Adult Swim Announces New 'FLCL' Seasons

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