Rick & Morty Getting More Anime Shorts from Adult Swim

Rick & Morty Getting More Anime Shorts from Adult Swim

With the release of a third new Rick & Morty anime short in tandem with season 5, Adult Swim confirms that more shorts are on the way.

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Adult Swim confirms that it will produce additional Rick and Morty anime shorts after the creative success of the show’s three existing anime short films. Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s adult sci-fi cartoon follows the genius mad scientist/depressed alcoholic Rick Sanchez as he drags his far less intelligent grandson Morty Smith across the multiverse. The show gained a cult fanbase after its first season for its scientific jargon, existential themes, and dark humor. The series has since become one of the most-watched shows on Adult Swim.

Rick and Morty is now in its fifth season, with Roiland voicing both main characters and accompanied by Sarah Chalke, Chris Parnell, and Spencer Grammer. Following the show’s massive popularity, Roiland and Harmon have come out with a slate of accompanying content and products including video and tabletop games, comics, collectibles, and a planned spinoff entitled The Vindicators. Characters from the series have also made cameos in other TV shows, movies, and music, notably appearing on The Simpsons and in Space Jam: A New Legacy. A number of Rick and Morty short films have also been made, including a 2017 series of claymation mini-movies titled Rick and Morty: The Non-Canonical Adventures and three anime shorts made in 2020 and 2021.

Adult Swim now has more Rick and Morty anime shorts planned, a representative of the network tells SYFY WIRE. The most recent anime special, “Summer Meets God (Rick Meets Evil),” was released by Adult Swim and Toonami on August 2 and is on Youtube now. The short was written and directed by Takashi Sano, who previously created Rick and Morty’s second anime short “Rick and Morty vs. Genocider” in July 2020. Jason DeMarco, Creative Director and Senior Vice President of Adult Swim and Toonami Co-Creator, reveals that more Sano shorts are in the works:

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Director Sano had such a blast making his last Rick and Morty anime short, ‘Rick and Morty vs Genocider,’ that when it came time to find a director to create their own spin on ‘GoTron,’ he was the obvious choice. As always, his direction and characterization was brilliant, because beyond being a gifted director, he is a true fan of the show. We are thrilled with the result, and are planning on even more Rick and Morty anime shorts with Takashi Sano and others.

Check out Sano’s short here:

In the short, which is conveyed in Japanese dialogue with English subtitles, Summer gets a non-human boyfriend and Jerry fumbles his way into yet another catastrophe. The story relates to the ongoing Rick & Morty season 5, which has aired seven of ten episodes so far. Sano is best known as the director of Tower of God and he’s also worked as the cutscene director for Fire Emblem: Three Houses and as an episode animator for Neon Genesis Evangelion. The 15-minute special was produced by Sola Entertainment and animated by Telecom Animation Film.

Like any episode of Rick and Morty, this installment is marked by offbeat humor, mesmerizing visual detail, and unexpectedly poetic moments, all rendered in Sano’s style. Fans have been gushing over the short since it was released, so it’s no surprise that Adult Swim is rushing to deliver more of the same. With 70 new episodes of Rick and Morty having been greenlit in 2018, there will be plenty more opportunities for special shorts. Anime-style characters appeared in the most recent episode, season 5 episode 7 (titled “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion”) as a genre parody that doesn’t present any scientific/worldbuilding rules for why differing animation styles are present. That anime versions of the main characters also exist asks the question: do anime Rick and Morty hail from the same world as the Gotrons? And if so, what claymation horrors might arrive in future seasons?

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