Samurai Jack

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Samurai Jack is an animated television series, created by Genndy Tartakovsky, that airs on Cartoon Network. It is notable for its highly detailed, outline-free, masking-based animation style and also for its pacing, unusual for today's cartoons: the plot is frequently stopped to allow for the building of tension before combat or for the sake of humor. It is not uncommon for episodes to be almost entirely free of dialogue. Many of the battle scenes in the series are gruesome, often reminiscent of several samurai films, evading censorship since his opponents, being machines, "bleed" only oil.

Related Topics:
Animated television series - Genndy Tartakovsky - Cartoon Network - Masking - Dialogue - Samurai films - Censorship

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Cartoon Network ordered fifty-two episodes for the show, but took Jack off of the air in the US before all fifty-two episodes were shown. The unshown episodes were later shown as a "special." Starting on August 13, 2005, Samurai Jack will air on the network every Saturday morning at 3:00 AM ET, but is still unofficially cancelled.

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