Say what you like about Flip Flappers (and to be honest, I ended up not loving the show), what I think that Flip Flappers did extremely well is showcase the wonder of exploring the unknown. As a child, and even now, I adore reading books or watching media where the characters explore a beautiful fantasy world. The Narnia series for instance is still a big personal favourite for that very reason. The world is beautiful and unknown, and the characters react in a way which reflects the joy of finding out something new.
The early episodes of Flip Flappers do the same thing in a stunning visual way. Look at this beautiful snowy world!
More importantly, look at how much fun the girls are having investigating the snowy world!
I think that the beauty of exploring the unknown can be applied to our everyday lives. We’re unlikely to open a wardrobe or be sucked down a pipe into a mysterious, snowy landscape (which is too bad to be honest), but there’s always things that we don’t know about yet, and I think that learning about many of them can be fun!
Plain Pasta and Plain Rice 
The exploration element early in the series is probably the strongest part of this story and was pretty enjoyable. It’s just everything else that has been kind of flat.
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That’s very much how I feel about the show. If they’d decided to keep the show as a very straightforward ‘monster of the week’ show and just had the girls go into different worlds without trying to stuff 26 episodes of exposition into 3 episodes, I’d probably feel a lot warmer about Flip Flappers as a whole.
I actually want to see more magical girl shows which are just straight-forward magical girls helping others with their magical powers. It doesn’t need to be dark or have a deep back story. I think Flip Flappers with its unique art style and great sense of place could have really excelled in this regard.
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