Throughout San Diego Comedian-Con 2023, Grownup Swim launched the primary Rick and Morty: The Anime teaser trailer, teasing what seems to be the intro to the collection.
The brand new teaser is much like the unique collection‘ intro, which sees Rick and Morty participating in quite a lot of completely different adventures whereas the credit play. The teaser additionally previews the distinctive animation model for the upcoming collection, in addition to what characters like Rick, Morty, Summer time, and extra will appear to be.
The tip of the teaser additionally encompasses a trace of the unique present’s theme music.
Take a look at the opening to Rick and Morty: The Anime beneath:
In a message after the trailer, Takashi Sano — who’s directing the anime — had a short message for followers. Sano mentioned that he’s an enormous Rick and Morty fan himself, and guarantees to honor the present, whereas additionally including “a novel Japanese twist.”
“Hiya. I’m Sano, the director of Rick and Morty: The Anime,” mentioned Sano. “And because the director, I wish to guarantee you that I’m additionally an enormous fan of the unique Rick and Morty. I consider there are various Rick and Morty followers all around the world. And I’m really honored to be chosen to create a brand new Rick and Morty story out of all of them. However with that honor comes a whole lot of stress, as a result of the unique is simply so properly made. What I’ve tried to perform in these 10 episodes is to take all my favourite elements of watching Rick and Morty, compress them all the way down to extract their essence, after which add a novel Japanese twist.”
What can we learn about Rick and Morty: The Anime?
Rick and Morty: The Anime will likely be a ten-episode anime collection directed by Takashi Sano, the director of Tower of God. Sano was additionally behind the 2 extraordinarily standard Rick and Morty anime shorts, Rick and Morty vs. Genocider, and Summer time Meets God (Rick Meets Evil), each of that are probably large inspirations and catalysts behind the complete Rick and Morty anime being developed.
Apart from Sano’s two anime shorts, Grownup Swim has launched quite a lot of anime-inspired Rick and Morty shorts, together with the very first one, Samurai & Shogun, in March 2020. A sequel for that was launched in November 2020, with a 3rd animated quick based mostly on the collection, The Nice Yokai Battle of Akihabara, airing in October 2021.
