Anime Apolyton

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
What's FLCL? The acronym looks familiar but a name escapes me.

Fooly Cooly.

Trip, what anime does your avatar come from?

Chrono Trigger for the PSX.

[Harry Seldon]

Chrono Trigger for the PSX.

That's either some character art or better graphics than most PS2 games. Very cool!

[Jon Shafer]

Yep. Animated cut scenes were added to the PSX version. That's the only difference between the SNES and PSX types.

[Wraith]

--"FLCL is definitely the weirdest thing I've ever seen."

Ah, don't worry. Puni Puni Poemi comes out here soon.

--"My original plan to just watch the first episode and then go to sleep didn't go too well though."

Heh. The last thing you need to do is watch the end of that series while sleep-deprived...

--"Saiyuki was its name."

Okay, I have heard of that one. Bishounen fluff is the politest term I've heard used.

--"What's FLCL?"

Well, FLCL is the name. You may also see it listed as Furi Kuri or Fooly Cooly.

Wraith
My parents went to Sol 3 and all I got was this stupid human

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Wraith
Ah, don't worry. Puni Puni Poemi comes out here soon.

Uh oh, I guess I retract my previous statement then...

[Harry Seldon]

What's that about? Any english language links you could pass on?

[Jon Shafer]

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=92525

[Harry Seldon]

Oh, ****! That just about got me fired. My boss was sitting right next to me when I opened that link. I've never seen Excel Saga. I don't think that one's available for rent around here. I'm fairly sure Puni Puni Poemi won't be either.

[monolith94]

Shinji is definitely not as bad as the main character of Blue Gender. I really liked the first two episodes of BG but the one they showed last night was kind of... blah.

FLCL is just amazing although I've already missed episode 4 and the first half of episode 3.

[Jon Shafer]

Shinji kind of floats around. Usually he's semi-normal, but every now and then he just seeps away as anything close to a strong-willed character, especially in the final movie. At least Marlene didn't have to - literally - drag Yugi around by the arm.

[monolith94]

At least Shinji has a better haircut.

[Wraith]

--"Uh oh, I guess I retract my previous statement then..."

Cat Soup (Nekojiru-sou) is about to come out, too, IIRC...

--"What's that about?"

Hehe. Think Trip gave you a bit of a heads up, but it's pretty much a magical girl show parody. It's an OVA, only two episodes. This is by the Excel Saga team, which they did after they felt that they hadn't gone far enough with Excel Saga. No TV censors to worry about.

They also did another TV series, Jungle wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu (The Jungle was Always Nice, then Along Came Guu), which also has two OVAs now. This is another one way up their on the out-there scale. The main character, Guu, has two high school students living in her stomach.

--"I've never seen Excel Saga."

It's available, but I don't know if any of the rental chains carry it. If you're a member of one of those online DVD rental places like Netflix or GreenCine they might have it.

--"FLCL is just amazing although I've already missed episode 4 and the first half of episode 3."

Don't worry, they're going to rerun the series. It's CN. They always rerun the series.

Wraith
"If Guu's having fun everything's all right."
-- Guu ("Jungle wa Itsumo, Hale Nochi Guu")

[Skanky Burns]

Just finished watching episode 26 (and all the ones before, of course). Twas enjoyable, but I was expecting it to be more confusing than it was. Anyway, what is the 27th episode, considering the series ends in number 26?

EDIT: I'm talking about NGE, btw.

[Jon Shafer]

There's no 27th episode, but there's a movie which has episodes 25' and 26' (which basically explains everything that REALLY happened during 25 and 26).

FLCL just ended last night. Then again, it is only 6 episodes.

[Harry Seldon]

Isn't there a final movie for NGE coming out in September here in the States?