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‘Rick and Morty: The Anime’ Is Like A Fanfiction Written By Someone Who Never Watched ‘Rick and Morty’

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11mo ago

‘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 an...

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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.
- You have no obligation to watch it.
  Just don’t. Not everything produced is worth consuming.
  
  As a Rick and Morty fan (and generally a fan of all kinds of other shows), I’ll take the good with the bad. How else would you grow as a viewer?
The poorly-animated cast of the spin-off series barely resembles the characters we know and love
Not seeing the downside lol
- 90% of Anime adaptations of western media has nothing to do with the original material, lol.
The first ep was rough but I’m reserving judgment. Some first eps are like that.
- “Don’t judge a book by its cover”
  “The intro is slow it gets better by mid season”
  “The first season is all setup but the next one is great”
  “Just get to episode 400 during the Glorp arc”
  
  As a One Piece fan I think I have to treat this comment as a personal attack
After watching the first episode...It was a fun watch. The animation imo doesn't look bad, the storyline doesn't seem that out of place for the characters, but it is playing off of tons of anime cliches that separates it from the regular series. They really nailed what they were going for imo.
Idk if the rest of the season is out, I just watched what was free on the adult swim website, but I think people are being a bit harsh.
- Agreed. It seems fine so far. The action has been meh, but the reflective, pondering tone of much of it has been pretty nice. The way it plays on Japanese sci-fi tropes (including out of order storytelling and time travel) has me really interested to see more on this outsiders' take on the possibilities of the R&M multiverse
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.
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.
...because it is.
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.

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