FLCL

Name: FLCL
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Rating: 8
Cast: Chiemi Chiba, Hideaki Anno, Hiroshi Ito, Kenta Miyake, Suzuki Matsuo

Nothing can happen till you swing the bat.

フリクリ (2000-2023)

Seasons: 5, episodes: 24

Episode runtime: 25 min

Average rating: 8/10 34 370

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Actors and characters

Video for the series FLCL — FLCL - Trailer - Available on DVD and BD 2.22.11

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Premiere

2000-04-26

Last episode

2023-10-15

Status

Ended

Country

Japan, United States

Network

Adult Swim

Production

NUT, GAINAX, Production I.G, Williams Street, Adult Swim, MontBlanc Pictures, Production I.G

Genre

Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Website

https://www.adultswim.com/videos/flcl

Actors

Chiemi Chiba, Hideaki Anno, Hiroshi Ito, Kenta Miyake, Suzuki Matsuo, Yukari Fukui, Karen Miyama, Yu-ri Yoshida, Mutsumi Tamura, Riho Iida
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Yoji Enokido, Hideto Iwai

Producer

Maki Terashima-Furuta, Masaya Saito, Mike Lazzo, Masatomo Nishizawa, Hiroki Sato, Hiroki Eto, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Jason DeMarco, Keiji Ota, Toshimichi Otsuki

Camera operator

Shinji Tonsho

Composer

the pillows

Editing

Makiko Asano
Whole Team (166)

Short description

Naota is a normal boy who kills some time with a normal girl by a stream that flows underneath a bridge. Nothing unusual happens in this town. The fact that Haruhara Haruko crashes into the main character with her Vespa a short while later and subsequently hits him over the head with her Rickenbacker 4003 bass guitar doesn’t really make any difference to any other day here. The at first glance unconnected, bizarre events that don’t seem to follow any pattern whatsoever don’t change anything about Naota’s boring life, either – because nothing incredible ever happens in this town.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Season 1 When Haruko runs over Naota with her scooter and brains him with a bass guitar, his world doesn’t just get turned upside down—it gets incredibly weird.	6	2000-04-26	7.3
Progressive Many years have passed since Naota and Haruhara Haruko shared their adventure together. Meanwhile, the war between the two entities known as Medical Mechanica and Fraternity rages across the galaxy. Enter Hidomi, a young teenaged girl who believes there is nothing amazing to expect from her avera…	6	2018-06-02	6.9
Alternative The series centers on the misadventures of 17-year-old Kana, a high school junior who spends her days hanging out with her besties, Mossan, Hijiri, and Pets. They live unremarkable lives, until the day a Mecha falls out of the sky, along with a strange woman named “Haruko.” Her plans for Kana and…	6	2018-09-08	7
Grunge In this prequel to the original FLCL, the youngsters accept the decline of the city as part of their reality until Haruko throws the city into chaos.	3	2023-09-10	5
Shoegaze Since the events of FLCL: Alternative, people are once again living their ordinary lives. Meanwhile, two frustrated teenagers hope for a major change.	3	2023-10-01	6.7

What's left behind the scenes

The final song and several other compositions were provided by the J-rock band The Pillows.
A manga (by Hajime Ueda) and a series of novellas (by Yoji Enomoto) were written based on the series.
Most of the actors who voiced the series are stage actors for whom the roles in "Furi Kuri" were their anime debut. Almost all of the teenagers were voiced by teenage actors.
The title of the series has no definite translation. In Japanese, the spelling "FLCL" is pronounced as "Furi Kuri." This combination of sounds has no inherent meaning, but it brings to mind many similar Japanese words and abbreviations. Many of these are played with in the series, though no single interpretation is given preference.