Rick and Morty: The Anime - S1E1 - The Girl Who Manipulates Time

Here it is, the first episode review of the new Rick and Morty Anime! Check out our review and let us know what you thought!

Semi Pertinent News

• Voice Actors out at comic cons!
• Panel of Rick and Morty Voice Actors at Colorado Springs Comic Con Aug 23-25
• Parnel, Grammer, Belden, & Cardoni
• LA Comic Con, Oct 5th and 6th
• Grammer, Belden, & Cardoni
• They are making lots of appearances! 
• Reddit Post of the Week
• https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/1er893f/what_was_the_intended_joke_with_this_guy_was_it/

Main Thang

• Air Date: 8/15/2024
• Broh-nopsis: Morty is in VR broh. Did you watch the dub or sub, broh?
• Official Synopsis: While Summer helps Rick fight the Galactic Federation, while Rick is resting, Morty plays with his VR Multiverses.
• Written/Directed: Takashi Sano

Discussion

• Return of the Galactic Federation
• Summer as Rick’s assistant (more active role)
• Rick is more distant and aloof on a distant planet
• Holding a bomb that makes the flow of time go backwards
• Time travel in RaM
• Rick clone is also being interrogated for the time bomb
• Morty is wrapped up in a VR simulation
• Soft Roy vibes
• How the second half of the episode bounces between different versions of Morty’s life and shows him growing older in different lives?  
• Political Morty
• The Morty Ball?  What was that?
• Repeating instances of the same encounters with the chance to learn from them (and giant worm monsters)
• The crossover between the game and the multiverse
• The way time kind of jumps around in the episode
• Long flowing hair Rick that crossed into the game from his dimension explaining that the game is real?  Did you get that?

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