Another pretty poor episode. It was very short, and just random stuff happening. It wasn’t funny, and the action sequences were poorly animated.
Yeah, it was just stopped out of nowhere. Usually, Rick and Morty standard episode runtime is about 22 minutes. This lasted for 16 minutes. Why? Were the writers on crunch time or they are just running out of things to fit in the last 4 minutes and quit in post? Either way, having two alternate Ricks fighting for whatever reason and have Morty crying over that Ellie girl or whatever is not good storytelling. That's the equivalent of giving your audience NyQuill because it is that BORING!!!The episode was so short that the Genocider short had to be aired to fill in the gap, and it still managed to bore me so much that I almost fell asleep.
And you know what? I'm going as far to say that High Guardian Spice is Miyazaki compared to this POS. As bad as that show was, at least High Guardian Spice look pleasing to eye, even if this show look like it would've belong on Cartoon Network. But this?! This is just an eyesore.Those FLCL sequels were Tolstoy compared to this dreck.
Yeah, when I saw that, I always said this so many times, "WHAT IN THE ACTUAL HELL DOES ANYTHING HAVE TO DO WITH RICK AND MORTY?!"The plot is incoherent and Morty barely interacts with Rick, which is supposed to be the central focus of the show.
Have ya'll seen the battle scene between Tammy and Space Beth? I have to cover my eyes when I saw that in motion. That's how bad it is.And I'll echo the other posters here, the animation is terrible.
That's an understatement. Lifeless would've implied if the show actually had a soul. This just had no soul.Just completely lifeless and lacking in impact.
Knowing William Street, I wouldn't be surprised if the show was made on a shoestring budget. It's like William Street was made this show to be intentionally bad.Seems like this show was made on a shoestring budget,
I don't want to fearmonger, but I really hope it doesn't affect other Toonami/Adult Swim Action originals going forward because if it did,.....(sighs), I don't know what to say.which does not bold well for the future of other Adult Swim anime originals.
Not that much TBQH. Rick and Morty has become a joke of a franchise in recent years, I don't think the anime adaptation is going to save the franchise's reputation in the slightest.I mean, if even a Rick and Morty spinoff is getting shafted, what are we to expect from the other upcoming projects?
I don't blame you.I'm out, and I'm normally never out, but there is a limit to how much low-effort cash-in trash I can stomach.
If you guys actually do like this show, you don't need to get a justification from me to enjoy whatever the heck you want to enjoy. Look, I like a lot of garbage that people like you probably don't like. And you know what? That's okay because I don't need your permission to justify me liking something, just like you don't need my permission on justifying on why you liking this horsecrap.Sorry if you like this show,
Oooooooooo.......yikes. When you are being compared to Pilot Candidate, and that's from the early days of Adult Swim Action, you know you done goofed up.but this may be the worst anime I've ever watched on Adult Swim since The Candidate for Goddess back in 2002.
As long it has good writing and good character designs, I wouldn't have a problem with it. Otherwise, I just don't want to see it.One thing I am thinking about is a possible tone they could and probably should have gone with. Remember that short that reimagined Spongebob as an action anime?
What if Rick and Morty: The Anime were tonally similar to this? A tongue in cheek, jokey spoof of action anime. They could probably include some gory black comedy in the fight scenes and quippy one liners to make it feel like the original. Just turning a comedy into a straight drama/action title obviously didn't work. My hope is that Adult Swim never does this to any of their other comedies ever again. If you are going to turn a comedy cartoon into an action anime, at least keep the comedy.
This thread is just so epic, so much criticism of Rick and Morty The Anime and all are hard hitting and well thought out, not an swearing fest like The Nostalgia Critic.
What if Rick and Morty: The Anime were tonally similar to this? A tongue in cheek, jokey spoof of action anime. They could probably include some gory black comedy in the fight scenes and quippy one liners to make it feel like the original. Just turning a comedy into a straight drama/action title obviously didn't work.
Way better than R&M Anime. But maybe 1 or 2 episodes in TOA season 2, the animation is lacking. Story is more interesting than whatever's going on in R&M Anime.Has anyone seen the Tower of God series? It seems to be the main prior work of the director of this series. Was the pacing, plot, animation, etc this bad, or does more of the blame go to Deen for Rick and Morty the anime? I understand it was also an adaptation of a foreign property, in this case a Japanese adaptation of a Korean web cartoon. I haven’t seen it though.
I understand that the creator's own take on the characters, but just because you could do something like this, that doesn't mean you should.It's pretty clear that AS based on the shorts were confident on Takashi Sano's vision for the project and pretty clear he has his own take on the material because this isn't like a corporate sort of bad take on the material. This is clearly "someone has their unique vision they want to tell" take but yeah it is one that DOES NOT FIT Rick and Morty especially if this is suppose to be the actual regular take on the characters. Again I'm for different but yeah should have been the out there insane energy of say a FLCL (original not later seasons one) not some confusing ponderous Evangelion esque take removing even the edge of the original Rick and Morty to make it work.
The word "director" is a misnomer. I knew of Takashi Sano because he was a career key animator/storyboard artist since the mid-90s. It was only recently he was the director outright but before that he was mostly a key animator or board artist on shows cutting his teeth on stuff like Tekkaman, Eva, Lupin, Detective Conan.It's weird to me that the promo credits him as "visionary director" Takashi Sano, when, yeah, apparently his only real claim to fame is directing the first season of Tower of God. Nothing against the guy personally, but he's not like Shinichiro Watanabe or Satoshi Kon.