Rick & Morty Season 5 Anime Characters Explained

Rick & Morty: Season 5 Anime Characters Explained

The anime characters in Rick and Morty season 5 reference several different anime productions and generally poke fun at the animation style.

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Rick & Morty Season 5 Anime Characters Explained

Season 5 of Rick and Morty introduces a group of anime-style characters alongside its Gotron storyline, but who are these mysterious entities? Episode 7, titled “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion,” sees Rick become obsessed with building giant fighting robots, and the Smith family begins to fall apart as a result. The episode is peppered with mafia references and nods to films such as The Godfather and Scarface. It also includes an original song called “A Bit of Pasta,” which was created in collaboration with Darren Criss of the popular Fox musical series Glee.

The anime characters are first introduced when they kidnap Morty outside of the Smiths’ secret nightclub. Knowing that Morty has been relegated to a security position and largely ignored by Rick and Summer, they try to convince him to betray his family to help them reclaim the robots. When Morty refuses, they attempt to kill him, and he escapes only to be rejected by his family once again. The anime antagonists later return to infiltrate Rick’s operation and turn on him in an epic space battle before the rest of the family returns, armed with the giant incest baby of Rick and Morty season 5 episode 4, to save him.

Rick and Morty’s anime creatures identify themselves only as “the rightful owners of the ferrets.” There are five of them, and their leader is a redheaded girl who calls herself Kendra, but little else is revealed of their origins or intentions throughout the episode. However, the characters do appear to reference several different anime productions. The episode’s plot references the anime television franchise Voltron, as well as the previous Japanese series Beast King GoLion, which ran in the early 1980s. Rick and Morty seems to derive the name “Gotron” by combining the titles of the two shows. Both shows involve a team of animated characters who assemble and weaponize giant robots, much like Rick’s obsession in “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion.”

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The anime characters in Rick and Morty parody the characters of Voltron, as well as poking fun at anime in general. They display the hallmarks of stereotypical anime characters, including punctuating sentences with odd facial expressions and sounds. Morty’s description of Kendra is “big eyes, plus signs for teeth, ends sentences with weird sounds that don’t fit,” the punchline being that these are all typical anime characteristics. Kendra herself appears to parallel the main character of another anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion, which also involves giant fighting robots and from which the Rick and Morty episode takes its title.

With Rick and Morty’s history of referencing anime productions and the recent anime-style shorts released by Adult Swim, it is no surprise that the show included a full episode inspired by such media. However, the anime villains in “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion” are unlikely to appear again. The self-contained nature of their episode’s events, as well as their limited development compared to recent villains like Mr. Nimbus of the season 5 premiere, point to Rick and Morty’s anime characters being a one-off.

Allison McGlone is a freelance features writer for Screen Rant. She graduated from Emerson College in 2021 with a BFA in Creative Writing and has previously covered entertainment and news topics as an editorial intern for YourTango.com. She has also written and published several personal essays and music reviews. Allison grew up a voracious reader and began writing her own stories when she was in preschool. Now 22 years old, she has embarked on her career as a writer. In her free time, Allison enjoys exploring, thrift shopping, and writing poetry.

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