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I'm glad this isn't actually happening.
First time was bad enough with its "what if I am the Main Character and if I play the bibeo bame well enough I will get the sex trophy" power fantasy bullshit.
Sure, at the eleventh hour the story supposedly subverts its own premise and suggests that Scott Pilgrim's main problem was himself, but most of the fandom ignored that the way a lot of chuds ignore Patrick Bateman actually being a deeply pathetic unhappy person with murder fantasies that were just that: impotent power fantasies.
That was one thing that about an otherwise fun movie (I know, I know, I'll see myself to the gulag) that didn't sit well with me. Scott acknowledges that he's been a self centered git but does nothing to make amends and everyone is just like "well guess that's the most maturity we're legally allowed to expect from a white dude in his 20's" and thus the main conflict is magically fixed.
As it is I couldn't make it through the completely charmless writing and delivery in the first episode of the anime so maybe the movie wouldn't hold up if I were to watch it again.
Kind of hard to have in a movie a 6 month sojourn to the Canadian wilderness for self reflection.