Holy fucking hell Merry Christmas to us! The seminal cartoon series, Samurai Jack, is finally returning to TV and it’s getting a new home on Adult Swim. Check out the teaser trailer below.
https://youtu.be/yzIxLwVwtiQ
This news cannot get any better. Samurai Jack is one of the most legendary cartoons to come out of Cartoon Network. It has won countless awards, including 4 Primetime Emmy’s. It’s show’s creator, Genndy Tartakovsky, has created a masterpiece with the shows four seasons. The show relies heavily on sound and music design, as the titular hero rarely speaks. Tartakovsky is known for creating amazing backdrops for his characters. Almost every frame of Samurai Jack can easily find itself hung in any fine art gallery.
In a recent interview with TechTimes, Tartakovsky was quoted as saying:
I would love to finish the story of Samurai Jack. I feel like people are still kind of interested in it, and it’s nice that after all these years, people are still responding to it, like two generations down almost from it being on the air for the first time. I know the conclusion in my head now. I’ve worked it out, and so I’m trying to find what the perfect vehicle for that is.
The story did continue in comic form, in the Samurai Jack books from IDW. But there is just something about seeing the world Jack lives in move. There were plans for a movie, but after the lackluster performance of The Powerpuff Girls Movie , Cartoon Network decided not to fund the big screen adaptation.
I feel that Samurai Jack, is extremely well suited for the Adult Swim block. The show pushed the limits of the the censors over at Cartoon Network with it’s violence. Even as a younger kid, I knew the show would be more suited for an older audience. Now that the generation the grew up on Samurai Jack has grown, it will have no problem getting legs on Adult Swim.
The show is slated for a 2016 release, but nothing more specific has been announced.
If you’re not familiar with Tartakovsky’s work, I HIGHLY recommend the 2003 Clone Wars series he directed. It, at the time, was the canonical link that joined Episode II and Episode III of the Star Wars prequels. It really shows the style you can expect from Samurai Jack.
