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The series: "Flcl"
Where you can stream it: Hulu, FUNimation Now, AdultSwim.com
The pitch: Being a 12-year-old boy is tough enough, but Naota (Jun Mizuki) has it harder than most. He feels abandoned by his older brother, who went to America to play baseball and left his teenage girlfriend Mamimi (Izumi Kasagi) behind. Mamimi flirts with Naota and calls him by his brother's name, but then things go from weird to wacky when a young woman named Haruko (Mayumi Shintani) hits him with her Vespa and then clocks him upside the head with her guitar. The guitar hit causes a horn to grow out of his head, and that horn becomes a robot. All of this happens within the first episode,...
The series: "Flcl"
Where you can stream it: Hulu, FUNimation Now, AdultSwim.com
The pitch: Being a 12-year-old boy is tough enough, but Naota (Jun Mizuki) has it harder than most. He feels abandoned by his older brother, who went to America to play baseball and left his teenage girlfriend Mamimi (Izumi Kasagi) behind. Mamimi flirts with Naota and calls him by his brother's name, but then things go from weird to wacky when a young woman named Haruko (Mayumi Shintani) hits him with her Vespa and then clocks him upside the head with her guitar. The guitar hit causes a horn to grow out of his head, and that horn becomes a robot. All of this happens within the first episode,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
Studio Madhouse’s Racing Anime Redline has been around the net with several clips and trailers for some years now and also the following clip, the nice guys from Catsuka have found at youTube has been uploaded in January 2009, but that doesn’t make it any less amazing to watch.
Director Takeshi Koike (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Animatrix) shows us some really freaky stuff and amazing animations that kinda make Redline look like the bastard offspring of Yogi’s Space Race, Speed Racer and Basquash! that has been begetted during a wild drug night! Can’t wait to see the full 90 minutes of this!
The script was written by Yoji Enokido (Flfc, RahXephon, Nge), Yoshiki Sakurai (GitS:sac, Moribito) and Katsuhito Ishii (The Taste of Tea, Funky Forest).
[See post to watch Flash video] According to Ann, Redline will be shown on the French Annecy Animation Festival in June, until more screenings will be announced we’ll...
Director Takeshi Koike (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Animatrix) shows us some really freaky stuff and amazing animations that kinda make Redline look like the bastard offspring of Yogi’s Space Race, Speed Racer and Basquash! that has been begetted during a wild drug night! Can’t wait to see the full 90 minutes of this!
The script was written by Yoji Enokido (Flfc, RahXephon, Nge), Yoshiki Sakurai (GitS:sac, Moribito) and Katsuhito Ishii (The Taste of Tea, Funky Forest).
[See post to watch Flash video] According to Ann, Redline will be shown on the French Annecy Animation Festival in June, until more screenings will be announced we’ll...
- 5/1/2009
- by Ulrik
- Affenheimtheater
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