Rick and Morty

This nonlinear style of storytelling is ultimately the fatal flaw for Rick and Morty: The Anime. With the anime having to tell its story out of order, conversations between characters could never really allude to anything happening because it was unclear as to when a particular scene was taking place. It wasn’t clear as to what the actual timeline of the series looks like, and that was an issue that was carried all the way to the end.

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Though the Dan Harmon show is animated, Rick and Morty had a live-action interpretation in 2021, and it was about as weird as anyone could expect.

To promote its 5th season, Adult Swim released several promos featuring a live-action Rick and Morty, with the characters played by Christopher Lloyd and Jaeden Martell, respectively.

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Fans of iconic adult animated sitcom Rick and Morty, rejoice! A unique immersive experience based on the show will officially debut at the Morgan Arts Complex at 3622 S. Morgan Street in Chicago on December 6.

Tickets to Rick and Morty: Multiverse Mania Experience, set to run through January 5, 2025, are already on sale right here.

The 25,000-square-foot space will basically be turned into a life-sized version of Rick's lab. Once inside, guests will have about an hour to play games, win prizes, grab treats and basically pretend to be inside the world of the fictional scientists. Also on site will be a mini-golf course featuring Mr. Meeseeks, a Seal Team Rick Laser Tag section and, of course, Rick's iconic toilet.

"In the Multiverse Mania Experience, Morty’s accident with a portal gun has resulted in a chaotic crisscross of portals, spanning beloved locations across the universe that are now waiting for you to explore," reads an official press release. "You may train in a laser blaster arena, brush up your short game with Mr. Meeseeks, or even tempt fate with a photo on Rick’s forbidden off-planet toilet. Jump into your favorite show moment, play games, win prizes, grab a treat and maybe fill out Morty’s Adventure Card while you’re at it."

We’re back for 10 episodes of the new Rick and Morty: The Anime series! But before we get going, here’s an interview with the creative team!
Semi Pertinent News

• Rick and Morty Season 8 in 2025
• Rick and Morty Boxed Set Seasons 1-7 on September 10th
• Rick and Morty: The Complete Seasons 1-7 includes all 71 episodes from seven seasons of the award-winning series, copious special features, audio commentary, deleted scenes, “Inside the Episode” segments, numerous featurettes, animatic sketches, and more.
• SDCC 2024 Coverage
• https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/06/exclusive-sneak-peek-oni-press-wbdgcp-launch-rick-and-morty-10th-anniversary-special-comics-spectacular/
• Oni Press & WBDGCP Launch ‘Rick and Morty: 10th Anniversary Special’ Comics Spectacular!
• Return of the Rick Mobile
• It’s driving across America right now, as we speak (as of 12 August 2024 anyway)

The English-language version is set to premiere Aug. 15 at 12 a.m. on Adult Swim, with the subtitled version in Japanese to follow on Aug. 17 at 12 a.m. on Adult Swim’s action/anime programming block, Toonami.

Season 7 of Rick and Morty is now available to own on Steelbook Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray Disc, and DVD and can be purchased both online and in-store at major retailers. The series is also now available to buy Digitally from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Vudu, and others. 

Special Features:

• 10 Inside the Episodes (Featurettes) - Take a deeper look into each of the ten episodes from the season.
• Directing Unmortricken (Featurette) - Jacob Hair walks us through the challenges of making one of the most ambitious and action-packed episodes in the series' history, centered on the climatic showdown between Rick and his arch-nemesis.
• The Characters of Season 7 - A wide-ranging look at how the character team crafted this season's most impressive and challenging new designs. For example, how did the team create Jerricky, which consists of fusing two iconic characters together.
• Inside Season 7 - Take a deep dive into S7's biggest story shifts and reveals, plus an overall look at the making of the season from the perspective of various members of the crew.

The Emmy-winning series will return for its eighth season sometime in 2025, ending the show’s recent streak of having new episodes annually (the show’s seventh season had its finale in December). The reason for the push: Last year’s five-month Writers Guild strike delayed production on the new episodes.

But starting today, the show’s seventh season is now on Max, which means all that Rick and Morty episodes are now on the streamer.

Also, the debut season of spin-off Rick and Morty: The Anime will premiere this year, and Adult Swim has just released the first in-show footage (below) from the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR2uw738OvU