Summary
- Netflix's Scott Pilgrim anime teaser looks authentic and captures the heart of the original story, making fans eager to relive the nostalgic memories.
- The series features the original author and the film cast returning, creating a bittersweet reunion and a sense of authenticity.
- The show's adaptation of the source material and its visual appeal make it an incredible watch, with each episode resembling a level in a video game.
Netflix has dropped the first official teaser for its 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Scott Pilgrim anime and it looks too good to be true. Helmed by Japanese animation studio Science Saru and director Abel Góngora, the show already boasts a stylistic authenticity and heart of nerdy gold that takes me back to my angsty teenage years. I wasn&♒rsquo;t a shallow asshole like Scott Pilgrim, but Takes Off has me so eager to relive those memories and the story of one dude taking down an army of evil exes.
I’m sold on the entire series after just a minute of footage, with Science Saru set to bring us an authentic retelling that includes original author Bryan Lee O'Malley as one of the creative leads and the feature film cast all returning to lend their voices to the characters they helped cement in popular culture. Edgar Wright is also back as producer, so even if the project had nothing going for it visually it would still feel like a bittersweet reunion for this youthful world so many of us fell in love with as teenagers. The fact it looks incredible is merely a bonus.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was also the first film I saw in cinemas with a date, but that dude turned out to be a massive incel so the less said about him the better. What I’m trying to say is th💞at its upcoming return is going to warm my heart all over again, whether it’s thanks to a range of familiar voices or the musical talents of Anamanaguchi, who will be returning to help bring the soundtrack to life after doing the very same for the beloved beat ‘em-up game that received a deserved re-release just a few years back. It feels like it’s all coming full circle.
I’ll admit I was initially sceptical about the live-action cast returning, partly thanks to the fact I’d never considered matching up their voices to the comic book counterpart🍌s. Comic Scott is a very different character to movie Scott in my heart, and definitely doesn’t vibe with the anxious tones of Michael Cera. But that’s what we’re getting alongside the huge returns of Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin,
Brie Larson, Chris Evans, and exhaustive list of additional names are back to revoice and likely reimagine their characters if Takes Off both takes inspiration from the comics and films for the stories it aims to tell. It will also be cool to see how a story about a fairly toxic young du🦂de fueled by a millennial obsession with anime and video games stands up to scrutiny a decade removed from its original release. Scott as a character has already received a critical reappraisal of sorts in recent years, and I’d love for a new show armed with that knowledge to dig deeper or take the characters further.
Eight episodes is the perfect episode count too if you factor in one as an introduction to the world and its key players, and the⛄ remaining seven as battles against each evil ex. They’re basically levels in a video game, but each one is gorgeously covered with cool new ideas, anime and gaming references, and an adaptation of the source material that hasn’t really been possible until now. I’ll say it again - this thing looks pretty incredible.
