Rick and Morty: The Anime arrives subsequent month, and it’ll be the one new Rick and Morty content material for hungry followers till the original series returns for its eighth season in 2025. However in the event you love Rick, Morty, multiverses, and outrageous sci-fi shenanigans, it appears seemingly you’ll additionally dig the anime riff from director Takashi Sano. Sano and different Rick and Morty: The Anime creators have been available at San Diego Comedian-Con to share extra.
The brand new present springs straight from the Rick and Morty shorts Sano—a longtime fan of the unique sequence; he’s apparently watched each episode a number of instances—created for Grownup Swim. When these proved profitable, the concept of doing a complete sequence took root. “He was actually honored to tackle the sequence,” producer Joseph Chou, appearing as a translator for Sano, defined. “Already, a robust template was constructed within the unique sequence, and he simply actually needed to verify he revered that … he simply needed to verify the universe and characters stayed intact.”
“Nonetheless, there’s one factor that he thought he may discover extra that will not have been absolutely explored in traditional sequence: the ingredient of time,” Chou continued. “So clearly there’s a multiverse, multi-dimensional story that he’s bringing to this—which is sort of common nowadays—however he additionally needed to place one other curveball in there, with the ingredient of time … [and] he needed to deal with Morty having a little bit of a romance all through the sequence. He used that as a type of springboard to attach all of the totally different tales that [are] occurring in several universes and within the multiverse by totally different instances. So you’ll be able to see lots of respect paid to the unique sequence, as a result of we didn’t wish to make it an anime present essentially only for anime followers, however fairly one thing for everybody to take pleasure in.”
He continued. “Despite the fact that that is named The Anime, it actually didn’t happen to him that he was doing one thing very, very totally different to attempt to make this into an anime, or deliver lots of his experiences on this planet of anime into this … But when he simply did what the franchise does, he’d simply change into an affordable copy, and he didn’t need that. So, clearly you’re going to see influences of anime … that’s one thing [where] he thought, ‘Okay, I can deliver one thing new to this. And I can deliver my sensibility as an anime creator.’ That got here naturally. However he actually enormously loved making the present and is simply actually excited that he’s right here to share this with you guys.”
Rick and Morty: The Anime premieres August 15 at midnight on Grownup Swim; you may also catch it the subsequent day on Max. For those who’d fairly watch the Japanese model with English subtitles, that drops August 17 at midnight as a part of Grownup Swim’s Toonami programming.
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