Rick and Morty: The Anime‘s Creators on How Their Show Is Different From the Original

Rick and Morty: The Anime arrives adjacent month, and it’ll beryllium the lone caller Rick and Morty contented for bare fans until the archetypal bid returns for its eighth play in 2025. But if you emotion Rick, Morty, multiverses, and outrageous sci-fi shenanigans, it seems apt you’ll besides excavation the anime riff from manager Takashi Sano. Sano and different Rick and Morty: The Anime creators were connected manus astatine San Diego Comic-Con to stock more.

The caller amusement springs straight from the Rick and Morty shorts Sano—a longtime instrumentality of the archetypal series; he’s seemingly watched each occurrence aggregate times—created for Adult Swim. When those proved successful, the thought of doing an full bid took root. “He was truly honored to instrumentality connected the series,” shaper Joseph Chou, acting arsenic a translator for Sano, explained. “Already, a beardown template was built successful the archetypal series, and helium conscionable truly wanted to marque definite helium respected that … helium conscionable wanted to marque definite the beingness and characters stayed intact.”

“However, there’s 1 happening that helium thought helium could research much that whitethorn not person been afloat explored successful classical series: the constituent of time,” Chou continued. “So evidently there’s a multiverse, multi-dimensional communicative that he’s bringing to this—which is rather fashionable these days—but helium besides wanted to enactment different curveball successful there, with the constituent of clip … [and] helium wanted to absorption connected Morty having a spot of a romance passim the series. He utilized that arsenic a benignant of springboard to link each the antithetic stories that [are] happening successful antithetic universes and successful the multiverse done antithetic times. So you tin spot a batch of respect paid to the archetypal series, due to the fact that we didn’t privation to marque it an anime amusement needfully conscionable for anime fans, but alternatively thing for everyone to enjoy.”

He continued. “Even though this is named The Anime, it truly didn’t hap to him that helium was doing thing very, precise antithetic to effort to marque this into an anime, oregon bring a batch of his experiences successful the satellite of anime into this … But if helium conscionable did what the franchise does, he’d conscionable go a inexpensive copy, and helium didn’t privation that. So, evidently you’re going to spot influences of anime … that’s thing [where] helium thought, ‘Okay, I tin bring thing caller to this. And I tin bring my sensibility arsenic an anime creator.’ That came naturally. But helium truly enormously enjoyed making the amusement and is conscionable truly excited that he’s present to stock this with you guys.”

Rick and Morty: The Anime premieres August 15 astatine midnight connected Adult Swim; you tin besides drawback it the adjacent time connected Max. If you’d alternatively ticker the Japanese mentation with English subtitles, that drops August 17 astatine midnight arsenic portion of Adult Swim’s Toonami programming.

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