Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Netflix’s animated take on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s seminal graphic novel series, hit the streamer today, and it’s a must-watch for fans of either the comics themselves or Edgar Wright’s 2010 movie adaptation. It’s one of our favorite animated shows of the year, but to find out why… we really need to talk about it.
Seriously, if you’re even remotely curious about Takes Off—which runs for eight episodes, and melds the animated stylings of hit studio Science Saru (Masaaki Yuasa and Eunyoung Choi’s workhouse behind the likes of Japan Sinks, Inu-Oh, Star Wars: Visions, and more) with the cast of Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World live-action movie—turn around, go to Netflix, and watch at least a couple episodes. It’s well worth trying out to see if you’re on board with it, and if you are, you stand a good job of not being able to put it down after those couple of episodes.
But if, like us, you’ve already devoured your way through it… well, let’s talk about what makes it really hit, for the most part—and a couple of things that didn’t quite work. Seriously, you’ve been warned:
