Flip Flappers

What did you think of this artstyle?

>Cockona

Art style was cool, too bad the show was shit.

I'm watching this now, is it that bad? It looks very promising so far.

No, it's good.

I liked it
It feels rushed at the end but it's a good show if you don't expect some kind of plot masterpiece

i enjoyed it

Just watch it and leave the thread. Sup Forums can have some extreme opinions about it

My personal aoty2016

God tier OP and ED.

The art, designs, and seiyuu work are the only things I've no complaints about with this anime.

Her outfit is too lewd

The episodic stuff is good.
The main plot is terrible.

It took me some time to get used to the very big eyes, even for anime, and the character design wasn't that great at first. But it really grew on me. Cocona is a beauty and some of the worlds looked amazing. Especially episode 3, I know that this episode gets its dicked sucked a lot, but the whole atmosphere and the warm colors, as well as some of the outlandish inhabitants and their vehicles.

>FLAPIKA

>Cockona

Not today.

Why not?

The transformations were cool. Yayaka Flip Flapping was hype as fuck.

I think some subtleties escaped me, but I enjoyed it nevertheless. Especially the mecha insert song.

>The main plot is terrible.
Only because it was too complex for you to handle doesn't mean it's 'terrible'.

Style and animation where of amazing quality. Can't say the same about the writing, sadly. Flip Flappers where a flipping flop.

>There are people on Sup Forums who didn't like this near masterpiece
Unbelievable

I want her to sit on my face

It was okay.
I have some slight hope for FLCL seasons 2 and 3

Who cares? What matters is that it didn't manage to inspire any potential fans to make any kind of good porn material of it.
Nips don't like, westerners don't like, not even spics like it. That's why there's no interesting follow up material to it, and all we have are a bunch of extremely dull repetitive threads where the same loser dullards hang out to complain about how nobody else likes it.

Shit taste is not only restricted to the elevens.

>What matters is that it didn't manage to inspire any potential fans to make any kind of good porn material of it
That's actually really depressing.

Sup Forums's aoty 2016.

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Rakugo was better.

>yayacuck

Flip Floppers was too good for this world

Flip Flappers is destined to become a cult series that will get 'rediscovered' 10 years from now and be hailed as a masterpiece

That's also when Sup Forums will claim that it always loved it. If Sup Forums still exists

Don't forget: We're here forever.

Masumi Itou composed the ED and I was glad to see her after such a long absence (she sang the Azumanga Daioh OP and ED and the Humanity Has Declined ED)

>Humanity Has Declined ED
I knew the ED was familiar. Similar style even

Yeah, that's what got my attention

It's a solid watch, user. The last episodes a bit iffy, but considering the diamond in the rough anime Flip Flappers is, it's a pretty nice ride overall.

That red drop of paint makes this unsettling to look at.

Cocona knows what she's doing, it's perfectly safe.

Who the fuck was she ?

AB-chan.

Another (one) B(ites the D)ust

Come on now, you can't be a FLFL patrician without acknowledging wholeheartedly that AOTY 2016 was Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu. FLFL will forever be that precious and flawed 2018 show that went largely unnoticed but that had more creativity and energy packed into it than the absolute majority of seasonal trash.

Coconass

something something wasted potential

What is up with these Princess Principal tongue meme edits?

rakugo is a completely different kind of show and barely benefits from being turned into an anime so its perfectly understandable to think flip flappers is aoty over rakugo imo

nah

An anime that showed incredible potential but wasted it on a mediocre final villain and an unconvincing yuri relationship. At least watch it to episode 9 though, even though 4 and 7 were lackluster I remember being floored by how good the other episodes were (especially 5 and 6).

Beautiful and unprofitable

I haven't read the source material so I really don't know. But I'll be frank, even if it is something that rests solely on the greatest of the original work, masterpieces like Rakugo give me hope for the industry, though I honestly feel that original titles like FLFL perfectly acceptable as AOTY. Original works carry the medium forward.

Couldn't watch past the first episode because the constant rosy cheeks in character designs triggers my autism

I agree with the mediocre final villain, even though I can see where they were going for with it. Wasted potential indeed, even if Sup Forums generally overstates how shitty the last episodes were, there were snippets of greatness even there.

The yuri relationship was anything but unconvincing. The last episodes gave it a creepy vibe that wasn't fully developed but the Papika/Cocona relationship was always the focal point of the series.

Paprika and Coconut are NOT gay.

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When will this stupid meme die?

rakugo was amazing in almost every aspect but shows like FLFL are exactly why I love anime and even if some things could have been executed better, I still hold the show in really high regards and it stand as one of my favorite of all time for all the thing it attempted to do and mostly did right

Flip Flappers was a masterpiece and one of if not the best anime to be released this decade.

Yeah, I completely get this argument. It really is an unfair comparison seeing how they were going for entirely different things, but FLFL was the more anime anime, just fresh and new, really great energy. Both shows saved anime in 2016.

So that's where this ass is from

doujins never

Writer-change chan

Probably this.

I thought it had a lot of charm and imbued the aesthetics with a uniqueness to easily set it apart from typical anime.

Wasted potential.

red herring-chan

That one episode where they took turns being in a dysfunctional family setting and finding refuge with the old lady neighbor was incredible.

Other individual episodes were great too.

that fucking episode was flawless

I feel the same way

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That episode gave me so much feels, I hive-minded into Pure Illusion. FLFL was episodic perfection, the spooky school episode, the mecha world, the Papikana harem episode, Mad Flaps: Yuri Road, so many great moments.

We had a lot of great anime last year, so it really is mind boggling how a show that anons legitimately accuse of being wasted potential can credibly be called AOTY.

Went downhill after the base raid and failed all the expectations the show set up for viewers prior to that episode. It was as if the staff was contractually obligated to deal with the comparatively boring 'real plot' in 10 episodes or however many it was.

Unless they genuinely intended the twist about your best friend lover being your time warped mother's best friend lover to be some kind of literary triumph, in which case I could only personally find it as ridiculously unnecessary.

But my point is what FLFL did good, it did great. Shifting gears to serious business mode really is what brought it down, it is true, but the show delivered so much prior to this that anons are generally willing to wave them off as a somewhat minor faux pas in an otherwise stellar series. There was also a necessity for an overarching plot in this kind of story with such a foreboding atmosphere, it just wasn't handled well, it ultimately just feels like a creepy metaphor for some lesbo cake sexual harassment fairy tail. The cautionary tale here is that if you ignore this narrative necessity you get shows like Princess Principal that feel aimless, but if you go about it halfheartedly you get stuff like Little Witch Academia (another fantastic example of episodic greatness, frankly). But hey, this was still a highlight of 2016 and an instant cult classic anime.

I will remind anons that this was a directorial debut, certainly some mistakes were made but FLFL never played it safe. It always aimed to deliver something fresh and vibrant. And for the most part, mission fucking accomplished. Really well done.

You asked why people thought the series disappointed. It disappointed because most works are judged by how they are ended, beautiful journey or not.

Too bad it sold really really poorly. Apparently people in America liked it a LOT though

Dealing in the business of moeshit has to tread a very fine line between /u/-lite and /u/-heavy. Generally speaking, anime which leaves imagination to the viewers sells bucketloads, but anime which are heavy handed on relationships like FLFL tank because otaku just watch something else.

Why does Sup Forums like this show so much? It's really weird that this is praised on Sup Forums like it's the second coming when the show itself literally sold a fractale.

It's the thinking man's Inception.

fuck

>/U/nception

Absolutely this. Though I would say that FLFL mishandling of it's /u/ is really what brought it down. It could still have been somewhat /u/ heavy without feeling creepy or like some unearned asspull.

>if something is popular it must be good!
>if it sells poorly, it's obviously trash!
Reminder that Gundam Seed is Japan's favourite Gundam entry.
Reminder that you are discussing Chinese cartoons anonymously and thus do not have to conform to some MAL/Reddit hivemind.
Reminder that this popularity/sales fallacy is annoying and disingenuous.

I'm one of the anons who thought the way the main plotline was handled dragged the series down, but I still think a main story tying the episodes together was necessary, otherwise even the best of the episodes would have meant nothing in the end. Somewhere out there, there is an alternative timeline where the original writer continued the script through the entirety of the show bringing all of the episodes to a satisfying finale and it was universally regarded as AOTY, selling 70k BDs and spawning a sequel movie Flip Flappers: Rebellion.

I thought it was kinda weird and 90s-y.
Later, I just wanted to fuck them all.

>better animation and choreography than DBS

Didn't feel 90'y and they weren't definitely sexual at all

In surprised the train ride only lasted 13 episodes

The tongue edit meme comes from Flip Flappers

explain this then

Girls can't impregnate girls

Flip Flappers had a beautiful art style.

Stop after the World of Papikas episode. That's a good place to end it and it's all downhill into the Eva ripoff bog of eternal hackery from there.

True that.

FlipFlap had a lot of promise and looked great (mostly), but it crashed and burned so hard I couldn't forgive it. It barely made it onto my 2016 top 10 list, and that was mostly due to how much I enjoyed the first third.

Am I delusional for thinking that the girls were not in love with each other? What made me think so was the episode with many different potential Papikas. I think the point of that episode was to show that the two of them would retain a special bond regardless of different circumstances, perhaps as a way for Cocona to move past her fear of changing the world by entering Pure Illusion. Amongst the 'different potential Papikas' there are a few boys she clearly likes, and even a Papika who is clearly lesbian (the one who says 'let's forget everything and just have fun' while they're on the bedroom). Yet she rejects everyone and decides to go back to the original, perhaps implying that she prefers the situation as it currently is.

>Girls can't impregnate girls
Who said Cockona was a girl?

Dumb fanart. Papika would be the one carrying their children.

>and failed all the expectations the show set up for viewers prior to that episode
What expectations? I don't get this. Did we ever came to a conclusion what we expected of how this ends. Fuck it, I'm one of these anons that wanted, based on the early episodes, a more darker ending, but I'm more than happy with what we got.

>Somewhere out there, there is an alternative timeline where the original writer continued the script through the entirety of the show
You mean Oshiyama? The writers change meme is a meme, the only thing you can fault it for is the dialogues getting more blunt, a conscious decision on their side. When it comes to the writing Flip Flappers ended the way it was suppose to end, long before they started animating.

Just started and watched episode 2. What the fuck happened between episode 1 and 2? I thought they were kidnapped or something.