10 Best Animated Sci-Fi TV Shows Of All Time

Samurai Jack is a breath-taking achievement in animation. Creator Genndy Tartakovsky took inspiration from his childhood fascination with samurai culture and the bushido code, and was aiming to replicate 1970s cinematography as well as classic Hollywood movies. And the effort poured into the aesthetic certainly shows.

With different sizes of wide-screening and various art styles, Samurai Jack uses it visuals to its advantage as a lot of the storyline can be told through imagery rather than dialogue.

Moreover, Samurai Jack has an excellent flavour of science fiction to it as it's set thousands of years into the future, with robots present and rockets in full function. It is an effortless merging of the old and the new, in this tale of hope and chaos.