I'm a little confused as to why this is just now happening, which makes me wonder if there's something else going on between him and TPTB. But he'll be fine. He's about to announce another film this weekend.
It really does. It clips along at a very nice pace. The arcs seem short by your typical shounen standard, but yet still manage to pack a lot of plot development without skimping on character development (which would be pretty easy to do with such a large cast.)
I'll watch it, but man I kind of wish they had just done their own thing instead of trying to tie all of this into FLCL because I feel like on it's own it would be great, but in trying to compare it to the original that it starts lacking.
"How can we show this is a DARK AND GRITTY show?"
"Let's have Robin say "FUCK BATMAN" IMMEDIATELY"
"YEAH!"
I'm pretty sure All Star Batman and Robin was more subtle.
I think had it launched properly that the art style wouldn't have been that much of a sticking point. I mean look at the wide vareity of animation/character design that is on Cartoon Network. It would have been an odd ball among anime, but would have meshed well with Western animation.
There's always that split second moment where I think "what if I fail this drug test???" even though I know I'm not. It's the same way I think "well I could be" when the doctor asks if there's any possibility I'm pregnant.