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."

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. Rick and Morty- The Anime - Season 1

Wubba Lubba Dub-Dub... in Kanji.

is a failure as a sitcom. But as a piece of trans-dimensional art about trauma, it is a howling success. Just don't expect to laugh. Expect to question your own reality. In one stunning sequence, a depressed, chibi-style Morty

If you watch Rick and Morty for the "I’m Pickle Rick!" catchphrases and the burp jokes, stop reading now. You will hate this. The anime has zero interest in being funny. There are no punchlines. The humor is replaced by existential dread. It wants you to drown in it

"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 ).