The Samurai Jack crew aimed to “tell the stories visually… tell a very simple story visually.”Talking was kept to a minimum. A snippet of the burning tree sequence in Samurai Jack episode eightThere was no doubt about the size of the risk that was Samurai Jack. Samurai Jack pulled visual ideas from everywhere — Akira and The Andromeda Strain (1971), for example. A snippet of animation from Samurai JackYou find a Cannon-like approach across Samurai Jack. Even with its robots and samurai and demons and zombies, Samurai Jack didn’t really fit with the mass culture of its time.