FLCL

Fooly Cooly or Fuli Culi or FLCL ( Furikuri - フリクリ) is a series of six OAV S carried out by Katsuya Tsurumaki in 2000. This coproduction between the studios Gainax and Production I.G became famous at the fans of Anime and Manga.

Nonsense and frenzy

In fact the two words characterize this series led to a disconcerting rate/rhythm.

The style is illogical with premium access, especially for the beginners at animates. Moreover, obscure references support humor of it. Consequently, the opinions on the value of this series are very polarized. In its favor, it contains many second degrees and many standard styles are developed there: Science fiction, Comedy, drama, Romance serial, horror.

Parodies

Listels floppée of parodies: John Woo, South Park, Neon Genesis Evangelion (also produced by Gainax), Lupin III, Daicon (in the fifth Haruko episode shouts " Daicon V").

History

This has as a general subject the transition to the civil Majorité animates, in the direction more ritual than legal of the passage of adolescence at the adulthood. It is the history of the boy Nandaba Naota alive in the ordinary Japanese suburbs though strange of Mabase which meets Haruhara Haruko , a girl in Vespa. It sends consequently a blow of low Guitare to him Rickenbacker in the head. Parodies, capacities strange and extraterrestrial are followed from there. Naota has also an ambiguous relation with a young high-school girl Mamimi Samejima, supposed being the boyfriend of its brother.

Characters

Naota Nandaba
Haruko Haruhara
Mamimi Samejima
Gaku
Kiturubami
Miyu Miyu
Shigekuni Nandaba
Masashi
Amarao
Eri Ninamori
Kamon Nandaba
Junko Miyaji

Episodes

With the commercial pauses, the total duration of FLCL is of approximately 2 hours.

The six episodes are:

Fooly Cooly (Japanese Title: Furi Kuri (フリクリ))
FireStarter (Japanese Title: FiSta (ファイスタ))
Marquis de Carabas (Japanese Title: Maru-Raba (マルラバ))
Full Swing (Japanese Title: Furi Kiri (フリキリ))
Brittle Bullet (Japanese Title: Bura-Bore-hole (ブラブレ))
FLCLimax (Japanese Title: Furi Kura (フリクラ))

Comparison manga-animates

There exists a manga in 2 volumes, developed in parallel with the series. The history is there appreciably the same one, even if removed from rim humor is erased regularly for a blacker tone and pschychologique, in total opposition to the style more than simplistic - and yet so major and particular - dessinatrice Hajime Ueda.

Universe FLCL

Manga

Mangaka : Hajime Ueda
Serialized in: Magazine Z
Editor in Japan: Kodansha
Date of first publication: 2001
Many volumes published in Japan and in France: 2
Editor: Pika Edition
Statute: Finished publication

OAV

Distributed in francophonie by Dybex.

Equip

Staff of animates

Hiromasa Ogura : Artistic director
Nobutoshi Ogura: Director Animation
Shinya Ohira: Draftsman
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto: Chara Designer
Katsuya Tsurumaki: Realizer

Japanese doublings

Jun Mizuki : Naota Nandaba
Mayumi Shintani : Haruko Haruhara
Izumi Kasagi : Mamimi Samejima
Akira Miyajima : Gaku
Chiemi Chiba: Kiturubami
Hideaki Anno : Miyu Miyu
Hiroshi Ito : Shigekuni Nandaba
Kazuhito Suzuki : Masashi
Kouji Ohkura : Amarao
Mika Itou : Eri Ninamori
Suzuki Matsuo : Kamon Nandaba
Yukari Fukui : Junko Miyaji

External bonds

Japanese sites

http://www.gainax.co.jp/anime/flcl/index.html

English sites

http://www.productionig.com/contents/works_sp/09_/index.html
http://www.adultswim.com/shows/flcl/index.html
http://www.gainax.co.jp/flcl/index-e.html

French sites

Fully Cooly the not-official site of FLCL and GAINAX
Catsuka complete explanatory File on the series

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