Each time Jack nears the end of his quest, his chance slips away, forcing him to continue his journey. Most episodes depict Jack overcoming various obstacles in his quest to travel back to his own time and defeat Aku. The first people he encounters call him "Jack" as a form of slang, which he adopts as his name. The samurai prince arrives in a dystopian retrofuturisticEarth ruled by Aku. On his return, he faces and almost defeats Aku, but before he could land a finishing blow, Aku creates a time portal that sends the prince turned samurai into the distant future, with anticipation that he would be able to deal with the samurai by that time. Eight years later, Aku escapes, and the Emperor sends away his son to travel the world and train so he can return and use the magic sword to defeat Aku. Samurai Jack tells the story of a young prince (voiced by Phil LaMarr) from feudal Japan, whose father (Sab Shimono and Keone Young) received a magic katanaused to defeat and imprison the supernatural shape-shifting demon Aku (Mako Iwamatsu). Aku, in the original opening title sequence Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku! Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me.
The series has garnered critical acclaim, and won eightPrimetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program, as well as six Annie Awards and anOIAF Award. The fifth season premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami block on March 11, 2017, and the series finale aired on May 20.Īll episodes of Samurai Jack are directed by Tartakovsky, usually in collaboration with others. A revival was produced twelve years later, resulting in a fifth season that concluded the series.
The series premiered on August 10, 2001, with a TV movie called The Premiere Movie, before ending in its fourth season on September 25, 2004, without concluding the story. Jack quests to travel back in time and defeat Aku before he can take over the world. The series follows "Jack", an unnamed samurai sent through time to adystopian future ruled by the tyrannical shape-shifting demon "Aku". S amurai Jack is an American action-adventureanimated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network.
Kelly Crews (supervising producer, season 5).Dana Ritchey (associate producer, seasons 1–4).Paul Dinletir (additional music, seasons 1–4)