Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, the new animated series from acclaimed director Genndy Tartakovsky, is set to premiere this Thursday at midnight on Adult Swim and Max. In a media landscape largely defined by a torrential flood of sequels, prequels, reboots, soft-reboots, spinoffs, and reimaginings, Tartakovsky’s latest feels like genuinely precious rarity: An original animated series about a trio of immortal warriors fighting a primordial evil across time and space, and a passion project nearly two decades in the making with genuinely interesting characters, a unique setting, and an inspired steampunk art style.
While Tartakovsky appears more focused on producing his own original projects as of late, with the premiere of Unicorn: Warriors Eternal and the R-rated comedy feature Fixed set to appear at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, he hasn’t entirely eschewed the possibility of continuing some of his beloved past series. In addition to a potential third season of Primal, likely centering on Spear and his lover Mira’s daughter, Tartakovsky told Polygon he has yet another series he would love the opportunity to close the book on. It’s one of his lesser known (but no less ambitious) projects to date, with a passionate cult following of fans who share its creators’ desire to see the story finished: Sym-Bionic Titan.
“I want to finish Titan,” Tartakovsky told Polygon over Zoom. “We wrote 10 more episodes; there’s more to finish and yes, I would want to do that. It’s just nobody’s letting me do it just yet.”
Premiering in 2010 on Cartoon Network, the sci-fi action-adventure series was Tartakovsky’s love letter to Robotech and Voltron, following the adventures of a heroic trio of alien refugees who
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