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Hiroshi Nagai: Japan’s Sun-drenched Americana

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Sailor Moon: Ukiyo-e Style - art by Littlecrow

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Cory Doctorow has a short story about this scenario . A wealthy doomsday prepper hides all his wealthy friends in his bunker after society collapses. They all end up dying horribly of a virus that one of them brings in on a scouting mission. A scouting mission they were forced to undergo because of poor planning.

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The Haunted House

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I may have written this out before, but I think the best case scenario if Harmon and Co. want to continue Rick and Morty indefinitely is to bring an end to Rick C-137 and Morty Prime's story in the next season or two and shift to following a Rick and Morty from another dimension.

This would a.) Give a satisfying conclusion to C-137's story (and a place people can jump off at if they choose) b.) Make sense in this world that the show has established and c.) Open up some storytelling dimensions that are currently off limits and allow for a sort of reboot.

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I think it's incredibly funny that as soon as they announced seasons 11 & 12 and it's all "one hundred years Rick and Morty" there are two questions from the audience asking how they're going to end the show. Damn, Dan Harmon, talk about misreading the room

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@teamlynda really spent a lot of time putting this together and also explaining Destielgate to her new best friend, Misha Collins.

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Block any account that tells you not to vote.

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liked seeing your thoughts on the r&m anime! have you seen rick and morty vs genocider? what did you think of it? it’s one of my favorite things ever.

It's been awhile since I've seen rick and morty vs genocider but I remember enjoying it. I might rewatch the anime shorts to see how they compare to the series.

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Some thoughts on Rick and Morty: The Anime

Spoilers ahead

Instead of doing a review for every episode I’m going to give some thoughts on the first episode and then do a final review at the end when the whole series has wrapped.

Voice Acting

I’m still baffled that they didn’t use the original voice actors for the English language dub. Maybe there were scheduling conflicts or they wanted more of a separation between the American version. Regardless, the actors do a fine job of being faithful to the characters. I really love Rick’s Japanese voice actor (Yōhei Tadano) who captures Rick’s personality and yet makes seem like the 70 year old man he’s actually suppose to be.

Morty and the VR Bisexual Sandwich

The majority of the episode revolves around Morty’s adventure in a VR game created by Rick to keep Morty distracted while Rick and Summer are doing more important things. We are introduced to our first original characters, Elle and Frank. Elle has appeared in several of the previews and has been set up as the main love interest. In fact, it’s implied that have a history even before he first meets her in the VR game. Frank, on the other hand, we haven’t seen before and we don’t yet what their relationship will look like at this point, but there are some romantic undertones. Throughout the game (which seems similar to Roy from Mortynight Run) we see Morty or Morties live a life that parodies Citizen Cane, has a romantic dinner with Elle, share a warm embrace with Frank, and is gifted a Nander Dragon’s Tear/Sweat from his partners. It is implied, however, that the VR game may not purely be a simulation due to the introduction of…

Long-Haired Rick and Troubles in Interdimensional Paradise

During the simulation, Morty meets a version of Rick we’ll just call Long-Haired Rick who informs him that the lines between dimension are becoming blurred and flowing into each other hence the reason this Rick is able to interact with a Morty even though his Morty has long since died. It’s rather nice to see a Rick who openly mourns his lost Morty and is a nice departure from the cynicism of the original show. Of course, the reason LHR and Morty are speaking with one another is the same reason our Rick is stuck in limbo with a nonfunctional portal gun and entropy bomb/not bomb with nothing but Summer to help guide him home. The dimension are bleeding into one another setting up the main conflict (possibly) of the series moving forward.

Final thoughts

I will say it did take a few watchthroughs to understand what was going on in the story because there is a lot of jumping around to different dimensions that can be easily missed if you’re not focused. This is not going be a show you can have on in the background while scrolling on your phone, so if you plan on watching this series expect to take your time with it. From what I’ve seen, I’m intrigued enough to keep watching to see how the story unfolds. I want to see how Morty’s relationship develops with Elle and Frank and what is LHR all about? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

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I haven't posted a lot of my printmaking stuff in awhile so here you go!

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Famous Heroes of the Kabuki Stage Played by Frogs, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 19th century

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a midnight scene at atami (1939). tsuchiya koitsu

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Why didn't they just get Ian and Harry and everyone else to do the English language dub? A bit of a baffling decision

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Utagawa Hiroshige’s Kitsunebi on New Year’s Night Under the Enoki Tree near Ōji, 1857