After all these years, Samurai Jack is back. You can find the first three episodes at the Adult Swim website. A little Googling will get you the rest of them. There are three episodes left to finish out the series.It’s pretty incredible that this short, which I watched in the first half of the 2000s, comes back in 2017. In the interim the original actor who voiced Aku died, but the replacement seems rather good to me (I wouldn’t have noticed the difference).
What makes this series so special? I think it’s the seamless melange of motifs, whether from medieval Japan to a steampunk retrofuture, to science fictional time travel, combined with a stylized animation which gives one the appropriate impression of disorientation that the protagonist must be feeling when confronted with a nightmarish future.
http://m.ign.com/lists/top-100-animated-series
I just finished watching all 4 seasons of Batman cuz after I watched the first few episodes on Amazon Prime I thought “man, this is still really good!” Then I went full 90s and started Superman (from the same era) and bought the first season of X-Men. Turns out all of them have aged well according to this list. I feel like we were spoiled with good cartoon shows in the eighties and nineties but, then again, some of them haven’t stood the test of time Imo. (I used to be a big fan of He-Man but I couldn’t make it through that or Voltron either.) I know it’s all super nerdy but current cartoon shows I really like include Phineas and Ferb, Gravity Falls and I really like the one season of Disney’s Tron a lot.