FLCL - Episode 2

I don't know why I'm doing this to myself but I've decided to look at the second episode of this stupid show. While it's true you don't get a second chance to make a first impression I know that with a lot of TV shows it takes a couple episodes before they find their groove so to speak. Maybe this show is one of those cases and this episode will be better than the dunderheaded buffoonery of the previous episode. LET'S ANIME IT UP DUDES!

What Happened
"I saw God the other day, by the river on a rainy afternoon." Fuck you FLCL. Fuck you forever...

The child molesting high school girl is hanging all over the elementary school boy outside of his school. His classmates are like, "Who's that?!" "It's his wife...an older woman!" Girl classmate looks all pissed off and shit because I guess she wants to make out with the elementary school boy or something. I don't know.

Back at the elementary school boy's house the robot in a bomber jacket has taken an x-ray of the boy's head. Apparently his head is empty. I guess the boy's name is Takkun or something. The Vespa lady plays a bass and says that she's a Space Patrol Officer or something. I don't know.

Later, outside the house the bomber jacket robot is being used by the Vespa lady and Takkun's dad and granddad to do housework much to the chagrin of Takkun who freaks the fuck out at his dad for allowing the robot to walk around outside and stuff. His dad talks about a bunch of shit that's just word chunks. I don't know.

Over at the river the child molesting high school girl from episode 1 is back. Her name is Mamimi or something. She's playing some Gameboy game about burning a city down. I guess that one never got released Stateside because I have no memory of Arson: The Video Game. At some point at the river Mamimi finds a ill-formed anime cat that she saves because she's a god or something. She names this cat Takkun because that's just what this show needed: two characters with the exact same name.

Meanwhile in the Giant Iron factory the Vespa lady crashes her Vespa into the reception area. A pair of security guys are like, "Yo what the shit? Are you a moron or something?" One guy tries to look up her skirt, because ANIME! Takkun shows up and is like, "Yes, I'm 12 years old but I'm her guardian."

The Vespa lady asks the guards why there is no entrance or exit to the building which makes zero sense at all since she somehow got her scooter into the building and Takkun showed up inside the building to pick her up after her accident. Nice goddamn plot hole you got there FLCL. Takkun takes her home I guess. 

Meanwhile over at the river, Mamimi (the high school girl who's all about cigarettes and trying to get in a 12 year old boy's pants) is playing her Gameboy when she sees the bomber jacket robot rummaging through the wreckage he caused when he fought another giant robot in episode one. The robot in a bomber jacket picks up some random pieces of thing. For some reason the bomber jacket robot also is also wearing a pair of wings and a halo so Mamimi assumes it's a god.

She follows the robot to some burnt out building where it scares some crows and then flies. She then dubs the robot Conti or something after the Fire God in Arson: The Video Game. I have no fucking idea what is even going on.

Takkun and the Vespa lady drive by the beach or something but Takkun doesn't want to go to the beach because it's October. She's a bad driver.

In the evening Vespa Lady, Mamimi, and Takkun are hanging out at Takkun's dad's bakery because he's still a baker for some reason. The molester chick is talking some rubbish and showing pictures while Takkun complains about the bomber jacket robot being allowed to wander about town. Mamimi has to stay on the porch because Takkun's grandfather won't let her into the house for some reason. I don't know.

They talk about how the robot was apparently seen at a 711 looking at Hustler and then the robot shows up with snack and maybe beers. I don't know. Vespa Lady's like, "You clod, this is the wrong kind!" The robot then gives a copy of Hustler to the kid's granddad because ANIME! Apparently this is the wrong issue and granddad calls him a clod too. Mamimi cannot believe these people would treat a god in this fashion!

Later on Takkun is hanging out with his dumbass elementary school friends talking about a series of fires that have broken out throughout the city. They go and look at some burned out shit and see Mamimi down in the river. The elementary school kids make fun of her for getting bullied by her classmates.

Takkun then walks at night behind a now shoeless Mamimi. She drops her Gameboy but he picks it up for her. He follows her to the burnt down ruins of a school. She's got a headband with lighters attached to it and is sitting in a circle of burning cigarettes. I guess Mamimi is an arsonist or something.

Anyway Takkun tries to give her back her Gameboy but she's like, "Whatever, I don't even need it anymore." She talks about the fire at her school. I think maybe she set that fire, but that's when she met Takkun's brother, Baseball Superstar. He apparently saved her that day or something. I don't even know. Word chunks are just hitting my ears but they have lost all meaning.

Robosexual Agenda

Mamimi then goes to kiss the robot and suddenly the Giant Iron factory starts to glow and another giant robot busts out of Takkun's head. The bomber jacket robot starts to fight it and the Vespa lady shows up to wail on the robot with her bass, but its too strong. The bomber jacket robot then eats Takkun and turns into a big ass gun and shoots the evil robot. The Vespa lady nails the robot with her bass and it explodes and then a bunch of police come.

Doing his best Daniel Stern in Wonder Years impression Takkun's all like, "I promised then and there that I would protect Mamimi and always be by her side." Isn't that nice, he's finally been conditioned to think that he loves the girl who's molesting him.

Thoughts
Goddamn is this a bunch of nonsense or what? Gods and robots and body horror and a bunch of bullshit and Japanese indie rock and screaming and just...FUCK. It's bad. It's real, real bad, but in an effort not to be 100% negative I'll say one good thing about it. I talked about the music being good last time so that's out. Umm...at least this time they never did the "Here's an extended segment that looks like a page out of a comic book with little to no actual animation," which is a plus. Other than that this was a mess of utter bullshit trying so goddamn hard to be deep and philosophical and failing spectacularly. I hate it so much.

Giant Robots: Yup.
Lesbian Subtext: Nope.
Boobs: Nope, but a security guard tries to stare up the Vespa lady's skirt.
Body Horror: Yup.
Magical Teen Girls: Maybe?