More and more anime series and movies are streaming to us, and all platforms want their piece of the pie. For now HBO Max it was lagging a bit behind, with hardly any anime content in its catalog aside from ‘Doraemon’ and several of its movies.
The little that was on the platform seemed to have disappeared along with so many other series and movies, but this week the surprise came that we can now watch it on HBO Max.FLCL: Progressive’ and ‘FLCL: Alternative’the sequels to one of the best anime series of the early 2000s.
More chapters and with new dubbing
‘FLCL’ was released direct-to-video back in the year 2000 and quickly became a phenomenon, especially since was co-produced by Gainax and fully rode the wave of popularity of ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’.
The plot continued naota swama pretty normal teenager until one day a girl named Haruko Haruhara He runs over him with his motorcycle and gives him a tremendous blow to the head with a bass. From there, Naota’s life becomes crazy and strange things begin to happen, because cWith the blow, an inter-dimensional portal has been created in his head.
After a few years of drought, they arrived in 2018 ‘FLCL: Progressive’ and ‘FLCL: Alternative’, two spin-offs produced by Production IG, Toho and Adult Swim. Until now both miniseries could be seen from Crunchyroll, but the great news is that We can finally see them dubbed in Spanish on HBO Max.
The bad news is that the original series of ‘FLCL’ is currently not available on any platform, but it is not strictly necessary to have seen it to enjoy the spin-offs, which appear as season 2 and 3 on the platform. Both are two very short miniseries that continue to expand the universe of ‘FLCL’ and recovers some characters, so while we are patient and the original series arrives, they can be a good introduction.