Full Barricade

Full Barricade is the first episode of season 5, FLCL: Shoegaze and the twenty second overall. It premiered on Adult Swim on the Toonami block on September 30, 2023 at midnight ET.
==Synopsis==
Ever since the smoke from an iron shaped building blew through his town ten years prior, 15 year old Masaki has been seeing green ghost randomly appear, though no one else seems to believe him. After transferring to a new high school, he is befriended by an eccentric girl named Harumi. Together, the pair decide to barricade themselves inside the mysterious building known as "Tsuganei Tower", to investigate the big glowing bird perched on top that only Masaki can see. 
Meanwhile, Bureau of Interstellar Immigration Chief Tsukata Kanda and agent Kana Koumoto have been brought in to help the local police with the situation.
==Summary==
==Songs==
*"That's A Wonderful World (Song For Hermit)"
*"Galathea"
*"Split emotion"
*"Subtropical Fantasy"
*"Message"
*"Ladybird Girl"
*"New Animal"
*"About A Rock'n'Roll Band"
==Credits==
*Original Concept: Production I.G.
*Executive Producers: Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Jason DeMarco
*Production Supervisor: Katsuiji Morishita, Takayuki Oshima
===Japanese Cast===
*Masaki Aofuji: Shoya Chiba, Mutsumi Kaneko (Child)
*Harumi Araishu: Satomi Amano 
*Kana Koumoto: Karen Miyama 
*Tabata Kanda: Yutaka Aoyama 
===English Cast===
*Masaki Aofuji: Jesse Nowack, Jack Casey (Child)
*Harumi Araishu: Kim Gasiciel 
*Kana Koumoto: Megan Taylor Harvey 
*Tabata Kanda: Ray Chase
==Gallery==
Full Barricade/Gallery
==Trivia==
*In the scenes featuring the bird that is perched atop of the tower, several images are briefly shown featuring a younger Kana and her friends, Man "Mossan" Motoyama and Hijiri Yajima from FLCL Alternative as well as Naota Nandaba and Mamimi Samejima from FLCL.
*In the English dub there is a minor inconsistency. Kana tells Kanda that her hair is not pink and that she does not whack people with a bass guitar, comparing herself to Haruko Haruhara in FLCL Alternative. Yet, Haruko did not use a bass at all in Alternative. Rather, she used a red 1967 Fender Mustang guitar. 
**In the Japanese version of Shoegaze, Kana clearly says ギター (gitaa), the term for "guitar".
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