I recently found some concept art and designs for Progressive. They're very interesting, as is common with FLCL. This season already has a lot of softcore gore, but there's much more in the original concepts of character transformations. The thing that catches my eye is the small bits in the images that suggest a divergent plotline we never got to see. I don't know what to make of the pieces we've got...
An unused Canti transformation:
Hidomi and Canti in a Matrix-esque room:
Aiko has an eye injury, probably related to the rose bud covered by an eye patch in a later concept piece. Maybe a defense mechanism of her biology?:
But also, Aiko has Hidomi's limiter headphones!
Atomsk rips something red out of armored Hidomi & gets chased by silver ships:
Hidomi dies?!?!?!
In ep 1 from the eye?
From losing whatever Atomsk stole, with the mochi raining down on her in ep 6?