Rick and Morty: The Anime
2024 Japanese-American anime television series
Rick and Morty: The Anime is an adult animated science fiction sitcom television series created, written and directed by Takashi Sano, produced by Sola Entertainment and animated by Telecom Animation Film for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. The third series in the franchise, based on the American animated series of the same name by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, set between the fifth and sixth seasons of the main series, it stars Yōhei Tadano as Rick Sanchez and Keisuke Chiba as Morty Smith, reprising their roles from the Japanese dub of the original series. None of the cast of the English version of the original series reprise their roles for its English dub.
Following five short films that premiered on Adult Swim and subsequently released onto its official YouTube account from March 29, 2020, to November 12, 2021, the series itself aired on the network from August 16 to October 18, 2024. Both the shorts and series received mixed reviews from critics, with the former getting somewhat more favorable reactions.
Plot
Rick and Morty: The Anime revolves around the adventures of the Smith family, in particular mad scientist Rick Sanchez, and his grandchildren, the 14-year-old Morty Smith and the 17-year-old Summer Smith, whose parents, Jerry and Beth Smith (Rick's daughter), disapprove of their adventures. As Morty meets "time warrior" Elle, parallel storylines set sometime during the events of the sixth season of the main series explore the final months of the lives of the alternate reality spacefaring hero "Space Morty", and Morty's original father Jerry Prime.
Different versions of the characters (including the bespectacled genocider, President Morty Smith) inhabit other dimensions throughout the show's multiverse, with their personal characteristics varying from one reality to another.
Cast
Main
Guest
Manabu Muraji (Japanese) as AI Driver and Hologram Transvestite
Yuki Minami (Japanese) as Hologram Girl
Hinata Tadokoro, Daiki Kobayashi, Hodaka Mieno, Nanami Yamashita, and Kazuya Saji (Japanese) as Future Beings
Misa Ishii (Japanese) as Jessica
Arisa Sakuraba (Japanese) as Cyborg Tammy Gueterman / Phoenixwoman
Masashi Hashimoto (Japanese); Andrew Love (English) as Birdperson, a freedom fighter and Rick's best friend
Fuminori Komatsu (Japanese); Shawn Hamilton (English) as Andre Curtis / The President, the U.S. president
Fuminori Komatsu (Japanese); Brandon Hearnsberger (English) as Mr. Nimbus, Rick's nemesis
Natsumi Wakasa (Japanese) as Birddaughter, Birdperson's and Tammy's child
Takeshi Hayakawa (Japanese); Shawn Hamilton (English) as Mr.
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