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Twelve-year-old Naota's tranquil if somewhat boring existence essentially revolves around going to school and spending time at home with his lecherous father and grandfather. And things have been worse since his older brother, Tasuku, left to play pro baseball in America causing in his girlfriend, Mamimi, to focus her inappropriate and unwanted attentions on the younger Naota.

But events take an unpredictably dramatic turn with the arrival of Haruhara Haruko, an out-of-this-world girl who literally blasts into Naota's by running him down on her scooter and clobbering him with her guitar. The resulting head injury is not so much a lump as a phallic horn from which robots begin to erupt at the most inopportune moments! As if that wasn't enough, Naota later discovers that his father has employed Haruko as a live-in maid with one of Naota's head-spawned robots as her assistant.

It's not long before Naota discovers the reason for Haruko's earthly visit and, naturally, it's just as bizarre as recent events have led him to expect.

Unlike any other anime you may have seen before, FLCL is virtually impossible to categorize, combining, as it does, elements of comedy, drama, science fiction, romance, philosophy, poetry and numerous knowing reference to contemporary pop culture. At its core, though, FLCL is a mesmerising, radically visualised coming-of-age saga for the 21st century.