An anime about past mistakes correcting the past mistakes of its movie… kind of.

Scott Pilgrim vs the World took the younger generation, one much more intertwined with and open about “nerd” culture, by storm, becoming the poster you saw in plenty of video’s backgrounds. Following the relationship of one titular Scott Pilgrim and his crush turned more Ramona Flowers, it takes an interesting route to analyze how we deal with past mistakes, namely by punching them in the face. Scott has to fight Ramona’s seven evil exes, a league gathered by the most evil of them all, Gideon Graves. In this journey their flaws are explained, from Scott’s messy breakups to Ramona’s flighty turns in relationships. As these flaws become discussed and apparent they almost split, however the pair comes together at the end having learned a lesson that past mistakes don’t define their future… kind of

Because while they learned that the past didn’t predict the future, they never found a healthy way to actually lessen the impact it would have. By literally fighting the past, they never learned what they needed to from it. And so, I never saw them having a happy ending… and apparently some people agreed with me, as seen in the new Netflix anime adaptation, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. It forms an alternative timeline parallel to the movie (vs the World), which explains and analyzes Ramona’s character in more detail, and shows the end result of what Scott learned from the original, while playing with the idea of “fighting” a league of seven evil exes. While not perfect, this new anime (Takes Off) does add depth to the original story, in a meta way learning from the franchise’s past mistakes

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