English Dub Review: Rick and Morty: The Anime “Free Will”
Overview
Morty and Elle are reunited.
For all of the hate this series gets strictly for it’s aesthetic, understand this, I actually don’t care about aesthetic as much as I do plot, character development, and dialogue, and for my money, Rick and Morty: The Anime checks all of these boxes for me. Certainly compared with the OG show’s disastrous seventh season, Rick and Morty: The Anime is doing a fine job of filling a void for the show’s fans.
For one,I love the introduction of Elle (Luci Christian) to the franchise as she brings a certain depth and whim to a show that sorely needs it. The mythos around her levels up even more so this week and her relationship to Morty (Gabriel Regojo) is fascinating to watch and I’m looking forward to exploring what the hell their symbiosis could potentially bring in the future. Clearly, Rick (Joe Daniels) is sniffing real close to unraveling all of this, but this is an anime, and something tells me Takashi Sano isn’t done messing with us.
Personally, I actually like the English language voices on Rick and Morty: The Anime more so than I do the season 7 cast of the OG series, mainly because I’m not getting the vibe of a bunch of actors trying to do lame mimics and instead it’s actors just reading into the role and giving their take on how they would approach the character. Hell, even Gabriel’s somewhat of a mimic depiction blows away Harry Belden’s and it isn’t even close.
Do we know if Hulu will be the only entity to have the dub, or if it will be on other platforms, too? The show in general is definitely going to be on multiple platforms.