What a brutal dissection. I guess I’ll go in with low expectations.
The article links to a clip of the show on the adultswim youtube channel, and it’s about as bad as it sounds.
It’s weird. Animation wise nothing would make me think it is an anime, and the dialogue has so many unusual pauses that makes the delivery feel really clunky.
It’s definitely running at a different pace. I’d have to watch the full episode to say for certain.
You have no obligation to watch it.
Just don’t. Not everything produced is worth consuming.
As a Rick and Morty fan (and generally a fan of all kinds of other shows), I’ll take the good with the bad. How else would you grow as a viewer?
“Grow as a viewer” 🤦♂️ by watching new things instead of another corporate remake, that is milking a franchise that you already enjoy.
It’s not a remake. Near as I can tell it’s got a totally original story for the show.
The first ep was rough but I’m reserving judgment. Some first eps are like that.
“Don’t judge a book by its cover”
“The intro is slow it gets better by mid season”
“The first season is all setup but the next one is great”
“Just get to episode 400 during the Glorp arc”
As a One Piece fan I think I have to treat this comment as a personal attack
I was once trying to get into Gintama and legitimately read a review that said it gets a lot better around episode 300 (or something in that ballpark).
Gintama is a comedy show where the plot isn’t super relevant, so jumping in at episode 300 is fine
Isn’t it already an animated show? Why are they duplicating it?
Anime is quite different from Western animated content - I’m assuming that’s what they were aiming for, or the same crowd, at least
That’s true, but I don’t think anyone asked for this.
Money
I was hoping for a classic anime style with over the top melodrama. Not whatever this is.
It’s riffing on sci-fi anime filled with philosophical reflection and nonlinear storytelling, like Ghost In The Shell, Ergo Proxy, Evangelion.
Not saying it’s as great as those or anything, but it’s hard to tell if it will be good by the time the plot wraps up. The animation for the Space Beth fight in (I think?) Episode 2 was pretty bad, though.
…because it is.
I want in not knowing anything and I just assumed that it was supposed to mimic the tropes of those bad 1980s anime, which would be something Rick and Morty would absolutely do. This article suggests that none of it was intentional and it was supposed to be a “good” show. I’m not so sure but it makes a compelling argument.
For what it’s worth, Japanese humor is certainly different than American humor. But it sounds like this is so far off the source material that it’s just plain bad.
