Talk:List of FLCL characters

Japanese Last Names
Are Japanese names traditionally listed Last-Name-First in print? In English when you print Last-Name-First it is customary to put a comma in between to make it clear. (Lastname, Firstname). Or am I missing some cross cultural thing about Japanese naming? I'm fairly certain that the friendly (first) names used in the English version are the second ones listed here.
 * Tiki God 13:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * That's odd. Wikiproject Anime's guidelines clearly say: "Characters' names should be given in western order." Maybe someone will explain why they are still in Japanese order (family name - given name). Gdo01 18:45, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Sigh. I changed them all to 'FirstName LastName' a while back and someone with just an IP undid it all. Since then some people have added some good changes so I'm not going to bother again. If someone 'patrols' this article then maybe they can redo the names into proper format, or at least do 'LastName, FirstName'. Good luck.
 * Tiki God 01:12, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Tasuku
I was just going through these articles and looking for character pictures to add, and I was wondering if Tasuku is shown at any point over the course of the anime. Blademaster313 00:00, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I read in here somewhere that part of him appears in a picture that's 'never completely show' in the series. That's probably as good as it gets. -Litefantastic 01:38, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The picture's in the first episode, inside the letter. The bottom of it is shown, with about half of his face (along with his American girlfriend). --Boss1000 05:45, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I finaly found the picture, and put it in the article. Blademaster313 04:14, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I think he does make an aperence in the manga though, actually I just looked through the book and in volume one, pages 164-165, Mamimi is talking to a boy that looks like Naota, but the dialouge highly implys its Tasuku. 71.167.34.48 02:35, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Improvements
In accordance with Litefantastic's suggestions on the discussion page for the main article, I added pictures for Ninamori and Canti. I also changed the picture of Mamimi, and if anyone liked the other better, feel free to change it. I am also the one who added the pictures of Atomsk, Naota, Amarao, and Miyaji a long time ago. Blademaster313 00:29, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Good work! -Litefantastic 01:36, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Blademaster313 02:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I removed the black lines from the sides of Haruko's picture. Blademaster313 21:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Excellent! I say we concentrate our efforts on the "Items and Concepts" page now. I'm also trying to get FLCL upgraded to Good Article. -Litefantastic 23:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I can't find it addressed anywhere (they're not the easiest Google search terms to work with), but is Haruko's style a reference to the British Mod style? And if it is, should it be mentioned? --Agivith 21:08, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Is there any reference to Haruko and the mod style apart from her Vespa? I don't really see a strong connection. Blademaster313 22:11, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

I can fly! I can fly!
I can't tell: it looks like Haruko can fly on her own (watch FLCLimax) - can she? -Litefantastic 22:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)


 * She might be using her Guitar to propel her(ala Thor and his hammer), as it's established earlier that it is flight capable when she is shown riding on it. Hitmaker 23:18, 13 August 2006 (UTC)


 * The way she rides her guitar in Episode 5 implies that she's using it to fly - but it's equally likely that that is only a spoof of Daicon IV. At the end of Episode 6 she 'floats' away, without any obvious source of propulsion, as well as leaving her original Guitar behind.

Which is it?
I was reading through the bios and this caught my eye in Junko's bio: "...such as the destruction of her car(which happens every two episodes of the series) or the terrible..." And: "...like adults at all. Her car is smashed every three episodes."

I dont quite remember myself(I only recall the first time it happened) how many times it happened, so which statment is true? Hitmaker 23:33, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Both statements are incorrect, but in different ways. Her car is smashed twice over the course of a six-episode series, but it's not implied to be a regular occurrence (like Kenny dying in every episode of South Park, or the return of a comet) - it's just something that happens twice, and happens to happen at regularly spaced intervals. -Litefantastic 18:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I made the neccessary fixes. Hitmaker 22:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Changes
I think there should be some changes to some characters. Such as Kitsurubami's. I think the opinion "Attractive" should be tooken out. Attractive is an opinion, and not a fact. It's not bothering me, it just has to be backed up with facts. Also, Canti is refered to as "he" in this article. Robots do not have a gender and in the show, Canti is mostly refered to as "it". I realy don't care if these are changed or not, it just doesn't seem encyclopedic or profesional. Aaron Pepin

Voice actor
Is there any known facts about Kitsurubami's English voice actor L. Villa? Is her first name even known? I've been searching online and found absoultely nothing! Can you find absolutely any facts? I guess they found some random person off th streets to do that role, I don't know. Aaron Pepin

I could have sworn Mona Marshall did Naota's voice.--Cojin 04:02, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Canti's Symbol
In his bio, it claims that the symbol appearing on Canti's monitor a couple times is a corruption of 大人, but I see it as being, just as likely, a stylized version of Medical Mechanica's logo, a gear and caduceus. Could be both. Any ideas / additions before I add this part? Tsunomaru 06:12, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

N.O.
This page refers to "N.O." several times without explaining what "N.O." is. The linked article explaining such has apparently been deleted. Propaniac 15:45, 19 October 2007 (UTC)


 * N.O. is a ability to make a wormhole beween your brain halfs. --89.61.96.71 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 15:45, 26 December 2007 (UTC)


 * What does N.O. stand for? This needs to be explained in the article. Conical Johnson (talk) 04:44, 9 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I thought about that. I think N.O. is a pun on 'no,' because Haruko comments a few times on how Naota has no brain.  It doesn't really stand for anything, or at least what it does stand for is never mentioned in the show.  --Guugolpl0x (talk) 17:12, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * This is discussed a bit more in Talk:FLCL or one of the archives, but NO stands for Nitric oxide, which is a neurotransmitter in the brain. However, This isn't made explicit in the show (or Manga), and I can't recall the source for this (It was either DVD commentary, liner notes, or some dialog from Diebuster, a related project.).  I believe it is purposefully supposed to be confusing, so I see no strong need to discuss it in the article. -Verdatum (talk) 18:44, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

....wow
So much OR, over and over. Please do something about this. Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon survived intact. 10:01, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Naota?
I thought his name was Tasuku because thats the name I've heard being reffered to him and never even heard the name Naota...Ô.ô wow ô.ô (talk) 21:11, 7 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Wait wait wait, now that I read the article, it says that Mamimi calls him Takkun. I thought other people called him that too though...Ô.ô wow ô.ô (talk) 21:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Haruka's Guitar
I looked on Google for a little bit and although a few sites mention Haruka's guitar being used for flying, and although she does use it once or twice to fly, she has also shown that she is capable of flying without any apparent aid whether it be her guitar or her Vespa. Also, there is no proof that the cord on the back of her guitar was used to help her fly, as far as I could tell, it seemed to be some sort of bizzare pull-cord activated amp built into the guitar since when she hits things with the guitar after she pulls the cord it makes a guitar-ish sound (I don't know what else to call it, sue me). I'm going to remove that from the article until someone can find some solid evidence. Fallenangei (talk) 05:19, 13 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Never mind... I looked at it again and the scene where I thought she was flying without it... wasn't. Still, no proof about the cord thing at all so I'll just throw back the flying powers minus the cord.  Fallenangei (talk) 03:00, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Atomsk is a Buster-Machine?
I don't see anywhere in the series that it is ever stated that Atomsk is a Buster Machine, or that FLCL is related in any way to Gunbuster/Diebuster, beyond similar aesthetics - Diebuster and FLCL shared a director. This is fan fiction, and unless it can be verified, I will continue to change his species to unknown. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.192.55.3 (talk) 02:30, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

User:DragonZero's Tag
Does anyone know what EXACTLY were the reasons for his/her placement of the tag? Was it for kicks? If THIS article has notability issues, then ipso facto so does FLCL; therefore, I'm strongly inclined to remove it.--NBahn (talk) 01:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * This article needs more quality sources, and less postulation/in-universe description. See the Featured lists List of Naruto characters and List of Tokyo Mew Mew characters for good examples to work from. (No, notability should not be a problem, but the extra tag is the least of this article's concerns). -- Quiddity (talk) 03:08, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I can't fault your reasoning.--NBahn (talk) 04:12, 10 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Postulation is bad. Sources are good.  But Notability is not an issue, since this is a standard WP:SPINOUT page; moved off of the main article for reasons of organization and WP:SIZE.  If the articles can be reduced in size in an appropriate manner such that it can all fit on a single article, then it can be merged back.  This is neither nessisary, nor particularly likely to occur; but the point is, such Stand-Alone List subpages don't get deleted, only merged.  The tag is redundant to the tag requesting sources.  I'm removing it. -Verdatum (talk) 17:47, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Wikify?
While we're on the subject of tags. Could we talk about what wikification needs to be done? From what I can see, I find the voice-actor boxes a little awkward, and the Genchar template likely inferior to more common character sidebar templates. Anything else? -Verdatum (talk) 17:55, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

I agree this article needs to be wikified. the infobox are very small and are not necessary for them to stay.Bread Ninja (talk) 19:27, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Miu Miu voice actor
Anno did the voice for Myu-Myu, the cat. He requested that his name be taken out of the credits, so it is listed as a ?. The only reason I know is that Tsurumaki mentions it on the directors commentary for one of the episodes on the US release of the DVDs.

http://eva.onegeek.org/pipermail/evangelion/2003-August/000401.html

"Besides Ohkura and Shintani, there was really only one other professional actress, though like the other two, she doesn’t do voice acting often. This would be Naota’s voice, Jun Mizuki, which Tsurumaki said they’d originally intended to leave to a child actor but ended up liking Mizuki’s performance a lot and thought it would be best to leave the main character to a pro. He says he chose her voice because it was very cool and intelligent sounding. Of course, one cannot discuss the voice acting of FLCL without mentioning that the fatass cat Miyu Miyu is played by the man, the myth, the legend, Hideaki Anno."

https://myswordisunbelievablydull.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/flcl-director-commentary-it-was-all-tsurumakis-idea/

--Gwern (contribs) 17:15 16 September 2011 (GMT)