FLCL: Shoegaze

23 years, 5 seasons, and a lot of misses later, FLCL is over. It's a bittersweet moment for me since I managed to find FLCL at all the moments when I really needed something that spoke to what I was feeling. As anyone who understood the original FLCL can attest to, moving from adolescence to young adulthood is a truly…

A quick story that would've benefitted from a little more time to tell it! Definitely more meaningful from having seen Alternative before it - it's a direct sequel series that reflects on the question "What do you do when you can't live up to other's expectations?" For the new characters, it asks "What would you do to…

FLCL: Shoegaze is great in spite of it all. To get it out of the way, no it's not the original, and that's ok. Once you get past that and judge the show on its own merits and as a sequel not trying to do the same thing again, that's when you get to the heart. Just because you've had the best $300 steak, doesn't mean…