‘Rick and Morty: The Anime’ Is Like A Fanfiction Written By Someone Who Never Watched ‘Rick and Morty’
‘Rick and Morty: The Anime’ Is Like A Fanfiction Written By Someone Who Never Watched ‘Rick and Morty’
The poorly-animated cast of the spin-off series barely resembles the characters we know and love
What a brutal dissection. I guess I’ll go in with low expectations.
The article links to a clip of the show on the adultswim youtube channel, and it's about as bad as it sounds.
It's weird. Animation wise nothing would make me think it is an anime, and the dialogue has so many unusual pauses that makes the delivery feel really clunky.
It’s definitely running at a different pace. I’d have to watch the full episode to say for certain.
The first ep was rough but I’m reserving judgment. Some first eps are like that.
Isn't it already an animated show? Why are they duplicating it?
Anime is quite different from Western animated content - I'm assuming that's what they were aiming for, or the same crowd, at least
That's true, but I don't think anyone asked for this.
Money
I was hoping for a classic anime style with over the top melodrama. Not whatever this is.
It's riffing on sci-fi anime filled with philosophical reflection and nonlinear storytelling, like Ghost In The Shell, Ergo Proxy, Evangelion.
Not saying it's as great as those or anything, but it's hard to tell if it will be good by the time the plot wraps up. The animation for the Space Beth fight in (I think?) Episode 2 was pretty bad, though.
...because it is.
I want in not knowing anything and I just assumed that it was supposed to mimic the tropes of those bad 1980s anime, which would be something Rick and Morty would absolutely do. This article suggests that none of it was intentional and it was supposed to be a "good" show. I'm not so sure but it makes a compelling argument.
For what it’s worth, Japanese humor is certainly different than American humor. But it sounds like this is so far off the source material that it’s just plain bad.