Rick and Morty: Anime Trailer Reveals August 15 Debut with Bilingual Cast
The Adult Swim programming block has just dropped the official trailer for Rick and Morty: The Anime, and we’re hyped! The trailer confirms that the series will premiere with an English dub on Thursday, August 15 at midnight, followed by the English-subtitled version with Japanese audio on Saturday, August 17 at midnight in the Toonami block.
The Japanese and English cast members are:
Each episode will be available to stream on the Max service and to purchase digitally a day after its Adult Swim premiere. But that’s not all! The Rickmobile and Mortymobile will be hitting the road for a “multi-city ANIME-rican tour” at Comic-Con International in San Diego with advance screenings of the first episode. The tour will end at Adult Swim‘s hometown of Atlanta.
The show will also run on Adult Swim Canada. And don’t forget, the anime will be an original work, with adapted themes and events from the main Rick and Morty animated series.
Takashi Sano (Tower of God) is writing and directing the 10-episode series at Telecom Animation Film (Lupin III, Shenmue the Animation). He previously directed the “Rick and Morty vs. Genocider” and “Summer Meets God (Rick Meets Evil)” animated shorts. Sola Entertainment is producing the series, and producers include Maki Nagano, Max Nishi, and Takenari Maeda. Yu Kiyozono (TAF) is the animation producer, and Yuuki Kakizoe (TAF) is the assistant producer.
Jason DeMarco and Joseph Chou are executive producers. Arisa Matsuzawa (TAF) is the art director, and Makiko Kojima (Studio Road) is the color designer. Sou Ki (Souki Production) is the CGI director, Kaori Kobayashi is the special effects supervisor, Tatsuo Noguchi (T.D.F.) is the composite director, and Yoshihiro Kasahara is the editor. Kōichi Iizuka is the sound director, and Tetsuya Takahashi is composing the music at Terra-Musica.
OC from Code of Zero performs the opening theme song “Love is Entropy” with Cameron Earnshaw. OtoneZ wrote the lyrics, composed the music, and arranged the song. And, don’t forget to check out the previous animated shorts, including the “Samurai & Shogun” short produced by Studio DEEN in March 2020, and the “The Great Yokai Battle of Akihabara” short in October 2021.
Source: Press release