Monday, December 18, 2006

FLCL (Fooly Cooly)









The series focuses on Nandaba Naota, a twelve-year-old boy living in the fictional and initially tranquil Japanese suburb of Mabase. Naota lives with his lecherous father Kamon and his baseball-coaching grandfather Shigekuni at the family bakery and home. He greatly admires his older brother Tasuku, a baseball phenomenon who has gone to the United States to play the game (an unseen character). Naota's daily routine involves going to school, dealing with his brother's sexually frustrated high school girlfriend Samejima Mamimi, and going home. Naota seems to be very frustrated with his life, and in the opening episode is musing about how constrictive and boring Mabase is. This complaint is borne through to the final episode, against examples to the contrary. Naota's life is turned upside down when he is hit by a Vespa driven by the rebellious free spirit known as Haruhara Haruko, a woman who later becomes his housekeeper, though she may not be what she appears to be.

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