I like surreal experimental films and animes. I don't mind when it's bizzare or even incohrrent as long as it got a point. Now this anime is bizzare and it does got a point but it is also disgusting and gives so many wrong messages. This must be the kind of anime that makes many people hate anime, over sexualized girls all over being extremely teasing with nonsensical plot and visuals. The sad thing is the creativity behind this anime is huge with amazing animation and so many creative ways (even though silly) to showcase the symbolisms. The story is about the coming of age story of Naota and everything else is his sexual growth it's problems and the woman involved. Now the anime is already pretty nonsensical with the other story arc of the alien girl who uses this boy as portal to bring robots to use them against an alien corporation. But the problem is this non coherent anime got only one thing that makes sense to everyone, it's about how a 12 year old boy is manipulated and used by 3 girls among them 2 older girls and one of them adult, along with a horny father in the house it's always about sex. A sex comedy about a 12 year old boy is not ok. It's ok to show a 12 year olds sexuality and sexual awakening, it's even ok if it is sometimes comical but this show is just atrocious in that aspect. The boy is completely manipulated by girls. At the beginning he's manipulated by the 17 year old girl who was his brother's ex girlfriend and she uses him for her pleasures even if it's not so extreme. Then the alien girl comes and starts manipulating him and he totally falls for it, even at the ending when he could have been better off he's still not out of it. In the middle of the anime the whole sex and death thing with the father is too weird and even after that the boy falls for that girl. All these problems are secondary because it's almost impossible to figure out all this. The biggest problem is while figuring out what's happening one would assume to get something out of it but not something so disgusting, disturbing and appalling. The amount of phallic symbols used in this and the use of cultural references for sexual awakening would be enough to think they aren't symbols anymore. It's almost like pro pedophile.

FLCL is was great anime show on Adult Swim in 2004 and come back in 2018 on Toonami. Kari Wahlgren is did great job who playing the voice of Haruko Haruhara

I'm sorry, I've tried. I've tried to like this 6 episode series, I've tried to link the beginning to end, I've tried to like the characters, the WAY overthetop animation, the erraticism, the niche, the "Fooly Coolly" too Coolly for Schooly everything. No. This anime is the straight schism between what anime had been, and what it is now.The animation is like Bebop took a mountain of cocaine loaded into a pile of thirty strippers various crevices, slapped C4 in the pile, through the pile on a rocket ship, and had Donald Trump shout at the rocket while blasting into space doing line after line of blow out of said women. You know those erratic camera angles that occur when Spike fights someone in Bebop, yeah those happen WAY too often in this series. There's sick, and there's trying too hard.That's before we bring up Haruko. The epitome of millennial YOLO counter culture, this chick is like every spunky Weezer fan with a trust fund in one annoying amalgamation. Completely carefree, violent, no talent, strings along horny men, hit's people on the f*cking head with her guitar...Which is the worst plot device in the history of anime! The protagonist is some poor boy who's surrounded by manipulative teen females that get's smacked on the forehead to shortly thereafter grow a large phallic protrusion that turns into robots fighting one another. I'm not making this up. They explain JUST WHAT I TOLD you in a little more detail by episode 5, but it's about four more words than what I just said to avoid spoilers.Along with these two is a couple more of said manipulative girls, an apathetic horny father, full on uzzi battles where people don't get completely blown to shreds, a creepy chain smoking school girl, a REALLY weird spider-mech battle with a young girls legs, forehead, crotch and panties turning into weapons (again, not making this up), I don't know how many hand motifs. This show is just weird. It's obviously not for everyone, how it's linked to Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop is beyond me. The one cool thing about the show is the mysterious robot who's plot device is never fully understood/explained. Oh well, he makes a cool PVC collection figurine. Until he somehow poops... :/Bring back my classics where villains act like villains, heroines and heroes are relatable (not hate able), drawn camera angles don't turn into Bayformers on speed, and toss this wannabe hipster millennial anime in the garbage. Also, Vespas are ****.

Fooly Coolly (abbreviated FLCL) is so outrageous that it virtually jumps out of the screen and hits you on the head with a bass guitar. As you start watching it, the serious emotional drama involving the lead character Naotas, a 12-year-old boy, keeps you grounded as the crazy sci-fi drama unfolds. It may take a few episodes before you get that there is an actual storyline though. I have never seen anything like this before with the possible exception of Excel Saga only FLCL has much more style. Because of the sexual references it is definitely not for little kids. It is extremely hilarious, weird and loads of fun. Just hang on to the yellow Vespa and enjoy the ride.