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Anime DVD Review: FLCL - Fooly Cooly 2

Video:
As with the first volume, the picture is simply stunning for this volume as well. All I can say is, after watching this show my opinions of digital animation have risen greatly. The only negative thing I can point out about the video in the show is aliasing which can be seen about the place, though unfortunately aliasing seems to plague all animation so the video still rates bloody highly in my books.

Packaging:
Mamimi is the attraction of this cover, bent down with her camera looking towards us. The background is pink and as before it’s a sketch drawing. The rear cover gives plenty of screenshots and information about the two episodes on the disc as well as information about the disc itself and the extras on it. The fully reversible cover on the inside is totally blue with a picture of Ninamori. Its unique and works well with the idea of the show.

Menus:
This menu follows the same style as volume one except uses different colours, this time pink to match the cover. One of the songs from the show plays in the background, and as there are no transitional menus access times between the menus is nice and fast.

Extras:
Not as many as the last volume, but still enough extras here to give this volume top marks. Firstly is the booklet, which at 16 pages gives plenty of little facts that are quite interesting. The next extra not located in the extras part of the DVD is the Directors Commentary, which is available from the setup area and contains English subtitles. In the extras section we have a Poster Art Gallery that has six pictures from Japanese related FLCL releases, an Australian trailer, a Japanese credited closing, cast profiles of Mamimi and Ninamori and the usual Madman Propaganda.

Content:

Another two FLCL episodes and another hour of joyous entertainment…

The first episode on the disc revolves around Ninamori, the class president. At home Ninamori’s father has been having an affair with his secretary. It’s on the news and the family is in turmoil, however Ninamori acts as if she doesn’t care and tries to behave normally. At school she is starring in the main role in the schools play and has Naota playing the cat, much to his opposition. You see, Naota himself has grown a pair of real cat ears and is forced to wear a rather unfashionable beanie, so the idea of being the cat is even more painful to him. When Ninamori discovers his secret, she blackmails him into playing the cat, but still he will have none of it. Pretty straight story you might think? But then a machine sprouts from Ninamori’s head and Naota and Canti are called back into action.

The second episode has Haruko playing for the opposition in the baseball league, Naota’s father acting strange with Haruko and a strange man with large eyebrows who seems to be up to no good… A strange object is falling down on the earth and the mysterious man with the large eyebrows seems to work for an organization that wishes to stop Haruko and the object that is going to strike the earth. When Naota’s father turns up dead and it turns out everything is not what it seems, will Naota be able to swing the bat?

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