>when you think she like you but she really after your brother
>when you think she like you but she really after the interdimensional space pirate using the wormhole in your forehead to escape from incarceration in a galactic prison
Women, am I right?
That's why Ninamori is best girl.
>want to make series to show off animation and music
>puts annoying half assed plot in the middle
4/10 anime
>>139082183
Fight me IRL faggit
>>139082181
True true. One was a grandma and the other was probably doing compensated dating.
>>139082183
It's a dramatic SOL.
The robots and aliens weren't the main point. They were like...metaphors...or analogies...physical representations of the theme of that episode...I think.
>>139082181
I guess, if you like hipsters.
>>139081835
>when u type like a nigger on a civilized board
>when u misuse the quoting feature
I'll pretend you're just preparing us for the upcoming normiegeddon.
>>139082781
>greentext is just a quoting feature
go back to 2001.
I watched FLCL when i was like 13.
If i rewatch it now will i understand anything or is it still a fucking lol so randum mindfuck story?
>>139083290
Took me 5 times to fully comprehend it.
>1st = lol wtf
>2nd = cool animation
>3rd = skimming through it
>4th = hey wait a minute
>5th = skimming through it again and piecing together all the dialogue's significance to form a comprehensive understanding now that you know it like the back of your hand
>>139082781
>Being a salty little bitch
>>139083290
If you're not completely oblivious to metaphors and symbolism, you'll actually learn alot. You gotta pay attention, it very subtle in comparison with the hectic pace. retards dismiss it as just a random cluster fuck, but from the get go it's pretty deep
>>139084180
I'm as white as they come. I'm sure you're annoying the one or two non white dudes in here though
>>139084230
I like how it thoroughly analyzes the thing where when a kid falls in love with an older girl he's always gonna be a cuck.
>>139081835
>Cuck
>Advanced cuckoldry.
>>139084525
Eh, more like you'll be used as a plaything until she gets bored, or she grows up herself and realizes what she really wants
>>139084676
That's what I mean but I couldn't articulate it so I used "cuck"
younger male older female is a niche.
>>139084075
Saying FLCL is JUST 6 episodes is sort of misleading. It's "just" 6 episode because it was made to require multiple watches.
>>139082781
>civilized board
What?
>>139081835
>>>/reddit/
>>139085900
read what?
>>139082183
The "plot" was that this was a coming of age story, and basically about a boy going through puberty, sempai.
>>139084075
>>139085445
Such an incredibly deep and engaging story. Literal master piece in terms of storytelling and characters. Just in case you didn't get it, that was ironic.
>>139085900
This
Also lynch all wiggers
>>139086145
I know what it is about
doesn't make it less shit and half assed
>>139086268
How is it half-assed? Every relevant character arc and plot thread is closed.
Naota falls in love with a Haruko
Unable to confess, he is gifted with by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.
But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.
Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of GAINAX.
>>139086601
He's gifted with Haruko's bf's cell phone number (in the form of a wormhole and robot)
>>139086221
I don't think you understand that there's a spectrum between deep and shallow.
The story wasn't incredibly deep it was just a finely tuned coming of age.
>>139085900
Why are you posting your bookmarks?
So did Naota get cucked or not?
>>139086221
your opinion is wrong
>>139082702
I just can't treat her seriously with that USSR shirt, I know she's a kid, but she's supposed to be relatively smart.
Why does it need to be deep.
Is the David deep? It's literally rehashing the same theme and subject thousands of sculptors had made in the past, but Michelangelo's one is special for a reason. Not for its depth, but for its great quality and the impact it creates on those who contemplate it.
Depth is not a value to be sought after in art. Profoundness is a better term.
>>139086823
Not like he and Haruko were in a relationship any time during the series.
>>139086823
Sorta. Naota thought Haruko cared about him but she was actually trying to free Atomsk the whole time. Naota loved Haruko and took Atomsk's power for himself and fought her.
In the director's commentary it's explained that Haruko used to be a space officer and Atomsk was her prisoner whom she fell in love with.
>>139087051
I'd like to investigate how deep David is, if you know what I mean.
>>139087049
She's like one of those guys you see going to starbucks in a Che Guevara shirt.
>>139087121
>In the director's commentary it's explained that Haruko used to be a space officer and Atomsk was her prisoner whom she fell in love with.
I think that was their original idea along with the handcuffs, but they discarded it and left it a bit more ambiguous in the show, so you don't know if it's really about love of Haruko is just batshit and wants Atomsk for power or whatever.
>>139087121
This guy from Gurren Lagann may have been a subtle Atomsk joke by the way.
>>139087324
Thematically it makes more sense for the former so I'm personally going to believe the drafts.
Like for "coming of age" I'm pretty sure there aren't any girls that dump you because of their LUST FOR POWER.
>>139087410
It's not like Haruko dumped him. She was just using him for her own gains and Naota got all weird because hormones.
>>139087326
holy fuck
mind = fucking blown
>>139082181
Correct aanswer
>>139087432
Hey, the nips use the word "dumped" for when you confession is shot down, so it's not much of a stretch to say Naota got "dumped". I mean he thought there was a least an inkling of mutual affection and trust between the two of them.
>>139086601Threadly reminder that you should stop posting that because it's a thing.https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139/1/
Mamini superimposed her affection on Naota as a replacement for a man she couldn't have
Haruko faked/superimposed her affection on Naota as a stepping stone to the man she wanted
It's 2 similar but distinct types of female, both fitting the coming of age theme. Well-meaning or depressed bitches vs bitches.
>>139087324
I think if she was just a power creep the kiss wouldn't have affected her whatsoever.
>>139086601
THAT GODDAMN DEUS EX MACHINA
>>139087817
Did it 'affect her' in that sense or did it just catch her out of left-field in the immediate context of the fight? I think that whole episode is 100% about Naota more than anything.
>>139087051
Thanks I just got promoted
>>139087860
It could just be surprise I guess, but you gotta admit it'd have been a good opening to BTFO Naota and get Atomsk.
>story about getting over your chuunibyou
>years before chuunibyou was a thing
Truly ahead of it's time.
>>139082181
my nigger
>>139088303
What? Naota isn't chuuni. He's the kind of kid who's constantly fed up with everyone and everything.
>>139087851
anyone have the pic that this guy took?
>>139088377
His first line is about how "nothing interesting ever happens here". He plays war games in his spare time.
FLCL is about how something interesting final does happen, he falls in love with it, but it only brings him pain so he rejects it and affirms that he should be living in the real, monotonous, boring, completely average world. That's why he gave up his chuuni Atomsk powers.
![[OtakuMura] FLCL - 05 [BD] [720p].webm](https://i.imgur.com/402mpOf.jpg "[OtakuMura] FLCL - 05 [BD] [720p].webm")
Mamimi finally getting BTFO still gives me chills.
>>139087051
Depth is not valuable in itself, but it can add to the fun under certain circumstances. Some people like to be surprised and I sure was surprised more than once as I rewatched FLCL.
WHY THE FUCK WAS THE NINAMORI BANNER REMOVED
>>139087181
What did she mean by that?
>>139083290
It's something you get new content and context out of every time, but the best way to watch it is to see it as a kid and sort of get it, and then watch it again as an adult and recognize all the phallic imagery.
>>139081835
>when you think no one like you so you ignore the god-tier class rep
>>139087652
>Mamini superimposed her affection on Naota as a replacement for a man she couldn't have
I thought she was already girlfiend with Naota's brother but he was just cheating on her in America
You know I've only ever seen this dubbed. I should really watch this subbed, I do actually own the whole thing
So what was the deal with Canti anyway? Did the whole angle motif and wearing a cape actually mean something?
>>139090481
Tasuku-senpai good boy does no wrong. Mamimi had an unrequited love for him. Naota isn't the type to fuck around with his brother's girl.
>>139090121
She isn't actually very smart (literally appearances can be deceiving)
>>139090376
Naota's problem was that he thought girls liked him when they didn't. The 2 dere girls weren't into him but the tsun(ish) girl was.
>tfw only years later you realize the first lines spoken in the show were direct lines from Ashita no Joe
>tfw you only watched it dubbed and thought Mamimi was just using some weird-ass baseball metaphor for a decade
>>139091081
Well Naota's brother was a baseball player.
What was the significance of this being motor-driven?
>>139086221
Good think you added the second sentence, I didn't get it senpai.
>Niggas trying to pretend class rep isn't the best girl near me
>>139090612
He nicked it off Haruko's outfit from earlier in the episode (or, more likely, she put it on him).
The entire fucking point was that Mamimi took it to mean something when it meant fucking nothing.
>>139090966
Well to be fair, I totally get why he thought Haruko would be into him considering that was sort of the point of what she was doing.
She was very good at her job
>>139091576
That's the coolest thing about FLCL; the deep/symbolic-looking parts mean absolutely nothing while the simplest most meaningless parts always contain layers of subtext.
>>139082781
Who are you quoting?
>>139091210
So it can work as a chainsaw.
>>139090121
I think it was along the lines of what the other anon said but I would replace "smart" with mature. She wasn't as mature as she liked to pretend, she forced herself to act mature. The glasses were just affirming her fakeness and about keeping up appearances. By the end she of that episode she hadn't really matured at all but she did open up to naota.
>you'll never play Fire Starter
>>139091576
This, she needed to hold on to something so she chose to hold onto a god from a game she had been playing. Escapism for the most part.
If they don't get The Pillows for the new FLCL anime, who do you think should be in the OST?
My bet is either The Flaming Lips or
Boris.
>>139094828
Absolutely nothing. Like seriously, no Pillows, it's not even worth itBut maybe Yoko kanno
>>139083290
You'll understand the puberty analogies far better.
Which is why I don't quite understand why the new series has a female protagonist, half of FLCL was about the story of a boy growing up, down to erection analogies.
>>139094945
That's because itends in yuri
>>139094945
The sequel will focus on the coming of age for a young girl as she browses tumblr proclaiming nothing interesting happens until she gets hit with a bass, after that all sorts of weird shit comes from her vagina and the anime will pander to feminists and teach young girls how to cuck boys and men.
>>139095000
Trips speaks the truth
>>139081835
Naota is a MGTOW by the end of the story.
>>139094945
>inb4 it takes place in America as the young girl MC falls for Naota's older brother. Only to get NTR'd by Haruko
>>139086738
You see that Naoto became part of the machine and was very strong empowering the machine
but then at the end Naoto takes over the machine and becomes the strongest person in the universe
It's like the matrix but good and shorter
>>139090121
This whole episode is about Ninamori's facade - she is the class rep and tries to keep up the image of a mature girl, hiding the fact that she wears glasses and pretending not to care about her parents' divorce.
But of course that's a lie - she's actually pretty unhappy with her parents' divorce, she's got this childish plan to keep her parents together by having them see the school play together, and she rigged the votes for her own purposes.
She learns to be more honest with herself over the course of the episode, so you'd think wearing the glasses in the play would be the culmination of that. But instead she wears empty frames so she can keep up appearances. The point is that she hasn't stopped putting up a front, she's just no longer expecting herself to become the mask.
>>139097404
More like the glasses were yet another lie meant to convince Naota that she was really opening up to him.
Also, they didn't get divorced.
>>139097521
The glasses she wears at Naota's house have lenses (pic related). She keeps it a secret between her and Naota.
>>139096439
>Naota's brother IS Atomsk
>Gets both Mamimi and Haruko
>and all of the US sluts he's been banging too
>>139096179
>Gainax will never make Neon Genesis Evangelion: Side A(suka)
In case you're wondering NGE was Side B(eta)
>>139097917
When a hipster reveals her fakeness to you that's how you know she's smitten
>>139098328
>there could've been a generation of girls that shitpost threads with pictures of Kaji figma covered in their pussy juices.
