
About this episode
Spencer and Kevin discuss the first two episodes of FLCL, exploring themes of puberty and personal struggles.
Spencer opens with a string of expletives so dense it demonetized the video version on contact. Kevin, meanwhile, had to leave his own house and drive to a third location just to record an episode about cartoons. Anyway: FLCL, episodes one and two. The setup, as Spencer explains it to a bewildered Kevin: a 12-year-old kid named Naota gets run over by a pink-haired woman on a Vespa. Her name's Haruko. She gives him CPR, whacks him with a guitar, and then just sort of moves into his house. Later a robot bursts out of his head. Then a second robot also bursts out of his head. Spencer reads all of this as being about puberty, Naota's older brother being gone, and Mamimi, the girl who prays to a video game god while doing little fire rituals with lighters taped to her face. Kevin's contribution is that it all felt like a dream, which Spencer declares the correct take. Elsewhere: Spencer's latest Magic loss (great deck, politically knifed out of the game almost immediately), a bit on "Classroom of the Elite" and its protagonist who is apparently just the smartest student alive and fixes everything quietly forever, and a listener question about CPTSD and protective anger. Spencer gets…
People in this episode
Host: Spencer
Guest: Kevin
Topics covered
- anime
- FLCL
- puberty
- cartoons
- Magic: The Gathering
- CPTSD
- protective anger
Keywords
- FLCL
- anime
- puberty
- Magic: The Gathering
- CPTSD
- cartoons
- Classroom of the Elite
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: FLCL, Classroom of the Elite
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