
Watch Fooly Cooly
- 2003
- 1 Season
Naota Nandaba is a preteen, working class kid living in the city of Mabase, Japan with his widowed father, Kamon, and paternal grandfather, Shigekune. He idolizes his older brother, Tasuku, who went to the United States to play professional baseball and frequently hangs out with Mamimi Samejima, a pyromaniac he's crushing on who also happens to be Tasuku's ex-girlfriend. Despite living in a city whose backdrop includes a humongous clothing iron-shaped Medical Mechanica building, Naota's life is pretty mundane. However, his life changes for the chaotic when Haruko Haruhara accidentally runs him over with a Vespa. After resuscitating Naota, Haruko strikes the boy in the head with her Rickenbacker 4001, a left-handed bass guitar. Naota runs away from the crazy girl and soon discovers that the point of injury serves as a gateway for "medical" robots produced by the Medical Mechanica Company, allowing them to emerge painfully from his forehead. Canti, the first of these robots to emerge from Naota's forehead decides to help Naota and his family, defending Mabase from the other robots of Medical Mechanica as well as serving as a butler within the Nandaba household. Naota eventually returns home to find Haruko working for his father as a maid. Later, Haruko explains that she actually works for the Galactic Space Police Brotherhood and is in search of Atomsk, the Pirate King. On a different point of observation, Commander Amarao watches over Naota, believing that the Medical Mechanica Corporation wants to conquer the galaxy. All of these factions cause Naota to be brought into a tug of war between Haruko's rogue operation, Commander Amarao's desire to stop Medical Mechanica, and Medical Mechanica's own goals. Fooly Cooly, also known as FLCL or ????, is a Japanese anime series which consists of six 23 minute-long episodes, co-produced by Studio GAINAX and I.G. Productions, with music by The Pillows, and written by Yoji Enokido. The series is licensed for distribution by FUNimation Entertainment in the United States and Canada, by Madman Entertainment in Australia, and by MVM Films in the United Kingdom.