Netflix this weekend announced a line up of special guest stars who voice new characters in the anime series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, which is streaming now on the platform. The guest stars join the previously announced all-star cast of Edgar Wright’s live-action adaptation of the Bryan Lee O’Malley comics, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, who all returned to voice their original characters.
The streamer also debuted new key art for the highly anticipated series, which debuted to a perfect 100% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The guest roaster includes:
- Will Forte
- Finn Wolfhard
- Al Yankovic
- Kal Penn
- Kirby
- Nick Frost
- Simon Pegg
- Nelson Franklin
- Bowen Yang
- Matt Rogers
- Kevin McDonald
- Shannon Woodward
- Ingrid Haas
- Kristina Pesic
- Bo Barrett
- Ryan Simpkins
- Nathan Moore
- Bill Parks
- Stefan Johnson
- Trevor Wilson
- Griffin Newman
- Matt Watts
- Stephen Root
- Cal Dodd
Fans were also treated to a new, special trailer introducing the Japanese language version voice cast, which features:
- Hiro Shimono as Scott Pilgrim
- Fairouz Ai as Ramona Flowers
- Tomokazu Seki as Gideon Graves
- Shinji Saito as Matthew Patel
- Kana Hanazawa as Envy Adams
- Yuichi Nakamura as Lucas Lee
- Wataru Hatano as Todd Ingram
- Naomi Ohzora as Roxie Richter
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Ken and Kyle Katayanagi
- Aoi Koga as Knives Chau
- Katsuya Fukunishi as Wallace Wells
- Yuto Kawasaki as Young Neil
- Tomo Muranaka as Kim Pine
- Anri Katsu as Stephen Stills
- Yu Kobayashi as Julie Powers
- Misato Matsuoka as Stacey Pilgrim
The eight-episode series sees Scott Pilgrim meets the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers, and discovers he must defeat her seven evil exes in order to date her. But this time, things get even more complicated. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off revisits and reimagines the beloved cult classic graphic novels by O’Malley, taking Ramona Flowers, her evil exes, Scott, and his friends off on a mysterious new action-packed journey to find love.
Produced by UCP (a division of Universal Studio Group) and animated by Science SARU in Japan (Devilman Crybaby, Inu-Oh) under the supervision of director Abel Góngora, the show is headed by executive producers/showrunners O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinksi. Also serving as exec producers are Marc Platt, Jared LeBoff and Adam Siegel for Marc Platt Productions; Michael Bacall; Edgar Wright and Nira Park for Complete Fiction; and Eunyoung Choi for Science SARU. Original Songs by Anamanaguchi; score by Anamanaguchi and Joseph Trapanese.
