Fooly Cooly Episode 6: “Our Running” (Season Finale) Recap

Season 1 / Episode 5, “Fool On The Planet” / Cartoon Network Fooly Cooly comes to the end of it’s season with a bit of a message in its own fooly cooly way; if you want something, quite your complainin’ and go after it! Ok, so maybe it was a bit of a shallow end, especially compared to last season, but it was still a fun adventure and I’m looking forward to what they bring next.

Episode 6, “Our Running,” begins right where the last episode left off with arrival of Atomsk. Haruko then constructs a giant birdcage to try and capture him. Hidomi tells Haruko to get loss a give Ide back to her. This is probably the most profound moment of the season. Haruko berates Hidomi, calling her a child for wanting something just because she’s demanding it, and that she won’t get anything by whining. But if she gives up her power to Haruko, she’ll then make a deal. Hidomi knows this is BS and proclaims that if she really wants something, she’s just going to take it. And Haruko congratulates her, “You get a gold star!” It’s not about words, it’s about action, and Hidomi jumps into action and attacks Haruko. When the cage is complete, Haruko plans to capture the pirate king; however, Atomsk is too large and ends up sucking up Haruko and Hidomi instead. During this, the Medical Mechanica factory is attacking people with mochi and turning people to stone (or harden mochi?). In the midst of this chaos, Iko finds her house and father crushed by the mochi. He gives her the savings she was collecti…