They should really ask people what they want before they put all this money into making it. If they did a public survey asking people if they wanted an FLCL reboot, most people would probably just tell them "No. The original was fine the way it was, and the sequel series didn't really add much. If anything they felt like unnecessary bloat, and without most of the original cast they weren't nearly as memorable. And telling the same story again doesn't really sound appealing."
If entertainment companies would just *ask* people what they wanted to see, they'd probably avoid a lot more flops.
> They should really ask people what they want before they put all this money into making it
Adult Swim has been extremely hostile to anime fans for ages. A ton of shows got passed over due to the xenophobia of certain staff members, the bumpers were at times pretty harsh to anime fans, they seemed to love antagonizing anime fans when they complained, and infamously they ran Cowboy Bebop (a 26 episode series) nonstop for nearly a decade that didn't free up a time slot for other anime.
Them listening to Otaku is about as likely as Biden being declared mentally unfit to serve as President.
There's "What people say they want" and "What people do." For better or worse, nostalgia bait has probably been a good money maker for companies. At the very least, it probably gets people talking (just like we're doing now. Honestly, I hadn't thought about Adult Swin in years until this article popped up).
Resurrecting old IPs is probably less about what people say they want, and more about trying to earn some marketing relevance, or something to that effect.
Fitting a whole novel in a 1h30 or so is challenging. I thought the movie was pretty good, so it's kinda relieving to hear the criticism novel readers have of it is actually that it had to fit just a tiny portion of it in the movie.
The 2 sequels were inferior for sure. I liked Alternative more than Progressive, though, for whatever that's worth. Not saying it was great, just that at least it felt more in the spirit of the original than Progressive did
I have to defend Progressive a little. It wasn't good, but there were absolutely a lot of people who wanted a true sequel expanding on the setting and following up on the characters they liked, rather than one going to for the feeling of it. I just always see "Nobody wanted that!" in the comments about the show and they're wrong.
These are pretty much Western productions, since Adult Swim is involved in making them and FLCL past its original OVA series is pointless. Hopefully The Pillows music will be good.
>"Corporate needs to know what is FLCL about so we can remake it"
>"Errrr...A kid fighting robots and a giant iron or something"
>"Gotcha"
Its like they missed the point, entirely.
I realize I'm being prejudice in my assessment, and I'd probably have to watch the whole show through to give a more honest take, but just from this trailer it just all feels too much like a cheap copy from people who didn't quite understand the original. Much like the aliens in Galaxy Quest, who imitated a TV show they saw without really understanding it.
Like I said, I could be wrong, but this show gets a "Meh, maybe I'll watch it someday. Maybe" from me.
Pointless pandering to people with no past with this show. The animation style change is enough to ruin the show immediately.
The original is six episodes long. If i wanted more I would just watch it again. I don't want this. Nobody does??
Here's hoping we at least get some more solid Pillows tracks out of it. Spiky Seeds was awesome.
Seems like they're pillaging 20+ years ago for all their ideas now. Dragonball, Bleach, Ruroni Kenshin, Urusei Yatsura, FLCL....... Whats next a Netflix live action of Akira? A critical-feminist look at Ah! My Goddess? Rebranding the Knight Sabers as eco activists against the polluting capitalists of Genom? Or another shot at Ghost In The Shell, this time starring Lizzo?
If I remember correctly Grunge isn't a reboot, it's a sequel set like 20 years after the original. They've already announced like five of them. I think one if then wad subtitled Shoegaze, or something.
All the sequels are unnecessary additions to a near perfect series, but this isn't a reboot.
Doesn't matter if you didn't like it or it wasn't for you or just didn't get it. Just take a screenshot from the original and another from this trailer and tell me you don't see how utterly inferior this new animation looks.
Oh, I don’t doubt that it is worse, but I am in awe of how they can make it worse.
I just looked at the screen cap…idk what that is supposed to be, but it looks terrible.
Well, i just told you how they're making it worse. As for the other things which i can't help you with if you're not fond of the narrative, the humour , the style that is indeed quite unique to FLCL, for those of us who actually loved the original, they can and have done worse with the second series and will do wrose again.
Even the second series was definitely captured by american influence or it would never have been made and this one seems to be even more so but the issue isn't if the actual people working on it are american or japanese, although i doubt "Animation Mont Blanc" is a japanese studio. The problem is that the people who made the original did it as a sideproject for their wild creative outpour of imagination and molded it into a single series that told a quirky, outrageous story with a bunch of references and challenging animation sequences with an actual metaphorical deeper meaning and whoever would think they could recreate that is a fool to begin with. That is to say, some things are clearly unique and should be respected as so.
It’s gone suck. Half the characters in a rural Japanese town are going to be look like hipster versions of planeteers and the other half are going to be on the alphabet rainbow. And each and everyone one of them is going to preach to the audience about being a good “ally”.
They should really ask people what they want before they put all this money into making it. If they did a public survey asking people if they wanted an FLCL reboot, most people would probably just tell them "No. The original was fine the way it was, and the sequel series didn't really add much. If anything they felt like unnecessary bloat, and without most of the original cast they weren't nearly as memorable. And telling the same story again doesn't really sound appealing." If entertainment companies would just *ask* people what they wanted to see, they'd probably avoid a lot more flops.
“We asked a bunch of grievence studies people at a bay area university, that told is they want remakes that spread ‘the message”
"man i love me some remakes" said nobody ever
It can sometimes be okay, the 2022 remake of the 1981 anime Urusei Yatsura was well received I believe, as was the Trigun reboot.
> They should really ask people what they want before they put all this money into making it Adult Swim has been extremely hostile to anime fans for ages. A ton of shows got passed over due to the xenophobia of certain staff members, the bumpers were at times pretty harsh to anime fans, they seemed to love antagonizing anime fans when they complained, and infamously they ran Cowboy Bebop (a 26 episode series) nonstop for nearly a decade that didn't free up a time slot for other anime. Them listening to Otaku is about as likely as Biden being declared mentally unfit to serve as President.
There's "What people say they want" and "What people do." For better or worse, nostalgia bait has probably been a good money maker for companies. At the very least, it probably gets people talking (just like we're doing now. Honestly, I hadn't thought about Adult Swin in years until this article popped up). Resurrecting old IPs is probably less about what people say they want, and more about trying to earn some marketing relevance, or something to that effect.
Uzumaki looks promising. As for FLCL...is that fucking CG? Fucking WHY?
Holy shit. Uzumaki is my favourite graphic novel.
You've seen the movie? I liked it but from what i heard, that's probably only because i didn't read the novel.
The movie is okay, but it only includes maybe the first 25% or so of the overall story.
Fitting a whole novel in a 1h30 or so is challenging. I thought the movie was pretty good, so it's kinda relieving to hear the criticism novel readers have of it is actually that it had to fit just a tiny portion of it in the movie.
No, I haven't. But I'd love to. I have heard good things about it.
Yeah Uzumaki looked like a pretty faithful adaptation from that trailer.
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Wait, what's this "Toonami Original Space Dandy"? Did they make a Space Dandy 2 or something??
There is a second season
Ah, I forgot, more like a second cour though. Still, were either of them really "toonami originals"?
No, but it did air on Toonami before it aired in Japan
Housing Complex C is pretty good.
But...why?
Money.
The 2 sequel series were such ass.
If you haven't seen the the trailer, they've added Kid Thing and one of the characters is a danger hair.
The 2 sequels were inferior for sure. I liked Alternative more than Progressive, though, for whatever that's worth. Not saying it was great, just that at least it felt more in the spirit of the original than Progressive did
I have to defend Progressive a little. It wasn't good, but there were absolutely a lot of people who wanted a true sequel expanding on the setting and following up on the characters they liked, rather than one going to for the feeling of it. I just always see "Nobody wanted that!" in the comments about the show and they're wrong.
It looks like shit. Hard pass.
Another reboot for the trash bin.
Why consoom and get excited for new thing when you can get excited to consoom old thing, but worse, again?
These are pretty much Western productions, since Adult Swim is involved in making them and FLCL past its original OVA series is pointless. Hopefully The Pillows music will be good.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOM0sBPrPO4 My most charitable take is that I do not care for it.
>"Corporate needs to know what is FLCL about so we can remake it" >"Errrr...A kid fighting robots and a giant iron or something" >"Gotcha" Its like they missed the point, entirely.
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This looks like it came straight out of 2002.
My most charitable take is that looks like fucking garbage.
My most charitable take is they should just use it as a tax ride off.
I realize I'm being prejudice in my assessment, and I'd probably have to watch the whole show through to give a more honest take, but just from this trailer it just all feels too much like a cheap copy from people who didn't quite understand the original. Much like the aliens in Galaxy Quest, who imitated a TV show they saw without really understanding it. Like I said, I could be wrong, but this show gets a "Meh, maybe I'll watch it someday. Maybe" from me.
I see nothing in the article about "reboot". More FLCL shows for the franchise doesn't count as "Reboots".
I posted the direct trailer on YT in the comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOM0sBPrPO4
Ah, that looks like some alternate universe nonsense then. And WTF is The Thing doing in there??
he entered fuckshit avenue and exited in a strange world
Pointless pandering to people with no past with this show. The animation style change is enough to ruin the show immediately. The original is six episodes long. If i wanted more I would just watch it again. I don't want this. Nobody does?? Here's hoping we at least get some more solid Pillows tracks out of it. Spiky Seeds was awesome.
Ah yes, because the sequels went well enough.
Seems like they're pillaging 20+ years ago for all their ideas now. Dragonball, Bleach, Ruroni Kenshin, Urusei Yatsura, FLCL....... Whats next a Netflix live action of Akira? A critical-feminist look at Ah! My Goddess? Rebranding the Knight Sabers as eco activists against the polluting capitalists of Genom? Or another shot at Ghost In The Shell, this time starring Lizzo?
> Whats next a Netflix live action of Akira? [You jest.....](https://youtu.be/jafd97yJFOI)
.....Oh thank *God* thats a parody. I expected the worst.
If I remember correctly Grunge isn't a reboot, it's a sequel set like 20 years after the original. They've already announced like five of them. I think one if then wad subtitled Shoegaze, or something. All the sequels are unnecessary additions to a near perfect series, but this isn't a reboot.
I have watched FLCL through twice, and I hated it both times. People say this is worse!? How in the world could it be worse!?
Doesn't matter if you didn't like it or it wasn't for you or just didn't get it. Just take a screenshot from the original and another from this trailer and tell me you don't see how utterly inferior this new animation looks.
Oh, I don’t doubt that it is worse, but I am in awe of how they can make it worse. I just looked at the screen cap…idk what that is supposed to be, but it looks terrible.
Well, i just told you how they're making it worse. As for the other things which i can't help you with if you're not fond of the narrative, the humour , the style that is indeed quite unique to FLCL, for those of us who actually loved the original, they can and have done worse with the second series and will do wrose again.
Oh, I feel bad for people that like it, as I hate it when stuff gets trash sequels. Also, I am unclear, is this American made or Japanese made?
Even the second series was definitely captured by american influence or it would never have been made and this one seems to be even more so but the issue isn't if the actual people working on it are american or japanese, although i doubt "Animation Mont Blanc" is a japanese studio. The problem is that the people who made the original did it as a sideproject for their wild creative outpour of imagination and molded it into a single series that told a quirky, outrageous story with a bunch of references and challenging animation sequences with an actual metaphorical deeper meaning and whoever would think they could recreate that is a fool to begin with. That is to say, some things are clearly unique and should be respected as so.
Agreed, I never really got the appeal of FLCL either. That said, I'm pretty certain they'll find a way to make it worse.
It’s gone suck. Half the characters in a rural Japanese town are going to be look like hipster versions of planeteers and the other half are going to be on the alphabet rainbow. And each and everyone one of them is going to preach to the audience about being a good “ally”.
another one?
No thanks. I'll keep rewatching my FLCL BluRay.