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[bigkrev]

FLCL will always have a special place in my heart for being the show I woke up to one night at like 2 or 3 am when I was in like 6th grade and it having alter the course of my mind forever (it was the episode

Spoiler

focusing on that theater president girl or whoever

, like all eps it was fricking nuts.) I had accidentally seen eps of Home Movies and some other early AS shows but none had the effect on my that one episode of FLCL did. I didn't even know the name of the anime until years later, and of course the live action anime just further bewildered and enchanted me.

It's one of those things that happened as a kid you'll never be able to replicate, and I will forever love the show deeply for it.

This is my EXACT same experience, except it was my little brother and I at our shore house. Same episode too!
I might have been a freshman, it's hard to place the exact year.

 

[MetatronM]

The Game Boy references are also easier to understand when you see it in print form.

"The Advance is hip right now, but the original has a place in my heart. Unlike Pocket, there was only the plastic gray! Though Color had killer app use for things like the sewing machine, not much use for Virtual anymore, huh? Next on Furi Kuri, episode 2: "Fire Starter." Prepare to get burned."

 

[foxuzamaki]

Best half stays

then later, there will only be inuyashagaf

Well.... considering people didn't take too well with the dialogue this week.... LOL.

lol true

 

[B-Dubs]

Obi-Wan with the ether. He really is the best character here.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Only those who stay for Inuyasha deserve the title of "best".

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Straight talk right there.

How could they leave when it's an Obi-Wan episode? These are the only good ones.

Possibly because the entire show sucks.

 

[ramoisdead]

Last Dinosaur is the best and it only plays past the intro in the last episode.

If I have to pick one track I love from FLCL, I think it'll have to be "Beautiful Morning With You".

I just adore that song. I also adore the whole entire shebang.

 

[BassForever]

Obi-Wan that was the slowest cutting off at the pass I've ever seen

 

[Baroquemantic]

Possibly because the entire show sucks.

.

At least most of the time.

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

Only those who stay for Inuyasha deserve the title of "best".

;_;

 

[Amikami]

Wow, I'm kinda missing IGPX. I guess its not too bad having clone wars back this week.

 

[grandjedi6]

I don't remember any of this shit.

The "last time on Clone Wars" openings aren't real. They just set up the plot so they can get right into the action for kids.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Only those who stay for Inuyasha deserve the title of "best".

yes

 

[SousedLouse]

Only those who stay for Inuyasha deserve the title of "best".

As someone who ripped on the "best" last week, I hate that I'm actually considering staying up for the start of the Band of Seven arc.

 

[Doctor Decimate]

so are we gonna have an IGPX repeat where everyone takes like three months before they admit the show got better than it was initially?

 

[B-Dubs]

Obi-Wan that was the slowest cutting off at the pass I've ever seen

He gives no fucks, even when it comes to crashing a spaceship

As someone who ripped on the "best" last week, I hate that I'm actually considering staying up for the start of the Band of Seven arc.

Same, I love the Band of Seven arc

 

[Schadenfreude]

Slightly relevant, here's LittleKuriboh as Count Dooku: http://twitter.com/yugiohtas/status/393916677747789825/photo/1

;_;

Sorry but it's the truth.

 

[kayos90]

then later, there will only be inuyashagaf


lol true

I actually think if you take out the context of how Asuna and Kirito met and the sheer stupidity surrounding their relationship circumstances, their little breakdown conversation at the base was actually alright.

 

[Jintor]

I hate to pick a single Pillows song that kicks all the other asses. They're all so fucking good

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

These guys are so sassy

 

[foxuzamaki]

Wow, I'm kinda missing IGPX. I guess its not too bad having clone wars back this week.

for best toonamigaf we will be seeing it all over again tonight

 

[Doctor Decimate]

for best toonamigaf we will be seeing it all over again tonight

hell no, i'm not watching those opening episodes again

 

[Man God]

IGZzzzzzzzzzX is god awful in the beginning. Part of the reason why so few actually like it as almost no one stuck around.

 

[BassForever]

Honestly I might go to bed at IGPX, if only because I have to be at work at 2... which means an hour commute at 1. When I stay up for InuYasha I usually wake up around noon, like to get a bit more sleep.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Not even paying attention. Just listening to FLCL music on youtube.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

That's exactly how I feel about FLCL.

This is my EXACT same experience, except it was my little brother and I at our shore house. Same episode too!
I might have been a freshman, it's hard to place the exact year.

Awesome!

What made it even more mysterious is I tried to explain the show to fellow schoolmates the next day and I must have sounded like a crazy person trying to do so. I mean, back then we were watching some eps of pre-reboot Family Guy and Futurama (I think), so we all knew AS, but this one weird ass anime... nobody knew. Except me, as I had seen one episode. Didn't even know the name, and I couldn't explain it. And of course, this was back before we really used the internet too.

 

[kayos90]

The narration for IGPX is good though lol.

EDIT: Wish we had S-Cry-Ed instead of IGPX. =/

 

[grandjedi6]

I like that Anakin and Obi-wan think they can take Dooku considering he hands their ass to them everytime they meet.

 

[B-Dubs]

IGZzzzzzzzzzX is god awful in the beginning. Part of the reason why so few actually like it as almost no one stuck around.

That's the thing, if people bothered to stick around they'd like it more.

 

[Amikami]

for best toonamigaf we will be seeing it all over again tonight

Are you taunting me!!?

Hold me back Hehateme!!

 

[mightynine]

I can't even imagine how mind-bending FLCL must've been to someone in grade/high school. Watching it just out of college was trippy enough.

 

[bigkrev]

Not even paying attention. Just listening to FLCL music on youtube.

Just loop Little Busters 8 times, and Ride on a Shooting Star twice. Then Clone Wars should be over

 

[BassForever]

LOL Why couldn't the movies have such good banter between Anakin and Obi-Wan

 

[GaimeGuy]

Gaime, no... nooooo..

We can no longer be e-pals with shared good taste in anime songs.

Look, the narrative is just too discombobulated for me to really enjoy. It's not that I don't enjoy thematic or symbolic narratives rather than event based ones (LOVE Mawaru Penguin Drum), or that I don't enjoy "wacky jappy" comedy (Excel Saga and Hare Nochi Guu are some of my favorite anime... as is Sayonara Zetzubou Sensei), or that I don't like FLCL's stylistic animations or soundtrack... there's something about how the individual pieces of FLCL come together that does not mesh well with me (and I HATE the tone of the voice acting most of the time).


I've watched in 6, 7 times over the years, but my opinion hasn't changed. I guess I just don't "get" it.

 

[Man God]

Not even paying attention. Just listening to FLCL music on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tATd4B3K3G8

spoilers here.

 

[B-Dubs]

Of course the monster shows up while the lightsabers aren't working

LOL Why couldn't the movies have such good banter between Anakin and Obi-Wan

Because the guy who played Anakin sucked

 

[ThatObviousUser]

The narration for IGPX is good though lol.

EDIT: Wish we had S-Cry-Ed instead of IGPX. =/

s-CRY-ed is garbage but it's entertaining enough, I suppose. And the opening is so fantastically cheesy.

RECKLESS FIYAH!

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

Are you taunting me!!?

Hold me back Hehateme!!

Nah
You and me against them!!!

 

[Seda]

LOL Why couldn't the movies have such good banter between Anakin and Obi-Wan

Yeah the banter is actually entertaining. Works much better than the movies.

 

[Doctor Decimate]

this guy sounds really really familiar

 

[Schadenfreude]

Is this Pete from Disney?

 

[BassForever]

Yeah the banter is actually entertaining. Works much better than the movies.

Almost everything about this show is better then those films

 

[ramoisdead]

Nice to see "Shooting Star" trending right now. Most of the tweets were referring to The Pillows song.

And that's my last post on Toonami-GAF for the night.

 

[SousedLouse]

Awesome!

What made it even more mysterious is I tried to explain the show to fellow schoolmates the next day and I must have sounded like a crazy person trying to do so. I mean, back then we were watching some eps of pre-reboot Family Guy and Futurama (I think), so we all knew AS, but this one weird ass anime... nobody knew. Except me, as I had seen one episode. Didn't even know the name, and I couldn't explain it. And of course, this was back before we really used the internet too.

I saw it from episode one back when I was in middle school, and as soon as I started talking about it at school everyone picked up on what I was referencing instantly.

I knew I was hanging out with a bunch of nerds back then, this just seals it!

Look, the narrative is just too discombobulated for me to really enjoy. It's not that I don't enjoy thematic or symbolic narratives rather than event based ones (LOVE Mawaru Penguin Drum), or that I don't enjoy "wacky jappy" comedy (Excel Saga and Hare Nochi Guu are some of my favorite anime... as is Sayonara Zetzubou Sensei), or that I don't like FLCL's stylistic animations or soundtrack... there's something about how the individual pieces of FLCL come together that does not mesh well with me (and I HATE the tone of the voice acting most of the time).


I've watched in 6, 7 times over the years, but my opinion hasn't changed. I guess I just don't "get" it.

Seems like you get it just fine, you just don't like it. It is what it is. It's just a same that you'll be treating FLCL the same way I treat Naruto - as a piss break.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

I can't even imagine how mind-bending FLCL must've been to someone in grade/high school. Watching it just out of college was trippy enough.

It's basically the reason I am what I am today, lol.

Like I said, a single ep shaped my mind forever.

 

[Amikami]

Quick Anikan. Complete her girlish features.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Are you taunting me!!?

Hold me back Hehateme!!

I didnt mean it!

 

[B-Dubs]

I love how Obi-Wan is just calmly fixing his sword while his apprentice gets eaten.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Nice to see "Shooting Star" trending right now. Most of the tweets were referring to The Pillows song.

And that's my last post on Toonami-GAF for the night.

Faith in the world=restored.

 

[BassForever]

Oh wow they're actually in a gundark nest lol