 If you liked
FLCL
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 ...then you might like
Flip Flappers
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Welcome, to my review, people.
The first thing is the air of these animes, is very similar. With characters with pink hair who take the protagonist out of his comfort zone.
With an direction that has crazy cameras, and in its history, villains with similar interests, and plot twists you don't even expect.
That's it, the rest is that, both are rare.
Thank you so much! (Excuse the bad English)
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Recommended by JjWasaby23
The amount of similarities both of these anime share is almost unbelievable. Both FLCL (Tsurumaki, Kazuya) and Flip Flappers (Oshiyama, Kiyotaka) are personal passion projects that had most, if not all, creative decisions as far as the story and direction goes done by their respective directors. Both anime are original works build from the ground up, and in both cases the director of the shows had incredible creative freedom to implement anything that they found interesting into their series.
Aside from staff background similarities, these two anime have a lot of things in common to their story. Both FLCL and Flip Flappers are simple narratives told
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Recommended by cosmonautic
Flip Flappers is a beautiful series, and while similar in a lot of ways to FLCL in terms of being a coming of age story, it portrays this coming of age from a somewhat different perspective. One which may resonate much harder with specific people. If you're a fan of beautifully animated action scenes and dense episodes filled to bursting with visual metaphor and complex meaning, told effortlessly while still retaining surface level excitement throughout then Flip Flappers is for you.
There are some similar things between both shows, but the most obvious one is, they're both coming of age stories, that are told in a somewhat more...weird way with lots of symbolism and a more episodic structure, before everything comes together in the end.
Though FLCL focuses more on themes of sexuality and maturity, while Flip Flappers is much more about the growing up part, as well as trying to find out, what you want to do in your future.
Also FLCL takes place in a relativ normal city, where just a bunch of giant robots and aliens start to appear, while Flip Flappers plays in different
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Recommended by Sinankooesa