Throughout San Diego Comedian-Con 2023, Grownup Swim launched the primary Rick and Morty: The Anime teaser trailer, teasing what seems to be to be the intro to the sequence.
The brand new teaser is just like the unique sequence‘ intro, which sees Rick and Morty collaborating in quite a lot of completely different adventures whereas the credit play. The teaser additionally previews the distinctive animation model for the upcoming sequence, in addition to what characters like Rick, Morty, Summer season, and extra will appear to be.
The top of the teaser additionally incorporates a trace of the unique present’s theme music.
Try the opening to Rick and Morty: The Anime beneath:
In a message after the trailer, Takashi Sano — who’s directing the anime — had a short message for followers. Sano stated that he’s an enormous Rick and Morty fan himself, and guarantees to honor the present, whereas additionally including “a singular Japanese twist.”
“Good day. I’m Sano, the director of Rick and Morty: The Anime,” stated Sano. “And because the director, I wish to guarantee you that I’m additionally an enormous fan of the unique Rick and Morty. I imagine there are a lot of Rick and Morty followers everywhere in the world. And I’m actually honored to be chosen to create a brand new Rick and Morty story out of all of them. However with that honor comes a number of strain, as a result of the unique is simply so effectively made. What I’ve tried to perform in these 10 episodes is to take all my favourite components of watching Rick and Morty, compress them all the way down to extract their essence, after which add a singular Japanese twist.”
What can we find out about Rick and Morty: The Anime?
Rick and Morty: The Anime shall be a ten-episode anime sequence directed by Takashi Sano, the director of Tower of God. Sano was additionally behind the 2 extraordinarily common Rick and Morty anime shorts, Rick and Morty vs. Genocider, and Summer season Meets God (Rick Meets Evil), each of that are doubtless huge inspirations and catalysts behind the complete Rick and Morty anime being developed.
Moreover Sano’s two anime shorts, Grownup Swim has launched quite a lot of anime-inspired Rick and Morty shorts, together with the very first one, Samurai & Shogun, in March 2020. A sequel for that was launched in November 2020, with a 3rd animated brief primarily based on the sequence, The Nice Yokai Battle of Akihabara, airing in October 2021.
