In a behind the scenes video presented at the Toonami panel at Anime Expo, several production members working on Samurai Jack Season 5 revealed new information about Jack's return.
Samurai Jack creator and director Genndy Tartakovsky said that the new season will not have a direct connection between the last episode of the original to the new series. Instead, this new show takes place years after the original, and that's changed Jack.
“I think we're going to see [Jack] in a new light because we'e going to see him from a different standpoint," writer Darrick Bachman said. "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."
Samurai Jack as shown in the behind the scenes video.
With the move from Cartoon Network to Adult Swim, the Samurai Jack team has the ability to make the show more adult, but Tartakovsky said that change has been a "big challenge."
"...People watch [Samurai Jack] with their kids. You know, through the generations," Tartakovsky said. "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."
Tartakovsky goes on to say that this new Samurai Jack is a darker, more episodic story with action that's "just as badass as it's always going to be. Probably even more."
The return of Samurai Jack animated series was first announced last December, and the Samurai Jack comic had its own finale earlier in 2015.
Stay tuned to IGN for more news from Anime Expo.
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