 FLCL is a coming of age story and revolves around Naota Nandaba , a 12 @-@ year @-@ old , working class boy living with his widowed father and grandfather . His life in the city of Mabase is interrupted by the arrival of Haruko Haruhara , who runs over Naota with her yellow Vespa 180 SS scooter , gives him CPR , then hits him on the head with a blue vintage Rickenbacker 4001 left @-@ handed electric bass guitar . Naota discovers that the blow to his head created an " N.O. " portal , from which giant robots produced by a company known as Medical Mechanica emerge periodically . 
