FLCL Progressive Episode 6: A Review

In a way, the finale of FLCL Progressive kind of sums up FLCL as a whole. The emotional and thematic arc of the story comes to its logical conclusion, while the actual events of the plot are oblique and confusing. Which is just a fancy way of saying I had no idea what was actually happening and why it mattered. But this is FLCL, so the plot doesn't matter. The characters reaching emotional maturity is, and that's what happens here. I'm getting ahead of myself though.

FLCL Progressive Episode 5: A Review

Episode 5 of Progressive kind of has the same problem something like Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince did. It's the last chapter before the finale so the major conflict of the climax has already been established and it's too late to bring in anything new. So if you don't spend the chapter as basically just a lengthened first act for the finale, you're mostly just jogging in place. Episode 5 feels like that as the major progression in the story is more emotional than plot-centric. That's not a bad thing for something like FLCL which is more about themes than actual narrative and that emotional progression is important, but in this case it does still have that sense of jogging in place.