Adult Swim & Production IG Partnering for FLCL seasons 2 & 3

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FLCL is one of my top three favorite anime of all time and I'm pretty skeptical, but you guys gotta believe. They can do this. We can do this. I'm telling you we're all going to make America anime great again!
 
I think it sounds awesome. FLCL was great as it is but that story was way too short. I'd love to see more of those classic characters.
 
MetroidPrimeRib said:
Making it a direct sequel with the director of Psycho-Pass.

Now I don't hate Psycho-Pass but that does not inspire confidence.
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Let's clarify something: Katsuyuki Motohiro is a live-action director, not an anime director. Motohiro was brought on board to supervise the planning of Psychopass. The films Motohiro himself has directed include Bayside Shakedown and Summer Time Machine Blues. Naoyoshi Shiotani was the actual director of Psychopass.

The writer listed, Hideto Iwai, is primarily a live-action actor who has written a couple episodes for dramas.

These are some weird choices.
 
OniBarubary said:
They are taking an allegorical story and saying the metaphors were actually the things they are and not what they represented and then telling a story with these out-of-context nonsensical entities.

Ho my lord this is a terrible idea.
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Huh? They were always the things that they are.
 
MetroidPrimeRib said:
Press Release from Turner



Nah. No thanks.
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WickedLaharl said:
This is going to end up like PSYCHO-PASS 2
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Crocodile said:
Well what if the director is great? I can throw that right back at you. You're being super cynical (which isn't totally unwarranted to be fair but is cynicsm nonetheless). Recent shows like Space Dandy, many KyoAni works, etc were freaking eye-gasms. There's no reason to think a talented team couldn't put together a visual masterpiece (even if it had different animation sensibilities from the original). You're also right in that we don't know the production schedule. However considering this was commissioned by Western interests, why are we to assume they would be beholden to the production schedule of a standard Japanese TV anime and not like an OVA production schedule?
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Well, now we know from the PR that it's the Psycho-Pass director, so so much for that.

I'm cynical about this because I don't think it has any need to exist. FLCL was such a lovely and perfect experience that ended definitively, and I can't see any reason to do a sequel aside from just to make money. So I don't really have much confidence in this being done by a bunch of motivated artists putting their heart and soul into it. It's more likely going to be a team just looking to make a paycheck.

Space Dandy would be the best case scenario, but I don't have much faith in a Production IG show from the director of Psycho-Pass giving that sort of freedom or getting that level of production.

I'd guess the show will probably look fairly good. But I doubt it can come close to the visual creativity of the original. What made FLCL work wasn't just the quality of animation, but how visually expressive the show was. The character designs, the shifts into manga pages, all of the visual gags, the colors, and so much more beyond that. Maybe the sequel will have strong animation. But do you have faith in this director to be as visually creative and expressive as Tsurumaki and the various episode directors in FLCL were?
 
Look, all I want is another memorable show with strange metaphors, humor, and memorable characters as well. Also, The Pillows. I'd rather them use their older albums, just like they did with FLCL. They have so many songs and albums that are good that fit with FLCL.
 
As I said in the Toonami thread:

- No, FLCL doesn't need more episodes.
- But I'm not gonna lie, I'm interested in more.
- If they fall short, the original is a fully self-contained entity and the rest can be safely ignored.
 
hosannainexcelsis said:
Let's clarify something: Katsuyuki Motohiro is a live-action director, not an anime director. Motohiro was brought on board to supervise the planning of Psychopass. The films Motohiro himself has directed include Bayside Shakedown and Summer Time Machine Blues. Naoyoshi Shiotani was the actual director of Psychopass.

The writer listed, Hideto Iwai, is primarily a live-action actor who has written a couple episodes for dramas.

These are some weird choices.
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Wow, that's very bizarre. This actually gives me even less faith than before. An anime being made primarily by people with little experience working on anime?
 
FLCL was one of the first anime series I ever watched so as long as this turns out good I'm down

also if Adult Swim/Toonami is making a habit out of reviving shows like this and Samurai Jack then I got a list
 
Whaaaaaat? So out of the left field. Wasn't a big fan of the original series but I love the music.
 
I would so rather not, unless it's just totally unrelated events under the same banner.

I dunno, some things are better left self contained.
 
KuwabaraTheMan said:
Wow, that's very bizarre. This actually gives me even less faith than before. An anime being made primarily by people with little experience working on anime?
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There's no way Motohiro is the actual director on this. He has no experience with any of the things you need to do to direct an anime series. Either Tsurumaki himself is directing or someone who hasn't been named yet is directing. Motohiro is just going to attend planning sessions and throw out story ideas.
 
ALRIGHT! So we have Samurai Jack coming this year, FLCL the next. Well [AS] how about letting Brendon do the final season of Metalocalypse? Please?
 
WOW!!! I loved FLCL when I was younger. I am so in! Honestly, as perfect as the show is in 6 episodes, I do want to know more about that universe!
 
hosannainexcelsis said:
There's no way Motohiro is the actual director on this. He has no experience with any of the things you need to do to direct an anime series. Either Tsurumaki himself is directing or someone who hasn't been named yet is directing. Motohiro is just going to attend planning sessions and throw out story ideas.
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I highly doubt Tsurumaki is directing, because I'm sure he's too busy with Evangelion, and if he was directing, they certainly would have been trumpeting that fact up front.

So we're getting some random director that they aren't even naming in favor of listing off a live action director. I don't think that necessarily bodes particularly well for this project.
 
That synopsis does not raise hopes. FLCL wasn't about some intergalactic war. You're not supposed to gain any kind of perspective from knowing exactly who Atomsk or the creatures behind MM are or what they want. They're only there to make Naota (and the audience) realize how irrelevant they are to the universe.
 
I'm hyped. Love the series. As long as they keep it weird and about coming of age for a character it should be fine.

Gentleman Jack said:
That synopsis does not raise hopes. FLCL wasn't about some intergalactic war. You're not supposed to gain any kind of perspective from knowing exactly who Atomsk or the creatures behind MM are or what they want. They're only there to make Naota (and the audience) realize how irrelevant they are to the universe.
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Aside from the actual core of the story which is naota growing up, pretty much every interaction haruko or the characters had was a giant battle between the two factions. They don't need to make it so obvious, but it was always a core part of the characters relationships and usually what would incite the events.
 
A Link to the Past said:
Theoretically Mission Hill Season 2 could bring down a great Season 1, but I don't think it was anywhere near the inevitable series downfall.
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They have some episodes that never got animated. As long as they can get the same, or as many of the original writers with Josh Weinstein and Bill Oakley at the helm, I think it would be fine.
 
Cautiously excited.

KuwabaraTheMan said:
Wow, that's very bizarre. This actually gives me even less faith than before. An anime being made primarily by people with little experience working on anime?
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Bizarre choices for a bizarre series, bizarrely receiving a followup.

Sounds like the perfect concoction to me.
 
KuwabaraTheMan said:
I highly doubt Tsurumaki is directing, because I'm sure he's too busy with Evangelion, and if he was directing, they certainly would have been trumpeting that fact up front.

So we're getting some random director that they aren't even naming in favor of listing off a live action director. I don't think that necessarily bodes particularly well for this project.
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Hahaha, very funny.
 
i still don't really "get" the love for FLCL. And I usually like these kind of weird shows.

I mean, I enjoyed it, but I didn't think it was great. Mostly forgettable.
 
A Link to the Past said:
I'd never seen it on DVD; what is the music like?
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All royalty free stuff. There's a scene where folks are singing "Everybody Hurts" and then the song played. On the DVD they still sing the song but it's just a generic song over it. Just real goofy stuff like that.

Shard said:
Adult Swim is working on getting The Pillows back for the soundtrack.

https://twitter.com/Clarknova1/status/713124474619473920
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Weird that they didn't do that before. And most of the music in FLCL was licensed anyway right? I don't think any of it was original, so hopefully they can pull through with that (although I didn't really like a lot of the post FLCL stuff by the Pillows)
 
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