Cartoon Network ordered fifty-both episodes for the indicate, however took Masturbate of the air in the US before all fifty-both episodes were shown. A unshown episodes were late shown as a "special." Starting in August 13, 2005, Samurai Jack might air on the network each Saturday morning at 3:00 AM ET, however is however unofficially cancelled.

Plot outline
Samurai Jack tells the story of a prince from the medieval orient, whose father's empire is destroyed by Aku, a demon who had antecedently been defeated by his father a emperor. A prince escapes & begins years of step by step videos his mind & person, culminating by owning him getting his father's magic sword, among a couple weapons capable of injuring the demon. When freeing his bond father, he challenges Aku to a duel & about beats him; yet, close demise, Aku creates a portal into a distant first & sends the prince across it, anticipating that he would become respire to amass sufficient power to treat by using the prince by so.

A protagonist arrives in the hostile, futurist Earth, ruled by Aku & filled using his minions and robots. He adopts a nickname of 'Jack' (his really title is never mentioned) & begins his seek to buy how else to travel back to his have instance, sequentially to obliterate Aku prior to he found power.

Opening
(by Aku all over opening animations)

"Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shapeshifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil... But a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future where my evil is law. Now the fool seeks to return to the past and undo the future that is AKU!"

Trivia
Within the fair total of episodes, Jack's exterior even material come either taken off or come bit by bit cheat, ordinarily inside battle. Because of this, a sight of Jack inside his underclothing is even when well-known to regular viewers of a indicate as the sight of Jack inside his fully uniform. Numbers of viewers regard Jack around his underclothes when recurring fan service, evidenced by the focuses of occasionally of the fan websites operated by older viewers. Aku in Japanese means "evil." Samurai Jack won a Emmy Award for Best Animated Television Series inside 2004. ''Samurai Jack's independent title theme music was by a Black Eyed Peas member, will.i.am. [http://news.toonzone.net/2001/jul/30/samuraijack.php] the indicate is accused of existence a "rip-off" of the Frank Miller Graphic Novel Ronin'', from which Tartakovsky has ackowledged ingesting the select few of his inspiration (including the premise of a lordless samurai warrior thrown into a dystopic new ahead of my present).

Character List
Main Characters
Samurai Jack - Voiced by Phil LaMarr Aku - Voiced by Mako

Secondary Characters
Bounty Hunter Brotok - Voiced by Brian George Demongo Evil Jack Monkey-man A Scotsman - Voiced by John Di Maggio