Exactly one year after Scott Pilgrim Takes Off debuted on Netflix, co-developer/executive producer Bryan Lee O’Malley, on whose graphic novels the show was based, revealed to fans that the anime adventure series is done and there will be no second season.
“We were recently informed that the show will NOT return,” he wrote on X. “As you know, we only intended one season, and called in a lot of favors to make it happen, so making more would have been nearly impossible. Still, I know some of you have been holding out hope.”
O’Malley and fellow series co-developer/executive producer BenDavid Grabinski have been preparing fans for the outcome since the eight-episode first season of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off was released last November.
“It’s self-contained for now. We loved what we did. We put it all in there. We don’t have any ideas lying on the floor. We pretty much put them all in,” O’Malley said about Season 1 in a Rolling Stone interview last November. “I never say never, but right now, it seems like it would take about 50 different miracles simultaneously for another season to happen.”
Added O’Malley at the time, “People are always complaining about how shows get canceled after one season. So we hedged our bets immediately, and tried to make a self-contained one season.”
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off‘s voice cast featured the actors from the live-action film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World reprising their roles, including Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Alison Pill, Brandon Routh, Anna Kendrick and Jason Schwartzman.
