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

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GaimeGuy said:
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.
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It's a lot of people's first foray into a non-shounen anime would be my guess. Although I think it's great and it definitely wasn't the first seinen anime I had seen.
 
Possibly Big O season 3?

The ending was okay but one more season to explore the mindfuck in greater detail would be great. I'm fine with no continuation though.

We have come to terms.
 
ElectricBlanketFire said:
Oh I didn't mean in terms of the content itself, I meant in terms of how crazy this is.

Like, Sony producing the next Zelda game or something.
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In that case, it would be something like Calvin and Hobbes being revived by a cartoonist who is (probably (hopefully?)) skilled, but who is also probably not Watterson. Fortunately even though I love FLCL it's not as insanely important to me as C&H so I'm not totally outraged by this like I would be by my C&H example.


Blader said:
Huh? They were always the things that they are.
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Yeah. Things can be both metaphorical and real within the fictional world in which they occur, but it seems a lot of people don't think that way. Let's just hope they don't dispose of the metaphorical elements entirely in favor of the "real."
 
This can turn out amazing, or miss out on everything that made the original run batshit awesome. I wonder what they have in mind. And yea, I hope they use the pillows' music again/
 
What? Am I dreaming?

AM I FUCKING DREAMING!?

I can't believe this....wowowowowowowowowow. My favourite anime along with EVA.

But Gainax. Need the orginal team back.
 
KuwabaraTheMan said:
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?
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I mean you're totally right in that this is a cash grab but that doesn't mean something of high quality still can't be produced or that it can't be a product with a lot of creative expression. This didn't need to be made, I'm still curious about the complete staff (the director scenario seems to be weird given what has been revealed since you made your post), and I'd be SHOCKED if this could live up to the impact of the original. I'm just not willing to throw this all under a bus yet.
 
I'm not sure how I should feel about this. The original series ended so succinctly. There are way too many things that could be easily fucked up.
 
Eblo said:
I'm not sure how I should feel about this. The original series ended so succinctly. There are way too many things that could be easily fucked up.
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Yeah I'm pretty ambivalent about this. The original series was a pretty complete and self contained work.
 
Re: the pillows' involvement. (And I guess I should re-state that I'm against a direct sequel to FLCL at all, so take that as you will.)

95% of their music in the original was taken from their few previous albums at the time, I think only Ride On Shooting Star and I Think I Can were new. They went on to be one of my absolute favorite bands for a while, but the music they've done in the 16 years since then... it's not awful, but I've liked it progressively less and less, and it's certainly no longer very much like their late 90s output.

They should get a new band for this. Try to make it its own thing. (Edit: I guess if they get the pillows to actually record new music in their older style it could be interesting, but it comes back to this whole production feeling like it'll likely be a lame attempt to recapture lightning in a bottle.)
 
FLCL was a hugely director driven show. Without Tsurumaki (and the various animators who were given free reign at times to do bizarre, hilarious things) what's the damn point?

Is Enokido on board? Are The Pillows on board?

This isn't comparable to the Big O situation, where the band was all together. This seems like a purely money driven venture.
 
Has there been a good anime necrosequel? The ones I recall on top of my head (E7, Last Exile) sucked so hard.
Also, if you absolutely needed to revive something, why not Cowboy Bebop?
 
Was streaming some art, and I did a Haruko sketch to celebrate.

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I'm equal parts hyped and worried. Hyped because FLCL is my favorite anime of all time, and worried that this may go the way of bad anime OVAs.

If they nail it, it could be amazing. All I ask for is for The Pillows to handle music.
 
Get The Pillows on board and baby you got a stew!

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petethepanda said:
Re: the pillows' involvement. (And I guess I should re-state that I'm against a direct sequel to FLCL at all, so take that as you will.)

95% of their music in the original was taken from their few previous albums at the time, I think only Ride On Shooting Star and I Think I Can were new. They went on to be one of my absolute favorite bands for a while, but the music they've done in the 16 years since then... it's not awful, but I've liked it progressively less and less, and it's certainly no longer very much like their late 90s output.

They should get a new band for this. Try to make it its own thing. (Edit: I guess if they get the pillows to actually record new music in their older style it could be interesting, but it comes back to this whole production feeling like it'll likely be a lame attempt to recapture lightning in a bottle.)
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I get this perspective though and agree. As long as they get a band with the same energy and approximate style, I'd be just as happy.
 
Zubz said:
... Yeah, actually. After Samurai Jack, MEGAS XLR was the obvious show for them to bring back next. Still, it's FLCL. It's far from a bad choice.
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I'd prefer Motorcity, but maybe that's just me. Or if we want to get nuts (why not), TRON UPRISING.

Derail over. My hype for FLCLx2 and FLCLx3 is properly tempered at this point.
 
petethepanda said:
Re: the pillows' involvement. (And I guess I should re-state that I'm against a direct sequel to FLCL at all, so take that as you will.)

95% of their music in the original was taken from their few previous albums at the time, I think only Ride On Shooting Star and I Think I Can were new. They went on to be one of my absolute favorite bands for a while, but the music they've done in the 16 years since then... it's not awful, but I've liked it progressively less and less, and it's certainly no longer very much like their late 90s output.

They should get a new band for this. Try to make it its own thing. (Edit: I guess if they get the pillows to actually record new music in their older style it could be interesting, but it comes back to this whole production feeling like it'll likely be a lame attempt to recapture lightning in a bottle.)
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Yeah, it's the Final Fantasy VII dilemma all over again. You're not going to be able to redo the original, so just go nuts with it.
 
Crocodile said:
I mean you're totally right in that this is a cash grab but that doesn't mean something of high quality still can't be produced or that it can't be a product with a lot of creative expression. This didn't need to be made, I'm still curious about the complete staff (the director scenario seems to be weird given what has been revealed since you made your post), and I'd be SHOCKED if this could live up to the impact of the original. I'm just not willing to throw this all under a bus yet.
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Yeah, that's fair.

I certainly don't think that it's impossible that something good can come from this, and it'd be amazing if the result was a good show.

I just don't really think it's likely, and I feel like this is the sort of thing that really doesn't need to be made.

I'd be a lot more interested if they were creating something "inspired by FLCL", rather than FLCL 2 exploring the deep lore of a galactic war.
 
So do I talk to Adult Swim or Netflix about getting a Season 2 of Highschool of the Dead?

This is so weird. I'm excited as hell, if nothing else maybe it'll mean some more merch because I've always wanted a figure or statue of the... uh, I feel bad not knowing its name but the TV-headed robot? I want that.
 
.... This is incredible... FLCL is my favourite anime ever. I'm just wondering what it's gonna be about though. Is it still going to feature a
cryptic coming of age story
like the original?
 
Didn't the original have a lot of fan service that americans probably wouldn't approve of nowadays? I guess they're going to hold back on that?
 
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