shit. and as you guessed I didnt learn jack shit in the 6th grade because I didnt even know where to start, everything they were teaching looked like collage shit to 11 year old me. so I got kicked out of middle school and then from age 11 to 15 I have been getting in a lot of trouble with the law, I caught my first case at 13 it was a felony gas station burgerly, in my whole time commiting crime ive gained 4 codefendants, and about 20 felony charges, when I was 14 I went to jail 3 times in the span of 1 year, and all 3 of those times I was going to school in jail, which is crazy because ive done more months in jail school then public schools, but the whole point in my whole schooling story is that I never learned shit, but im still far more wise and have alot more commen sense then kids my age
2 b real idk what this comment is even about or how it started
So, you're telling me it's a realistic, down-to-earth show... that's completely off-the-wall and swarming with magic robots?
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It's Fooly Cooly in JP they love to make portmanteau of English words; in this instance fool [(Christhead) & cool (TheJokster/devil) occult sybolism] (oxymoronic). It's the "Human Comedy" here on/in Earth the 3D medium. We're alone but not alone. Same same but different. Love & War. Qi ***Thy Consume Thee...Amen "There's a lot of despreat people out there." LoL
fuck i think im lonely
“Got scared by”. ?? Lol not me brutha !! I was 14 when it first aired in America in 2003. And while I didn’t get everything about it at the time (only parts of it) I knew that it was important and relevant to my life at the time. Not being able to look past the “crazy” stuff is a personal issue not a content issue
i did not had any idea this show existed until a cousin told me about it, and i am so fucking glad i know about it now. is like if i didn't even knew i needed to hear this, but i do... Thanks
“who conquers the left sides conquers the world”
The most important sentence in the whole series is said by mamimi at the beginning. 🧠
It ain’t any of this stuff,it’s the split in the tiny little gap between post vapor wave and grunge music
Hal, it's about cats...
It’s better than neon genisis …….. fight me
Never turn your back on family, even when they hurt you.
Never let life get the better of you.
And if you remember nothing else, remember to find time to eat together as a family, even when times are rough; especially when times are rough.
There's no lack of painful things in this world, but hunger and loneliness must surely be two of the worst.
Thanks to you, my precious family, I didn't know a moment of either of those the last ninety years.
Love you all.
Good bye.
Alternative is good, Progressive is 66% utter crap and 33% alright.
Alternative is ok besides the ending. Progressive is just 2 hours of missing the point of the original
wait youre supposed to lost your virginity as a teenager?
In the 2000s mindset I grew up in, and in which FLCL was made, losing your "v-card" as my friends put it was very much "supposed to be" a teenage experience although i dont know if it is any more. No shade on anyone who lost it later, tbh sometimes I wonder if I lost mine too soon, but it's certainly in the mind of most teenagers.
little cringe here and there but one of the better videos on flcl
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26:52 #cringe
eva is about lonliness flcl is not
no its not
This frames why that final battle feels like pure perfection. He gives himself entirely to a new level of open abuse, she betrays him more harshly and quickly than ever, expecting Atomosk's freedom to be her empowerment. Like an abuser expects a new (and often in their delusional minds ""Final"") level of abuse to solve the problem of their victim even WANTING be free, full control.
But in a moment he goes from a surrendered pawn, to a empowered warrior who refuses to be crushed (literally by the giant hand) as part of his abusers game and manipulation. Turning her excitement and glee of total freedom to use him forever for her own desires, to an previously unseen level of unhinged rage at his empowerment to end her control, despite honest caring and love remaining for the abuser.
Now, as an adult. I get why this amazing, awesome, chills educing moment. Had such a vague, sad, hallowness to it as well. Because it's the realization of the desire of every lonely youth or abused person, but it ends in a way we know as we age, so few abusive relationships do.
Far to many are destroyed by that unleashed and unmasked rage when they reach that moment, either at their own hands, or at the hands of another. That moment is a beautiful depiction of one of the hardest and most powerful life experiences anyone can go through, and succeeding. whether the abuser is someone else, or yourself. To Think You Can, and then be right.
Amazing video, new sub for sure, thanks for opening my eyes to new ways this still remains one of my favorite shows of all time. Cheers.
FLCL ©
I feel exactly like this, how do i get help?