Updated April 9, 2022 by sheynanigans
The FLCL franchise is a three-season OVA series with six episodes each. Each season has its peculiarities and odd, unfathomable storylines.
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You don’t have to comprehend anything to have a good time! With each passing episode, the show’s bizarreness grows.
FLCL is the ultimate amusement if you shut off your thoughts, from the development of massive structures physically growing from the skull of a character!
This article gives a direct and straight insight into the chronological watch order of the FLCL franchise. It will answer all questions you might have on how to watch FLCL in Order.
So, without beating around the bush for too long, let’s get right to it.
HOW TO WATCH FLCL
FLCL Quick Watch Order
FLCL Series Release Order
The first season of FLCL has six episodes. All these six episodes serve as the epic opening to the entire series that ends with a note of suspense, one that’d push you to see season two as soon as possible.
The plot revolves around Haruko Haruhara, a narcissistic alien drawn to the mythical Japanese borough of Mabase by the Medical Meccanica building, who uses Naota Nandaba, a 12-year-old child in the very first season, and Hidomi Hibajiri, a 14-year-old child in season two as minions in her plot to procure the being known as Atomsk.
And the series follows a perfect order in the following exact watch order:
- Season One: FLCL
- Season Two: FLCL Progressive; The Movie
- Season Three: FLCL Alternative; The Movie
FLCL Series Movies’ Release Order
However, in September of 2018, Toho aired the FLCL Progressive and FLCL Alternative follow-up seasons as feature movies in theaters. The FLCL Progressive has been known as Gekijo-ban Furi Kuri Purogure. In contrast, the FLCL Alternative is known as Gekijo-ban Furi Orutana. Both are movie compilations of their respective seasons.
Taking a brief into the entire movie watch Order, we have:
FLCL Progressive
1. RE: Start
Medical Mechanica attacks Hidomi’s town. She uncovers a secret within herself that could free everyone—a knowledge that only Haruko, the new teacher, can activate.
2. Freebie Honey
Hidomi awakens from yet another nightmare. She transforms into a zombie in school, Raharu brings her a brochure to deliver to Ko Ide, who hasn’t shown up for class.
3. Stone Skipping
At Hidomi’s N.O. activation, strange things happen. She suddenly has a cheery and happy disposition, the polar opposite of her true self. The only way to restore her to normal is to cut the enormous iron cords.
4. LooPQR
Marco appears to be the only one who finds Hidomi’s happiness appealing. He works part-time to purchase her a charm, even though he knows Ide seems to be in love with her. In the meantime, Jinyu and Raharu plan to visit the facility in her Bel Aire.
5. Fool on the Planet
The iron now sits bolt upright after causing damage to the plant. Haruko storms into class and says that she is expecting a child, is getting married, and will be leaving her position as a teacher. She also claims that going to an amusement park is the only solution to being joyful.
6. Our Running
Haruko is taken aback when Hidomi physically and verbally abuses her while attempting to reclaim Ide. When Hidomi accuses Haruko of using her out of her love for Atomsk, she discovers why she is acting childish.
FLCL Alternative
1. Flying Memory
Kana is a happy 17-year-old who can be clumsy and nosy sometimes. Mossan starts creating a rocket out of old soda bottles while chilling out with her best friends (Pets, Hijiri, and Mossan). Before Haruko arrives and eliminates the alien, an extraterrestrial crashes into the house and terrifies them.
2. Grown-Up Wannabe
Hijiri, acting more mature than any of her peers, offers Kana and her besties to do a picture session with Toshio after they watch Hijiri kissing a college kid, Toshio, in his car.
3. Freestyle Collection
When Kana discovers that Mossan is making an effort even outside the school on a modelling contest, she feels compelled to assist her, irritating Mossan.
4. Pit-a-Pat
Medical Mechanica’s objective is to envelop the Earth in pins, but Kanda and Haruko differ on how to proceed. Haruko enters during class and begins sensually stroking Sasaki. At the same time, he tries to break more terrible news on the basketball squad.
Mr. Sudo says that the team is having so much trouble that Haruko has been brought in to help, even though it’s evident her head is elsewhere. Kana sends her mates to the game to support Sasaki. Still, Haruko’s antics divert both him and Aida, who is enraged and unintentionally smacks Kana in the head with the ball.
Pets, however, swap a thing with Mossan in exchange for a hand-made cloth with a bit of meat on it.
5. Shake It Off
The sisters and Haruko find Pets is gone one sunny summer day while swimming in the pool. Later, Kana learns through her colleague Aida that Pets’ family is extremely wealthy and that they are relocating to Mars.
6. Full Flat
Depressed, Kana flicks through the images she shot with her friends; the three girls meet on the beach afterward to observe the rocket Pets is expected to be on take–off.
FLCL Series Specials Release Order
There are two Specials in the FLCL Series, and these are:
1. Special Her Progressive
Release Date: 28th September 2018 | 3:30 PM
Length: 23 Mins
Nong Hibari Ri Dumei is a girl who spends her days wearing headphones. Her everyday routine consists of going to school, assisting at the restaurant at home, and listening to music. It was drab and dull day after day until a woman with an odd guitar arrived.
2. Special Her Alternative
Release Date: 7th September 2018 | 3:30 PM
Length: 23 Mins
Kana Kawamoto, a high school student, and her pals, Aman, San, and Pez lived their typical happy lives when Haruko, a space policeman on a motorbike, suddenly barged in. At about the same time, aliens are invading this world.
FLCL Series OVAs Release Order
The FLCL Ova has been released in the following Order:
1. Fooly Cooly
The plot of Fooly Cooly begins with Naota heading home with Mamimi, his elder brother’s ex-girlfriend. He gets attacked by an extraterrestrial girl riding a yellow Vespa scooter and wielding a 1976 Rickenbacker bass guitar.
All of this takes place in the town of Mabase, which the Medical Machine plant occupies. The next day, Naota discovers that Haruko, the extraterrestrial girl, has been recruited as a cleaner in his father’s bakery.
2. Fire Starter
Mamimi has seen strange things and a black-winged angel out of a game she continues playing on her mobile computer. Naota’s skull is filled with increasingly more prominent and stranger bumps. Haruko examines Naota’s head and determines that he lacks a brain. Naota’s head appears to be filled by robots.
3. Marquis de Carabas
Ninamori is a classmate of Naota’s. Her father, the mayor, has been suspected of having an affair with his secretary. Ninamori has also reluctantly cast Naota as the lead part in the school play. Naota’s skull is sprouting even more bizarre forms!
4. Full Swing
Haruko has decided to join the opposing league and is getting on with Kamon too well. Naota has no weird bulges on his head anymore. Still, he does have some beacon there, which the Bureau of Interstellar Immigration is following.
5. Brittle Bullet
Haruko begins to shift her focus from Kamon to Naota, causing the latter to become envious. They decide to “duel” for Haruko, which amounts to a violent airsoft shootout with Canti and Kamon. Lieutenant Kitsurubami unsuccessfully tries to blow Canti away during the struggle.
When Mamimi notices Naota’s close friendship with Haruko, she confronts him about how much he likes her, prompting him to question her. Ultimately, his N.O. channel erupts into one of the most significant objects ever, a leviathan robot, as Commander Amarao, his backup shooters, and Haruko engage in a gunfight.
6. FLCLimax
In conclusion, life in Mabase has returned to normal. A year has gone by since Haruko left, and Naota and his pals have started junior high school. Naota and Ninamori have a usual quarrel over drinks, hinting at some modest symptoms of romance.
Haruko’s guitar was preserved in Naota’s room as a memory; whether he learned to use it or not is unclear. Mamimi abandoned Mabase to study photography, he says. “Nothing exciting ever occurs here,” Naota concludes his farewell monologue, echoing his assertion from the opening episode that contradicts the events of the story arc.
FLCL Chronological Order
FLCL (Season One)
- Fooly Cooly (episode)
- Fire Starter
- Marquis de Carabas
- Full Swing
- Brittle Bullet
- FLCLimax
FLCL Progressive (Season Two)
- RE: Start
- Freebie Honey
- Stone Skipping
- LooPQR
- Fool on the Planet
- Our Running
FLCL Alternative (Season Two)
- Flying Memory
- Grown-Up Wannabe
- Freestyle Collection
- Pit-a-Pat
- Shake It Off
- Full Flat
Conclusion
Well, I think that pretty much sums it up for you. But well, to be a little bit more sincere, I had to source out the correct order before I could go ahead to see this series so that I wouldn’t end up watching season three before season one. Hahaha!!
But now, instead of going all out to source for the correct FLCL watch order, it’s all been listed out here for you, and you even have an insight on what to expect from each episode. Now isn’t that just so fantastic?
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