Cartoon Network’s hit animation returns for the sixth season
THIS month, Cartoon Network’s hit show, Adventure Time returns with the sixth season.
This much-loved original series takes viewers through the Land of Ooo where the two unlikeliest heroes, Finn and Jake, encounter its colourful inhabitants.
Adventure Time debuted in April 2010, and eventually became a pop culture phenomenon in here and around the world.
In this highly-anticipated new season, Finn and Jake are having their most epic adventures ever! There will be the biggest twist as Finn finds out that his father is still alive and soon jumps on a quest to find him in which he might need to commit a cosmic crime!
Throughout the season, expect more revelations as Finn and Jake continue to traverse the mystical Land of Ooo. In this season, the creators of Adventure Time welcome Masaaki Yuasa, an amine television and film director and animator, to direct and write one of their episodes titled Food Chain.
With his quirky and free form style, Yuasa provided an exciting insight into the word food chain to the actual food chain. This season also features a few episodes written and storyboarded by freelancers.
In addition, fans can now take the experience off the small screen and into every part of their lives — from playtime to bedtime. The beloved characters are now available at Toys R Us, from character figurines, plushies to Finn’s role play sword.
For the first time ever, fans will also be able to wear their favourite Adventure Time characters with a new apparel range available at Parksons and Radioactive stores from next month.
The Emmy award-winning original animated series, Adventure Time has received numerous entertainment award citations over the years, including the prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. Most recently, Adventure Time received its second nomination for a Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Animated Series and a Television Critics Association Awards nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming.
Last year, the series was nominated for its fourth Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animated Program Thank You, a film by the Adventure Time team and Cartoon Network Studios was also accepted into the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Film Program.
Pendleton Ward, the creator of Adventure Time tells us more about the series.
Adventure Time has built a good amount of cross-generational appeal via the Internet. Is there anything about the characters in particular that lends itself to this?
The style of humour is probably what attracts different generations. Adventure Time is young at heart, it’s silly in a way that children can be and there’s a level of over-the-head adult kind of humour. Finn and Jake have a lot of made-up slang words like “mathematical” and “rhombus” that I imagine all ages can snicker at the absurdness of it.
Is there any media, animated or otherwise, that inspired your work on Adventure Time?
The early seasons of The Simpsons had a great deal of heart. That’s what I’m trying to pull from, the kind of stuff that goes straight to children’s hearts. When they’re watching, they don’t necessarily know why they love something. That’s what I’m trying to create, to make characters feel so real that they inspire real emotion where you can feel attached to them and relate to what they’re going through.
Is there any significance to the world Finn and Jake exist in, The Land of Ooo?
There’s no significance to anything I do. It may be the secret ingredient to the show. I try to make it surface-level fun. I could be totally wrong and be unintentionally putting in all sorts of meanings that people are interpreting, but I just try to make it really simple to watch. Characters can be thinking one thought and then go in a totally different direction the next minute. Ooo wasn’t inspired by anything. Ooo — I was making a noise and plugged it in.