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Adult Swim Orders 2 New FLCL Series for Toonami’s Birthday

March 17, 2022 by gizmodo.com Leave a Comment

What do you get a 25-year-old who isn’t a person but a specific programming block of content that’s mostly anime series? Why, more anime, of course. This is why Adult Swim has gifted Toonami two new sequels to FLCL , one of its most popular TV series since it debuted way back in 2003, in celebration of the brand’s 25th anniversary.

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FLCL has been airing sporadically on Toonami/Adult Swim for the last 20 years, presumably because it’s the coolest anime ever made. It’s tough to describe—the title itself, pronounced “Fooly Cooly,” is wholly inexplicable—but it’s basically a coming-of-age story for 12-year-old Naota, who starts having giant mecha burst from his head after he’s hit by Rickenbacker bass guitar by a pink-haired alien named Haruko while she’s riding a yellow Vespa scooter. And yet that barely scratches the surface, because it doesn’t mention the space pirate, the giant iron sitting in the middle of town, the guy with seaweed for eyebrows, or the six-episode series soundtrack, performed by the outstanding J-rock band the pillows. Here’s a taste:

The two new FLCL series—technically, they’re called seasons, but “seasons” two and three had nothing to do with season one, or each other—will be titled FLCL: Grunge and FLCL: Shoelace , and animated by CG studio MontBlanc Pictures and the original animator of the series, Production I.G, respectively. Adult Swim offered the tiniest glimpse of Grunge via this clip of Haruko wielding her bass:

The other gift Toonami is receiving is a new, original series titled Housing Complex C , which will be animated by Studio Akatsuki and is described thusly: “ Housing Complex C centers around Kimi who lives in a small, low-cost housing complex located in the seaside town of Kurosaki where trouble seems to follow her wherever she goes, and horrific incidents begin to occur…is an ancient evil stalking the residents of Housing Complex C?”

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As a major, major fan of the beautiful, bananas, poignant, and often incomprehensible original FLCL , I am less than thrilled at the idea of more of the show, since season two, Progressive , was a watered-down sequel/remake of the first, and season three, Alternative , was another coming-of-age story that had almost nothing to do with FLCL except a few themes and flirting references. I think the original FLCL was so of its moment, and such a personal work by creator/director Kazuya Tsurmaki, that it can’t really be captured again. But then again, my love for it could also be because I saw it at exactly the perfect moment in my life, too, so maybe these new series will be the same for others. Who knows? (But boy howdy am I wary of that CG animation.)

FLCL: Grunge and FLCL: Shoelace are currently in production, while Housing Complex C is due out sometime later this year. Happy birthday, Toonami!

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Uzumaki Anime Shares 35 Haunting Seconds to Distract You From Delay

June 15, 2021 by gizmodo.com Leave a Comment

Good news! There’s new footage from Toonami’s adaptation of one of Junji Ito’s most beloved horror tales, Uzumaki . Bad news! You’re getting the footage

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After previously teasing more news to come from the series—adapting Ito’s classic tale about a young girl named Kirie Goshima, who lives in the mysterious town of Kurouzu-cho, afflicted by a horrifying spirali Uzumaki ’s production, leading to a projected release date of

The adaptation was first announced in 2019 , with an expected 2020 broadcast, but has since been postponed

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“I think Uzumaki is the most complete demonstration of my artistic ability and imagination,” Ito himself told io9 in an interview about the adaptation last year. “The contrast of the black and white art really leaves a vivid impression, and I wonder if that’s what makes other creators curious about trying to adapt it.”

At least, it seems, the wait will be worth it.

Uzumaki is currently set to hit Toonami in October 2022.


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New Gundam Game Is Basically Just Overwatch With Giant Mechs

September 27, 2022 by kotaku.com Leave a Comment

I don’t know much about the Gundam franchise beyond a few memories of the older shows when they aired on Toonami back in the day. Young Zack liked the big mech battles. And in 2022, I still like big mechs. I also like team-based shooters. So lucky me, Gundam Evolution mashes together the famous mechs from the Gundam franchise with gameplay very similar to Blizzard’s popular hero shooter, Overwatch . The end result is a lot of fun, but also a bit unbalanced.

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Released last week on Steam, Gundam Evolution is a new free-to-play first-person shooter set in the popular anime universe featuring a large selection of iconic mechs from the shows. Each of these mechs has its own weapons, abilities, and supers. These powerful super attacks are unlocked during the match as you kill enemies and complete objectives. If this sounds a lot like Overwatch , wait until you see the in-game HUD and visuals. But hey, if you’re gonna copy another game, Overwatch ain’t a bad choice. And Gundam Evolution is more than just an anime reskin of Blizzard’s team shooter.

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One of the biggest differences is that Gundam Evolution features a “Down But Not Out” system ala Gears of War or Battlefield . So when you go down, you can request for someone to revive you, and anybody on your team can bring you back to life. However, anyone on the other team can (and likely will) blast you open with a laser rifle and force you to respawn. This wrinkle makes large team fights feel different than in Overwatch , as a single player running away and looping back around to revive a few people real fast can turn a successful rush into a horrible failure.

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While the revival system does change things up a bit, anyone who has played a lot of Overwatch will likely feel comfortable hopping into this Evolution. Many of the controls and even the in-game UI feel directly ripped out of Overwatch . What is missing, though, is Overwatch’s balance and polish.

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Gundam Evolution isn’t broken or anything. In my few hours with the game, it ran fine and I was able to find matches quickly with little to no lag. But matchmaking isn’t very balanced. Nearly every match I played was a complete blowout. Either our team would stomp the other team in minutes, or the opposite would happen. And this would lead to players getting frustrated and leaving, making things worse. It’s a shame because the few matches I played with balanced teams were really fun. There’s a snappiness to the combat in Evolution that I enjoy a lot. You both feel like a big, powerful mech but also feel fast and precise. It’s nice. But it’s hard to enjoy that when the game keeps tossing me and others into one-sided slaughter-fests.

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If some of the matchmaking issues can be solved and some of the more powerful mechs nerfed a tad to stop them from controlling matches as much, Gundam Evolution could end up being something special. As someone with basically zero interest in or knowledge of the franchise, I still had a blast playing Evolution . And I imagine megafans of the series will enjoy this new shooter just as much as I did if not more, thanks to their history with Gundam . But until things are a bit more balanced and consistently fun, it’s tough to recommend folks check out this Evolution unless they don’t mind some mild frustration and awful matches.

Gundam Evolution is out now on Steam . It’s planned to release later this year on consoles.

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Lazarus and Uzumaki Look Like Adult Swim’s Next Anime Hits

July 23, 2023 by gizmodo.com Leave a Comment

For decades, Toonami and Adult Swim have helped boost anime’s profile here in the west through popular shonen like Dragon Ball Z and My Hero Academia . 2021’s Blade Runner: Black Lotus was a joint collaboration between it and Crunchyroll, and now two of the late night block’s upcoming programs see it further team up with a pair of big name Japanese creatives.

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Lazarus from Shinichiro Watanabe (famously the director of Cowboy Bebop ) was announced earlier in the week, but received its first look at San Diego Comic-Con. The series, being worked on by Vinland Saga’s Studio MAPPA (and fight scenes designed by John Wick director Chad Stahelski), is set in the year 2052 as a miracle drug called Hapuna has wiped out all diseases and sickness in the world. Shortly after the drug’s reveal, its creator Dr. Skinner up and vanished, and the show picks up year’s later following his sudden return.

Lazarus Trailer | Toonami | adult swim

Turns out, Hapuna’s got a short life period, and anyone’s who taken it will die three years later. In response to Skinner’s declaration, the titular Lazarus task force—made up of five elite agents from around the world—has been formed to bring Skinner in and find a way to develop a vaccine. A cool premise with an even cooler trailer, as seen above. Expect Lazarus to premiere on Adult Swim sometime in the near future.

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Uzumaki , meanwhile, is an adaptation of Junji Ito’s 1998 horror manga. This show was announced back in 2019, and word on it has been pretty quiet since its delay in 2021. Adult Swim released a new look at the upcoming series, which is being developed by Production I.G. ( Kaiju No. 8, FLCL Shoegaze ). While a release date for Uzumaki still hasn’t been set, the trailer here should tide Ito fans over until its arrival.

Uzumaki | Toonami | adult swim

Like the manga, the show focuses on the fictional town of Kurouzu-cho, which has been plagued for years by a spiral-themed supernatural curse. High schooler Kirie Goshima and her boyfriend Shuichi Saito become more and more aware of the curse and how it affects the rest of the town, leading them both to try and find a way to either escape or break the curse. The manga received strong praise upon release, with some critics at the time calling it one of the scariest manga around, and it could be considered one of Ito’s definitive works.

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Just Watch Out for the Fox Demon in the Ninja’s Body

January 15, 2006 by www.nytimes.com Leave a Comment

JAPANESE animation has nothing left to prove in the American movie theater. Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar for “Spirited Away” was the tipping point; now he and other anime directors like Isao Takahata and Satoshi Kon receive unreserved critical respect (and in the cases of Mr. Miyazaki and Mr. Kon, who are still active, regular American distribution for their features).

Japanese television animation, on the other hand, still has an image problem here. The shows that have become most popular — like “Dragonball,” “Yu-Gi-Oh!” and the dreaded “Pokémon” — encourage the view that Japanese cartoons are intended solely to sell toys, games and trading cards to young children. Then there are the more adult shows that most Americans encounter only as occasional images flashing by on the news or in a magazine spread; these are, in the collective subconsciousness, even worse: creepily childlike, creepily sexual, creepily violent.

But it stands to reason that there are anime series worth seeking out, even if you’re not a teenage cultist or an adult given to scouring the bins at the Virgin Megastore for a copy of “Sex Warrior Pudding.” For one thing, there’s the sheer volume: the Web site Anime News Network lists nearly 30 projects scheduled to start on Japanese television in the first four months of this year. There is also the fluid movement of artists and writers between manga (comic books), television series and feature films: even the sainted Mr. Miyazaki worked extensively in television before deciding to concentrate on films about 20 years ago. Finally, the boundary between cartoons for children and cartoons for adults isn’t nearly as well defined in Japan as it is here, resulting in higher quality across the board.

Add it up and there must be Japanese television cartoons that share at least some of the narrative and visual splendor of the best anime films. In fact, more than a few of them are already on American television, hiding in plain sight on Cartoon Network’s crazy-quilt schedule. Shows like “Naruto,” “Fullmetal Alchemist” or “Samurai Champloo” put the vast majority of American-made cartoons to shame and can hold their own with most live-action prime-time TV; and by the standards of their network and their time slots, they’re hits, with audiences in the high six figures. But for most employed adults, watching them will require the help of a digital video recorder — or, if you don’t have one, a 24-hour television guide and a case of Red Bull.

Cartoon Network mixes dubbed Japanese anime with American cartoons (some of which are imitation anime themselves) in all of its programming blocks except one: weekday prime time, which it reserves for its own productions. These are mostly joky, exaggeratedly cartoonish shows like “Ed, Edd n Eddy,” “Camp Lazlo” and “The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy,” heavy on forced laughs and light on story or character. The Japanese shows make it into prime time only in the Saturday night Toonami block, which currently includes “Naruto,” about a young ninja in training, the pirate adventure “One Piece” and the wacky “BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo,” about a 31st-century warrior whose nose hair is a lethal weapon. Otherwise, they lurk in the early morning hours or pop up in the afternoon, and they come and go on the schedule without warning.

Tracking them down is worth the trouble. The typical American cartoon these days — including the good-to-great ones, from “SpongeBob SquarePants” to “The Simpsons” to “South Park” — is about arrested adolescence (with preternaturally wise children sometimes on hand to provide a point of view). The best Japanese cartoons, on the other hand, are about coming of age, with all the traditional narrative arc and character development that implies. In fact, what’s most satisfying about them is just how traditional they are, at a time when American children’s cartoons seem trapped in some sort of post-Hanna Barbera hipster echo chamber. (Cartoon Network may be thinking along the same lines: one of its newest series, “IGPX,” is an anime, a straight-ahead auto-racing tale produced in collaboration with several Japanese animation studios.)

This emphasis on storytelling and emotion shows through regardless of the underlying category — ninja, samurai, heavy-metal science fiction. The most impressive may be “Naruto,” which has the requisite fantastical premise. A fox demon that threatens a village is trapped in a human baby, who grows up an outcast; now a 12-year-old troublemaker, he determines to redeem himself by becoming the village’s top ninja. The show also deploys the sort of visual touches that have migrated from anime into American cartoons: moments of stress or high emotion trigger wild distortions of faces and figures, or throw the whole cartoon out of its semirealistic mode into black and white squiggles.

But in American cartoons, such effects are often used strictly for their own sake — in fact, a lot of shows seem to exist as a frame on which to string together a succession of oscillating limbs and telescoping eyeballs. In “Naruto,” the effects always serve the story, which — at least on the evidence of the 18 episodes Cartoon Network has shown (the show is well past 150 episodes in Japan) — captures childhood loneliness, longing and exuberance as well as anything on American television at the moment. Its humor may be broad and its story lines simple — it’s a cartoon for tweenagers, after all — but it also has moments of doubt and reflection, such as Naruto’s late-night visit to a noodle shop before his first ninja exam, that would never play in a pumped-up American cartoon. The comparison is unfair, but “Naruto,” as inconsequential as it is, has less in common with Cartoon Network’s domestic lineup than it does with another portrayal of a rebellious, talented outsider: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

Other cartoon lovers can find their own early-morning favorites. “Fullmetal Alchemist,” about two brothers disfigured in an alchemical accident (one has several metal limbs; the other is an empty suit of armor), is touching and beautifully drawn and colored, in a flat, comic-book style somewhere between “Tintin” and “Prince Valiant”; in a recent viewer poll conducted by the Japanese network TV Asahi, it was voted the best anime of all time. “Samurai Champloo” throws together three misfits straight out of a high-class teen movie — “Crazy/Beautiful,” say — and sends them on a quest in a semirealistic 19th-century Japan that looks like ukiyo-e as rendered by a graffiti artist.

And keep an eye out for two mini-series: the noirish urban thriller “Paranoia Agent” (whose opening-credit sequence, a grinning, propulsive response to the anime cliché of opening with hideous Japanese pop songs, is mesmerizing) and the brilliantly eclectic “Fooly Cooly,” a six-episode surrealist tale of small-town adolescence, robots and guitar-wielding alien girls. “Paranoia Agent,” whose 13 episodes were shown through the fall and winter, is now off the network’s schedule, while “Fooly Cooly” will end its current run on Feb. 6. A Cartoon Network spokeswoman couldn’t say that they would return, but she couldn’t say that they wouldn’t, either — showing that there’s one advantage, at least, to inhabiting the wee small hours of cable.

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