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Rick and Morty: The Anime, Housing Complex C, Uzumaki Anime to Air on Adult Swim Canada
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Corus Entertainment announced on its website on Wednesday that Adult Swim Canada will air Rick and Morty: The Anime, the upcoming Housing Complex C anime, and the anime of Junji Ito's Uzumaki horror manga during 2022 and 2023.
Takashi Sano (Tower of God) will direct the 10-episode Rick and Morty: The Anime series at Telecom Animation Film (Lupin III, Shenmue the Animation). He previously directed the "Rick and Morty vs. Genocider" and "Summer Meets God (Rick Meets Evil)" animated shorts. The anime will be an original work, with adapted themes and events from the main Rick and Morty animated series.
The show will premiere on Adult Swim and HBO Max.
Housing Complex C will premiere later this year.
Adult Swim describes the story:
Housing Complex C centers on Kimi, who lives in a small, low-cost housing complex located in the seaside town of Kurosaki where trouble seems to follow her wherever she goes, and horrific incidents begin to occur. Is an ancient evil stalking the residents of Housing Complex C?
Yūji Nara is directing the series at Ogikubo-based animation studio Akatsuki, which worked on a Gucci ad featuring an animated version of Miley Cyrus. amphibian is credited for the original concept.
The four-episode Uzumaki mini-series will premiere on Toonami. The anime was originally slated to debut on Toonami in 2020 before it premiered in Japan, but the anime was delayed to 2021. It was again delayed to October 2022. It remains unclear if the anime will still debut on Toonami before Japan in light of both the new delay and the earlier delay. Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushi-Shi) is directing the mini-series at Studio Drive. Production I.G. USA and Adult Swim are co-producing the anime. Colin Stetson (Hereditary) is composing the music.
The 1998-1999 manga follows the inhabitants of a town where strange occurrences related to a spiral shape began occurring one after another. Viz Media originally released the manga in three collected volumes from 2007-2008, and later released an omnibus edition.
Source: Corus Entertainment's website via I Miss Bionix
