WATCH: ‘Samurai Jack’ Slices Up Some Juicy Season Five Details In New Vid

There aren’t many animated series that have had the same amount of impact as ‘Samurai Jack.’

The Cartoon Network series which originally ran between 2001 and 2004 gathered a massive amount of critical acclaim, both for its story telling and for its magnificently inventive artistic style.
Series creator Genndy Tartakovsky has gone on to helm shows like ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars‘ in the years since Jack went off the air, and even moved into feature films with the similarly well-regarded ‘Hotel Transylvania.’
But when Adult Swim announced last December that the OG Jack would be coming back for a fifth season, shit was collectively lost.
Though show staff have been keeping remarkably tight-lipped about what to expect from a new season, we do now have some intriguing little morsels of information, courtesy of the Toonami panel at the recent Anime Expo in Los Angeles.
According to an in-depth behind-the-scenes featurette (which is super interesting of its own right and focuses heaps on the art of the show), ‘Samurai Jack‘ season 5 will not immediately follow on from the series’ previous finale.
Instead, the show will pick up a few years further down the track, with a now-bearded Jack at something of a loss in his life, according to writer Darrick Bachman.

“I think we’re going to see [Jack] in a new light because we’e going to see him from a different standpoint. In the original series he was very heroic person on a very rigid quest. Now we pick up with him an it’s many years after the fact and he’s a little bit lost. So it’s a story of redemption and him trying to find who he is again.”


Meanwhile, Tartakovsky suggests that, thanks to the shift to Adult Swim, the new season will shift slightly in terms of tone, embracing a much darker heart for the core of the season.

“I didn’t want to go full on heads getting chopped off and blood spurting everywhere, but at the same time I also wanted it to be newer and exciting and take advantage of some of those things.”

The new season is still scheduled to debut “at some point” this year. HOOO BOY!
Source: IGN.

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