 Adult Swim announced two new seasons for the FLCL anime series on Thursday—titled FLCL: Grunge and FLCL: Shoegaze. The programming block also revealed the main staff and teaser visuals for the new seasons (pictured). The announcement is commemorating Toonami's 25th anniversary.Hitoshi Takekiyo (Houkago Midnighters, Appleseed XIII episode director) is helming FLCL: Grunge at the Fukuoka-based CG animation studio MontBlanc Pictures. The season is scheduled for a 2023 premiere. Yutaka Uemura (FLCL: Alternative, Youjo Senki) is directing FLCL: Shoegaze at Production I.G and Nut. Both seasons are currently in production. Jason DeMarco, creative director of Toonami and senior vice president of action and anime for Warner Bros. Animation, is serving as the executive producer for both seasons, while Production I.G USA's president Maki Terashima-Furuta (FLCL Progressive, Kaizoku Oujo) is credited as the producer. FLCL Progressive and FLCL Alternative, the two-part film sequel to the original series, premiered in Japan in September 2018. Toonami aired the English dub of FLCL Progressive in June 2018, followed by FLCL Alternative in September that year—each as a six-episode television series. Kazuya Tsurumaki, the original creator of the franchise, supervised the sequel film project. Katsuyuki Motohiro (Psycho-Pass) served as the chief director, with Hideto Iwai penning the script, and Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Space☆Dandy) in charge of the mechanical design.  The original FLCL original video anime produced by Gainax and Production I.G. shipped in six episodes from April 2000 to March 2001. Gainax sold the original property rights to the series to Production I.G in 2015. Synch-Point originally released the anime on DVD in January 2007. Funimation reacquired the series in January 2010 and released it on home video in February 2011.Synopsis (FLCL) Naota Nandaba is an ordinary sixth grader living in a city where nothing amazing ever seems to happen. After his brother Tasuku leaves town to play baseball in America, Naota takes it upon himself to look after everything Tasuku left behind—from his top bunk bed to his ex-girlfriend Mamimi Samejima, who hasn't stopped clinging to Naota since Tasuku left. Little does Naota know, however, that his mundane existence is on the verge of being changed forever: enter Haruko Haruhara, a Vespa-riding, bass guitar-wielding, pink-haired psychopath whose first encounter with Naota leaves him with tire tracks on his back and a giant horn on his head. Though all he wants is some peace and quiet, when Haruko takes up residence at his parents' home, Naota finds himself dragged into the heart of the greatest battle for supremacy that Earth—and quite possibly the entire universe—has ever seen. [Written by MAL Rewrite] FLCL: Grunge Teaser Source: Variety FLCL: Grunge & FLCL: Shoegaze on MAL |
VindstotJun 19, 2022 10:34 AM
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| Not gonna lie I legit thought this is a game trailer |
| well, I haven’t seen either of the two other new sequels of FLCL since I heard they were bad but guess I should check them out before this airs as well |
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| Oh no...just please be good. |
| not gonna bother with this one like the other sequels of it |
| That art style looks...not good. Why did they feel like this would be a good idea. |
  「 𝕂𝕖𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕙𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕔𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤, 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕨 𝕞𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞 」 |
| I'm okay with the style but can Adult Swim stop resuscitating this corpse? Especially after Gainax backstabbed Tsurumaki. We talk about treating the anime industry better, YET??? |
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| the sequel NOBODY wanted was already a horrible insult, yet they want more. who is this made for? the fans of the classic hated it. newcomers didn't care. are they doing this out of spite? |
| 馬鹿げた倫理 全部ガラクタで |
| Approaching this cautiously. I at least enjoyed Progressive in the last pair of seasons made for FLCL, but found Alternative to be a mess. |
| Well on the positive, maybe I'll be introduced to some new awesome Pillows songs that I haven't heard yet. |
| WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY pain. |
 _______I like rocks__  |
| It seems that this studio never worked on anime before and entirely depending on CG. Oh gosh, I am not really looking forward to this. |
| garbage, just let this die already, prog was ok but they can't nail it one more time. |
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| I need to start this series.....I may do that before the month is out, but I'm glad to see that it's getting more content |
| Well as one of the only Progressive/Alternative enjoyers here, I'll just say that I am excited for new FLCL even if it's completely unnecessary. |
| The art is Ex-Arm tier, in fact I think it's even worse than Ex-Arm as Ex-Arm was just made by staff that were beginners in anime creation, while this was made by pros in anime and it's so much worse looking. |
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| I might watch Shoegaze but Grunge doesn't look appealing at all... |
| I was going to paste in Mr. Krabs going "am I really going to defile this grave for money," but that's too much effort than is called for. I'm not even enthused to insult the project. |
| Well I for one already loved Lain. |
| Death to CGI and American cartoons for unleashing this hideous scourge onto this world. Mother earth has suffered enough. |
| I didn't dislike seasons 2 or 3, but they also weren't very memorable, so hopefully these leave more of an impact. |
Bum Bum Dum Dum |
| Death to CGI. Tired of it man. |
| If it wasn't for slice of life I'd slice my life. |
| What is it with companies making bad adaptations/reboots of anime/manga ips that nobody asked for? |
HatsuneYugi39May 15, 2022 2:13 PM
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| I didn't care much for Progressive or Alternative. So, I'm already not hyped. And, seeing Haruko in this new animation style doesn't fill me with any hope at all. I may end up checking these out, but I'm certainly not in a hurry. |
 "...Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?" |
| I don't know if I love the animation, but I'm game to watch it. |
| Bum Bum Dum Dum |
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