rick and morty season 1 episode 1 transcript

' Samurai' Rick WTM-72 ( Yōhei Tadano) protects the young Shogun Morty (Keisuke Chiba) after having kidnapped him from the company of a group of Ninja Ricks.Īfter being questioned as to the whereabouts of Rick C-137 after the disappearance of his own Rick, a Morty is tasked by the Council of the Citadel, overseen by a spectacled President Morty, to travel to Japan and stop 'The Genocider' from attacking Ricks and Mortys in an attempt to find Rick C-137 to prevent them from joining forces. A fifth short film, titled Samurai and Shogun Part 2 and featuring the return of Samurai & Shogun's Kaichi Sato as writer and director, was released on YouTube on Novemas part of the 2021 Adult Swim Festival. A fourth short film, titled The Great Yokai Battle of Akihabara, directed by Masaru Matsumoto and written by Naohiro Fukushima, was released on YouTube on Octoand aired on Adult Swim the following day. A third short film, titled Summer Meets God (Rick Meets Evil) and also written and directed by Takashi Sano, was released on YouTube on Augand aired on Adult Swim the following day. Written and directed by Takashi Sano, produced by Sola Entertainment, animated at Telecom Animation Film, and starring Tadano and Chiba as Rick and Morty, Manabu Muraji as Jerry, 'AI Driver', and 'Hologram Transvestite', and Yuki Minami as 'Hologram Girl', the episode explores the conflict between President Morty and Rick C-137. Genocider aired unannounced on Toonami on J, debuting on YouTube slightly after. Another eight-minute short film titled Rick & Morty vs.

The short stars Yōhei Tadano as 'Rick WTM-72' and Keisuke Chiba as 'Shogun Morty', the pair reprising their roles from the Japanese dub of the animated series. Written and directed by Kaichi Sato, and produced by Koji Iijima and Studio Deen and executive producer Maki Terashima-Furuta, the episode features a different animation and art style than usual, and is heavily themed around anime, specifically Lone Wolf & Cub.

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Rick and morty season 1 episode 1 transcript