It's weird. Animation wise nothing would make me think it is an anime, and the dialogue has so many unusual pauses that makes the delivery feel really clunky.
After watching the first episode...It was a fun watch. The animation imo doesn't look bad, the storyline doesn't seem that out of place for the characters, but it is playing off of tons of anime cliches that separates it from the regular series. They really nailed what they were going for imo.
Idk if the rest of the season is out, I just watched what was free on the adult swim website, but I think people are being a bit harsh.
Agreed. It seems fine so far. The action has been meh, but the reflective, pondering tone of much of it has been pretty nice. The way it plays on Japanese sci-fi tropes (including out of order storytelling and time travel) has me really interested to see more on this outsiders' take on the possibilities of the R&M multiverse
It's riffing on sci-fi anime filled with philosophical reflection and nonlinear storytelling, like Ghost In The Shell, Ergo Proxy, Evangelion.
Not saying it's as great as those or anything, but it's hard to tell if it will be good by the time the plot wraps up. The animation for the Space Beth fight in (I think?) Episode 2 was pretty bad, though.
I want in not knowing anything and I just assumed that it was supposed to mimic the tropes of those bad 1980s anime, which would be something Rick and Morty would absolutely do. This article suggests that none of it was intentional and it was supposed to be a "good" show. I'm not so sure but it makes a compelling argument.
For what it’s worth, Japanese humor is certainly different than American humor. But it sounds like this is so far off the source material that it’s just plain bad.