FLCL (2000–2001)

Barbara Goodson: Naota Nandaba

Quotes 

• Naota : When you're in a town like this all covered with smoke, you forget that there's a world outside. Nothing amazing happens here. And you get used to that, used to a world where everything is ordinary. Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly. But now Haruko is here. That's how I know there really is a world outside.

• Naota : Nothing amazing ever happens here.

• [Mamimi is clutching a bag of old bread] 

  Naota : My brother, I mean - how much do you like him?

  Mamimi : It's hard.

  Naota : You saw the sign at our bakery, that bread's old.

  Mamimi : ...Watermelon.

  Naota : Huh?

  Mamimi : Or like a panda with a mean face, or like sandals with pressure points drawn on them, or the smell of a blackboard eraser, or a Sunday morning where you wake up and it's raining. Well, I like him more than hard bread.

• [Haruko is trying to pull an object out of Naota's head] 

  Haruko : Hey, I didn't know boys felt like this inside.

  Naota : Ah. Don't touch me there from behind.

  Haruko : What are you waiting for? Hurry up and pop it.

  Naota : If I rush, it won't pop. Go slow.

• Kamon Nandaba : Ah, your brother is away, so she's sinking your fangs into you, Naota. Fondling around, fooling around! Fooly Cooly!

  Kamon Nandaba : [pause] 

  Kamon Nandaba : What's Fooly Cooly?

  Naota Nandaba : How should I know? I'm still in grade school.

• Naota : [Naota 'lets go' of his powers as the Pirate King just in time not to hurt Haruko, to Haruko:]  I love you.

• Mamimi : You like Haru-san.

  Naota : How can I like someone who's insane?

• Naota : What did you do to me?

  Haruko : CPR. What do you think I did?

  Naota : That's not what I meant.

  Mamimi : Did she put her tongue inside?

• [Mamimi is scared and calling for Naota's brother, over and over] 

  Naota : Don't call my brother! I'm the one whose here! Hey, look at me! I'm the one whose gonna save you! Canti!

  [Canti comes down out of the sky] 

  Naota : Now listen, my name is Naota. Don't EVER call me Ta-kun again!

• Eri Ninamori : Just don't tell anybody I stayed the night here. People might start saying things if they know.

  Naota : [drinking a soft drink]  Yeah, people will say all kinds of things. Just don't hang out with me for the next couple of days, all right?

  Eri Ninamori : But tonight is okay, right?

• Haruko : [after Naota accidentally kisses her, due to his new horn jutting his head up]  Yeah, Tak-kun! That's more like it.

  Naota : No, the horn. It's the horn.

  Haruko : My first kiss!

  Naota : Liar. You've done it plenty of times, and you know it.

• Eri Ninamori : What's really weird... is your ears...

  Naota : What? You've seen them...?

  Eri Ninamori : I was told not to touch them, perfect for playing a cat...

• Naota : By the time I realized it, I had already swung the bat. My palms still sting. I wonder if Haruko feels like this all the time.

  [Haruko laughs gleefully] 

• Naota : By the time I realized it, I had already swung the bat. My palms still sting. I wonder if Haruko like this all the time.

  [Haruko laughs gleefully] 

• Haruko : It's Manhattan style, see? Little Prince Curry goes to New York. Mild, for kids.

  Naota : Uaaahhh, it's spicy, I don't care if it goes to New York!