 IGN columnist Davis Smith reviewed the anime shortly after its English premier , in the article Smith praised the series ' unusual story telling , extremely high quality animation and the soundtrack provided by The Pillows ; rewarding the series a score of 9 out of 10 concluding , " Logic dictates that FLCL should be an undisciplined and <unk> mess , given all the insanity that its creators are attempting to weld into a functioning whole . Yet while it 's hard to explain exactly why , it works . It entertains me . At times , it makes me laugh ; at times , it makes me a little misty @-@ eyed ; at times , it makes me want to scream and howl and light things on fire and break windows with baseball bats and yes , maybe even buy a Vespa . That 's the kind of success that you just can 't argue with . " 
