Fooly Cooly: Volume 1 Light-Novel Review:

Fooly Cooly is an anime that goes against Gainax already popular franchise about a batch of characters battling Angels while dealing with multiple psychological problems along the way in a merry heap of questions one’s own existences. I am of course, talking about the symbolism filled series of Neon Genesis Evangelion that made Fooly Cooly look like a level-headed examination of human nature of accepting the difficult transition between childhood and adulthood. So, you’re in for a review of the Light-Novel adaption dealing with the first two episodes of this insanely unhinged but hilariously probing series.

The plot of Fooly Cool is fun and gives a lot to the reader, if they’re willing to think over parts of the plot and symbolism present (it’s from Gainax, what do you expect), which all runs along with Naota—a kind of complaining type who attracts older woman, the older woman in question is a Vesper driving guitar wielding maid whose name is Haruko and a girl in high school who he hangs out with….under a bridge with her name being Mamimi.

The book is (along with the rest of the Light-Novels in this series) is novelisation of the first two episodes, so expect to read little oddities of inconsistency of events presented in the OVA series of Fooly Cooly. But a plus with this book (along with the other two) is that they act more of companion to the storyline rather than an independent entity with its own changes to the story itself—sure it doesn’t get across some of the humour but it still a decent piece of writing….that has the odd illustration splashed every twenty pages in a short read of a 130 pages long.

Which isn’t (and never will be) a bad thing with the way it’s been written. Short paragraphs that convey enough information to give the reader a reason to carry on regardless of if you have seen the anime—the anime is a fast paced piece of well deserved deep thinking insaneness and the book is written like it enough to feel fast and insane.

The book is quite an entertaining read, if you’re willing to forgive little differences that pop up and shake the foundations for you fans of the series but regardless, the book holds itself up with having those subtle differences and additions. These extras help give each character and situation a better reason for being, rather than feeling slightly incomplete….but maybe the incompleteness feel helped give the series its style “Be vague and run with it”.

Thought of the Day: September 4th:

Nothing sweeter than a thought of writers block…..wait! Writers block is bitter!