In the 90's and early 00's, The cartoon was almost an oasis for animation. This was a place where artists could create their own shows and be supported by studio and network, rather than cartoons created by producers or directors. It was a new golden age after the creative bankruptcy of the 1980s, an era of such shows as "girls of PowerPuff" and "Dexter's Laboratory", experimental shows and stunning animation.

After the starting wave of cartoons, cartoon network studios were established, and the second generation of shows created by the original animators began to be published. The key between them was "Samurai Jackec", the highest -ranked animated series of Metacrytic and a testimony to the beauty of the animation. The cartoon follows the traveling samurai that is trying to prevent a powerful demon to shape the world. The show explored a large number of genres and tones, collected demons, robots and all the strange creatures, enemies and allies - like Scots and pirates.

First, Gendy Tartakovski came up with some elements of the story of "Samurai Jackec" when she was only 10 years oldBut when it came time to set his tracking of the "Laboratory of Dexter", the impetus comes from disappointment with what was on TV at the time.

"I have complained about the action performances since the child," Tartakovski told Indiewire For the 25th anniversary of Cartoon Network Studios. "And anime show and also American plays would have had 20 minutes of talk, then two minutes of great action. They didn't give me enough, I wanted more. And I wanted a break from the Dexter and PowerPuff dialogue, so the moving factor was to love something different. And the result was "Samurai Jackec".

Tartakovski is wrong. Although there were many performances with action scenes in front of "Samurai Jackec", they tend to fragment the action and be the climate scene, not the essence. "Batman: The animated series" appeared at least one fight against Batman each episode, but only after a fair amount of talk and discovery, the same deal with "X-Men: the animated series".

Although Anime had a leg, and shows like "Dragon Ball Z" were notorious about their fights with more episodes, they were still separated between fighting and conversations.

"Samurai Jackec", on the other hand, injected action in every frame, every moment of the cartoon. Not every scene has swords, but every scene uses the language of action films, with long and quiet sequences that build tension before a great fight. Indeed, the cartoon is full of quiet moments completely devoid of dialogue that offer some kind of introspection we do not see in American cartoons even today.

The ideas of "Samurai Jackec" and the desire to take action with a cartoon that actually delivered to non-stop action evolved further into Tartakovski's "received", his emotionally fatal, brutal magnum opus It is absolutely devoid of any dialogue (at least visible dialogue). Similar to "Samurai Jackec", "Received" used action to tell a story, allow the audience to learn something about the characters or the world they live in. No show would exist, it was for an animation fan who was disappointed that the TV cartoons would not deliver the cool struggles they loved - until he took things into his own hands.