Adult Swim Gives Sneak Peek At 'Rick And Morty: The Anime'

It’s an ambush at the space distortion! The series now premieres in 2024

Sunday night saw Adult Swim air the season 7 finale of Rick and Morty “Fear No Mort”, and during it, they aired a sneak peek of the anime spin-off Rick and Morty: The Anime, which with only two weeks left in 2023 has been bumped to next year.

Interestingly, it’s bookended with your typical Adult Swim bumps, opening with “And now, here’s a sneak peek of Rick and Morty: The Anime”. The YouTube description describes it as such “While flying near [a] space distortion, Rick finds himself surrounded by multiple versions of himself from parallel universes.” And that kind of undersells the minute-long clip. While he has a drive-by with one, he soon finds himself surrounded by hundreds, with Summer monitoring the whole situation and finding herself thrown completely off-guard. Strangely, despite all the different and detailed Rick variants the main show gives us, these all seem to be exact duplicates in terms of design. Even the ships are similarly presented. It closes with the message that the series is coming to Adult Swim and Max (presumably next-day and not same-day) next year.

Having missed its originally-announced late 2023 release window, one wonders what the plan was, since the main show just finished a ten week run from its season premiere in October. Since they wouldn’t have allowed it to miss a calendar year again, especially so unnecessarily, were we supposed to get an hour of Rick and Morty content for at least several weeks? Did Aqua Teen Hunger Force step in for the four weeks its season ran (its twelfth season finale was also Sunday)? Or was it decided it might be right to place it separately to bridge the gap of breaks between seasons that have been ten to thirteen months once they finally started releasing episodes every year? Guess they’ll tell us when they’re ready.

Rick and Morty: The Anime stars Yōhei Tadano as Rick, Keisuke Chiba as Morty, Manabu Muraji as Jerry, Akiha Matsui as Summer, and Jun Irie as Beth. It is produced by Jason DeMarco of Adult Swim, serving as Senior Vice President for Anime & Action Series/Longform for Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios, and Joseph Chou of Sola Entertainment, the company handling general production. Animation production is by Telecom Animation Film. The opening theme "Love Is Entropy", was written and arranged by Japanese group OTONEZ. It is sung by CODE OF ZERO member 0C and Cameron Earnshaw.