#fooly cooly progressive

[arcadebroke]

[dyingfad]

FLCL Alternative (2018)

[sealitsgills]

I HATE HER I HATE HER I HATE HER

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

[asteria-f-x]

Haruko Haruhara in my style 🎸⚾️

[kowav]

finally feel a bit more awake now and since i’m going through a bunch of albums while doing homework, might as well share them with you. ( ˘ ɜ˘) ♬♪♫

[geomonjes]

Waifu WIP-tober Day 17: Haruko Haruhara from FLCL

[rawtoonage]

Hot Take

Here's how I think FLCL: Progressive and FLCL: Alternative should've been made

FLCL: Progressive – Set several years after FLCL: Classic in which we see Naota getting ready to graduate high school, just when he thinks he has his life figured out here comes Haruko who is still on her crusade to get Atomsk because Naota was the closest she ever came to him.

FLCL: Alternative – This story goes back several years before the events of FLCL: Classic in which we see the story of how Amarao met Haruko for the first time and how she affected him throughout the years.

And that's how I'd handle Progressive and Alternative, thank you for your time

[aqours]

mods are asleep post flcl tierlist

the ones i actually struggled with:

Pets in A or B

Hijiri in S or A

[raffian]

Me and FunkBob are back at it again! Here is the eighth installment of our Toonami Lineup drawing! If you're new to these FunkBob and I draw the main character to each show new to Toonami since it's [adult swim] rebirth and arrange 5-7 when they've built up. We divvy up who does the pencil sketches and then I digitally ink and color them. We've been working on these more as a group and this should make the next several drawing move much more smoothly. In fact, we have the next 3 picture's worth of characters inked and ready for coloring! See you for the next one soon!

Show represented (L to R) Lunpin the III ; Lupin the III © TMS, Monkey Punch Kana Komoto & Julia Jinyu ; FLCL Alternative/Progressive © Production IG Izuku "Deku" Midoriya ; My Hero Academia © Studio BONES, Kohei Horikoshi Gene Starwind ; Outlaw Star © Sunrise, Takehiko Itō Ken Kaneki ; Tokyu Ghoul © Pierrot, Sui Ishida Jotaro Kujo ; JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders © David Profuction, Hirohiko Araki Asta ; Black Clover © Pierrot, Yūki Tabata

Show Collaboration Pictures 1  And We Call it TOONAMI 2  Tougher than the Best, Stronger than the Rest 3  We Won't be Intimidated by Criminal Threats! 4  Building You a Better Cartoon Show 5  The Beats are Much Phatter 6  Time to Push the Button 7  Pardon Our Dust 8  Ready to Launch

Movie Collaboration Pictures 1  Movies for the Masses Pt. 1 2  Movies for the Masses Pt. 2

[killervelveteenrabbit]

Where's Naota?

As excited as I am about "FLCL: Grunge", I fear it carries one strike against it before it even airs. It's the same problem that plagued "Progressive" and "Alternative" before it.

Naota has appeared briefly in eye-catches and end sequences, but we never find out what happened to him after TOS. We last saw him as a middle-schooler, engaged in standard bickering with his friends in a town that had presumably gone back to normal. Or had it? (twang)

We never found out how the kid made out in the considerable number of years that have apparently passed since. Is he still in Mabase, or did he leave? Has he had anymore misadventures with Haruko/Raharu? How was he affected, if at all, by his brief possession by Atomsk? I'm sure I'm not the only one who's wondering and who feels like a truly comprehensive successor to TOS would answer this question.

"Where did you go? You left without saying anything!"

[pennyanims]

Me when fake FLCL trailer I made

[someguyiguess23]

Cryptid Crush x FLCL OST Album cover fanart

So I guess for context when I was getting into Cryptid Crush, I was also watching/getting into Fooly Cooly (and listening to a lot of The Pillows) simultaneously. So I had the idea of making CC fanart parodying the FLCL Progressive/Alternative OST cover.

Aaaand, here it is! :3

[dragonofdarkness666]

My first tears of 2025... I favorite band from a favorite anime just disbanded..

I've only seen obviously the original fooly cooly series and progressive and I've not seen the others..

But as far as the music itself I've always enjoyed it and it's always sad to see a awesome band go but at least it's because they've been playing for a long time not because of infighting.

[monkey-network]

Good Stuff: FLCL Grunge

or How Not to Grasp Why "Bottled Lightning" Exists

I'll preface this by saying that these recent "seasons" of Fooly Cooly have not ruined the original. That's like if you got a bottomless bag of tropical Skittles, every other minute you get a black Twizzler or flavorless candy corn piece thrown in that you aren't forced to eat but constantly get weirded out that they were in there in the first place. What is bad is that we're up to three sequels of FLCL & none of them even range to being on par with the original in terms of engaging memorability. I'm not the type to rag about X or Y being forgotten online days after it was just released, but it stings seeing a beloved anime have sequel series that everyone wants to forget because nobody asked for them. This isn't like Trigun Stampede where it got to have a newfound fanbase in spite of the backlash of diehards, we're on the 4th story and you might as well imagine the tumbleweeds. It doesn't help that the expectations didn't come with presentable execution... because Grunge was bad.

I'm honestly just waiting for Uzumaki at this point

It's ironic that while my reviews are about animated media, I don't really discuss the animation given my minimal expertise; I'm more of an emotional critic than a technical one. FLCL Grunge is the exception because it feels like a mess. It's like an enhanced PS1 game that looks graphically better than Berserk 2016 but has that same quality of stiff, choppy action and inconsistent blending of 2D imagery. You just wonder why this couldn't just be 2D? You would believe the CG studio responsible had this as their first-ever credit, but it's not as Montblanc's actual first feature had somehow better animation than this, and that was back in 2012. So either it was rushed or Production IG had no clue what they were going for. Worst aspect just has to be the rock humans because they can be so awkward to see and oh yeah, close but different topic.

Why are there Thing people?

Fooly Cooly I don't think anybody was ever in it for the lore. It was a miniseries where the pieces you could put together offered some sense while having open-ended questions. Even though the OG was far more grounded despite itself, I'm not against having aliens in these sequels because I'm all for things getting weird to spice up the purposeful mundanity. My only issue is the rock people are all we really have in this story when there could exist other species. It's a symptom of a larger problem these sequels have where things exist with none of the deserved flesh. Most enjoyed the OG more for the personal journey, not really piecing everything involving Medical Mechanica. With this, it just feels like they're trying to get Matpat's attention with all the stuff Haruko does with very surface-level backstories regarding the main characters. You know as much about what happened to Rockies as you do anything about Shin or Orinoko, which heavily pales in comparison to the previous three MCs. All this wrapped in an undercooked 3 episodes that is, and I'm not kidding...

Just a worse take of The Simpsons "Trilogy of Error"

One of my favorite story tropes is when everything takes place in one day, bonus points for interconnecting multiple stories into one. They do that here like in The Simpsons episode where everyone's involved in one crazy night. The problem again stems from that I barely care about the MCs enough and while there exists setup, you only get to know so much before it's over. It took episode 3 for me to give somewhat a fuck and even then they had to rush the climax all for a shitty reveal that it was a prequel this whole time. Giving Progressive its credit, at least we got time to grasp the characters. Any interconnected throughline is all for the climax which misses the point of the story structure. In the end, it felt like nothing. Whether it's a positive or not that it was only three episodes is debatable, but man...

Haruko was still hot. Take your pennies for a nickel

Making this review wasn't so much about disliking Grunge as it was about saying the original Fooly Cooly wasn't a fluke. To say that is like saying the unique animation structure of Into the Spiderverse was a fluke that couldn't be utilized well anywhere else post-release. I don't hate Grunge or think it's the worst anime ever, but this didn't subside the disenfranchisement that stemmed from an OVA that could work as an anthology. Something is only lightning in a bottle when you otherwise don't paint forgettable story elements with average to subpar imagery and have The Pillows carry every scene with their music. If this wasn't FLCL, it was a pretty underwhelming anime. As it is, it's another sequel that mistakes having ambition and familiarity for being engaging and resonating.

2 Out Of 5; An Erectile Dysfunctional Season

[naota-haley]

2 MORE NEW FLCL SEASONS I'M SO FUCKING HYPE I'VE BEEN HOPING WE GET MORE FLCL AFTER THE LAST 2 SEASONS I'M SO FUCKING READY PLS BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS