Original subtitles

Okay!

Let's have a fun lunch by using chopsticks!

It can prevent Alzheimer's for grandpa and grandma.

Okay!

It's because chopsticks exercise your brain...

Okay!

Bon appetit!

We used to use those split sporks.

Sporks? What do you mean, use sporks?

I liked those sporks we used to use.

What? Ninamori too? You like sporks better?

But they were split... and...

Okay!

Ow!

My finger! My finger! My finger!

What's wrong? For Miya-jun?

My finger cramped!

What'd he say?

Fi-fi-fi-finger hurts!

He said he's getting some sporks.

Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow...

You mean, Naota's going to get some?

It's bent the wrong way!

Yeah, maybe.

It's bent the wrong way!

Whatever.

Ever since that day, smoke has poured out of Medical Mechanica.

The town is completely covered in white mist. You can't see the sky or the stars.

It's like nothing exists outside of this town.

A town where you can't go beyond its edge.

The gigantic hand says, "You have no choice but to stay where you are."

It's like the right hand of a prison warden giving the signal for an execution.

I wonder if those two, who just vanished, went out to the outside world.

It's a hand, isn't it?

It's a hand.

Is it going to grab it?

I think it wants to grab it.

Don't you think that's too obvious, since it always looked like an iron?

No, it was always an iron.

Does it want to iron out the wrinkles?

Of what?

Like the wrinkles in the brain...

or something.

Are you saying Medical Mechanica is trying to create more brainless idiots?

N-No.

Of course, the real idiot is Raharu.

She's always been like that.

It isn't completely formed, but if that's the terminal core to control the hand,

it makes sense that it hasn't activated yet.

That's right. We'll leave the idiot alone for now.

We have to find the core first, before the plant begins to move!

Takkun!

Where'd you go?

Hey, what's split up? Tell me!

Look. Over there.

Isn't that the wife?

Naota, are you just gonna ignore her?

You're an energetic one.

Drinking the bitter stuff now? Does it make you feel grown-up?

The brain needs glucose.

To make your head normal again, you need sweet things.

You're tired, aren't you?

Whenever something comes out of your head...

it creates problems for everyone.

I don't think your housekeeper's gonna come back, but just in case...

Cats should play with other cats.

That high school girl looked kind of sad.

It seems the mature thing to do is to treat one with a little kindness.

Do you know why Raharu got so close to you?

Oh, Raharu is your housekeeper's real name.

Well, her real target is the one named "Atomsk."

I only know the rumors.

They say Atomsk has an incredible amount of N.O.

So much that he can steal whole star systems.

That's why he's called the "Pirate King."

Normally, they would be enemies,

but Atomsk fell into the hands of Medical Mechanica.

And Raharu came to this planet...

to rescue him.

She's in love with him.

Sempai's phone number!

Hey! Stop it!

Stop!

You can eat it.

But then...

you have to take responsibility for it.

You have to be Takkun now.

Nao! Dinner!

You're--!

Why are you yelling?

Hurry up and sit down!

Yo!

You're--!

How can you sit there casually like nothing happened?

You're a wanted fugitive!

Didn't I tell you?

Haruko-san asked me for a little vacation.

She went to Hawaii.

Here!

She brought back Fukuya's spicy fish eggs.

Then she couldn't have gone to Hawaii!

Why would she get those there?

And why would a dippy fugitive be taking a vacation?

Dippy, dippy, dippy dip.

Dippy dippy, hippy dippy, dippy hippo, Fun Dip!

It's not funny!

I'm gonna kill you!

It was your stupid joke!

Well, if I'm gonna take a vacation,

I wanna be alone with Takkun.

What?!

I wouldn't go with you.

The brat's embarrassed.

You little bastard!

Stop! Don't guri-guri!

Crotch attack!

If you guri-guri there...

Lucky duck. I wish she'd guri-guri me like that.

Yes! Guri-guri-ing all over the place. I'm jealous.

Guri-guri the head!

Kuri-kuri the eyes!

Furi-furi down there!

Kuri-kuri, furi-kuri, furi-kuri, furi-kuri, furi-kuri, furi-kuri, furi...

Okay, stop. Stop!!

Let's stop! Let's go back to normal.

C'mon. Let's be a normal anime.

Anime?

How exhausting!

To be in manga form takes time and a lot of work.

After the first episode, they asked us to stop this craziness.

Even so, people accused us of being lazy.

What are you talking about? My head's still spinning.

Spinning like kura-kura?

Furi... kura?

FLCL.

Naota.

Tell me already.

What does FLCL mean?

I dunno.

C'mon! There's no way the main character wouldn't know.

We won't get mad. Tell us!

You too, grandpa?

It doesn't matter what FLCL is.

Furi!

I don't know why you're hitting me!

Kuri!

FLCL! FLCL!

Furi-kuri! Furi-kura!

What are you doing?!

They're in a good mood.

Are you asleep?

What are you, really?

Where did you come from?

Were you just about to confess your love to me?

Y-you're awake?

How embarrassing.

Why'd you come back?

To see you, Takkun.

Yours is the only head that works.

Liar.

It's the truth.

Are you gonna leave again?

You wanna come with me?

You wanna throw everything away and come with me?

Why are you being nice today?

You know, you're still a kid, Takkun.

Where did you go?

You just left all of a sudden.

When you're in a town that's covered with smoke,

you forget that there's a world outside.

Nothing amazing happens here.

And so we get used to a world where everything is ordinary.

Everyday spent here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly.

But Haruko is here.

That's how I know that there really is a world outside.

Takkun.

Takkun!

I brought some more for you.

Takkun.

Okay, I'm going to raise the bar another ten centimeters.

That's bad.

What's bad?

Yeah, it's really bad. I heard he hasn't been home for several days.

Next!

He ran away?

Maybe he eloped with the chuu lady!

So that delinquent housekeeper came back, huh?

Miya-jun's going over for a parent-teacher conference.

Yeah, but you can't cure stupidity.

He should just say how he feels.

I did and then I cried and stuff.

To who?

To my dad and mom!

Dad?

Mom?

This is bad.

We were only able to find the remains of the unit surrounding it.

That means the core must be functioning independently.

I understand you saw the document.

Yes.

Last week, in the maintenance room.

This planet almost became as mangled as that.

We can afford to make no mistakes in our response to Medical Mechanica.

But wouldn't the Pirate King do something to help stop it?

Don't count on it.

He's not one of us, you know.

And we don't even know where Atomsk disappeared to.

You can eat as much as you want.

Everyone in high school has one of these.

Maybe I should give you bigger stuff to eat now.

Gross!

I told you.

You shouldn't have gotten a no-name brand just 'cuz it's jumbo sized.

You gotta stick with the good brands.

Trade!

If you keep doing stuff like this, bad things will happen to you.

That's okay. Guess I'll just have to let bad things happen to me.

Eating bad ramen...

can be fun, too.

Man, this smoke is annoying.

You're always fighting Medical Mechanica.

Is that your job?

There's something I really want.

They took it. Now, I'm gonna get it back.

Can you do it?

As long as I have you.

This really tastes bad. Trade me back!

No way.

Man, you're as selfish as ever.

I finally found it!

You're gonna pay for splashing me.

Okay,

eat up.

C'mon.

Let's go find the next one.

I guess I can let you have about this much today.

Last night, right? Fuji-pyon's sister's moped got hit, too.

I'm leaving now.

That yankee's older sister?

Everyone from the second district over has been attacked.

And it's not just motorcycles. Bikes and cars, too.

If we don't hurry, someone's gonna see us.

What's that?

It's the wife Naota dumped.

What's that? What's that?

Was it something I said?

Stop it! They're not on Mamimi's Revenge List!

Why are you doing that?

Takkun can't do bad things like that!

My family's truck!

So like I was saying, missing school is--

Yes, I completely agree.

When I was in sixth grade, class two, I was in charge of the hamster.

But I got a cold and was absent.

When I went back to school two or three days later, it was dead.

They made a big deal, calling me "Hamster Killer!" Stuff like that.

But those kids never took care of a hamster once in their lives before.

I was talking about Naota-kun.

Don't worry.

Unlike a hamster, he can take care of himself.

What do you do on your days off, Kitsurubami-kun?

I don't want to talk about that now.

Don't be so cold. We're on the same team.

C'mon, tell me.

This is problematic!

These types of problems are so small that...

Commander!

It's huge!

No, Takkun! I don't want you to do these things!

Takkun?

That's the terminal core!

She's been raising it?

It's him!

The crossing guard?

Why is he here?

He is one of the components of the terminal core!

And then, Hamtaro was...

No!

My brand new car!

Get out of there!

No time for sleep!

I can't get loose!

It's the climax!

I-is the plant going to activate?

No. It seems it can't merge yet. It's still missing something.

Shit!

Where are your eyebrows?

Why did you take them off?

I told you not to trust that woman.

She's only thinking of herself.

She doesn't care about anyone else.

But you're different, right?

You want to help your friends and family, and that high school girl, right?

Of course you do.

That's normal.

If you were an adult, you'd see that.

Come over here.

Don't go back to that woman!

What are you doing?

How much pain must you witness before you realize?

Are you an idiot?

You brat!

Takkun.

I need your help to get what I want.

Come 'n get it!

That's cruel!

We're screwed!

Y-y-you idiot!

You're doing exactly what Medical Mechanica wants!

They're flattening planets all over the galaxy!

Even the Pirate King has been captured.

It's over.

It's all over!

I told you that I don't care about that.

I just want Atomsk, that's all.

I don't care what happens to this planet.

See? See? See?

See? That woman tricked you!

Why didn't you believe me?

Commander?

Commander Amarao?

Here it comes.

It's... that kid!

Was he Piratized?

Did he acquire the Pirate King's powers?

Takkun!

You can't do that!

That power is... MINE!

You can't stand in the way of what I want!

This is our chance!

We can gather all the outsiders and get rid of them all at once!

I won't go easy on you, Takkun!

The one to consume him

is going to be ME!

That guitar!

That woman's no different from Medical Mechanica.

Don't think you're going to get things your way!

Go on! Teach her a lesson!

I love you.

Atomsk!

I-is that?

Wh-what's that?

What's going on?

It's the N.O.!

I lost him again because of you, Takkun.

You wanna come with me?

Nah, you can't.

Takkun...

you know, you're still a kid.

"Sayonara, Naota-kun."

That's what Mamimi said when she left school.

Don't drink it without asking me first!

Ninamo.

Don't you have practice this morning?

You know what, Naota?

That uniform doesn't look good on you at all.

Shut up.

Here.

I can't drink that. It's too carbonated.

You really still are a kid.

I'm gonna be late for practice!

Nothing amazing happens here.

Give me money for the drink!

N-Naota, can I have it, then?

Only the ordinary.

N-Naota, can I have it, then?

Hey, I wanna sip.

What? What?

TV-boy, when you're finished with the futons, open the store.

We crossed the bridge as usual.

TV-boy, when you're finished with the futons, open the store.

Before we knew it, the seasons had changed.

You're goofing off again, aren't you? You lazy butt!

Mamimi left town. She said she wanted to be a photographer.

Dad, I'm real busy. People are waiting for "Come on Mabase's" next issue.

I don't know what happened to her after that.

Aw, shut up!