Flip Flappers

Flip Flappers

Magical girls with fairy-tale storytelling, I think? Also robots. Whatever it is, it's quite pretty and well-directed

~Flip flap flip flap~

I don't know what's going on, but this is wonderful!! Very fun, very artistic, and very yuri.

It can keep being abstract for all I care, I'm in it for the stuff I just mentioned. And that ED!

That hanger was pretty tense, but the preview shows that there will still be plenty of whimsical world-hopping involved.

Also the KKK......

I'm liking this one quite a lot! Seems like it can be quite whimsical and magical... plus a bit of darkness, but that only makes it more fairy tale like.

~Flip flap flip flap~

Fun fact: Most of the animators are Studio Ghibli staff.

I haven't seen a show this whimsical since Yuri Kuma Arashi and I'm loving it. I just hope that everything will make sense at the end.

Super stalker Papika.◊

The show is interesting, but the chemistry between the two leads is nonexistent so far. Hopefully that will improve when Cocona finds out what is actually going on.

Well, that only raised more questions. I wonder how many are going to get answered

Pretty gay, though. And it looks like Yayaka has feelings for Cocona

Episode 2: In which Cocona is a tsundere.

So are we gonna find out what happened at the end of last episode, or...?

Why are you being so cold to Papika? Look, the other girls are trying to steal her away!

Ukuskel is certainly some kind of creature.

Who in the world is that much of a tsundere?

Furry acid trip dimension!

This is really weird.

Ukuskel returns.

Papika saves the day somehow, and is no longer a furry.

She went super Saiyan.

Is Dr. Salt related to Dr. Pepper?

I think Dr. Salt's goal is to make pure illusion into reality or something?

I guess we're really not gonna address last episode with the robots and the chloroform? I guess Cocona turned out okay?

The last episode's abduction is only hinted slightly by Papika ("They didn't do anything bad to you, right?"/Cocona's arm feeling numb).

It's interesting how the infirmary repels Papika. She seems to associate the medicinal smell with bad things, lab rat backstory?

Also the episode feels way too formulaic although it's presented in the trippiest way possible. Here's hoping the Mad Max vibes I'm getting from the next episode preview is real.

yeah, especially the first half was a very formulaic "protagonist gets cold feet and refuses to be drawn into the fantastic, rejecting the manic pixie girl" plot.

Well, that was certainly something. Not sure what it was, but it was something. I'm guessing things will get rather interesting as soon as someone bothers to actually explain a little bit of what's going on. Seriously, Papika should follow a course on Communication some day.

The sheer amount of references in the episodes is pretty boggling. Laputa backgrounds? Eva elevator montage? Sure. But hyperart Thomasson and pulp sci-fi novels◊? Now that's something you'd find in Murakami novels. On a rewatch I found a mundane detail of note Grandma is the only family contact listed in Cocona's phone.

Well SOMEBODY is trying to pull a Gainax/Shaft... and I'mma need far more weed than I thought

So, episode 3, in which Mad Max meets Precure. Somehow, it manages to rank even higher in the 'what the fuck did I just watch' scale.

• Cocona leading the War Boys, slinging shotguns and adopting drunken master kung-fu? hell yes.
• There's a vaporwave metal world orbiting a desert world and two magical girls just recoiled over them.
• I want the OST right now..
• I suspect those potatoes contain substances that aren't entirely legal.
• On the plus side we get sweet transformation scenes, chuuni posing, attack calling, and fight scenes that made Mob Psycho's animators blush.
• Killstealers, those three. It's not like they arrived in the nick of time. There was a hooded figure sitting on the bar.
• I was worried Papika's head would get Telefragged and we'd have another Madoka situation.

A lot happened in this episode, but my main concern is just what the frick frack is Yayaka doing?

This show is weird.

Somehow this show is best when Cocona and Papika aren't talking to each other. They have absolutely no chemistry together. Other than that, bunch of weird shit happened, and we got a souped-up Precure fight. Interesting things are happening, but the show is doing a poor job of making me care.

Giant mass of parodies for most of it, with some plot showing up at the end. And the Magical Girl side of things, though more because we have a Dark Magical Girl now than the transformation showing up

Well, now I'm just confused. It's like I just watched an entire season of a magical girl show on super-fast forward. Taken scene-by-scene, it's nothing but good stuff, but all together it's an incoherent mess. Just what are they trying to do here?

Animation for the sake of animation.

The ED for this show is so good.

It is!

I hope the show gets less confusing soon, though that's obviously its thing.

yo the last ep gay as hell

A horror-themed episode that's genuinely creepy! Not sure what to make of it also being yuri-themed, since the show as a whole sure isn't trying to portray that as disturbing