It is incredibly, incredibly disjointed. I thought that was the point at first, but I'm starting to get worried that they've failed to organize their show in a digestible manor and it's just going to keep making me strain until the finale.
I think it’s also crazy how on Max, an advertisement for Rick and Morty The Anime is built into the runtime of the 9th episode of Suicide Squad Isekai. No joke, check it if you don’t believe me.
Honestly, ads being built into the show is kinda helpful because you can skip them using the media player's built-in functions. There's been a whole arms race going on between ads and ad blockers that can really mess with the player's functionality, and being able to hit "skip 10 seconds" a few times instead of relying on an ad blocker that might just crash the whole page has its advantages.
I saw "Rick and Morty the Anime" on my Roku screensaver and I thought "wow that sounds like a thing that doesn't need to exist" but a part of me worried I was being judgemental. Turns out I was, but also was coincidentally not wrong.
it seems like a bit you'd see on an interdimentional cable episode. someone described it as "a fanfiction written by someone who never watched the show"
Did the director of this show watched the show? When was this conceived? Cause the time in which this was being worked on, greenlit, and developed could explain the discrepancies between fhis spin-off and the main show. @@chrisosborn6401
I thought the show was going to be Rick and Morty, but shot through the lens of exaggerated anime tropes: infallible protagonist, inner monologue, rival characters etc- just a massive shitpost that takes place in one of the canon story's infinite universes. As is, what even is this show's appeal to anime fans? What even is this show's appeal to anyone?
I mean I'd say that about the main show after Season 4, but at least I get why people might still like that. This? Not really. I'm still not sure why they kept giving the Japanese more shorts when the series stopped being popular there. Why couldn't we get more shorts like Bushworld Adventures?
@@Newsystuffs AS is trying to bank off of anime fans after Demon Slayer popped off but they're far too behind the curve now. They tried to commision some original anime, only one of them was decent. I expected Uzamaki to also be mid. It's ironic. After AS stopped showing anime like over a decade ago, they'd constantly mock and ridicule people begging for them to bring it back. Now, they want to milk it and everything they touch is crap. Maybe it's on spite.
That's honestly the reason why I could never get into Homestuck. Thing was too bleeping confusing and pretentious for my liking, and I fail to understand how people even liked that thing.
@@Masterge77my gf made me read it I think its cute, the message board style can be a bit much especially with some of the gimmick typing but i think i was able to get through the inital bits bc i had the knowledge that people basically drove the story
@@Masterge77you follow homestuck for the characters the world building is kinda incidental. But if you review it as whole the continuity is consistent even with the time and universe jumping
I think what disappointed me the most, is that Elle wasn't a time displaced Diane from Rick messing with time. It was right there to explore. And yes it would get weird, like Back To The Future, so like call back or something.
Do people not like her? Elle and the serialized storytelling (instead of episodic, even though Rick & Morty's the best I've ever seen at it) are the only things I like about this show. Morty getting a love interest with time to build chemistry while they're both uninfluenced by Rick? Sounds great. Why would I want to give that up for more Rick plot-lines? The main show had it's chances at those, and they threw them away; there was no reason Rick Prime should've been written out so fast.
@@abubakrakram6208 Yeah, I like Elle. Luci Christian is a pretty good choice for her VA. Too bad the anime’s script takes itself way too seriously. Lacks that usual Rick and Morty charm.
@@abubakrakram6208 I'll admit I was/am a bit salty that my theory was so off, but I was already not feeling the anime, but when I saw the teaser and then later the op my thoughts were what other blonde girl is from the show, fresh off the last season when we learned quite a bit about Diane, so I had a bit of more interest then I would have if she had any other hair color. Honestly thinking about it now I do feel like she was intentionally given blonde hair to get people who wanted to know more about Diane to watch the first episode.
I don’t think they knew what each family member does. -Summer is an assistant, but Rick is in charge at all times. -Space Beth mostly runs solo from the family and distances herself from them. -Jerry has improved, and no longer runs away from the chaos. -Beth is like Rick minus the Sci fi know how. -Rick was close in the adaptation, but it is missing his randomness. -Morty was just surrounded by too much weirdness for me to gauge the differences.
From what I've seen (S1-S3), Morty's optimism serves to contradict Rick's nihilism (later seasons might have contradicted this because I know the show loves to troll)
They were supposedly fans of the series, and despite the disappointing outcome, that does come through to me. It seems a lot like fan-fiction to me in the sense that the characters' personalities are plausible and come from somewhere established in the show. Jerry having his season 1 characteristics while everyone else has progressed is something I can easily imagine in other realities. Same with Space Beth being softer.
Im pretty sure that this was meant to be INSPIRAED by the original. They aren't noting it down exactly and replicating the characters but in Anime style. It is a literary different take on the series. This means taht you shouldnnt be expecting what rick and morty American/original was from this show. I love both honestly.
IIRC, the Powerpuff Girls had an anime adaptation like years ago. And it actually works as a Magical Girl genre anime. Rick & Morty the Anime, doesn't work in either anime genre
There's a few old cartoons that got anime re-imaginings. Moomin is probably the other big one (but that's a grey area since the first Moomin media outside of the books were anime to begin with).
@@jase276 It's imitation FLCL, the real one (the original that is) is so much better. What Adult Swim made was clearly a misinterpretation of what they THINK anime is, but isn't. Their idea of what anime is can be narrowed down to "It's weird" and that's it, so what they did was make something that was as weird as possible and sold it as an anime, when it couldn't be any different.
@@jase276 it's like FLCL in the sense that neither are very concerned with the audience understanding what the hell's going on. Except FLCL (original) actually executed that well.
Honestly, I think what they did with her was way more interesting than a mere Back to the Future parody plus, the original show already has too much pointless incest as it is
I don''t actually hate the character designs; there's a pleastness to how loose their forms are, and the thinness of the lines really helps it stand out in an anime lineup. I fell off RM around season 3, but I'll admit that for the most part it's not that different looking from a Brickleberry when viewed in stills. Mostly this just makes me want to rewatch Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
@@TindraSanKill la kill and scissor seven are also solid examples of high fluidity and less detail. It inherently adds a layer of goofiness and charm that really enhances the comedy for me.
I'd rather watch this 3 times over than Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, no matter how good the art is for that show. Hell, I'd rather just reread the comic and actually have fun altogether.
This project honestly feels like something that was conceptualized at the height of Rick and Morty mania like close to a decade ago, and it took so long to come to fruition that the show is now an entirely different beast with a much more complicated reputation.
The jokes didn't land cause its all pop culture jokes that don't translate well, also maybe why people feel smart when they get the "deep" reference that's not that deep if you grew up in that time. Idk shit but I love the fist few seasons. I couldn't get through 5 min of the anime
Thank you for shouting out Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction. It is absolutely the best show airing this season and likely the year if it sticks the landing. The range of emotions I've felt while watching only come from top notch seinen scifi and it's a damn shame it's not being talked about more.
He also gets dragged into a terminator knockoff by Morty doing dumb shit in Rattlestar Ricklactica but it’s mostly an excuse to make fun of time travel stories
If you've seen Rick and Morty, the anime is pretty damn confusing and wierd. If you havent seen Rick and Morty, the anime will have you feeling like you're on a really bad trip. 😂
It occurs to me that the whole Rick C-137 thing reminds me of how the MCU movies call that Earth "Earth-616" when that's the universe of the comic books.
Does anyone remember that Stitch anime series? And how it completely misunderstood and destroyed the message of the original film and TV series? Rick and Morty the anime is basically that, only far absurd in it own property that doesn't even warrant a so bad it good type of way.
Its incredible how much cultural momentum Rick and Morty built up with only 2 good seasons that its gotten away with like 5 bad seasons, a spin off, and they're still trying to puppet its body with a new voices and writers.
If I wanna watch a smart anime that kinda jumps all over the place, but actually does this better I'll just watch Red Garden..even if Kate has no big character arc. Also weird fun fact: this show is animated by Telecom Animation Film...the same studio who did Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro. Yeah, kinda random.
They also did 4 Knights of the Apocalypse which is the sequel to 7DS but at least it was better animated than s3-4, even though it still has Nakaba's fetish like a loli telling a teenager she likes him, Jericho going full groomer, and Gawain being a worse perv than the FGO one.
Wow, Red Garden is a name I haven't heard in a longgggg time. I used to have a DVD of it as a teenager when anime DVDs felt hard to come by in the physical realm
The trick to enjoying this show and it's canon bending story line is to think of it taking place in an alternate "anime" multiverse running parallel to the prime multiverse. It's just like the concept of parallel universes except scaled up by infinite orders of magnitude. Pretty sure that anime C-137 and prime C-137 are two different dudes.
[looks up from a pile of suspiciously powdery white substance] the consequences of the destruction of the citadel created infinite fractal universes, so now there are infinitely fractal ricks out there all convinced they're the only c-137
@@tinoesroho possibly, but more likely there are infinite C-137s existing in infinite universes with infinite differences running parallel to each other.
The generic aliens disappointed me in a way I didn't expect. Rick and Morty's art style isn't exactly pretty but I always thought the alien designs and backgrounds in the show were impressive.
Exactly. When you already don't have enough time to watch/play/read everything as is, giving some of it to something that isn't good at first and only might, MIGHT get good in retrospect at the end just isn't a good investment compared to things that you're already enjoying from the start. Especially when experience shows that the potential payoff twist at the end never pays off spectacularly enough to make the slog on the way there overall worth the time anyway.
This anime feels like it was made by some American guy who loves trippy Gainax and Studio Trigger anime but doesn’t actually understand what makes those shows good, so he just slaps all these crazy hyper-exaggerated moments together and plays the scenes out of order
The Ace Attorney ad might be the first ad I may be able to get from a youtube video. Looks gorgeous, not to mention it has something to do with the content I am actually watching
Considering how homicidal both Rick and Morty are, imagine what would happen if they used their portal gun to go to their world? It wouldn't be pretty.
"disgusted" feels too passionate of a word, this show feels like something they'd watch on the interdimensional TV, riff n dunk on for a while and then switch the channel.
[Sees the sponsor, immediately gets flashbacks that have been edited by JelloApacalypse.] I hear the fan patch for Investigations 2 was quite the Rarity.
this video encapsulates everything i felt when watching the episodes that i've seen yet, and then expands on that with very good explanations. great video!
Thank you for reviewing this series. I gave up at Episode One, but it's good to know the quality stays about the same throughout. It's interesting that Sano decided to add a cute teenager to the cast as (Maybe?) a partner for Morty, since the main show has repeatedly introduced and then discarded various Morty love interests. On the main show Morty can never be truly happy, but in the anime version the formula is subtly different.
Finally Dead Dead being mentioned! I love your vids on good shows to recommend and to my memory I haven't seen you bring it up before. Its a really good anime. Great vid too!
This _explanation_ gave me a headache, and I'm sure watching the actual show would give me an aneurysm. Props for explaining it as good as I think it possibly could have been.
rick to morty "what about the universe where we're stuck in a confusing anime timetravel plot, the answer is 'dont think about it'" think they'll merk their anime versions like they did their space jam ones?
What makes you say that? You never know what Lucasfilms may want to do with what was presented in these anthology episodes if they felt there was an opportunity to use it to make something more fleshed. So don't say never till you're wholly certain of it. Those thing can take a WHILE.
Maybe the colossal failure of this little experiment will mean that I’ll stop seeing commercials for it while I’m trying to watch my fuckin’ wrestling, for god’s sake.
It is technically streaming in Canada with a stack tv subscription in addition to a prime subscription. It’s a really stupidly complicated way to find it, it’s so frustrating having streaming services within streaming services I’m so close to cancelling them all.
7ds s3-4 was made by DEEN. its sequel (sort of like Boruto but with grooming, 2 perverted lolis, and Meliodas' son being the 3rd main character) and R&M anime shared the same studio.
My father loved this show. Hes never watched anime in his life and thinks anime is dog shit. That tells you what you need to know. Its so bad my boomer father didnt even realize it was anime
Did not expect the capcom sponsorship. Especially for Ace Attorney. Nice. It seems this side project is trying to answer the question of can the show work if it took itself seriously? Because these last few seasons you can feel the writers of the actual show really really want to go full speed on a more serious tone but hold back because that's not what sold the show. Myself, I'm approaching this the way I approach the show proper in that for the most part things are kind of everywhere until they're not. Only without the laughing. Does that mean I think its good? No. It just means I'm willing to listen to what the show wants to say before I give final judgement.
I was kinda "eh" on the dub for the first two episodes, but after that they really improved. Sometimes the extra references to the main show they throw in even make the characters feel livelier than in the sub
As people have said in other videos, I think this finally reveals that Rick and Morty aren't exactly characters that translate well to other scenarios and stories no matter how much they think they know every trope in existence to tear down other genres. Especially because their own series depends on them being the smartest, unbeateable and most Mary Sue characters around.
I think the issue is that they’re really just spoofs of Doc Brown and Marty McFly, so removing them from the context of parody only turns them into basic clones of those characters with none of the charm
Thanks for the DDDddddD shoutout at the end, because Frieren made me reconsider what my 10th favorite anime of all time was, but DDDddddD made me reconsider my entire top 10 and what I even value in media as an adult.
What did they really think an anime could do with this franchise that the original show couldn't? It already has crazy sci-fi concepts that rival alot of similar anime. So making it into an anime is completely pointless.
They could tell a serialized story. Or tell _any_ story that isn't "built up" over 5 seasons without being built up at all only to be thrown away in 1 episode.
@@mothersbasementI gotta say. The description at 17:50 that describes the two versions of Rick is exactly the type of media analysis that draws me back to your channel
the whole thing feels like a it was written by a llm that just read the wikipedia page without knowing about the show before. and it interpreted the idea of parallel dimensions as a succession of unrelated scenes with different versions of the same characters in different unrelated dimensions instead of the SAME characters traveling to various dimensions.
In the Old Days, there was some merit in that sentiment, 'cause you'd be pretty lost without playing the side games which were all on different consoles. Nowadays with collections and everything on single platforms, nah it's like a basic good v evil story with baby's first time travel added in it ain't that hard. "but but but the backstory" yeah and the silmarilion's pretty neat but totally unnecessary to making sense of LotR.
@@the9thinning1 that the internet has made it a running joke about how convoluted and confusing the plot of Kingdom Hearts over the years has been. And this clearly beats it while also not actually making any sense
Infinite universes means infinite versions of every specific numbered Rick, and even though the series technically only takes place in the subset of infinite universes in which Rick is the smartest being in the universe, that's still *infinite* because that's how infinity works. So this is a different version of Rick C-137's universe and timeline, but that's the Rick it most closely resembles at first. Next, a lot of the comedy in Rick and Morty doesn't translate well to Japanese sensibilities, due to sarcasm and observational humor in the style of stand-up comics being less central to their comedy traditions. So instead the anime seems to focus on the abstract sci-fi concepts and philosophical navel-gazing (which is what a lot of the observational humor in the show might read as to a Japanese viewer; the whole "love is just a chemical process" bit from season 1, for example, might come off as sincere to someone who doesn't realize that Rick's overbearing cynicism is part of the gag). This would also explain some of the unusual characterizations, especially Rick. Tragicomic detachment and enlightened detachment look very similar if you literally can't tell the difference due to a language/culture barrier. As for the confusing storytelling, I get the feeling that there were probably a lot of production issues, a lot of creative ambition, and just a whole lot of behind-the-scenes shit that came together to undermine whatever's going on. Like, I have to assume Elle's whole deal is the key to the entire story, like, she shows up out of nowhere, even appearing prominently in the title sequence, it feels very suspicious and I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out she's just got the entire cast dancing to her tune until suddenly they figure her out and the whole season was just her trying to, I guess keep Morty with her? The best outcome I'm thinking is like a poor man's version of something by Kotaro Uchikoshi.
As someone who has never watched Rick and morty your explaination makes as much sense to me as when you described those cult anime… at least the plot of those happy science cult anime plots make a little more sense
Suicide Swuad isekai at least had some fun fights and Harley Quinn anime booty. It was exactly as advertised, nothing more, nothing less, which is more than you can say for this show.
It kinda upsets me that the whole show turns around Time Travel, while the one thing that Rick consistently says that he is not going to mess about is with Time Travel.
The anime strikes me like what the show ended up doing for the cartoon's clip show episodes: They put together a whole bunch of concepts and ideas for the anime, but because they couldn't reach a consensus or give everything a cohesive, more fun way to put them together, they just stitched every idea together and said it's "non-linear" just so they can "technically" fit the weirdness of the cartoon's multiverse... Except it's not really clicking, I tapped out halfway into the first episode because even though I liked the idea of multiple Mortys having their own anime adventure... The whole thing is just... Too messy to enjoy proper.
Id like that at the end of the series, evrrything starts to snap into place and it seems better in retrospect and someone does a chronological edit to make it less disjointed
I remember dropping Rick and Morty ENTIRELY after The Hollywood Reporter article on Justin Roiland's bts behavior and in hindsight that was the best decision I made.
I've honestly been enjoying the Rick and Morty Anime...I think it's one of those things that needs to be watched and then rewatched to completely grasp.
the whole show should have ended with season 5 (like most shows). the entire premise lacks the mass appeal staying power of shows like Simpsons, family guy or South Park. and while I'd also argue those three shows have outstayed their welcome they at least have that old comic strip thing going for them where even though they're played out there is still enough of a reason to keep making them. rick and morty is just such a 2010s show...like it was only meant to exist in that decade. it was amazing for the first few seasons and when it tapered off a bit they should have made plans to make S5 the final season.
My husband and I were in a hotel room and put on adult swim because there wasn't much else. So we caught the premiere of a new episode, and it was so confusing and dull that we didn't even make it through the episode. I thought it was just an experimental episode of Rick and Morty, the fact that this is a spin off series makes it so much worse than if it were a one off novelty.
It really does feel like these cash grab 3rd party animes that have been popping up the past few years are the spiritual successor to all the movie tie in video games so common in the PS2 era. Hell, this one even has the "wow this is a lot uglier than expected" property most of those had!
It’s sad to see Japan didn’t get Rick and Morty season 7 dubbed. It was a solid season and makes me excited for Season 8. Rip to the many people of Japan who will need to rely on fandubs to experience it
I really hope they finish this because i don't think I'll ever watch it, but i think they are doing SOMETHING and it'd be neat to see what exactly they do!
I heard “sponsored by Capcom” and immediately thought he was gonna start spreading the word about Marvel vs Capcom
Wrong absolutely incredible Capcom collection being released around now, sorry
Same
He probably was but then the Wazzler got to him.
@jadedragon216 Wazzler even comes for the anime reviewers, time to refund crunchyroll and hidive 😂
@@jadedragon216 everyone's about to get wazzled
This sounds like a dream you’d have after binging Rick and Morty for 12 hours while suffering from a 104° fever
Best description of the show so far TBH
It is incredibly, incredibly disjointed. I thought that was the point at first, but I'm starting to get worried that they've failed to organize their show in a digestible manor and it's just going to keep making me strain until the finale.
Are you literally on fire?
@@WebbyhxI think it’s in freedom units
I know, isn't it awesome?
I haven't had a high quality mindfuck in a long while, and this scratches that itch perfectly.
This show needs more love
The Capcom sponsor is really funny to me because I don't feel like a monentary incentive would even be needed to promote AA Investigations.
Honestly, I think people would _rather_ be playing AA Investigations than watching this show.
First sponsor where I was like “yeah, I can 100% buy the video creator hyping up the product”
Jokes on them I bought it day one!
We'd all do it for free, but Capcom is just that nice.
Now if only they'd make MML3...
AA fans would pay *to* promote Investigations.
It’s very clear that this isn’t Rick C-137’s universe, but actually Rick C-137A’s universe (the “A” is for “Anime”).
I think it's C-137BS (the BS is for... Well you know)
@@101Mant hahahha
Rick C-RAP
@@stellviahohenheim Rapping Riiick!
@@stellviahohenheim Rapping Riiick!
I think it’s also crazy how on Max, an advertisement for Rick and Morty The Anime is built into the runtime of the 9th episode of Suicide Squad Isekai. No joke, check it if you don’t believe me.
Even though I can’t get Max anyway due to Canada I feel very vindicated in my choice to not sub now
@@mothersbasement Wait, Croatia has Max available, but not Canada? What?
Honestly, ads being built into the show is kinda helpful because you can skip them using the media player's built-in functions. There's been a whole arms race going on between ads and ad blockers that can really mess with the player's functionality, and being able to hit "skip 10 seconds" a few times instead of relying on an ad blocker that might just crash the whole page has its advantages.
I saw "Rick and Morty the Anime" on my Roku screensaver and I thought "wow that sounds like a thing that doesn't need to exist" but a part of me worried I was being judgemental. Turns out I was, but also was coincidentally not wrong.
Wtf 😂😂
it seems like a bit you'd see on an interdimentional cable episode. someone described it as "a fanfiction written by someone who never watched the show"
AH IT'S YOU AGAIN!
-(thanks for the "lol" on my ask btw)-
We crucify every movie adaption for the same lack of respect, when the creators say they barely read the source material they adapted.
And yes, the anime does look like it aired on interdimensional channels!
Nice point!
@@chrisosborn6401
Ummm, okay?
But yeah. There is no Avatar Live Action Movie.
Did the director of this show watched the show? When was this conceived? Cause the time in which this was being worked on, greenlit, and developed could explain the discrepancies between fhis spin-off and the main show. @@chrisosborn6401
I thought the show was going to be Rick and Morty, but shot through the lens of exaggerated anime tropes: infallible protagonist, inner monologue, rival characters etc- just a massive shitpost that takes place in one of the canon story's infinite universes. As is, what even is this show's appeal to anime fans? What even is this show's appeal to anyone?
I mean I'd say that about the main show after Season 4, but at least I get why people might still like that.
This? Not really. I'm still not sure why they kept giving the Japanese more shorts when the series stopped being popular there. Why couldn't we get more shorts like Bushworld Adventures?
@@Newsystuffs AS is trying to bank off of anime fans after Demon Slayer popped off but they're far too behind the curve now. They tried to commision some original anime, only one of them was decent. I expected Uzamaki to also be mid. It's ironic. After AS stopped showing anime like over a decade ago, they'd constantly mock and ridicule people begging for them to bring it back. Now, they want to milk it and everything they touch is crap. Maybe it's on spite.
@jase276 Uzumaki is based on a well-loved source material and even its creator praised the anime
@@jase276as has been banking on amine for years pretty much anyone ik irl who watches anime got there start watching it on toonami
@@jase276 I think AS just has the distribution rights for the anime, they don't actually control it's production
Who thought that the best part of the Rick and Morty anime would be the alien bug yaoi subplot?
Probably the same people who unironically enjoyed the man-eating coom monster episode
The same people who figured out the wall was the most interesting part of solar opposites
@@XD-sc4ix hey, sorry, casual viewer here. the fucking what?
@@caramel9154 yes you heard that right its an actual episode and that's not even the worst part of the episode
@@XD-sc4ix I fell off after season 3, when does that happen lol?
Jesus Christ this hurts my brain and I'VE READ HOMESTUCK BEFORE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MOMENTOUSLY CONFUSING SOMETHING HAS TO BE TO CLEAR THAT BAR?
That's honestly the reason why I could never get into Homestuck. Thing was too bleeping confusing and pretentious for my liking, and I fail to understand how people even liked that thing.
@@Masterge77my gf made me read it
I think its cute, the message board style can be a bit much especially with some of the gimmick typing but i think i was able to get through the inital bits bc i had the knowledge that people basically drove the story
I would rather rewatch *and* re-read the majority of Homestuck then watch this series!
@@Masterge77you follow homestuck for the characters the world building is kinda incidental. But if you review it as whole the continuity is consistent even with the time and universe jumping
Brother.
Geoff using editing to say that he preferred the old Super Mario movie instead of the new one might be the best part of the video
I think what disappointed me the most, is that Elle wasn't a time displaced Diane from Rick messing with time. It was right there to explore. And yes it would get weird, like Back To The Future, so like call back or something.
Wouldn’t be the first time Morty did accidental incest
Do people not like her? Elle and the serialized storytelling (instead of episodic, even though Rick & Morty's the best I've ever seen at it) are the only things I like about this show. Morty getting a love interest with time to build chemistry while they're both uninfluenced by Rick? Sounds great.
Why would I want to give that up for more Rick plot-lines? The main show had it's chances at those, and they threw them away; there was no reason Rick Prime should've been written out so fast.
@@abubakrakram6208 Yeah, I like Elle. Luci Christian is a pretty good choice for her VA. Too bad the anime’s script takes itself way too seriously. Lacks that usual Rick and Morty charm.
@@abubakrakram6208 I'll admit I was/am a bit salty that my theory was so off, but I was already not feeling the anime, but when I saw the teaser and then later the op my thoughts were what other blonde girl is from the show, fresh off the last season when we learned quite a bit about Diane, so I had a bit of more interest then I would have if she had any other hair color. Honestly thinking about it now I do feel like she was intentionally given blonde hair to get people who wanted to know more about Diane to watch the first episode.
I think I'm personally pretty sick of incest in Rick and Morty.
I don’t think they knew what each family member does.
-Summer is an assistant, but Rick is in charge at all times.
-Space Beth mostly runs solo from the family and distances herself from them.
-Jerry has improved, and no longer runs away from the chaos.
-Beth is like Rick minus the Sci fi know how.
-Rick was close in the adaptation, but it is missing his randomness.
-Morty was just surrounded by too much weirdness for me to gauge the differences.
From what I've seen (S1-S3), Morty's optimism serves to contradict Rick's nihilism (later seasons might have contradicted this because I know the show loves to troll)
They were supposedly fans of the series, and despite the disappointing outcome, that does come through to me. It seems a lot like fan-fiction to me in the sense that the characters' personalities are plausible and come from somewhere established in the show.
Jerry having his season 1 characteristics while everyone else has progressed is something I can easily imagine in other realities. Same with Space Beth being softer.
I always expected the family members being completely different from the show, the writing is just nonsensical in general
Morty is kenji? 😅
Im pretty sure that this was meant to be INSPIRAED by the original. They aren't noting it down exactly and replicating the characters but in Anime style. It is a literary different take on the series.
This means taht you shouldnnt be expecting what rick and morty American/original was from this show. I love both honestly.
IIRC, the Powerpuff Girls had an anime adaptation like years ago. And it actually works as a Magical Girl genre anime. Rick & Morty the Anime, doesn't work in either anime genre
Powerpuff Girls Z yeah. It was pretty great
Being pedantic but that’s not an adaptation, its still in the same medium as the original
I actually liked PPGZ
There's a few old cartoons that got anime re-imaginings. Moomin is probably the other big one (but that's a grey area since the first Moomin media outside of the books were anime to begin with).
PPGZ rules, in large part because it absolutely does not take itself even a quarter seriously. Except when HIM shows up.
This show honestly feels more like a worse version of Space Dandy meets FLCL than it does Rick and Morty.
That's a really good comparison. It has the atmosphere of FLCL and maybe some Cowboy Bebop, without the quality of either, even in a remote sense.
What's FLCL about it? Unless you mean the crappier sequels of FLCL that completely miss the atmosphere and point of the OG, then yes I agree
@@jase276 It's imitation FLCL, the real one (the original that is) is so much better. What Adult Swim made was clearly a misinterpretation of what they THINK anime is, but isn't.
Their idea of what anime is can be narrowed down to "It's weird" and that's it, so what they did was make something that was as weird as possible and sold it as an anime, when it couldn't be any different.
@@jase276 it's like FLCL in the sense that neither are very concerned with the audience understanding what the hell's going on. Except FLCL (original) actually executed that well.
Honestly, I think what they did with her was way more interesting than a mere Back to the Future parody
plus, the original show already has too much pointless incest as it is
I don''t actually hate the character designs; there's a pleastness to how loose their forms are, and the thinness of the lines really helps it stand out in an anime lineup. I fell off RM around season 3, but I'll admit that for the most part it's not that different looking from a Brickleberry when viewed in stills.
Mostly this just makes me want to rewatch Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
I don’t think the designs are bad per se but they’re really begging for more fluid animation to take advantage of their soft, malleable shapes
@@mothersbasement I would've loved for this show to have some more of that FLCL "runny eggs" type of animation, fluidity overruling model consistency.
@@TindraSanYeah, some TRIGGER or Science SARU kind of insanity, if you get what I mean.
@@TindraSanKill la kill and scissor seven are also solid examples of high fluidity and less detail. It inherently adds a layer of goofiness and charm that really enhances the comedy for me.
I'd rather watch this 3 times over than Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, no matter how good the art is for that show. Hell, I'd rather just reread the comic and actually have fun altogether.
This project honestly feels like something that was conceptualized at the height of Rick and Morty mania like close to a decade ago, and it took so long to come to fruition that the show is now an entirely different beast with a much more complicated reputation.
It's crazy whenever the average high concept visual novel is more understandable than this
Alright, I'm sold. I'll go check out Ace Attorney finally.
Boondocks is definitely a better cartoon anime than this.
you're disrespecting boondocks comparing it to this
@@ninjaboyz121 even season 4?
@@ivanbluecoolfirst three seasons are too good tho
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@@wirelessbluestone5983 some stuff in 3 aren't that good. Even two like the Katrina episode where it wasn't funny.
on behalf of the anime community, i'd like to say: thank you for your sacrifice in watching this and reporting back!
I watched the first episode and was so damn confused I knew this shit was hot trash
The jokes didn't land cause its all pop culture jokes that don't translate well, also maybe why people feel smart when they get the "deep" reference that's not that deep if you grew up in that time. Idk shit but I love the fist few seasons. I couldn't get through 5 min of the anime
Wait, the Rick and Morty anime is *real* and professionally made? I figured it was just a fan project that I was ignoring.
Define "fan".
Lol
You know what [that bit about how the original cartoon dilutes/explains well complicated concept] makes me want? A video on futurama.
America’s greatest isekai! maybe one day…
@@mothersbasementIsekai'd to the woooooooorld of tomorrooooooow!
wow this look like a really good fan project! ...it is a fan made project right? ...right?
…technically yes.
And technically correct is the best kind of correct?
Thank you for shouting out Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction. It is absolutely the best show airing this season and likely the year if it sticks the landing. The range of emotions I've felt while watching only come from top notch seinen scifi and it's a damn shame it's not being talked about more.
you're telling me there's time travel in rick and morty? Like the thing rick hates so much?
He also gets dragged into a terminator knockoff by Morty doing dumb shit in Rattlestar Ricklactica but it’s mostly an excuse to make fun of time travel stories
Someone hasn't seen the reset button episode.
@@abubakrakram6208 I don't think time loops count as time travel, exactly? Like not in the "Back to the Future" sense.
@@mothersbasementAnd we got Snake Jazz out of it, so definitely worth it.
@@abubakrakram6208 Wasnt the big twist of that episode that it wasnt time travel?
It's not truly trash anime until it washes up on this exact shore.
If you've seen Rick and Morty, the anime is pretty damn confusing and wierd. If you havent seen Rick and Morty, the anime will have you feeling like you're on a really bad trip. 😂
It occurs to me that the whole Rick C-137 thing reminds me of how the MCU movies call that Earth "Earth-616" when that's the universe of the comic books.
when mysterio started on his explainer of the multiverse i was grinning like a cheshire cat
Got to meet the voice of Anime Rick last week, so that was pretty neat
Cool ✨
Does anyone remember that Stitch anime series? And how it completely misunderstood and destroyed the message of the original film and TV series?
Rick and Morty the anime is basically that, only far absurd in it own property that doesn't even warrant a so bad it good type of way.
Ohana means Family, family means I’m moving to Okinawa byyyyyeeeee bitches
The stitch anime series has a different continuity than the Disney films around Stitch.
Its incredible how much cultural momentum Rick and Morty built up with only 2 good seasons that its gotten away with like 5 bad seasons, a spin off, and they're still trying to puppet its body with a new voices and writers.
If I wanna watch a smart anime that kinda jumps all over the place, but actually does this better I'll just watch Red Garden..even if Kate has no big character arc. Also weird fun fact: this show is animated by Telecom Animation Film...the same studio who did Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro. Yeah, kinda random.
They also did 4 Knights of the Apocalypse which is the sequel to 7DS but at least it was better animated than s3-4, even though it still has Nakaba's fetish like a loli telling a teenager she likes him, Jericho going full groomer, and Gawain being a worse perv than the FGO one.
or Durarara...
I'd watch Gundam
Wow, Red Garden is a name I haven't heard in a longgggg time. I used to have a DVD of it as a teenager when anime DVDs felt hard to come by in the physical realm
It looks like a parody you'd see on someone's TV in Shin-Chan.
Action bastard will never leave my mind. I will always think of him at least once a week 😂
It might be just me now I really want Jeff to explain the plot of primer and not just so I have more people to talk to about.
The trick to enjoying this show and it's canon bending story line is to think of it taking place in an alternate "anime" multiverse running parallel to the prime multiverse. It's just like the concept of parallel universes except scaled up by infinite orders of magnitude. Pretty sure that anime C-137 and prime C-137 are two different dudes.
I think the show's biggest flounder story wise definitely is opting for this Rick to be our Rick. Why? It could've been anyone else.
@@abubakrakram6208Isn't it?
[looks up from a pile of suspiciously powdery white substance] the consequences of the destruction of the citadel created infinite fractal universes, so now there are infinitely fractal ricks out there all convinced they're the only c-137
@@tinoesroho possibly, but more likely there are infinite C-137s existing in infinite universes with infinite differences running parallel to each other.
The generic aliens disappointed me in a way I didn't expect. Rick and Morty's art style isn't exactly pretty but I always thought the alien designs and backgrounds in the show were impressive.
Life is too short to wait for a "twist that ties it all together".
Yeah. Though that kind of creates a vicious cycle in this streaming era.
Exactly. When you already don't have enough time to watch/play/read everything as is, giving some of it to something that isn't good at first and only might, MIGHT get good in retrospect at the end just isn't a good investment compared to things that you're already enjoying from the start. Especially when experience shows that the potential payoff twist at the end never pays off spectacularly enough to make the slog on the way there overall worth the time anyway.
i love anime Jerry’s design why is he built like a bell that goes hard ngl
I'm pretty sure this show was not meant to be Rick and Morty originally but they changed it to make people watch because it's Rick and Morty and stuff
Doubt it, considering these were likely made in response to the reception the anime shorts got here at the time.
This makes no sense lol
This anime feels like it was made by some American guy who loves trippy Gainax and Studio Trigger anime but doesn’t actually understand what makes those shows good, so he just slaps all these crazy hyper-exaggerated moments together and plays the scenes out of order
I'm gonna enjoy so much what kind of chaos will ensue when those bitches come back... 😇
The Ace Attorney ad might be the first ad I may be able to get from a youtube video.
Looks gorgeous, not to mention it has something to do with the content I am actually watching
9:40 I think that's a homage to the first shin-chan movie where the main cast goes past each other's parallel selves.
Rick and Morty would be disgusted if they saw this.
Considering how homicidal both Rick and Morty are, imagine what would happen if they used their portal gun to go to their world?
It wouldn't be pretty.
Considering Rick actually said he murdered the versions of them from Space Jam 2, I'd bet they'd do the same thing for these anime counterparts 😂
They'd be disgusted if they ever knew how degenerate their original voice actor was.
"disgusted" feels too passionate of a word, this show feels like something they'd watch on the interdimensional TV, riff n dunk on for a while and then switch the channel.
@@GaryViews"They were begging for death!"
[Sees the sponsor, immediately gets flashbacks that have been edited by JelloApacalypse.] I hear the fan patch for Investigations 2 was quite the Rarity.
this video encapsulates everything i felt when watching the episodes that i've seen yet, and then expands on that with very good explanations. great video!
Thank you for reviewing this series. I gave up at Episode One, but it's good to know the quality stays about the same throughout.
It's interesting that Sano decided to add a cute teenager to the cast as (Maybe?) a partner for Morty, since the main show has repeatedly introduced and then discarded various Morty love interests. On the main show Morty can never be truly happy, but in the anime version the formula is subtly different.
Finally Dead Dead being mentioned! I love your vids on good shows to recommend and to my memory I haven't seen you bring it up before. Its a really good anime. Great vid too!
I believe I briefly talked about it on ones to watch as an honorable mention
@@mothersbasement Thanks I will check that vid out again! Cant wait to see your vid on Dead Dead
This _explanation_ gave me a headache, and I'm sure watching the actual show would give me an aneurysm. Props for explaining it as good as I think it possibly could have been.
Oh, AND, funny you also bring up Higurashi because apperantly Studio Deen (who animated the first two seasons of that anime) also worked on this.
rick to morty "what about the universe where we're stuck in a confusing anime timetravel plot, the answer is 'dont think about it'"
think they'll merk their anime versions like they did their space jam ones?
Beats me.
0:29 I still get sad that we might as well not get a follow-up/expansion to Lop and Ocho, man.
What makes you say that? You never know what Lucasfilms may want to do with what was presented in these anthology episodes if they felt there was an opportunity to use it to make something more fleshed. So don't say never till you're wholly certain of it. Those thing can take a WHILE.
Maybe the colossal failure of this little experiment will mean that I’ll stop seeing commercials for it while I’m trying to watch my fuckin’ wrestling, for god’s sake.
It is technically streaming in Canada with a stack tv subscription in addition to a prime subscription. It’s a really stupidly complicated way to find it, it’s so frustrating having streaming services within streaming services I’m so close to cancelling them all.
holy flying Morty's... 9:31 is a reference to .Hack//Sign's ending
This is the same team that made Seven Deadly sins season 3 and 4.
That's all I have to say.
7ds s3-4 was made by DEEN. its sequel (sort of like Boruto but with grooming, 2 perverted lolis, and Meliodas' son being the 3rd main character) and R&M anime shared the same studio.
@@jakey14344 I know who they are.
And I know they are a very low budget studio.
@manuelinacio4038 I could forgive the awful animation if the story and characters were any good. As someone who watched all of it, they weren't.
@@jakey14344 What is the studio's name?
@@manuelalbertoromero9528 Telecom Animation Film
The "a good Souls game, OR a good Sols game" joke was so good, I wonder how many people in this audience even got it
I did not. Would you be kind enough to elaborate?
@@caosisaac The second game's name is "Nine Sols", hence the joke "a good [dark] SOULS game, or a good [nine] SOLS game."
Ah there was my problem, I forgot there are like 20 characters wearing the same face and the Mortys dont bother change more than colors.
My father loved this show.
Hes never watched anime in his life and thinks anime is dog shit.
That tells you what you need to know. Its so bad my boomer father didnt even realize it was anime
Wonder how your father would react watching Panty and Stocking without any context...
Its fucking ridiculous how many people hate anime but their fav show is Rick and Morty or some shit? Like?
I think I'm in the outliers here. I enjoyed this from a lens of "im watching interdimensional cable: the series"
Did not expect the capcom sponsorship. Especially for Ace Attorney. Nice.
It seems this side project is trying to answer the question of can the show work if it took itself seriously?
Because these last few seasons you can feel the writers of the actual show really really want to go full speed on a more serious tone but hold back because that's not what sold the show.
Myself, I'm approaching this the way I approach the show proper in that for the most part things are kind of everywhere until they're not.
Only without the laughing. Does that mean I think its good? No. It just means I'm willing to listen to what the show wants to say before I give final judgement.
The IronPineapple shoutout at the end really cracked me up. That dude's attitude is always just so nice.
Hearing a coherent explanation of the plot somehow still leaves me confused.....
Honestly, imo?
Props to Joe Daniels. That guy is carrying HARD with his Rick performance.
He also plays Jerry which is… interesting
Eh, gotta take the good with the not-very-good-at-all, I suppose.
I was kinda "eh" on the dub for the first two episodes, but after that they really improved. Sometimes the extra references to the main show they throw in even make the characters feel livelier than in the sub
Why the fuck would you watch this at all but if you are gonna watch it why the FUCK would you watch the dub
As people have said in other videos, I think this finally reveals that Rick and Morty aren't exactly characters that translate well to other scenarios and stories no matter how much they think they know every trope in existence to tear down other genres.
Especially because their own series depends on them being the smartest, unbeateable and most Mary Sue characters around.
I think the issue is that they’re really just spoofs of Doc Brown and Marty McFly, so removing them from the context of parody only turns them into basic clones of those characters with none of the charm
@@mothersbasement
I've heard that about R&M/BTTF before and it makes sense. But it also has a lot of Peter Capaldi's Dr. Who in it too.
Thanks for the DDDddddD shoutout at the end, because Frieren made me reconsider what my 10th favorite anime of all time was, but DDDddddD made me reconsider my entire top 10 and what I even value in media as an adult.
What did they really think an anime could do with this franchise that the original show couldn't? It already has crazy sci-fi concepts that rival alot of similar anime. So making it into an anime is completely pointless.
They could have at least done it in an actual anime style, and not in this pseudo-adult cartoon style.
@ExtremeMadnessX Well, the Japanese like to keep things faithful all the way down to art style soooo
@@revolutionarydragon1123it's not faithful though, they managed to make something that looks way worse.
They could tell a serialized story. Or tell _any_ story that isn't "built up" over 5 seasons without being built up at all only to be thrown away in 1 episode.
All i wanted was Rick and Morty scenarios mixed with some good sakuga, and instead i got worse Rick and Morty.
I love when an RUclipsr I like mentions another RUclipsr I like that makes a completely unrelated type of content!
What the fucking what
What’s impressive is I’m still asking that question 5 episodes in
@@mothersbasementI gotta say. The description at 17:50 that describes the two versions of Rick is exactly the type of media analysis that draws me back to your channel
I barely finished the first episode, so I applaud you, Sir.
the whole thing feels like a it was written by a llm that just read the wikipedia page without knowing about the show before.
and it interpreted the idea of parallel dimensions as a succession of unrelated scenes with different versions of the same characters in different unrelated dimensions instead of the SAME characters traveling to various dimensions.
I didn't know they made more than 2 of those shorts so I want to say someone did a bad job at advertising them.
The IronPineapple reference jerked me out of my seat
People can no longer get mad at how supposedly confusing Kingdom Hearts is when this exists.
what kind of logic is that
In the Old Days, there was some merit in that sentiment, 'cause you'd be pretty lost without playing the side games which were all on different consoles.
Nowadays with collections and everything on single platforms, nah it's like a basic good v evil story with baby's first time travel added in it ain't that hard. "but but but the backstory" yeah and the silmarilion's pretty neat but totally unnecessary to making sense of LotR.
@@the9thinning1 that the internet has made it a running joke about how convoluted and confusing the plot of Kingdom Hearts over the years has been. And this clearly beats it while also not actually making any sense
@@Shadewaltz honestly with the time travel I still give people that because it is a particular kingdom hearts brand of weird about it lol.
@@KazeAizen just because this is more convoluted doesn't mean people can't still be annoyed by Kingdom Hearts' convolutedness
Infinite universes means infinite versions of every specific numbered Rick, and even though the series technically only takes place in the subset of infinite universes in which Rick is the smartest being in the universe, that's still *infinite* because that's how infinity works. So this is a different version of Rick C-137's universe and timeline, but that's the Rick it most closely resembles at first.
Next, a lot of the comedy in Rick and Morty doesn't translate well to Japanese sensibilities, due to sarcasm and observational humor in the style of stand-up comics being less central to their comedy traditions. So instead the anime seems to focus on the abstract sci-fi concepts and philosophical navel-gazing (which is what a lot of the observational humor in the show might read as to a Japanese viewer; the whole "love is just a chemical process" bit from season 1, for example, might come off as sincere to someone who doesn't realize that Rick's overbearing cynicism is part of the gag). This would also explain some of the unusual characterizations, especially Rick. Tragicomic detachment and enlightened detachment look very similar if you literally can't tell the difference due to a language/culture barrier.
As for the confusing storytelling, I get the feeling that there were probably a lot of production issues, a lot of creative ambition, and just a whole lot of behind-the-scenes shit that came together to undermine whatever's going on. Like, I have to assume Elle's whole deal is the key to the entire story, like, she shows up out of nowhere, even appearing prominently in the title sequence, it feels very suspicious and I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out she's just got the entire cast dancing to her tune until suddenly they figure her out and the whole season was just her trying to, I guess keep Morty with her? The best outcome I'm thinking is like a poor man's version of something by Kotaro Uchikoshi.
The best part of this video was reminding me of Baccano!
The video was plenty entertaining, but the sponsorship doing its part to one day get us AA7 is even better.
As someone who has never watched Rick and morty your explaination makes as much sense to me as when you described those cult anime… at least the plot of those happy science cult anime plots make a little more sense
This show reminds me of the Suicide Squad anime...some people just don't do their "homework" before doing an anime adaptation.
Suicide Swuad isekai at least had some fun fights and Harley Quinn anime booty. It was exactly as advertised, nothing more, nothing less, which is more than you can say for this show.
@@mothersbasementDon't forget America's glorious cheeks!!
@@Escarabejo_Azul_92936Also, Clayface Jackson.
Castlevania isn't a western IP its Capcom's IP (a Japanese company) and was released in Japan originally before later being released in the States.
Yooo the Nine Sols AND Thymesia references, this hits way too close
It kinda upsets me that the whole show turns around Time Travel, while the one thing that Rick consistently says that he is not going to mess about is with Time Travel.
There's no fucking way this is true, but my brain just went "Rick and Morty anime was so bad that it made Geoff like Riverdale in comparison"
I was just about to comment that you described it like Dark Souls 2 then you immediately made the comparison for me
The anime strikes me like what the show ended up doing for the cartoon's clip show episodes:
They put together a whole bunch of concepts and ideas for the anime, but because they couldn't reach a consensus or give everything a cohesive, more fun way to put them together, they just stitched every idea together and said it's "non-linear" just so they can "technically" fit the weirdness of the cartoon's multiverse...
Except it's not really clicking, I tapped out halfway into the first episode because even though I liked the idea of multiple Mortys having their own anime adventure... The whole thing is just... Too messy to enjoy proper.
Id like that at the end of the series, evrrything starts to snap into place and it seems better in retrospect and someone does a chronological edit to make it less disjointed
I remember dropping Rick and Morty ENTIRELY after The Hollywood Reporter article on Justin Roiland's bts behavior and in hindsight that was the best decision I made.
It’s actually gotten pretty great since they dropped him from the cast
Has it? Kind of stopped following the show after a while. @@mothersbasement
@@mothersbasement I hope so but I'm good right now.
Btw big fan of your Happy Science videos
I've honestly been enjoying the Rick and Morty Anime...I think it's one of those things that needs to be watched and then rewatched to completely grasp.
1:35 That's not Jerry. That's Garry 💀💀😭😭
the whole show should have ended with season 5 (like most shows). the entire premise lacks the mass appeal staying power of shows like Simpsons, family guy or South Park. and while I'd also argue those three shows have outstayed their welcome they at least have that old comic strip thing going for them where even though they're played out there is still enough of a reason to keep making them.
rick and morty is just such a 2010s show...like it was only meant to exist in that decade. it was amazing for the first few seasons and when it tapered off a bit they should have made plans to make S5 the final season.
kinda sounds like space dandy without...
The sauce?
Hard to explain if you kinda like this try that it's a bit more fun, emotive, and simple.
My husband and I were in a hotel room and put on adult swim because there wasn't much else. So we caught the premiere of a new episode, and it was so confusing and dull that we didn't even make it through the episode. I thought it was just an experimental episode of Rick and Morty, the fact that this is a spin off series makes it so much worse than if it were a one off novelty.
Someone took the way I saw Soul Eater (random stuff cutting to random stuff) and just wrote a whole anime about 😂
3:46 "gorgeously animated sprite art" bro they arent even trying to hide the mixels
Imagine being able to shill for Ace Attorney... for MONEY!
That's the dream man... that's the dream
I’m so freaking excited for the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection! I’ve been waiting so damn long!
It really does feel like these cash grab 3rd party animes that have been popping up the past few years are the spiritual successor to all the movie tie in video games so common in the PS2 era. Hell, this one even has the "wow this is a lot uglier than expected" property most of those had!
Uh...Can you name some examples? Cause Cyberpunk Edgerunners technically falls on that category the way you are describing it.
It’s sad to see Japan didn’t get Rick and Morty season 7 dubbed. It was a solid season and makes me excited for Season 8. Rip to the many people of Japan who will need to rely on fandubs to experience it
Or they could, you know, just watch it with the subtitles.
I am begging you (collective you, but also you, specifically, Mother's Basement) to look up what a "mullet" is. It is not just "long hair."
Mullet Rick is his official name, or at least the one used all over the Wikipedia page
So the wiki writers don't know what a mullet is, and the ceaseless hoards of misinformation can't be staunched.
@@mothersbasement Okay, that excuses you. But not them!
I really hope they finish this because i don't think I'll ever watch it, but i think they are doing SOMETHING and it'd be neat to see what exactly they do!