*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 25: FLCL: Part 1 ft. Lucy Valentine

0:00We're watching Fulicouli and I know currently we're having a poll going on on our patreon so you get to pick what the next long series we watch is this is only six episodes long so we're going to do it in two parts so that poll be going on that for whatever patron finally turns it off I think it's like a couple days but we will follow whatever that poll chooses for our next series that will consume the next year so far life so between even gillian in our next big series it was left to me the resident anime sicko to pick what we're going to watch and Tom picks something that just hit differently when he was a kid and I picked something that hit differently when I was a kid and I didn't know this until today but in retrospect it makes sense how these two shows are related the shows creator was a guy named Cosias or a Machi who was the protégé of Hadekiano and this is the director of Avon Gillian yep Yeah, Av of the show about being a teenager and wanting to kill yourself and Boulicouli the show about being a teenager and horny and not knowing what to do with a also vaguely wanting to kill yourself in many ways I wouldn't to put out this shows also made by Guy Nax but and also a few other studios as it is an anime you know so like 20 different companies are involved in it originally came out in the US in 2000 or 2001 depending on how you watched it I watched an adult swim because I was in a lightened emo team in the year

1:27early 2000s I looked into a lot of production notes here because as you're probably both where the animation is very good and so is the soundtrack if fucking with the anime concept of Sakuga on show in like every third shot in this like on so much like there's so much references like everything it's why like oh I watched three episodes when I got back from the gym this morning I was like I have no idea what's going on but I know there's like Mamiya goggles. There's Olympus cameras. There's a 1965 best best best scooter and a 76 Rick and Barker like what's on the music fucking whips the different guitars are going to be very important think of them as weapon upgrades later on you know it is now toes he blade because it's opening portals to his own we don't have to do this show we do um the entire soundtrack is done by a band called the pillows who I've seen live added anime convention oh my god

2:33yeah because that's the the kind of person that I was and most importantly still have yeah Joe found it like very hard to mosh in his first suit made out of stolen house insulation not that kind of person top uh making your paws out of rock wool it's the only first suit that scratches back if I ever made a first suit it would look a lot like that episode of The Simpsons where Lisa was made to make her own gosh and I think I far remember quickly she was a mattress with an orange tide to it and she was Florida why oh seeing more terrible first suits like why does every furry have a great suit is it just shameful to go out in like a shitty first suit or am I just like not at I'm not in the furry conventions I don't know I feel like enough furries listen to the show that we will find out the answer yeah I would love an answer to them I'm all honestly also curious because I know they're super expensive what yeah the reason why they all have a good first suits as evidence by that guy who posted his

3:35PayPal balance drawing furry art they got money oh yeah they got cash right I saw that too I I'm really happy for them uh on that because you know there's nothing worse than having a really expensive hobby but being piss broke which is why it took me to be like 37 until I bought my first war hammer figurines because again that is the kind of person that I am but it might be wondering since this isn't created this this was created by a guy that was involved with the creation of Evangelion and as we watch three episodes and Lucy told me it's just all on YouTube so we'll make sure we post a link for that below try not to get it taken off of YouTube this time uh because we did that with G Gundam yeah I went to old school and watched it on case anime dot or you she's in my fungus of their breaking sanctions to watch fully I thought I was going to have to sign up for like an account on crunchy roll which is our like anime app thing yeah I have that as well crossing you joe I was like $10 I'm not doing this no and I have crunchy roll they only have

4:40this equal season I saw that yeah but it is on YouTube yep I found it on a different pirate site I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to post links that in patreon or I'll make patreon really mad but I feel like YouTube is probably safe but that also small side note here don't watch this this equal series they have none of the original creators are involved uh I watched a two of them they're not good they're not really connected either so yeah you probably saw a lot of things that you could like oh this is trying to say something right there's a lot of symbolism here well the creator of the show himself said that he was really surprised the show got popular in the United States because uh even critics in Japan called the show quote incoherent which he did on purpose uh when he's asked about it like you know ono when it comes to Evangelion will constantly explain things he'll also retcon them and come up with new shit because he refuses to just let shit lie but this guy doesn't he was interviewed by an American anime outlet and he said uh

5:44comprehension should not be an important factor of fully cool the virgin ono versus the chat surumaki yeah and I kind of like that because it allows you to make it anything um so depending on when you watch the show like I watched it when I was a very emotional teenager uh as opposed to a very emotional nearly 40 year old man um and so it could just like kind of become anything I wanted it to be and it's a completely hyper active show for a lack of a better term is a lot going on in virtually every scene there's in jokes there's weird pop culture jokes they break the fourth wall it's a lot that I fucking love it really overstimulating in part because the music the soundtrack is playing the whole time as I felt like I was at like a noise show with like the most annoying guy I've ever met trying to explain something to me yeah that's just called the hanging out with me yeah I was supposed to I was supposed to ask Lucy how many of your ex-boyfriends is that described pretty much all of them yes I mean one of the first we were joking about this before we

6:49started recording uh but one of the so we watched episodes one two and three out of six uh so this is not a huge uh uh investment if you want to watch along with us um we're and we're immediately introduced to our main character Nauta and his very strange friend Mamimi who is Nauta's kind of sort of brother's ex-girlfriend and she is an older girl who spends her time ditching school and hanging out under the local bridge and chain smoking I have dated this girl I have been this girl I want to stop you there Joe and just say that like you asked me to be on this show which I agreed to because I was in a good mood at the time and I was like that sounds like fun and I put it on and the literal first scene is like an upskirt of a teenage girl and I was like for fox egg yeah this show is this show is strangely horny throughout um I'm going to be honest with you I kind of forgot about a lot of that this is why I was justifying in my decision of like I've went to the gym and I was like oh I'm gonna like watch you when I get home because usually I'll

7:52either watch this stuff like walking on the treadmill after I work out and I was like I'm really happy I didn't do that yeah yeah I mean there's more offensive shit out there uh by far but in the early 2000s this was uh this is very horny I think a lot of it has to do with like the themes of growing up and puberty through the eyes of an adult Japanese man who worked with Hadekianno for too long I think as well as like it's yeah it's fairly like innocent it's like through the eyes of like a 12 year old boy who's like I suppose developing and becoming curious about this sort of stuff so yeah I mean that's a good way of seeing it it's also like he's surrounded by the most toxic looking people on earth that's really it's a lot of very sexually aggressive women in this show yeah I just I just think my baby shouldn't be allowed within 200 meters of a school like it's probably a good call it's probably a good call um so you know I mean she is certainly more than 200 meters away from her own school because I think she ever goes um yeah so we get established

8:56very on that like nothing ever happens in the town except for the giant iron on the hill that's like a medical facility that blows steam out of it it's the medical mechanic of factory uh a factory which has no doors for people to enter and nobody ever asked questions about it it doesn't seem to employ anybody either um because how could you other than like a couple security guards and that's like it's a very good angsty teen way to look at your hometown you know this place sucks nothing ever happens here I hate it again this hit differently when I was 13 or 14 or however old I was despite to fact I'm from Detroit where there's always a lot of stuff happening but when you're it angsty little shithead you know the world is a weird place see I didn't experience that because where I grew up I had lots of fields and you know what's great to do in fields drink alcohol away from your parents yeah I also did that drinking in a bonfire yeah yeah yeah so yeah we also then got to uh mummy me like taking now to those money to buy a drink that's the most like dirt pack

10:00ex-girlfriend move ever and I love it like I said I have dated multiple mummies in my life