FLCL: Shoegaze Episode 1 English Dubbed Episode Title: Furu-Bari (Full Barricade) Episode Description: A boy named Masaki has felt like a loner throughout his childhood. Ever since smoke rose from a giant clothes-iron shaped building on the outskirts of town, Masaki started to see glowing, green ghosts everywhere he went, in addition to a strange purple bird-like ghost on top of Tsuganei Tower. However, no one else saw them and treated him as a weirdo, causing him to be estranged from his peers. After transferring to his high school, he met an eccentric girl named Harumi who entertained his sketches of ghost sightings. One day, Masaki got sick of his situation and decided to make a bomb with supplies from the school chemistry lab. Though Masaki caught him before he could get started, she decided to help him and went to a local hardware store to continue gathering supplies. Some time later, the two of them decided to detonate their bomb inside the tower, with Masaki hoping to find the truth behind the giant bird only he can see. The Tower got the attention of not just the police, but also Bureau of Interstellar Immigration Chief Kanda and Kana Koumoto. When Masaki and Harumi reach the top of the tower, they find a completely empty room, making their effort seem pointless. Harumi decides to go ahead and light the fuse for the bomb, but Masaki gets angry at her, setting off an NO Channel reaction that lights the fuse itself. Masaki tries to throw the bomb away, and ends up blowing up a part of the roof, revealing a portal into Imaginary Space.