Toonami's 25th Anniversary Celebrated With New Anime Announcements
Adult Swim has decided to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the iconic Toonami block by ordering two new seasons of a beloved anime and announcing a brand-new project.
Variety reported that two new seasons of FLCL — Fooly Cooly — will be produced titled FLCL: Grunge and FLCL: Shoegaze. Creative director of Toonami and senior vice president of action and anime for WarnerMedia Jason DeMarco also announced that a new anime series titled Housing Complex C would also be coming soon.
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“What better time to announce two new seasons of FLCL and Housing Complex C than on our 25th anniversary,” DeMarco told Variety. "Adult Swim’s ongoing commitment to support Toonami with new original series is something anime fans can celebrate every day.”
Housing Complex C will be directed by Yuji Nara and is being animated by Akatsuki. The story will center around a girl named Kimi who lives in the seaside town of Kurosaki in a low-cost housing complex. Horrific events seem to follow everywhere Kimi goes, and it looks like an ancient evil may be haunting the residents of her little housing complex.
FLCL: Grunge is being directed by Hitoshi Takekiyo and animated by MontBlanc Pictures while FLCL: Shoegaze is being directed by Yutaka Uemura and animated by Production I.G x NUT. Both seasons are currently in production.
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The main characters of Toonami will also be featured as part of the 25th-anniversary celebrations. T.O.M. aka the Toonami Operations Module and his AI matrix companion S.A.R.A will also be featured in their own animated specials. They will be shown in the 4-part anime short Cosmo Samurai Part 2 alongside a brand new
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