Scott Pil­grim is back in action, now in ani­mé form

It’s been near­ly a decade and a half since Edgar Wright​‘s adap­ta­tion of the Scott Pil­grim graph­ic nov­el series first came to the­aters, but the fan­dom has only grown larg­er and more pas­sion­ate in the inter­ven­ing years. Today, the faith­ful devo­tees of the mild-man­nered, ex-lover-duel­ing Toron­ton­ian bassist can claim a big win, as the cult favorite will soon return for anoth­er adven­ture in awkwardness.

This morn­ing, Net­flix pulled back the cur­tain on an upcom­ing ani­mé minis­eries take on the Scott Pil­grim books, exec­u­tive-pro­duced by Wright along with orig­i­nal cre­ator Bryan Lee O’Malley and writer Ben-David Gra­bin­s­ki (cre­ator of the recent Are You Afraid of the Dark? series). Wright’s film con­densed the six vol­umes of the series’ orig­i­nal run to fea­ture length, and so this new project will blaze a trail into orig­i­nal nar­ra­tive, join­ing Scott and his many pals as he search­es for a girl­friend — and, along the way, maybe a lit­tle self-respect.

Wright’s film has gained in stature par­tial­ly for its absurd­ly stacked cast, many of them tapped just as they reached the precipice of a huge jump in fame. Nev­er­the­less, they’re all back to con­tribute their vocal stylings to the ani­mé, an ensem­ble that includes Michael Cera, Kier­an Culkin, Aubrey Plaza, Brie Lar­son, Anna Kendrick, Mary Eliz­a­beth Win­stead, Chris Evans, Jason Schwartz­man, Ali­son Pill, Mae Whit­man, Bran­don Routh, the whole gang.

With Scott Pil­grim Vs. the World, Wright con­trived a hyper­ki­net­ic pop-art style informed by com­ic books, video games, ani­mé, and mar­tial arts films; it stands to rea­son that going ful­ly-ani­mat­ed will fur­ther free the text from real­ism. To the great excite­ment of ani­ma­tion afi­ciona­dos, the pro­duc­tion work will be han­dled by Sci­ence SARU, the Japan­ese stu­dio behind the wide­ly-praised fea­tures Inu-Oh and The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl. (Pop group Ana­managuchi, which sound­tracked the video game, has also been hint­ed to record new music for the score.)

A release date has yet to be set, and the num­ber of episodes has not yet been spec­i­fied, but Wright’s tweet­ing sug­gests that it’s all in the can and should be out in the world before too long. Soon, we’ll all learn some new fun facts about the ety­mo­log­i­cal ori­gins of Pac-Man and the intri­ca­cies of beta-male masculinity.