FLCL: GRUNGE to be released September 9th with new trailer dropped.
FLCL is coming back with a new anime very soon, and FLCL: Grunge has set a release date for its big premiere with its very first trailer! Following the success of FLCL follow up series FLCL Progressive and FLCL Alternative, it was announced by Adult Swim and Toonami that two more sequels for the franchise are now in the works. These projects are being tackled by two different teams and take on the Fooly Cooly franchise in a whole new kind of way, and the first of these big sequels is coming our way this Fall with a CGI take on it all.
Hitoshi Takekiyo is directing FLCL: Grunge at MontBlanc Pictures. The CGI anime will center on three teenagers who graduated and have started working. The anime will have a theme of the feeling of being an adult.
Yutaka Uemura (FLCL Alternative) is directing FLCL: Shoegaze at Production I.G and NUT. The anime will take place 10 years after FLCL Alternative and will center on a high school boy and girl.
The Pillows will be providing music for both anime.
Jason DeMarco, creative director of Toonami and senior vice president of action and anime for WarnerMedia, is the executive producer and Production I.G. USA’s Maki Terashima-Furuta (FLCL Alternative, Fena: Pirate Princess) is the producer for both seasons.
FLCL: Grunge will be directed by Hitoshi Takekiyo for MontBlanc Pictures and Production I.G., and feature new music from The Pillows. It will be a CGI animated production where three teenagers are just starting to emerge into adulthood. As part of the slate of announcements during Adult Swim Festival On the Green over the course of the San Diego Comic-Con 2023 weekend, Adult Swim and Toonami announced that FLCL: Grunge will be kicking off its run with the Toonami programming block on September 9th.
The four-episode Uzumaki mini-series will premiere on Toonami.
Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushi-Shi) is directing the mini-series at Studio Drive and Studio Akatsuki. Production I.G. USA and Adult Swim are co-producing the anime. Colin Stetson (Hereditary) is composing the music.
The 1998-1999 manga follows the inhabitants of a town where strange occurrences related to a spiral shape began occurring one after another. Viz Media originally released the manga in three collected volumes from 2007-2008, and later released an omnibus edition.
The manga inspired a live-action horror film starring Eriko Hatsune and Fan Fhi in 2000.
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