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A two-volume adaptation by Hajime Ueda, whose unconventional artistic style lends itself perfectly to FLCL's unique flow. Ueda just gets FLCL. While the manga omits many of the characters and situations of the anime, it stays true to FLCL's general themes, namely sex, drugs, and rock n roll. Like the show, it seems packed with information but content to portray individual scenes in a loose style. It's the manga FLCL deserves, and a book to be read very slowly.
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More by Hajime Ueda:
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Hajime Ueda was a semi-pro doujin artist until FLCL, his first major collected work. A number of his doujin, including parodies of Brain Powered and To Heart, in addition to some original works, can be purchased here. |
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In 1996, he contributed to the Evangelion Yon-kama Zenshuu collection of humorous comic strips (there's more info on this book by Carl Horn in the back of Eva manga vol. 8) . | |
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Ueda did this Wings of Honneamise pic as one of the "top" images at Gainax' official website. | |
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Q-ko-chan Ueda has recently done has done two volumes of a manga called Q-ko-chan
The Chikyu Shinryaku Shoujo
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Everday Bathroman Ueda did a very cool collection of artwork with the catchy title Everyday Bathroman, which can be downloaded here (the pics are linked at the bottom of the page). |
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Ueda did a costume design for episode 3 of the anime Uta Kuta. This illustration appeared in the ending credits. | |
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I'm not exactly sure where this is from, but it's by Ueda. If Gainax Pages ever gets a contributor who actually knows Japanese, we'd love to translate it. | |
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As seen from the clay models pictured in the FLCL manga, Ueda is quite a sculptor as well. There's a page with some of his sculpted figures here. |
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