


Fifty years has passed, and because Jack was pulled out of time, he isn’t aging. (It’ll be online at 10:30PM ET the same day.) Samurai Jack was always a stylish, emotional, thrilling show, but now it’s moved to the late-night Adult Swim block and it’s become a much darker, sadder, angrier series. But he spent years pondering a final season of Samurai Jack, which would finally resolve Jack’s story.Ĭartoon Network finally agreed to let him make season 5 of the show, a 10-episode miniseries that launches on Saturday, March 11th at 11PM ET. And after Jack, he became the animation director of the Star Wars animated spinoff series Clone Wars, he co-created and directed the series Sym-Bionic Titan, and he broke into film by directing Hotel Transylvania and its sequel. Tartakovsky had a busy career in animation before Samurai Jack: he was one of the original directors on The Powerpuff Girls, and he created the animated series Dexter's Laboratory. Jack was still stuck far from his own time, fighting the shape-changing, world-conquering demon Aku. But it wrapped up in 2004 with no real conclusion. His stylish animated series, about a feudal Japanese samurai stuck in a dystopian far future launched in 2001, and ran for four seasons on Cartoon Network. Writer-director Genndy Tartakovsky promises the new season of Samurai Jack is the last one.
