First Trailer for Rick and Morty: The Anime Reveals a Familiar (Yet Skewed) New Dimension

Rick and Morty fans are utilized to seeing the show’s portal-hopping characters sojourn bizarre worlds that successful nary mode lucifer our own; they’re besides acquainted with seeing Rick, Morty, and the remainder of the pack rendered successful anime form, acknowledgment to 5 previously released short films. Now, however, the long-teased Rick and Morty: The Anime afloat series is astir upon us, with a archetypal trailer arsenic proof.

This is the lone caller Rick and Morty contented arriving this year, since play 8 of the mainline amusement won’t driblet until 2025. Fortunately, the anime looks similar a batch of amusive and precise overmuch successful the tone of the original! Check retired the trailer:

Rick and Morty: The Anime comes from manager Takashi Sano (Tower of God), who besides wrote and directed 2 of the earlier shorts. In a property release, Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen said that Sano is simply a “huge” instrumentality of the archetypal series, making him “the cleanable idiosyncratic to springiness america each this alternate mentation of this astonishing show.” It volition tally 10 episodes, and frankly this is much crippled statement than Rick and Morty fans are utilized to getting: “Rick relaxes successful a pseudo-world betwixt multiverses, Summer helps Space Beth combat the evil Galactic Federation, and Morty falls successful emotion with a mysterious miss who happens to beryllium an atemporal being.”

The formed includes some Japanese and English dependable actors: Youhei Tadano and Joe Daniels arsenic Rick; Keisuke Chiba and Gabriel Regojo arsenic Morty; Akiha Matsui and Donna Bella Litton arsenic Summer; Manabu Muraji and Joe Daniels (again) arsenic Jerry; and Takako Fuji and Patricia Duran arsenic Beth. You tin drawback Rick and Morty: The Anime‘s premiere August 15 astatine midnight connected Adult Swim; then, the subtitled mentation successful Japanese drops August 17 astatine midnight arsenic portion of Adult Swim’s Toonami programming block.

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