Samurai Jack

Samurai Jack is an American animated television series by Genndy Tartakovsky, which was shown from 2001 to 2004 on Cartoon Network.

Content

Jack lives in medieval Japan. His father's empire is destroyed by the pure evil Aku, Jack is still a child. His father is captured in the attack of Aku. Therefore, Jack is now part of his father's land and he would actually be emperor, but his mother sends Jack to different masters, where he is trained as samurai to end the reign of acoustics and to free his people. She gives him the magic sword, with the only good things can be done. When Jack's training is complete, he is a man and he goes to Aku to fight with him. Jack would have won if not Aku before the final blow was done, open a time portal and Jack had sent into a future that is Aku the undisputed ruler of the world. As he travels through the world, which is now engineered so that Jack initially has problems to find their way, he seeks a time portal to return to his own time and defeat Aku. He experienced many adventures, but in which he also has to deal with the henchmen Akus find many friends.

Publications

The series was first broadcast on 10 August 2001 to 25 September 2004 to the transmitter Cartoon Network. However, not all episodes have been sent. The last few episodes have been broadcast in several special broadcasts of the format Toonami. Warner Home Video released the series in the U.S. on DVD.

In 2007, the series was broadcast in Germany by Cartoon Network.

Synchronization

In addition to the Scotsman who makes an appearance in four episodes, occur only Samurai Jack and Aku on a regular basis.

Video Games

It appeared two video games series. Samurai Jack: The Amulet of Time was produced for the console Game Boy Advance, Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku for the GameCube and PlayStation 2 In addition, there are several Internet Games series on the Cartoon Network website.

Awards

Four episodes of the series were 2002, 2003 and 2004 Emmy Award. Two more episodes were nominated for this award.