The anime Scott Pilgrim Takes Off will sadly not get a second season at Netflix. Yesterday, creator Bryan Lee O’Malley shared on Twitter (via Gizmodo) that the series, which debuted on the streamer a year ago, was one and done.
“It’s been one year since Scott Pilgrim Takes Off came out. It was an honor to work with all of the cast & staff around the world. It was like conducting a symphony orchestra every day. From the moment [BenDavid Grabinski] sparked the idea, the project felt like a one-of-a-kind miracle,” he wrote.
He added, “Anyway, we were recently informed that the show will NOT return. As you know, we only intended one season, and called in a lot of favors to make it happen, so making more would have been nearly impossible. Still, I know some of you have been holding out hope.”
As Reactor’s Molly Templeton explains in her review of the series, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is more than an adaptation of the live-action movie or the comic books. The creators, Templeton writes, “have found a way to apply twenty years of growing up to this story, while still letting these characters be who they are. The result is a delightfully energetic, deeply felt new version—not a remix, not a cover, not a reboot. If anything, it feels like a different timeline, one that complements and reflects the story as we knew it.”
Without getting into spoilers, it’s not surprising that the anime is not getting a second season, though there’s always a hope. The good news, at least, is that the first season is still with us on Netflix, as are the comics and the live-action movie.
