History WMG / FLCL

[[WMG: Naota is some sort of alternate version of [[Videogame/EarthBound Ness]]]]
Naota's mother is never seen in the series because she is another version of Ness's father, who is never seen in Videogame/EarthBound. Haruko is a personification of the meteorite from Earthbound: Naota's life appears normal until she shows up, just as Ness's was until the meteorite landed near his house. The portal in Naota's head. All the robots appearing are caused by Giygas, who has power over all universes, not just the Videogame/EarthBound one. Giygas's defeat in the Videogame/EarthBound universe causes things to stop coming out of Naota's head. Also, Naota wields a baseball bat at some point.

[[WMG: Naota and Haruko are a previous iteration of Kyon and LightNovel/{{Haruhi Suzumiya}} ]]

The manga, though... That stuff's just a MindScrew that takes the [[MindScrew randomness]] and sexual subtext UpToEleven.

* ...Nah.
* I will counter the above person by agreeing that people read entirely too much into an anime about a coming of age story with random crazy things thrown in to amuse us. :) Sometimes a giant iron is just a giant iron.
* Actually Kazuya Tsurumaki himself aimed to give the giant iron a symbolical meaning... which is blatantly obvious too. Go check the DVD commentary.

* I am now totally behind this theory. She must be one of the ones who stared into the void and went crazy. Bet she'd get along great with the Master.

So think about it. There is a war going on between Atomsk and Medical Mechanica. It is said that Atomsk is capable of stealing whole solar systems, which he does in order to gain enough power to defeat his rivals. But when you think about it, stealing a solar system cant really make a being any more powerful, what really is important is the N.O energy that's on each solar systems. Apparently one source of such N.O power are human beings. Nonetheless, such power needs a catalyst to come into view. Everytime there is a sudden discharge of N.O in Mabase, for reasons I haven't thought about, the sirens of the Medical Mechanica building go off. Theres also the steam thing but I haven't bother thinking about it either. Atomsk and the command of Medical Mechanica probably exists in a higher level of existence, both being some sort of integrated data entities. So to act in the physical world they need to use proxies. Such as aliens like Haruko, humans like Naota, or robots like Canti.
So what I am driving at is that, basically Medical Machina has black mailed every planet under its control to build or host the iron building. Every time a planet is about to be lost to Atomsk, in order to stop him from becoming more powerful, the iron building activate destroying complete worlds (which to some may seem like a random act), completely flattening their surfaces. This is done because, according to the universal law of cool, its the only way to safeguard (or destroy) the N.O away from The Pirate King.

[[WMG: MamoruOshii would have directed the series if he had any any involvemen!t]]
Given that Creator/ProductionIG had involvement with it's animation, as well as its really underground and bizarre style, this looks like something that MamoruOshii would have directed.

[[WMG:...A post WW2 Series cleverly disguised as a coming of age story.]]

Naota is a larval dimensional wasp (you know, the kind that when they lay their eggs in people, the eggs turn into universes?). [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Vespa]]-girl is a mature specimen of the species, and Naota's brother is (or was, assuming Haruko is his mature form and the reminiscence was something spiritual rather than similar) the thing under the steam iron (he was taken away two years ago, and they told Naota that he was going to America to be baseball player [[GenreSavvy to keep him from trying to uncover the conspiracy]]). Since Haruko was ''trying'' to create a portal instread of a universe, she had to lay her egg in one of the larvae of her own species (due to the formation of the brain, and its ability to cogitate without one), since it would have just killed a human or made a new universe all folded in on itself if laid in the larva of a universe moth.\\

The manga, though... That stuff's just a MindScrew that takes the [[MindScrew randomness]] and [[FreudWasRight sexual subtext]] UpToEleven.

[[WMG: Atmosk s related to the [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Anti-Spiral]]]]

Even though ''FLCL'' is supposed to be a comedy, the environment is way too similar to the gloomy Main/AfterTheEnd setting of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Main/StudioGainax's previous project. In fact, despite the "weird" elements like the iron-shaped factory, it's even ''darker'' at times. The surreal art resembles, at least to this editor, Shinji's Instrumentality-induced visions in episodes 25-26.

* FLCL takes place between the very beginning of episode 1 of TTGL and the opening. The Space Pirate Atomsk is the leader of the Spiral Fleet that was wiped out. Medical Mechanica is a gatekeeper race created by the anti spirals used to keep that paralell earths spiral energy down.

[[WMG:Atomsk is Nagare Ryoma from ''GetterRobo'']]

Given that ProductionIG had involvement with it's animation, as well as its really underground and bizarre style, this looks like something that MamoruOshii would have directed.

[[WMG: MamoruOshii would have directed the series if he had any any involvement]]

[[WMG: Naota is some sort of alternate version of [[EarthBound Ness]]]]
Naota's mother is never seen in the series because she is another version of Ness's father, who is never seen in EarthBound. Haruko is a personification of the meteorite from Earthbound: Naota's life appears normal until she shows up, just as Ness's was until the meteorite landed near his house. The portal in Naota's head. All the robots appearing are caused by Giygas, who has power over all universes, not just the EarthBound one. Giygas's defeat in the EarthBound universe causes things to stop coming out of Naota's head. Also, Naota wields a baseball bat at some point.

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[[WMG:FLCL is a sequel to SerialExperimentsLain]]

[[WMG: FLCL is either a sequel or an alternate universe to ''{{Main/TengenToppaGurrenLagann}}'']]
They're both by {{Main/StudioGainax}}, and they're both anti-Evangelions, so why not? They even have a lot of parallels, particularly since Naota and Simon are less-scrappy expies of Shinji. FLCL could be what TTGL would've been had Gunmen never been invented: the anti-Spirals come in the form of Medical Mechanical, and it's up to Haruko and her concentrated Spiral Energy to free Atomsk, who is pretty much pure Spiral Energy. Or, alternatively, FLCL takes place sometime in the future after the Anti-Spirals are defeated; they try again, this time in a different manner to get past the radar. No Beastmen are there because they either all died out (save for Viral, who's off in space anyway) or simply don't get any screen time. And yes, this came from the ''TTGL'' page.

* Or the staff saw how badly ''ExcelSaga'' fizzled out by being stretched to 26 episodes and decided brevity was wiser.

[[WMG:...is a sequel to ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' taking place entirely within Instrumentality.]]
Even though ''FLCL'' is supposed to be a comedy, the environment is way too similar to the gloomy Main/AfterTheEnd setting of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Main/StudioGainax's previous project. In fact, despite the "weird" elements like the iron-shaped factory, it's even ''darker'' at times. The surreal art resembles, at least to this editor, Shinji's Instrumentality-induced visions in episodes 25-26.

[[WMG:...is ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' for people who don't like ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'']]