He said, 'You can see his influence start to creep in here and there but he's a larger inspirational figure to me than just his drawing style.' In regards to the FLCL anime, O'Malley said that while it was an influence, it was 'not as much of a direct influence on Scott Pilgrim as people seem to think.'

O'Malley said that Osamu Tezuka began influencing his work as he created Volumes 3 and 4. He added that the 'exploded page layouts' of Koudelka, a work by Yuji Iwahara, directly influenced the 'full-bleed layouts' of Scott Pilgrim. O'Malley said that Ranma ½ was the strongest influence and Atsuko Nakajima, the character designer of the Ranma ½ anime and other anime, was an influence to a lesser extent. Upon reading the book O'Malley realized that, despite the satirical tone, it could be an effective guide to how the Japanese comic book industry worked. In 2002, O'Malley's roommate, who worked in a comic book store, brought the book to him while O'Malley was working on Lost at Sea and was planning Scott Pilgrim. O'Malley gained inspiration from the book Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga by Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma. O'Malley wanted to write a shōnen-style comic book series, although he had only read one such series at the time, Ranma ½ in the early 2000s, Japanese manga had not yet achieved significant popularity in North America. Development Ĭreator Bryan Lee O'Malley was inspired to create the series and eponymous character of Scott Pilgrim after listening to Canadian band Plumtree's 1998 single 'Scott Pilgrim', a song then-Plumtree singer Carla Gillis describes as 'positive, but.also bitter sweet.' In particular, O'Malley was inspired by the lyric, 'I’ve liked you for a thousand years.' An anime adaptation is set to release on Netflix, with the cast of the 2010 film reprising their roles. A video game adaptation developed by Ubisoft for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade was released the same month. the World starring actor Michael Cera in the title role was released in August 2010. Ī film adaptation of the series titled Scott Pilgrim vs. Full-colour hardback volumes, coloured by Nathan Fairbairn, were released from August 2012 to April 2014.

It was later republished by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins. The original edition of the series consists of six digest size black-and-white volumes, released between August 2004 and July 2010, by Portland-based independent comic book publisher Oni Press. He falls in love with American delivery girl Ramona Flowers, but must defeat her seven evil exes in order to date her in peace. The series is about Scott Pilgrim, a slacker and part-time musician who lives in Toronto, Ontario, and plays bass ‍in a band. Scott Pilgrim is a series of graphic novels by Canadian author and comic book artist Bryan Lee O'Malley.

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