Rick & Morty 10 Great Anime To Watch If You Love The Show

Rick & Morty: 10 Great Anime To Watch If You Love The Show

If you can’t wait any longer, watch these great anime in between Rick and Morty’s long hiatuses between seasons.

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It goes without saying that Rick and Morty is one of the best original adult cartoons in recent memory. However, the show’s lengthy production time has caused significant delays between seasons. Finding a suitable replacement for any hit show is difficult even at the best of times, but Rick and Morty’s insanely fast jokes, densely complicated stories, crazy animation, and over the top voice acting are particularly difficult to live up to. Luckily, most anime has all of that in spades.

This list will look at ten different anime for fans of the show that, hopefully, pique the same interests. In particular, this list is aimed at fans who are new to anime and are looking for something to fill those long months between each new season of Rick and Morty.

10 Devilman Crybaby (2018)

Rick and Morty is known for its complex and often psychedelic animation. Simiarly, Devilman Crybaby deviates from the more traditional anime look. Here, characters are exaggerated, elongated and stretched to better represent the crazy nature of the story.

Akira is a mild-mannered high schooler who gets taken by his friend, Ryo, to a nightclub where he ingests drugs, dances to music, and turns into an all-powerful Devilman. The series successfully flips genres from comedy to horror or action to drama constantly, underpinned by a pulsating electronic soundtrack.

9 The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (2016-2018)

Saiki Kusuo is an ordinary high schooler… or at least he tries really hard to be. From birth, he has had psychic powers, gifted the ability to do more or less anything. However, he has also sworn never to reveal his powers to anyone, instead trying to live as normally as possible. But despite his best efforts, Saiki keeps finding himself in outlandish situations that he has to fix by using said abilities.

An outright comedy, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. has a lot of the same DNA as Rick and Morty. This anime is beyond entertaining and has a sense of humor that hits right between clever and extremely stupid.

8 Cowboy Bebop (1998)

Often found on the lists of top anime of all time, Cowboy Bebop, is a cowboy/gangster/Western/space romp. Spike and his crew of misfit bounty hunters travel around space completing odd jobs, just to make enough for their next meal. When the show kicks up into its action gears, the animation is almost unparalleled, with a crazy blend of gunfights, space fights, and martial arts.

But it is also not afraid to slow down and appreciate its characters so they become as nuanced in their personalities as they do in combat. Cowboy Bebop is a show that is also unafraid to wear its influences on its sleeve and the end result is a heady but endlessly enjoyable mash-up of genres, comedy and action.

7 Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996)

One of the most remarkable things about Rick and Morty is how it’s unafraid to take its otherwise goofy characters to really dark places. Several stories have been dripping in nihilism, where both Rick and Morty have questioned existence and their role in the universe.

Similarly, Neon Genesis Evangelion — with its giant robots and endless supply of invading monsters — sounds like a teenager’s dream come true but for Shinji Ikari, something is missing. Evangelion, despite being an exciting and engaging story on paper, has the ability to deliver everything you’d want from an action anime and explain that it can never be as fulfilling as desired. This is a complex anime with a hard but realistic edge to it deceivingly familiar mayhem.

6 Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Almost all of the Ghost in the Shell franchise (including the sequel movie and multiple TV series) is worth watching but for any newcomer, the original movie is the best place to start. Ghost in the Shell combines cyberpunk action and setting with a post-humanism philosophy. Amidst shoot-outs and a detective case, there are questions about what makes a human, how valuable something like a physical really is, and the purpose of life and intelligence in a heavily technological world.

A lot of this philosophy is also explored, albeit humorously, in Rick and Morty (the butter robot is a particular highlight), but Ghost in the Shell dedicates every second of its existence to it and it is amazing to see how it pulls it off.

5 One-Punch Man (2015-2019)

There are few series that deliver the laughs and the action quite like One Punch Man. Saitama is just an ordinary guy who gets fed up with being kicked around, so he dedicates himself to a simple but taxing training regimen. Now, he is the most powerful human on the planet, with the ability to stop anyone with a single punch. The trouble is he’s now lost all interest in fighting.

The first season was animated by legendary studio, Mad House, and nearly every punch felt like an earthquake. It’s another anime that manages to trade blows with jokes, as people rush around Saitama trying to get him to join the fight while they get pummeled to bits.

4 My Hero Academia (2016- )

Fast becoming one of the best anime of all time, and certainly, My Hero Academia provides another interesting take on the superhero genre. Rick has famously shunned the superhero life (see how petty he was to the Vindicators), but My Hero Academia follows Izuku, a boy shunned by the superhero life.

Born into a world where most people have superpowers, Izuku is one of the unlucky few who has none. However, when he’s recognized for his spirit and potential by a world-class superhero he is gifted some powers and allowed to enroll in a school for heroes. Watch it for the amazing animation, but stay for the huge cast of characters and a clever twist on a genre that is starting to get a little overdone.

3 Steins;Gate (2011)

Rintaro Okabe is an ordinary student who calls himself a mad scientist. After he accidentally discovers time travel, he may well become one. Okabe and his crew learn that they can change timelines by sending messages to the past. At first this is harmless but then, a secret organization from the future threatens to kill them for somehow causing a future they couldn’t have predicted.

Caught between a deadly future and the effects of their meddling in the past, the team is caught between ever-changing timelines which keep pushing them toward a dystopia they’re trying desperately to prevent. Steins;Gate offers an interesting twist on the time travel genre that Rick and Morty fans will appreciate.

2 Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (2012- )

When describing this wildly popular anime, it is to do it justice. In part it feels like an epic novel, telling the generational story of a family and its descendants. It’s also a story of supernatural beings they face, including vampires, magicians and ancient spirits. But Jojo is primarily a fighting anime, as age-old rivals do battle constantly in the most insane ways imaginable. That, and it still finds room to be absolutely hysterical.

Jojo is an appropriately bizarre mixture of camp and over-the-top masculinity, set in a world where the most unexpected and bizarre plot twists come round every corner. Sometimes, Rick can take himself so seriously that he ends up looking profoundly stupid. Thankfully, Jojo takes that feeling and turns it up to eleven.

1 One Piece (1999- )

This is a series that will frequently top the ‘best of all time lists’ and rightly so; with its insane action, incredibly huge cast of characters, and with nearly 1000 episodes as of this writing, there is really nothing like One Piece. Monkey D. Luffy is the captain of a pirate ship who, along with his crew, is on the search for the famous treasure: the One Piece.

The series is a perfect blend of action and comedy, often with huge story arcs that seem to go on forever. The creativity of the various pirate ships, characters, and weapons in One Piece rivals the more out-there episodes of Rick and Morty. It never takes itself too seriously, and few shows embody the spirit of fun quite the way One Piece does.

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