WABISABI is the enjoying of imperfect hings, things nmot
quite balanced. a cracked tea set demitasse. that is
what FoolyCooly -- or FuriKuri to acknowledge the Nihon
tongue -- is about. It's off kilter and weird and
sometimes funny because it's...not funny. It is packed
with American images and is the one anime that shows
real almost unfiltered disgust with occupation...
Meanwhile the principal attacks you with a Rickenbacker
Bass like Entwhistle used to play. The soundtrack sets
it apart -- FLCL is like several hours of MTV (before it
jumped the shark) -- and of cvourse FLCL breaks themold
again by being a abbreviated truncated and complete
anime, going in the other direction from the
MARVEL/DC-echoing madness of Bishoujou Senshi Sailormoon
and DRAGONBALL Z. While the typical racist sees just
more 'jap crap with mickey mouse eyes' -- the special,
sneaky and venal racist sees the cash cows that Akira
Toriyama (DBZ) and Takeuchi Naoko (Sailormoon) have
produced and goes for the cash. No nation likes being
poor -- or occupied.
So FLCL goes for the throat without seeming to. the
villain is a monster with a television set for a head --
ABC would not allow such to occur ("You WILL Love T.V.")
-- and the occupation of the inappropriate seming Negro
character, Crazy Kamen Wandaba -- is also an allusion to
the racist occupation of a totally Japanes eisland. (FYI
- the Japanese KNOW that many characters in anime are
not Japanese in appearance. It;s an occupied nation -
and so long after the war they have given up on bineg
free of U. S. Imperialist domination. Who WON that war
anyway?
In the sequel, FLCLFLCL, a American Marine goes to an
Okinawan strip club where the principal character, Haru,
a wild and sexy American seeming girl with a mind of her
own, has become a belly dancer and become famous for a
trick involving a stack of quarters and her feminine
Aperture. An american marine gets the smart - ass idea
to heat a stack of quarters with a butane lighter - and
with one startled and shocked expression of shame and
pain it's Robot' Fightin' Time in the anime universe.
The tradition of Kabuki and No are followed by Anime, a
style that will always be different from simple american
'kartunes'. Anime is more like cartouche - as the
standouts allude to thousands and thousands of years of
developing culture. Bugs and Tweety can't do that --
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