After Rick & Morty, one Adult Swim Classic should serve as the next Anime Spin-off.
One show should be clearly worth following Rick & Morty among hints of future Adult Swim episodes getting an Anime treatment.
Given Rick & Morty's only weeks away from premiere, Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. would be a perfect fit for an anime spin-off.
Although the programming block offers several works worthy of an Anime treatment, this long-running adventure spoof has a story structure and popularity fit for a Japanese creative team's revisioning.
The Venture Bros. fit a Japanese reboot naturally.
That still makes it simpler than the rest of Adult Swim's collection, even if the original program started out as a stinging parodies of adventure stories like Johnny Quest. Though it would be interesting to watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force as an anime, its trademark minimal animation and unusual themes feel harder to translate to a new media than the familiarity of Brock Samson entering ridiculous bouts mixed with black humor. Unlike several Adult Swim projects that lasted only one, the several seasons of the show offer more than enough references.
Furthermore, The Venture Bros. just has the same kind of brand awareness and general appeal that Rick & Morty has experienced, the kind that can profit from a marketing ploy like "made by a Japanese studio". The appeal of seeing their foe, The Monarch, redone by a Japanese studio self-evident at least allows casual viewers to identify with it. Since The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, a feature-length film released in 2023, the series has been dormant as well. An anime adaptation would be exactly the kind of thing that would thrill fans since it would let them see newly produced Venture Bros. content following so long.
A Venture Bros. Anime Feels Natural
Adult Swim's other most successful product would definitely be something for which studios should try their hand. Having said that, De Marco has also gone on record to suggest any adaption would have to occur "organically," with a studio presenting really intriguing ideas. Still, Adult Swim has mostly embraced anime, not only showing but also actively helping original works like Ninja Kamui and now Rick & Morty come off the ground. Should Sola Entertainment's anime flourish, The Venture Bros.' turn should only be a matter of time.
The Venture Brothers.
Jackson Publick developed, wrote, and oversaw The Venture Bros.; Doc Hammer and Juno Lee helped him. The animated series tracks the life of super scientist Rusty Venture and his two sons, Hank and Dean. An assortment of supervillains routinely targets the household.
