The First Teaser For Genndy Tartakovsky’s Unicorn Warriors Eternal

Adult Swim debuted the first trailer for Unicorn Warriors Eternal, the upcoming animated fantasy anthology series from Samurai Jack and Primal creator Genndy Tartakovsky, on Wednesday. The series, which premiered at the 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival and was previewed at New York Comic Con last October, will premiere on May 4th at midnight on Adult Swim.

A 10-episode mini-series in the vein of 2014’s Over the Garden Wall, the supernatural steampunk animated action series’ premise sounds reminiscent of Tartakovsky’s own Sym Bionic Titan by way of the 2003 Samurai Jack episode “The Birth of Evil.” It centers on a team of primordial heroes who repeatedly reincarnate throughout history in order to fight an ancient evil. The trailer describes Unicorn Warriors Eternal as an animated series that’s “a lifetime in the making,” which isn’t too far off from the truth. According to a press release, the origins of Tartakovsky’s new show date as far back as the beginning of his career with Cartoon Network.

The show was created and directed by Tartakovsky. Character designs were done by Stephen DeStefano, music by Tyler Bates and Joanne Higginbottom, and sound effects design by Joel Valentine. All of those artists worked together on the Emmy-winning series Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal. The voice cast for Unicorn Warriors Eternal is led by Hazel Doupe, Tom Milligan, and Demari Hunte.

In a release, Tartakovsky explained:

This show was created in my early days at Cartoon Network Studios more than 20 years ago. All the projects we worked on — Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Sym-Bionic Titan — were like a training ground getting us ready for this series. It took all of that time to finally be able to tackle a show like Unicorn: Warriors Eternal.