The Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off animated series had premiered on Netflix on November 17th and its basically a retelling of the story regarding the movie Scott Pilgrim vs The World from 2010. Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off has a few episodes which are close to half an hour each and just about all of them are entertaining. The visual presentation and jokes in the Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off pays homage to the video game culture with numerous references to famous video games while telling more serious yet somewhat darker story than the 2010 movie. In Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off the main villain is not necessarily any of Ramona Flowers evil ex-boyfriends but rather its a future incarnation of himself who regretted hooking up with her. Scott Pilgrim future counterpart was so desperate in redoing history that he along with Katayanagi Twins hatched a scheme to kidnap his younger self through time travel to convince him not to date or marry Ramona Flowers. Scott Pilgrim from the future made reference to the 2010 movie stating that defeating Ramona’s evil ex-boyfriends was the worst thing that has ever happened to him because in his timeline he seemingly lost everything following his split from Flowers.

Adulthood for Scott Pilgrim was a living hell and become a vindictive person and a sellout by aligning himself with two of Ramona’s evil ex-boyfriends in the Katayanagi twins. Towards the end of the first season of the Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off animated series the future incarnation of Scott Pilgrim ends up fighting his past self along with Ramona and the rest of her evil ex-boyfriends thinking that he was the hero who was wronged while having his life destroyed following his divorce from Flowers. Despite, how dark the story gets in Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off the writers found a way to add elements of comedy to prevent the audience from focusing on that particular aspect of the show. While some would argue that having Scott Pilgrim absent for most of the anime was a negative it did allow the writers to focus on character development for Ramona and her evil exes. However, more time should have been dedicated to explaining in detail on what went wrong between Scott Pilgrim and Ramona Flowers future counterparts where they ultimately divorced and spent over a decade separated from each other. Unlike, the Scott Pilgrim vs The World movie from 2010 which was PG-13 Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off was rated TV-MA and it painted the main character in a bad light. Despite, Future Scott Pilgrim being the main antagonist of this anime Ramona Flowers was not innocent either since almost everyone of her ex partners was angry at her at one point. Its hard to believe that Future Scott & Ramona’s fallout was due to a simple misunderstanding and the writers could off added more depth to that particular part of the story. Even though, Scott Pilgrim vs The World from 2010 was a box office bomb it still managed to gain a cult following over the years leading to people wanting to see a sequel to that film. Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off seems like the closest thing to a sequel that we got for Scott Pilgrim vs The World and from the looks of things it night not be getting a second season on Netflix.