Visually, the short doesn't look like what you might expect 'anime Rick and Morty' to look like.

The voice actors Yohei Tadano and Keisuke Chiba are the regular Japanese dub voices for Rick and Morty respectively. Studio Deen, known for such shows as Ranma 1/2 and Hetalia, produced the animation. 'Anime' gets thrown around a lot as a marketing term in the age of Netflix's Castlevania and other 'anime-esque' Western productions, but this Rick and Morty short is not merely an homage, but an actual Japanese anime production. WRITE FOR US! Do you have proven online publishing experience? Click HERE and join our team!

Viewers familiar with Kazuo Koike's Lone Wolf and Club manga series and/or its series of film adaptations will recognize the direct homage. It showcases one samurai Rick wandering with a shogun Morty in a weaponized wooden cart and violently facing off against an army of ninja Ricks. The short takes place in a parallel dimension in the Rick and Morty multiverse, identified as Dimension WTM72.

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