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Samurai Jack is an animated television show, created by Genndy Tartakovsky (who also created Dexter's Laboratory), that airs on Cartoon Network. It tells the story of a prince from the medieval orient, whose father's empire is destroyed by Aku (Japanese 悪 "evil"), a demon who had previously been defeated by the emperor. The prince escapes and begins years of training, culminating with him recieving his father's magic sword, among the few weapons capable of injuring the demon. After freeing his enslaved father, he challenges Aku to a duel and nearly beats him; however, near death, Aku creates a portal into the distant future and sends the prince through it, anticipating that he would be able to amass sufficient power to deal with the prince by then.

The protagonist arrives in a hostile, lawless, futuristic Earth, ruled by Aku and filled with his minions and robots. He adopts the nickname of 'Jack', and begins his search to find a way to travel back to his own time, in order to kill Aku before he obtained power.

Samurai Jack is notable for its highly detailed, outline-free, masking-based animation style and also for its pacing, unusual for today's cartoons: the plot is frequently stopped to allow for the building of tension before combat or for the sake of humor. It is not uncommon for episodes to be almost entirely free of dialogue.

Minorly notable is how, in a fair number of episodes, Jack's exterior clothes are either taken off or are gradually ripped off, usually in battle. Because of this, the sight of Jack in his underwear is just as well-known to regular viewers of the show as the sight of Jack in his full gi. There is in fact a fair deal of exposed skin in the show, though it's done tastefully and in such a way that most children can watch the show. Many viewers (mostly women) regard Jack in his underwear as recurring fan service, evidenced by the focuses of some of the fan websites operated by older viewers.

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