It’s not often I read a piece of news and have literally no idea what emotion my body is feeling in response. There’s so many cards in play here you see. Recently Netflix announced plans for a Scott Pilgrim anime based on the graphic novel series. Little is known regarding the details of the project (no release dates, timeframes, etc.) but if the project is greenlit the animation would be done by Science Saru. They worked on a couple shorts for the Star Wars: Visions collaboration with Disney a few months back, though I’m still not familiar enough with them to be excited for the animation based on the name alone. Essentially this is about as basic an announcement as you can get: it’s in the works. 

Now I know Scott Pilgrim as a franchise must have some redeeming qualities because the fanbase is massive. Plus, even as someone who has never seen a single minute of the movie in my entire life, I somehow know the premise, that the girl is named Ramona Flowers, and that a band called Black Sheep is in it. That’s a decent amount of information for a non-fan to know which means the series was pretty popular back when that movie came out. Still, even though the fanbase exists, I don’t know how excited they’d be for an anime adaptation from Netflix. Netflix has quite the bad rep these days for turning some classic anime into live action atrocities. At the same time, Netflix has been involved in producing anime like Komi Can’t Communicate and there doesn’t seem to be many issues on that front. So perhaps since this is going from a graphic novel series to an anime instead of an anime to a live action, it could still turn out to be a quality anime. Which still feels weird even to type. I have to say I’d definitely give it a shot to see what they come up with but I'm not going to sit around holding my breath for its release either.

Man why DO I know these things? You ever pick up knowledge and have no idea from where?

Well there ya go. For now there’s nothing to do except wait around and see what ends up happening. Did you watch the Scott Pilgrim movie or read the graphic novels? What’s the appeal of the series? Are you excited for the anime or do you have low expectations already? Find a girlfriend, fight off her crazy exes, and claim victory in the name of love in the comments below!