Animation Bump: Digital technology has been kind to this show.The High Priestess especially wants to kill Jack to get Aku's attention and curry his favor, to brutal levels. Ambition Is Evil: Because Aku isn't as proactive, killing Jack has even greater value than it ever did, so more are competing to get his attention.He describes the female army as his 'pride and joy', though he does rebuke them for going into battle so scantily clad (by his standards, anyway.) A literal brigade is formed by the many daughters of the Scotsman himself- apparently he's been really busy over the last 50 years.Apparently the leader gives birth to everyone, and gives them Training from Hell as they grow up. The Daughters of Aku, a group of assassins specifically born and trained to kill Jack.While trapped inside a giant monster, Jack fights and kills some insectoid creatures that bleed blue and green blood.The tiger-like alien creatures bleed bright green blood.The reasons being that he was too slow to deliver that information were mostly not his fault. While he was unrepentantly evil, he was completely loyal to Aku and was killed just for giving out-of-date information. Scaramouche could also be seen this way.Similarly, after killing 5 more of them, Jack hallucinates dozens of crows screaming "Murderer!" at him, and decides to protect the last of them, Ashi. and instead of being a heroic, triumphant moment as his previous victories, it's treated somberly, reflecting the fact that Jack just killed an abused young woman. Jack manages to kill one of the Daughters.Notably, Aku was aware of this, and very much regrets it, as it means he can't just let time do his job for him. The Ageless: Jack has stopped aging as a side-effect of the Time Travel, and is the same age that he was in the original series despite fifty years passing.Actor Allusion: In the first episode, Samurai Jack was wearing a red mask just as in The Animatrix.Their father is even worse it's Aku himself, who forcibly takes control of Ashi, making her try to kill Jack and even turning her into an Aku-like demon creature. Abusive Parents: The High Priestess of the Daughters of Aku couldn't care less about the safety of her own children and even tortures some of them herself.2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Jack's motorbike is CGI, but it's cel-shaded, making the effect less noticeable and jarring.The show started airing March 11, 2017, on 's Toonami block, and concluded on May 20, 2017. But unknown to either, a cult of Aku worshipers have raised and trained a band of deadly assassins, for the sole purpose of killing the staunch samurai and winning Aku’s favor.Ĭreator Genndy Tartakovsky returned for this final season, which serves as a true Grand Finale for the series. The evil demon, who has not shown himself in years, also suffers from depression his hated nemesis has evaded every peril, including death by natural causes. As his journey drags ever on, the samurai wonders if he will ever succeed in his mission to destroy Aku. He has lost all sense of time, his magic katana has gone missing, and is slowly going insane from the struggle. Set fifty years after Season 4, Jack is still stuck in the future looking for a way to return to the past, and to his own surprise, his body has not aged. We now introduce the long-awaited fifth season of Samurai Jack, arriving on thirteen years after the show seemingly ended with no conclusion.
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