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Inside Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Netflix’s ‘wild card’ anime show that’s a surprise brain-teasing mystery

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Ramona Flowers and Scott Pilgrim charge at someone off-camera to fight them in Netflix's Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.

How do you go about adapting a beloved comic book series for a third time? It's an anxiety-inducing conundrum Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley mulled over when Netflix floated the idea of turning his cult comics into an animated TV show.

For O'Malley, the initial answer was simple: let's not. After all, his video game and anime-inspired graphic novels were already given new leases of life on the big and small screens in 2010. Indeed, Edgar Wright's cult Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World movie adaptation, plus the Ubisoft-developed Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game, had extensively mined the source material. In short, there was little else O'Malley could creatively get out of his most popular works.

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