This was seriously shit. What gives?

he clearly got it from google images and uploaded via url, dude.

You'll appreciate it more if you watch the sequels the west forced into existence.

>They put a chief animator in charge of everything, including writing and producing
Who are you talking about?

How was FLCL 2? I didn't watch it. I'm assuming it was shit since I don't see anyone talking about it.

I think he thinks he's talking about Imaishi. If that's how he feels about FLCL I hope no one tells him about Dead Leaves. He'd probably have an aneurysm.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuya_Tsurumaki

>I think he thinks he's talking about Imaishi.
I was considering that possibility, but it doesn't make sense!

Referring to Tsurumaki as "a chief animator" strikes me as odd choice of words.

They were terrible. Don't bother.

pretend they dont exist
Listen to the soundtracks if you must but most of the songs arent as good imo

He was the animation director under Anno for both Eva and Kare Kano. When Anno left during Kare Kano's development, he took over as the head director of those last few episodes. And it's very noticeable, as Kare Kano starts to have animation similar to FLCL. With Anno gone, he then got to pitch the next big project Gainax made. Which became FLCL, which he directed.

I don't know why this is hard to understand.

Funny. I watched it when I was 15 and didn't liked it because seemed stupid and immature. But now that I'm older I can see the sub themes clearly.
I'm not calling a masterpiece, I just now understand it.

>Some people actually have Haruko as their waifu

decent anime. used to love the music now i dont have it on my computer anymore. shame it was to carry the disgrace of the two terrible sequels.

lol how can you call the show shit when this gif alone is a 10

I watched this show when I was 9 and I don't understand how people don't get it, it's literally just about growing up as a boy and dealing with things that come with the territory like how women and People's desire of what they want you to be effect you and being horny, it's not that complicated.
Maybe it didn't bother me because I was used to cartoons that were very episodic with loose connections between episodes.

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just go back to watching whatever copy-paste isekai you're into, and spare us your dumb opinions.

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>No one posts why it's good

its good because its westaboo and bestaboo

just look at it

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>continues to become part of said problem

It’s actually one of the best anime ever made, you just have to have taste.

>No one posts why it's good

Hard to get manic pixie dreamgirl. I see the appeal.

I don’t have time to educate the mentally handicapped.

Самое, конечно, блять, переоценённое шоу

Why don't you first explain why do you think it's not good, then? Because I will not waste my time writing an essay just so you say something like "No, it was shit" and completely miss the reason why so many people like it in the first place.

It was boring to you? confusing?

>GAINAX was falling apart and Anno had left.
Anno and all of the Khara staff were still at Gainax and still actively participating in their works until 2006. Anno even worked on this very show, in fact.
>They put a chief animator in charge of everything, including writing and producing.
Tsurumaki had plenty of experience directing before he made FLCL. He'd pretty much switched almost entirely to directing and storyboarding from Eva onwards and hadn't taken on any major roles as an animator since the early 90s (arguably not since he left Studio Giants) and most of his key animation credits on Gainax shows ever since he started directing are for minimal sequences or still frames. He's very much a director by trade.

FLCL is a more coherent story than EVA (and I like EVA)

Explaining what's good about FLCL has been done to death, we're tired of it. Just say what you didn't like about it and I'll teach you how to improve your taste.

>Explaining what's good about FLCL has been done to death
I've literally never heard any explanation besides "lol so random!" and "the dub rocks!" It really seems to be based on Adult Swim nostalgia.

That's probably because you're very new.

>still can't give a single argument why FLCL is good
>can't even refute why people think its bad even when they give him the fodder he asked for

youtu.be/GVOGf6gKA7o
to anyone who wants to know what we get from flcl just watch the first 90 seconds. If it doesnt draw you in the show isnt for you

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You haven't said what you didn't like about it.

I watched the whole thing. And I knew it wasn't for me about five minutes in. Should have just quit it there, but I was at a girl friends house and she insisted I watch it all.

FLCL only works if you were in the right age range when the series was airing.

It doesn't really work at any other time.

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That's not true though.

that might be true, i can't refute it

It pretty much is. The anime was a coming of age story with a lot of references to things that some people might not be able to immediately identify. It's just one of things that was a product of its time and why the FLCL sequels never got the same kind of hype the original did. I'm not saying it's a bad anime. I really enjoyed it. I just don't think it's as relevant as it was back then.

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the followups were bad anime though

The references aren't essential for getting the story, what is essential is not a product of its time but can be appreciated at any period. Do you think things even older than FLCL are impossible to like?

Nobody cares about "relevancy". It's either good or it isn't. FLCL is good, the sequels aren't.

I never wanted to impregnate an anime girl more than the bunk bed scene

You missed a word. It was the shit.

They tried to capture the nostalgia of the original anime, but update it for modern times. It just didn't work. FLCL could never work today. It's hard to fall in love with a coming of age story that you can't relate to.

I'm not saying getting the reference is essential, but it does make the anime more fun. The problem with the anime is that it's not a good coming of age story for someone in today's age.

My argument is that a coming of age story isn't appealing to people who are coming of age if they can't relate to it. If it makes references to stuff they wouldn't know, if it omits things that they're used to, and so on, it just doesn't make it easy to fall in love with.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's impossible for someone to enjoy the anime on its own. I'm saying the anime was much, much more appealing to a wider audience because people could relate to it.

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Great animation, great soundtrack, likeable cast of characters, solid coming-of-age story with enough depth to catch new things on rewatches.

This makes no sense. Do you think the director, writer, animators, etc. didn't like or relate to what they were doing? They weren't 12 year olds. FLCL was not some corporate prime-time show made solely for an audience, Tsurumaki is pretty clear about it being a mish-mash of things he likes. Again, nobody gives a shit about wider audiences, I don't understand why you keep bringing this up when your original point was
>FLCL only works if you were in the right age range when the series was airing.
Which is false.

>FLCL was not some corporate prime-time show made solely for an audience
It was made by a committee of Gainax, Production IG and a few major corporations. So it very well could have been them trying to throw in as many appealing things as they think teenagers would like. I find it unlikely given the content FLCL has. But I'm just saying, it very much was a "corporate" project.

Just listen to the director's commentary and stop thinking you know shit.

It's carried 70% by the soundtrack and 10% by cultural references.

i don't remember any cultural references, probably more than 70% soundtrack though cause of that music direction.

Nothing you said disproves that FLCL was indeed made by a committee. The FLCL defenders in this thread are only further promoting this idea that FLCL fans are manbabies.

I don't think you understand what I mean by wider audiences. I don't mean the general public. I mean, that you'll hear more positive things about FLCL from people who were in the right age range when the series was airing vs people who would watch it today and then make a thread on Yas Forums saying that it was shit.
You're also kind of reinforcing my point when it comes to the references. A mish-mash of things he likes. Things that aren't that relevant anymore to someone in the same age range of a person who would have watched it when it was airing. FLCL is not a timeless coming of age story. FLCL is very much a product of its time coming age story and there's nothing wrong with that. It just means the older it gets, the less people will rave about it. The more people will wonder why some people say it's so good.
Btw, I'm curious. How old are you? I would hope that you're quite a bit younger because otherwise your position might just be blinded by the age.

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Do you really think by "corporate prime-time show" I was referring to something stupid like the artists who made FLCL weren't paid salaries by suits or some shit? You should learn more about the anime industry. Every production needs to be funded, that was not the point.

>It's carried 70% by the soundtrack
Are you trying to imply the soundtrack, that multiple chunks of the series are literally animated around, is a focus of the series?

get real %40 art and animation

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