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 if you happen to love Rick, Morty, multiverses, and outrageous sci-fi shenanigans, it appears possible you’ll additionally dig the anime riff from director Takashi Sano. Sano and different Rick and Morty: The Anime creators had 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 collection; he’s apparently watched each episode a number of instances—created for Grownup Swim. When these proved profitable, the concept of doing a complete collection took root. “He was actually honored to tackle the collection,” producer Joseph Chou, appearing as a translator for Sano, defined. “Already, a powerful template was constructed within the unique collection, and he simply actually wished to verify he revered that … he simply wished to verify the universe and characters stayed intact.”
“Nevertheless, there’s one factor that he thought he might discover extra that won’t have been totally explored in basic collection: 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 widespread today—however he additionally wished to place one other curveball in there, with the ingredient of time … [and] he wished to deal with Morty having a little bit of a romance all through the collection. He used that as a type of springboard to attach all of the completely different tales that [are] taking place in numerous universes and within the multiverse by means of completely different instances. So you’ll be able to see numerous respect paid to the unique collection, as a result of we didn’t need to make it an anime present essentially only for anime followers, however quite one thing for everybody to get pleasure from.”
He continued. “Though that is named The Anime, it actually didn’t happen to him that he was doing one thing very, very completely different to attempt to make this into an anime, or deliver numerous his experiences on the 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 can too catch it the subsequent day on Max. Should you’d quite 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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