FLCL: Progressive Recap: “Freebie Honey”

Episode 2, “Freebie Honey” FLCL goes full throttle into episode two, “Freebie Honey” amping up the pace and beginning to get to the meat of what’s going on. And that meat tastes like weirdness and teenage struggle. We begin our episode with another dream sequence from Hidomi. This time there’s a a stylistic zombie turn with Hidomi being ripped apart by her classmates to the tune of a very blasé narration from her. These sequences have been fun so far and I hope they continue over the course of the season.

In class, we see the students are literally crazy for Haruko. The students are reminiscing over pictures in a year book about the time they spent with Haruko playing baseball and at a bonfire… and we see that it’s all completely fake. Hiromi can see that these “pictures” are just crudely drawn pictures. They seem to be some kind of spell these kids are under. But what exactly is going on is still a mystery.

At Home with Ide Haruko sends Hidomi to deliver Ide his homework since he was absent. We see Ide lives in the slums, working manual labor in almost slave conditions to get by. Yet he still seems to have an upbeat attitude about life, or at the very least is keeping it all bottled up well and hiding his true feelings. Hidomi sees the hard working Ide and passes out from her overflowing emotions, prompting Ide to carry her to his room to take care of her. That seems to be the theme of this season so far — overflowing emotions and how these kids handle it. With all of Ide…