Rick and Morty: The Anime - S1E1 - The Girl Who Manipulates Time

Return of the Galactic Federation

Summer as Rick’s assistant (more active role)

Rick is more distant and aloof on a distant planet

Holding a bomb that makes the flow of time go backwards

Time travel in RaM

Rick clone is also being interrogated for the time bomb

Morty is wrapped up in a VR simulation

Soft Roy vibes

How the second half of the episode bounces between different versions of Morty’s life and shows him growing older in different lives?

Political Morty

The Morty Ball? What was that?

Repeating instances of the same encounters with the chance to learn from them (and giant worm monsters)

The crossover between the game and the multiverse

The way time kind of jumps around in the episode

Long flowing hair Rick that crossed into the game from his dimension explaining that the game is real? Did you get that?