>No old Gainax staff
Is there any reason to care about this?
>>14036614
FLCL is an entertaining show with mecha?
>>14036622
But it literally does not need a sequel.
With this and Blue Uru all we need now is a shitty Otaku No Video sequel and Gainax will have ruined everything they've ever made.
I'm... nervously optimistic, I think?
Very nervously. Very, very nervously.
The first one sucked shit and only newfag teenieboppers liked it. Why would make two more? It doesn't even make sense given its horrible narrative.
>>14036614
Perfect Bones (co-production with Netflix) and now this? They want to make western anime?
>>14036614
Gainax isn't making it so that's irrelevant.
What matters is if they can get Tsurumaki to come back to direct it.
Literally only being done because it was popular in the west once so they think they can sell it. You can be sure it's not gonna be anything like the original, but it might not be totally awful as its own thing.
>>14036660
I bet you think G Reco is confusing, too.
>>14036668
Stop being a bitter little shit, faggot. Fucking toonamibabbies.
An FLCL sequel? I'm not sure how I feel about this, it's perfect on its own.
>>14036664
What matters about FLCL is the animators and the OST.
>>14036681
They already said they're in talks to get The Pillows to come back.
But I think people don't give the direction of FLCL enough credit
>>14036673
>G Reco
>Toonami
Found the retard.
>>14036622
A sequel to a coming of age story told through semi-abstract(for anime at least) narrative doesnt need a sequel.
It's a waste of money. Banking entirely on nostalgia.
>>14036614
Well, uh.
I GUESS it could be good? I mean, Big O S2 was pretty good. Mostly.
Will the Pillows be doing the music again?
>>14036688
>thinking he was referring to G-Reco and not your love for FLCL
You are literally this stupid
>>14036681
https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=117
Imaishi Hiroyuki is busy with Trigger. I don't know about the others 2 for the animation directors.
>>14036698
>Will the Pillows be doing the music again?
They already said they're in negotiations for it.
Shame their music post-2006 has kinda sucked.
I know it sounds like a bad idea, but shouldn't you all at least give it a fair chance? Like, at least wait for a PV?
Oh wait, this is 4chan.
>>14036699
You're the one who can't follow FLCL and G Reco's incredibly straightforward plots. Do you get confused by Little Red Riding Hood, too?
>>14036707
Oh I'll give it a chance. Hell I'll probably watch every episode.
But the nature of the show makes it feels like a sequel goes against what FLCL is. Also, this is apparently the summary.
>>14036707
>give it a fair chance
>useless sequel
>co-production by fucking toonami
>not gainax
Hmmm Yeah let's give it a fair chance!
If the Gunbuster sequel was like FLCL does that mean the FLCL sequel will be like Gunbuster?
>>14036718
Yes, not acting completely autistic is a prettu good quality in a person.
>>14036718
>wanting gainax to be involved in 2016
>>14036724
Only weeb autists will eat up any shit that's served to them. Some people have standards. I'll watch the first episode but I know it'll shallow over-produced shit to draw in the nu-Toonami crowd
>>14036724
>autistic
Disregarded.
>>14036650
I'm just nervously nervous.
>>14036731
>literally started with "This sounds like a bad idea"
>HERK WHY WUD U DEFEND THIS YOU WEEB AUTIST!?!?!?
How does a person this mentally crippled manage to solve captchas?
>>14036712
The difference between my posts and yours is that I directly attacked your posts' stupidity. Meanwhile, you're so salt fucked that you have to make up some shit just to try and insult me.
You are fucking hilarious, you colossal moron. Continue with your mad, chump.
>>14036713
>The Fraternity
Oh no, I hope this doesn't go where I think it's going
>>14036729
Most people don't even know what Gainax makes these days.
I liked Stella Women's Academy
>>14036742
>My posts are better than your posts because I ad hominemed more harder. You're a big dumb poopyhead and I bet you have an N64 instead of a PS1!
Jesus fuck, why do I come here anymore?
>>14036747
I liked it too, but it was a strange show.
Haven't seen Pleiades but a lot of people loved it.
I think what will work in the FLCL sequel and will be it's biggest drawback is how it'll have nothing to do with FLCL.
Each cour should it's own story, with it's own little message, all set somewhere else. Instead, people want the continued adventures of Naota and Haruko, which might be fine, but who cares really? There is no real meat there. Their story is over.
>>14036614
A week early for April Fools day. That and I thought the AS people hated anime, they only air it to pay the bills for true gems like 12oz Mouse, Assy McGee, and Xavier: Renegade Angel.
>>14036748
To shitpost.
>>14036742
>I'M NOT MAD YOUR MAD YOUR SO FUCKI G MAD I BET U COULD KILL SOMEBODY YOU FUCKINH AUTISTIC RETARD HOLY SHIT YOU"RE SO FUCKING MAD NOT LIKE ME WHO IS COMPLETELY FUCKING CALM AND GOD DAMN COLLECTED
Anyone with half a brain will say this is a terrible idea.
But nostalgia money is a thing.
So hey as long as AS is just throwing money at properties they aired, can we get an animated adaptation of Future Retro Hero Story?
>>14036765
AS always loved anime, but the only anime that get ratings is Inuyasha and Bleach, even then they pale in comparison to Family Guy or American Dad reruns.
>>14036745
It isn't because Gainax only sold the FLCL right, not the Top wo Nerae! right.
We're gonna end up with another Diebuster on our hands
>>14036788
I'll never understand how their Family Guy reruns get such consistently high ratings. Do normies really like seeing the same exact shit over and over that much? Not to mention the show comes on two other channels. Is it just the timeslot?
>>14036809
So a net gain on our end?
>>14036668
No, I just think it's bad.
>>14036614
It's going to be awful.
In some alternate universe, studio Trigger is making a coming of age story with a female lead called L.C.L.F.
It's basically "Nanami's Egg", but with robots.
>>14036809
Diebuster was from the same staff as the original and actually fun and well animated.
This will be none of the above.
>Cartoon Network throwing money at anime again
>it's not Big O S3
>>14036614
I thought Japan was mostly free of the "hurr remake" obsession.
>>14036963
>I thought Japan was mostly free of the "hurr remake" obsession.
>posts a Gundam pic
>posts a Gundam pic of a character who's copypasted into dozens if not hundreds of other anime
Of all the shows that could have a second season, FLCL is one of the highest of the list of does not need one
It is a very self contained thing which was more about hitting home a point and it did it well. It covered all the ground it needed to and adding would lessen the point it made. It was not a world with things to explore, we do not need to see where the characters are now, it was made to explore a concept. Yes a sequel could explore another concept but it to do so you'd have to be very unFLCL so the point comes across
Do another Buster series, do fucking panty and stocking like the ending teased.
Big O season 3 next pls
Well at the very least, we might get some more of Canti in action. I always thought he had a neat design.
>>14036963
I also thought Japan was mostly free of a desire for easy money.
>>14036933
>>14037132
Why would you even want that? The second wasn't any better than the first, and I'd be willing to bet money that that would be true of the third.
what if you watched flcl before it aired on toonami and have no shitty nostalgia like wingfags and g gundamfags?
>>14037046
All of this is simply Yamaga's fault. He should have let his animators work on the projects they actually want to work on.
Anno realized he didn't have to deal with that shit and took half the staff to form Khara, then made over $100mil at the box office rehashing Eva.
Yamaga briefly saw the error of his ways and let the leftover staff make PSG. After that they got tired of his shit too and went off to start Trigger.
So now Yamaga is left with literally no experience animation staff but he's sitting on a fuckton of favorite licences. But that's not a good enough situation to be in to repopulate a studio. All the history and he still couldn't get Aoki Uru funded and had to go as far as Singapore to beg for money.
2014 ends and Anno manages to secure full right to Eva. No more sharing with Yamaga.
Fast forward half a year and Yamaga still can't do shit so his only option is to start selling off the old licenses.
He can't let Khara have Aim for the Top! because that would mean conceding defeat to Anno for a second time.
He can't let Trigger have Panty and Stocking because he's still salty about them running off too.
Meanwhile Production IG is also past its glory day, but they have an advantage: they have a history of connections to the west through both successful localization as well as co-productions and commissioned work.
So this is the natural result of that situation. Yamaga sold off his stake in FLCL last year and now Production IG can milk westerner nostalgia for a bit more.
>>14036614
Gainax is dead bro.
It has non of the original staff.
>>14037291
>toonamitards caring
>Director and writers are off doing Eva 3.0 so that's out
>Imaishi is a no do to Luluco
>90% of the animation staff is of working on Imaishi's new shit.
AS the fuck you doing?
OH SHIT IT IS POSSIBLE FOR PSG SEASON 2
Man imagine if they can't even get The Pillows.
>>14037261
Huh. I was wondering how Gainax got to the point they are at after Trigger was formed. Thanks for summing that up in one post.
It really does look like the only hope for Gainax at this point is to create another phenomenal original show. But is there anyone left there that has the talent to do it?
>>14036663
Speaking of Netflix, they put up story details for the new Voltron reboot: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-03-24/story-details-revealed-for-netflix-dreamworks-voltron-reimagining/.100215
>>14036665
Pretty much. I mean, Mattel killed off what little remaining goodwill there was left for straightforward US action cartoons, so doing something safe like this couldn't hurt much.
>>14037261
They are still animating shows, they just mainly do stuff for big companies rather than their own work.
>>14036614
I love how they commissioned not just a new season, but TWO FUCKING SEASONS! I might have given them the benefit of a doubt but going for two seasons of this shit right off the bat makes it very clear that they aren't out to do anything but milk our nostalgia for some easy cash.
>>14037261
After watching Blue Blazes that sounds incredibly depressing.
>>14037409
The dream is dead.
>>14036698
Difference there is that Big O ended on a cliffhanger and it's sequel came pretty shortly after the initial run.
this is 15 years later, with as near as we can tell none of the original staff returning to do a sequel to a story that concluded and really had nowhere else to go.
>funding anything but more Super Milk Chan
Come on Adult Swim give the two of us out there what we want.
>>14037478
Tsurumaki and Sadamoto are confirmed to return.
https://www.turner.com/pressroom/turner%E2%80%99s-adult-swim-announces-new-seasons-anime-hit-series-flcl
Are The Pillows even still together?
>>14037347
There is. C3-bu had the potential to be the stuff of legends but they chickened out.
>>14036929
>Diebuster was from the same staff as the original
It was not from the same staff as what it was based on, much like this.
>and actually fun and well animated
Maybe if your definition of "fun" is an lolsorandumbXD protagonist, and even then, that disappears about halfway through. Apart from that, it was dull as shit and I somehow still found it less visually striking than its predecessor. Probably something about having higher standards for more modern animation, I don't know
>>14037553
How so?
>>14036614
Would I need to be high to watch this?
>>14036929
The original was co-produced by Prod IG. It wasn't 100% Gainax.
>>14037722
Produced is the keyword.
Not written or animated by IG.
>>14037547
They put something out every two years.
>>14037545
>serving as supervisor
So doin nothing if you know how that role pans out wen it comes to anime.
>Sadamoto
No Imashi = it'll just look like regular Sadamoto and not FLCL.
>>14036906
This is, I think, the only thing I would be satisfied with.
>>14036699
>FLCL
>Toonami
Found the retard.
>>14036963
>Japan was mostly free of the "hurr remake" obsession.
It's not a remake it's a sequel.
And, like with The Big O, it's only being done because of Americans. Americans want more and more needless sequels until they're just beating a dead horse.
If "Japan" wanted to do this they would have ages ago. Fuck Toonami.
>>14036614
it will probably be terrible but i hope at thhe very least this gets a re release
>>14036614
Where the fuck can FLCL go with a sequel? I mean, I'll give it a try, but I always enjoyed the fact that FLCL was short as it was. Not because I wanted it to end fast but because it was the right length to tell the story they were telling.
It almost feels like more episodes is just going to shit on the original theme and atmosphere of the show.
>>14036614
>yfw it's full cgi at 8 fps.
why did you think they hired ig?
>>14038443
>Americans want more and more needless sequels until they're just beating a dead horse.
Which generally doesn't happen if a show/movie bombs pretty hard, of course. It's either all or nothing with the US.
>>14036614
FLCL isn't entertaining unless you're coked up or under the age of 18.
Everyone else won't give a shit.
And the people who do care about FLCL are in their late twenties early thirties and have kids.
>>14037779
A good amount actually was animated by IG.
>>14036614
>toonami fags
On the slightest chance that this is good, what will it mean for the us and anime
>>14038520
toonami milks it to death
>>14038520
>FLCL sequel is popular
"Well time to cash in, we're building a franchise here!"
>FLCL sequel is unpopular
"Trying to bring more anime to the west was a mistake"
There's no winning this.
>>14036614
How the fuck do you make 24 episodes about something that's literally
>BENIS :D :D :D
The only thing it had going for it was the animation, and that sure as hell won't be getting high quality treatment for a TV series. More crucially, anyone who remembers the original series (and for whatever insane reason, liked it) must have grown up by now.
>>14038541
>"Trying to bring more anime to the west was a mistake"
At this point, I honestly hope the Japanese continue to think foreign ventures in anime are bad and pull out like they did years ago. Western involvement past just licensing is bad for the industry in my opinion. The financial interests of the west corrupt everything they touch if they get too close at the creative level.
>>14038613
This. Anime should never be corrupted by the west on a creative level, lest it become like western video games or comics.
I remember reading the manga of this, thinking it was pretty mediocre and wondering why it was so popular.
I'm guessing the anime is better?
>>14038613
>>14038619
Oh yeah, I too remember when Japan tried to connect with the west with Big O S2 and put a whole bunch of SJW stuff into it.
Oh wait.
>>14038649
That was before the west became full retard.
>>14037489
>not throwing money at Funimation to continue the Shin-chan dub
Dammit [as]
>>14038619
I agree with the other anon about our need for sequels to everything being crappy, but creatively there's never been a problem with western involvement in anime. IGPX and Afro Samurai were fine if a tad lackluster and the Animatrix contains some of the best sci-fi storytelling in anime this side of Ghost in the Shell.
Also stop reading Big 2 comics faggot, they do that kind of shit specifically to rustle jimmies because bad publicity is still publicity.
>>14038619
>[UNSOLICITED OPINIONS ON ISRAEL???]
That would have actually been funny if the previous bubbles weren't just stuffed with buzzwords.
>>14036614
it will be full of normie and sjw shit.
calling it.
>>14038649
see
>>14038651
I wasn't exactly talking about anything SJW related even though that does happen sometimes nowadays. I'm just talking about what has gone on for decades in America. When something gets big you drag it on forever without relation to quality. I'm not going to pretend Japan doesn't have monetary interests at mind when they make anime, but the proportion between creativity and profit is a lot better favored towards creativity than it is with the west.
You also have to take into account that when Big O season 2 was produced by CN, their CEO was actually decent and liked anime for what it was. Even though that enormous faggot that came after him, Snyder is gone, I don't think you'll get someone like the guy who was in charge before.
>In the new season of FLCL, many years have passed since Naota and Haruhara Haruko shared their adventure together. Meanwhile, the war between the two entities known as Medical Mechanica and Fraternity rages across the galaxy. Enter Hidomi, a young teenaged girl who believes there is nothing amazing to expect from her average life, until one day when a new teacher named Haruko arrives at her school. Soon enough, Medical Mechanica is attacking her town and Hidomi discovers a secret within her that could save everyone, a secret that only Haruko can unlock.
No
>>14036614
Nobody asked for this
>>14038602
>anyone who remembers the original series (and for whatever insane reason, liked it)
>>14038664
Fortunately that comic got canned after nobody bought into clickbait nature of it.
>>14038699
SJW comics don't tend to sell well. SJW's love creators and love to cosplay as characters, but they don't actually buy comics.
http://www.avclub.com/article/marvel-learned-wrong-lessons-carol-corps-218003It's av club so it's not redpilled stupidity.
>Psycho Pass director is the new director.
Don't know how to feel about this.
The Diebuster of our generation.
Only way I could see this being okay is if it's about a new kid, if it's about Naota again it's gonna suck.
>>14038823
The new main character is a teenage girl. You can read about it here: >>14036713
But who knows, maybe Naota will be a new Amarao.
>>14036614
fuck this shit. Big O S3 when?
>>14038906
Sort of want
>>14038819
I hope it will be the Diebuster of FLCL because Diebuster was good.
>>14038919
Not him but I didn't like Diebuster.
>>14038919
>because Diebuster was good.
>>14038930
>>14038931
>>14038906
fuck i meant s2 or something
>>14038819
What fucking generation are you that Diebuster wasn't the Diebuster for you?
>>14038674
>but the proportion between creativity and profit is a lot better favored towards creativity than it is with the west.
>Every season, there's inevitably around 4 slice of life/moeshit series and at least one harem
>>14039910
The majority of those are just advertising for some VN/LN/Manga, it doesn't matter if the anime is good as long as it boosts the sales of the source material.
>>14037261
>He should have let his animators work on the projects they actually want to work on.
I'm really glad he didn't.
>>14039929
Almost all anime is advertising for a VN/LN/manga.
That's why it's preposterous to claim anime is "creative," it has about the same bankruptcy of ideas as Hollywood nowadays, although I'll grant that it seems more about studios wanting to make money than them being afraid of taking risks. There's far more adaptations than sequels and remakes in the industry.
>>14038674
>When something gets big you drag it on forever without relation to quality. I'm not going to pretend Japan doesn't have monetary interests at mind when they make anime, but the proportion between creativity and profit is a lot better favored towards creativity than it is with the west.
The entire reason mangaka for action manga in shonen magazines keep them going forever is because the magazine incenitivizes them to keep it going until it wanes in popularity.
>>14039949
That's exactly what it is. Anime isn't terribly profitable right now so they have to do adaptations in order to balance the budget. I think it was Trigger that came out and said they need to do three or four adaptations between each original to stay safely profitable and alive.
>>14039969
Bones will probably have to do that even more often, since Enokido's pet projects/attempts to vaguely emulate Utena just drain their funds.
>>14039910
>Every season, there's inevitably around 4 slice of life/moeshit series and at least one harem
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean there's no creativity.
>>14039962
>The entire reason mangaka for action manga in shonen magazines keep them going forever is because the magazine incenitivizes them to keep it going until it wanes in popularity.
Which is ultimately a small portion of manga when you look at the grand scheme of things. Jump is not every manga publication, there are many more.
>>14038819
>le diebuster is bad meme
>>14039040
No, you mean s3
>>14040616
>le meme meme
I don't care what topic you're on, this is annoying.
>>14039984
Not so much when they get the profitable IPs they like.
>>14036614
pls help me understand.
what do you guys see on this thing?
is not that i didnt liked it, is just so... empty.
is like they werent even trying, they just assumed people would losed their mind at the "randomness" / "simbolism" and call it a day.
i honestly had more fun watching fucking evangelion.
>>14044354
IIRC, this was at least partially done to help Anno recover from depression (he played the role of a cat).
>>14036933
Even season 2 wasn't planned.
>>14044354
It was just a fun cartoon. Felt like something Gainax always wanted to do without burdain themselves with creating some plot.
>>14036614
>STILL no word on Scanty and Kneesocks
>FLCL gets 2 new runs
>>14047524
Luluco
>>14047524
PSG is complete.
>>14047617
No it's not. I want more!
>>14036664
Tsurumaki is going to be the supervisor, that is what concerns me.
>>14036713
Sounds like this new Star Wars movie.
Are they going to get The Pillows to record a whole new album for this shit?
>>14037568
>look at my refined taste
Mhmm.
