“Disillusioned headphone girl Hidomi's monotonous life shatters after robot attacks, mysterious guitar woman, and growing forehead horn.”
FLCL Progressive
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Synopsis
Disillusioned headphone girl Hidomi's monotonous life shatters after robot attacks, mysterious guitar woman, and growing forehead horn.
Hidomi Hibajiri is a disillusioned young girl who never takes off her headphones. Her whole life consists of going to school, helping out at her mother's cafe, and listening to music. And with nothing else to break the crippling monotony, she keeps her headphones on at all times. That is, until she is run over by a mysterious guitar-wielding woman. That same night, a robot barges into Hidomi’s room along with a boy from her class, Ko Ide, and the kids are chased around town together. They're saved by the guitar-wielding woman from before, but now Hidomi's got a horn growing from her forehead? Who knows where these robots are coming from, what kind of vespa woman this weird guitar woman is warning her about, or what this thing on her forehead is, but it doesn't look like Hidomi is going to be able to ignore all this with headphones!
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Derived from 40 sampled reviews
What 40 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.03 · split reception
4.3 pts
Recommenders 7.7 · others 3.4
↓ 1.15
Running avg · Jun 2018 → Mar 2026
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- Format 1 × 134′ eps × min
- Total runtime 2h 14m all episodes
- Aired Sep 2018 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-11284 catalog
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- TOHO Producer