FLCL (Furi Kuri) was published in tankoubon (graphic novel) form in 2000 by Kodansha in Japan. There was also a hit FLCL anime series from Gainax and Hideaki Anno (who also teamed up on Neon Genesis Evangelion) and several fascinatingly enigmatic FLCL text novels by scenarist Yoji Enokido.

FLCL Vol. 1

The mysterious Medical Mechanica plant in the city of Mabase looks like a giant steam iron, belching steam or smoke at irregular intervals. It is somehow emblematic of the confusion, ennui, and hyperkinetic chaos that characterizes teenaged life in Mabase.

Enter Haruko, a self-professed guitar-wielding alien,who guns her Vespa toward our hero, an unsuspecting Naota. Their first meeting is disastrous, and it turns Naota's life upside-down.

After this painful first encounter, Naota is shocked to find that Haruko has moved into his house, invited there by his father as a live-in maid. She is immediately in his face, on his case, and pawing other places in a most unseemly manner ...

FLCL Vol. 2

Naota goes from high school nothing to mutant warrior in the blink of any eye. But what does it all mean? The town stirs with gossip when the Mayor's adulterous affair makes headlines. But his daughter, Ninamori, the class president and Naota's friend, is having a hard time of it. So hard, in fact, that she turns into a giant balloon to challenge Naota in battle. Plunge deeper into the dream with FLCL Volume 2.