Toonami to Co-Produce FLCL Season 2

[professa X]

The official Facebook for Adult Swim's Toonami block announced on Thursday that it will co-produce 12 new episodes of FLCL with Production I.G. The 12 episodes will be a sequel to the 2000-2001 original video anime, and will be split into two cours. The show is slated for late 2017 to early 2018.

Adult Swim describes the new seasons' story:

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.

 

But why did Haruko return to Earth? What happened to her Rickenbacker 4001 she left with Naota? And where did the human-type robot ‘Canti’ go?

Production I.G announced in August that it had acquired the rights to the FLCL anime, and mentioned it would use the rights for a "new anime remake" and other ventures.

[Moodkiller]

Oh goodness... I just watched season 1 actually... weird.

 

Interesting that they are releasing 12 episodes as 2 separate seasons, so essentially this is an announcement for season 2 and 3 of FLCL 

 

Side note, I saw a yellow Vespa the other day on the way to work, in good condition aswell!

[Pollux]

FLCL Season 2. WooHoo! 

[Koby]

4 hours ago, Moodkiller said:

Oh goodness... I just watched season 1 actually... weird.

 

Interesting that they are releasing 12 episodes as 2 separate seasons, so essentially this is an announcement for season 2 and 3 of FLCL 

 

Side note, I saw a yellow Vespa the other day on the way to work, in good condition aswell!

It's actually just 1 season. They're just airing it split-cour like what has become the popular trend with anime in Japan. So we'll get 6 episodes, a break, and then the other 6 episodes. AnimeNewsNetwork just as usual reported it incorrectly.

[Moodkiller]

16 hours ago, Koby said:

It's actually just 1 season. They're just airing it split-cour like what has become the popular trend with anime in Japan. So we'll get 6 episodes, a break, and then the other 6 episodes. AnimeNewsNetwork just as usual reported it incorrectly.

Haha, oh!

I wonder if there will be as many cutscenes in this one as there was in the original. It's like someone in production said, "hang on guys, just fade to black here, add this scene, then repeat for all others"

[Kezzo84]

I didn't really understand the series but I hope 12 episodes would be enough