Samurai Jack is an American action-adventure comedy animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network. The series follows "Jack", an unnamed samurai sent through time to a dystopian future ruled by the tyrannical shape-shifting demon, Aku. Jack quests to travel back in time and defeat Aku before he can take over the world.
The series premiered on August 10, 2001, ending in its fourth season on September 25, 2004, without concluding the story. A revival was produced twelve years later, giving the fifth and final season that concludes the series, which premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami block on March 11, 2017.
