The Guitar

[20eva]

I've been hearing speculation on why there is a guitar used as a weapon in FLCL, and thought I'd mention that the creator, Mr. Tsurumaki, mentioned at Otakon that he chose a guitar based on a J-Rock song. I believe it involved having a pizza boy at your house, and then wanting to be hit on the head by a guitar. This song might've been by the pillows even, I can't remember. (I remember hearing the guitar thing, and being, er, intrigued). AS FLCL is heavily involved with Japanese pop culture, I suppose this makes some measure of sense.

[The cruel angel's thesis]

Derm... I think all the guitar stuff is just a stylistic thing.

[DarkCode]

I think its just funny hehe guitar.

[Bomberman00004]

i think its cool.. it looks great

[Tsu san]

Why, it's the perfect weapon of course! It's guitar/lawnmower hybrid; ingenious!

[20eva]

I thought I'd add that I envy those who've seen FLCL....a lot. I've been quickly absorbing as much info as possible in these last few boring days, and can only hope that Point-Sync (that's the right distributer, right?) comes out with it faster than Manga with the Eva movies (grumble, grumble). I wonder what they're smoking over in Gainax land?

[Kaji01]

Originally posted by 20eva
I wonder what they're smoking over in Gainax land?

Cheese!!!

[20eva]

Cheese, eh? I doubt it. Is cheese even popular in Japan? Of course, that isn't the point at all, is it. I must say it's cool that you had a cousin that worked for Gainax, though. I'm certain the employees of Gainax are weird and funny, it's probably a job requirement.

[3line]

Well, as everyone should know, a guitar is also commonly called an "axe."

In fact, it's so widespread it's rather cliché, especially in the black metal community.

http://www.immortal.nu/music/battles.html

[StAtIc NiNjA]

Originally posted by 20eva
I thought I'd add that I envy those who've seen FLCL....a lot. I've been quickly absorbing as much info as possible in these last few boring days, and can only hope that Point-Sync (that's the right distributer, right?) comes out with it faster than Manga with the Eva movies (grumble, grumble). I wonder what they're smoking over in Gainax land?

In North America the second DVD is comming out this month, the 25th i think

[The cruel angel's thesis]

Originally posted by 20eva
Point-Sync (that's the right distributer, right?)

Synch-Point.

[EdXu21]

http://www.gibson.com/products/epiphone/legacy/ebgo.shtml