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“Naota's life spirals into chaos when his brother's girlfriend flirts with him and alien Haruko crashes in on a Vespa.”
FLCL
フリクリ
7.25
5,834 rank · 28,498 readers · 772 favorites
Seinen
Comedy
Sci-Fi
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Synopsis
Naota's life spirals into chaos when his brother's girlfriend flirts with him and alien Haruko crashes in on a Vespa.
Naota is a normal Japanese 6th grade boy but when his older brother leaves for America to play baseball, his brother leaves his 17-year-old girlfriend Mamimi behind. Mamimi is sending mixed signals and advances to Naota, and he doesn't know what to do about her. But to make matters worse, Naota's world is totally turned upside down when he is run over by a woman on a Vespa. During their first encounter, she hits him over the head with her guitar, which then causes a horn to grow out of his forehead. She calls herself "Haruko" and her presence changes Naota's life to even further insanity. (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
6.6
/10
What 9 readers settled on.
80%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 1.83
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.83 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 3.0
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Score over time
↓ 3.44
Running avg · Jul 2007 → Jun 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “"When it's a matter of life or death, everyone becomes a philosopher." A neat parallel to the anime. Changes key details while maintaining the same spirit. Art is beautiful. Reminded me of PS1...”
- 10 “FLCL, not much I can say about this other than it is my life, my bible, my faith, my passion, it is everything to me... I would sell my house before I would sell this manga... The Anime is better,...”
- 7 “Art: some people say it's bad. But it's a very abstract and surreal style that perfectly complements the abstract and surreal story. This style would have been much more well received if it had...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 22%
Long · 11%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 15 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 00m approx
- Published Dec 1999 – Mar 2001
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0615 catalog