Jack travels this foreign landscape in search of a time portal that can return him to his home time so he can 'undo the future that is Aku!'.
The first three episodes premiered as a TV movie called The Premiere Movie.The premiere received high praise, including four award nominations, Cartoon Network ordered 52 episodes of Samurai Jack, which were aired as 4 seasons of 13 episodes each, as a primetime member of the Cartoon Cartoon Fridays programming block. The world has become a bleak place under the rule of Aku, segregated into fantastic tribes and ruled by Aku's evil robot warlords. Watch more videos on the go, get the Cartoon Network’s Watch And Play app here. The first season of Samurai Jack officially premiered August 10, 2001. Made by Genndy Tartakovsky, this cartoon tells the story of a great warrior displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku.
Their fight is interrupted by the arrival of many more of Aku's hunters. Jack requires him to first fight with sticks and Jack is clearly the superior warrior. Da Samurai challenges him to battle and Jack eventually agrees. Jack defeats them handily, much to Da Samurai's amazement. The episode stars a robot named X9 who was programmed with a handful of other X-named robots to eliminate targets for Aku. His performance is interrupted by a new version of Aku's bounty hunters. In episode 15 of the fourth season of 'Samurai Jack,' writers Bryan Andrews and Genndy Tartakovsky cleverly made up a noir-style story arc to tie into Jacks universe. While traveling through the rain, Jack takes refuge in an inn and meets Da Samurai, a hip-hop singer/fighter.