"Flying Memory" is the first episode of season 3, FLCL Alternative, and the thirteenth overall. It aired unannounced on March 31, 2018 for April Fools Day with English subtitles. The actual English dub premiere date was September 8, 2018 at 11:30 PM ET on Adult Swim's Toonami block.
Synopsis
Kana is a cheerful 17-year-old who can often be a klutz and nosy. One day, while hanging out with her besties (Pets, Mossan, and Hijiri), Mossan starts making a rocket using empty soda bottles. Suddenly an alien crashes at the house and threatens them, before Haruko Haruhara shows up and destroys the alien.
Summary
Songs
- "white summer and green bicycle, red hair with black guitar" (Fool on cool version)
- "MY FOOT" (Fool on cool version)
- "Star Overhead"
Credits
- Original Concept: Production I.G.
- Executive Producers: Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Jason DeMarco, Keiji Ohta
- Production Supervisor: Katsuiji Morishita, Takayuki Oshima
Japanese Cast
- Kana Koumoto: Karen Miyama
- Tomomi "Pets" Hetada: Yuri Yoshida
- Hijiri Yajima: Riho Iida
- Man "Mossan" Motoyama: Mutsumi Tamura
- Kan Sudo: Katsuyuki Konishi
- Mon Sasaki: Takuma Nagatsuka
- Ben Aida: Ryota Suzuki
- Shizuka Koumoto: Miki Itou
- Bunta Koumoto: Maho Masaka
- Dennis Yoga: Katsuji Mori
- Maki Kitaki: Kaya Matsutani
- Tsukata Kanda: Yutaka Aoyama
- Haruko Haruhara: Mayumi Shintani
English Cast
- Kana Koumoto: Megan Taylor Harvey
- Tomomi "Pets" Hetada: Marieve Herington
- Hijiri Yajima: Erica Lindbeck
- Man "Mossan" Motoyama: Marianne Miller
- Kan Sudo: Patrick Seitz
- Mon Sasaki: Max Mittleman
- Ben Aida: Ben Pronsky
- Shizuka Koumota: Erica Shroeder
- Bunta Koumoto: Erick Abbate
- Dennis Yoga: Steven Blum
- Maki Kitaki: Erica Shroeder
- Tsukata Kanda: Ray Chase
- Haruko Haruhara: Kari Wahlgren
Gallery
Trivia
- The dub of the episode was also premiered at San Diego Comic Con as part of the Adult Swim on the Green Tour.
- After arriving at school, Mossan offers Kana some fugashi, a Japanese snack food made from dried wheat gluten and coated in brown sugar glaze.[1]
- During their lunch break, Hijiri can be seen eating from a box labeled "KelorieNate Block", which is a parody version of the Japanese snack food, CalorieMate.
- After Pets jokingly said that Kana is an average student and not athletic, she tries to defend herself by mentioning the manga series, The Ping Pong Club.
- At one point, Hijiri tells the group that she wants to either be married to a professional baseball player or be the second wife to a CEO of a fashion company. Mossan then asks her if she is Saeko, before Hijiri says that she is.
- Saeko is a Japanese model and actress, who was known for marrying professional baseball player, Yu Darvish in 2007.
- In the English dub, Hijiri's line is changed, where she tells her friends that she wants to marry rich, and will choose either a basketball player or a famous rapper, with Mossan then asking her if she is a Kardashian.
- The dialogue is a reference to Kim Kardashian, an American socialite and businesswoman, who was previously married to NBA player Kris Humphries before marrying rapper Kanye West.
- Kana mentions that she would like a talking cat to appear in front of her and give her a magical wand. This is a likely reference to Luna and the Moon Stick from the anime and manga series, Sailor Moon.
- After the red pepper spilled into Kanda's bowl of soba noodles, he tells Kana that the dish looks more like Mars than the moon.
- The dish that Kanda ordered is called "tsukumi-soba", which literally translates as "Moon-viewing soba", as it is often associated with Tsukimi or "Moon Viewing festival". It typically consists of hot buckwheat noodles in broth topped with a raw egg that poaches in the broth and is said to represent the moon.
- In the English dub, Kana referred to the dish as "Moon Over My Soba", while the English subtitles call it "Full Moon Soba".
- One of the stores that the girls visit, DADISO, is a reference to the Japanese discount store, Daiso.
- Throughout the episode, the soda brand, Dr Pepper is mentioned and shown.
| FLCL (Series) | ||
|---|---|---|
| FLCL (Season 1) | Fooly Cooly • Fire Starter • Marquis de Carabas • Full Swing • Brittle Bullet • FLCLimax | |
| FLCL Progressive (Season 2) | Re:Start • Freebie Honey • Stone Skipping • LooPQR • Fool on the Planet • Our Running | |
| FLCL Alternative (Season 3) | Flying Memory • Grown-Up Wannabe • Freestyle Collection • Pit-a-Pat • Shake It Off • Full Flat | |
| FLCL: Grunge (Season 4) | Shinpachi • Shonari • Orinoko | |
| FLCL: Shoegaze (Season 5) | Full Barricade • Generational Battle • Far Friend | |