1 - Rick And Morty- The Anime - Season

However, if you are a fan of Serial Experiments Lain , Neon Genesis Evangelion , or the darker Rick and Morty comics, this is a masterpiece. Episode 7, "The Memory Shogun’s Lament," is arguably the best piece of character study Rick has ever received, exploring why he actually drinks—not for fun, but to silence the versions of himself that succeeded.

"I understood none of the plot, but I felt all of the entropy." That might be the best way to describe the experience of watching Rick and Morty: The Anime , the long-gestating, mind-bending companion series from director Takashi Sano (known for Tower of God and The God of High School ). Rick and Morty- The Anime - Season 1

In one stunning sequence, a depressed, chibi-style Morty sits in a rain-soaked Tokyo alley, holding a dying alternate-universe version of himself. In another, Rick has a 20-minute philosophical debate with a floating katana about whether consciousness is a bug or a feature of the multiverse. Rick and Morty: The Anime doesn’t care if you keep up. It wants you to drown in it. Forget the crude, rubber-hose animation of the original. This series is gorgeous. Director Sano employs a watercolor aesthetic for "real world" scenes and a harsh, high-contrast digital palette for the "C-137 Anime Dimension." However, if you are a fan of Serial

The true focus is on emotional isolation. Sano takes the core family trauma—Morty’s desperate need for approval, Summer’s teenage nihilism, and Jerry’s pathetic fragility—and cranks the melodrama to 11. In one stunning sequence, a depressed, chibi-style Morty