Fooly cooly is just a silly made up word??
but after watching it again as an adult I wanted to paint the feeling I got when comparing how I first understood FLCL as a teenager.
Teenage me basking in the cool and awe of FLCL, agreed with the notion that most adults were so incompetent and unreliable that we always felt the need to as much as possible for ourselves.
vs
As an adult now, understanding that most adults really are just older kids that are still incompetent and unreliable often thanks to the adults before them. Feeling every part of me not wanting to be like them, and to never make kids feel the way the shitty adults in my life did to me. Never expecting to relate more to bushy brows than Naota.
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So the piece as it is resembles a bust statue all glowy and cool as my forever admiration for the series will always be. With the grit and text and Canti falling apart voicing the crumbling feelings I get when I think about how we're now on the other side of the coming-of age story.