The minds behind Rick and Morty: The Anime revealed how the anime shorts ultimately led to a full spinoff sequence
Rick and Morty: The Anime is will probably be making its full spinoff sequence debut with Grownup Swim later this Summer time, and the group behind the sequence defined how the shorts ended up inspiring a full sequence. Rick and Morty first received anime followers’ consideration a number of years in the past with the debut of anime impressed shorts from distinguished director Takashi Sano. It was then introduced that Sano can be directing a full sequence with Grownup Swim a bit later, and thus there was a surprise of how the spinoff was shaped after the shorts. As these behind the sequence clarify, it was only a pure extension of the unique shorts’ success.
Rick and Morty: The Anime govt producers Jason DeMarco and Joseph Chou spoke with ComicBook throughout the San Diego Comedian-Con 2024 weekend, and the 2 defined how working with Sano on the Rick and Morty anime shorts a number of years in the past led to the discharge of the complete sequence. As Grownup Swim was looking for out creators who might supply completely different interpretations, the concept of an anime quick and its eventual success attributable to Sano’s efforts led to Rick and Morty: The Anime.
Rick Sanchez in Rick and Morty: The Anime
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How Rick and Morty Grew to become a Full Anime Sequence
“In my job on the time I used to be operating Grownup Swim on Air. And a part of my job was selling Rick and Morty,” DeMarco started. “We had at all times at Grownup Swim leaned into the concept of working with unbiased animators or animators from world wide to reinterpret our reveals. And Rick and Morty was so common that we knew we wished to do completely different interpretations. And amongst these interpretations, we thought, nicely, the concept of anime shorts can be actually cool among the many shorts we commissioned. I spoke to Joseph [Chou] and he urged [Takashi] Sano, who then did “Rick and Morty vs. Genocider,” which was a extremely, actually large success for us. And is what in the end led to the concept of the sequence.”
Chou elaborated additional by noting how wild the concept of turning Rick and Morty into an anime was at first, “It was truly fascinating as a result of when he stated you need to attempt doing an anime model of Rick and Morty and I am like, ‘That Rick and Morty?’ and like, ‘Yeah, that Rick and Morty.’ So we received to do about three shorts with I feel two of which was performed by Sano-san, they usually had been vastly profitable.”
“I did not assume within the outset that it was purported to be like this large sequence, however with Grownup Swim’s blessing it turned out to be a sequence,” Chou continued. “We’re actually simply excited to have it on the market and for followers to see it as a result of Sano-san himself truly is without doubt one of the few actually completed anime administrators who’ve been an enormous fan of Rick and Morty in Japan. So simply all the pieces clicked collectively and I feel it is labored out. We’re simply holding our breath now [to see] how the followers will react to the work that he did.”
Rick and Morty: The Anime premieres on Grownup Swim with its English dub on August fifteenth at midnight earlier than returning on August seventeenth with its English subtitled launch.
