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Samurai Jack Season 5 |OT| But Yeah, Im Thinking Im Back.
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And yet, in these 3 episodes, there's still more stylistic experimentation going around than in most other shows I've seen.
I always felt like the past was lost, and he'd eventually have to find peace with "just" saving the future. But I am certainly open to whatever they have planned.
Icebergslim
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I know this is off topic but this is probably one of the funniest anime episodes Ive ever seen.
I'd lose it
I really hope this is what happens.
Black.Dont.Crack.
It's been 50 years, I doubt anyone from the past stories is still alive unless they kept her as very very old (possible). But it makes me sad to wonder what happened to the scotsman, or even the SAMOORAIII in all these years
Curt Baboon
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Man, I love the new intro too. The way Jack says the "Gotta get back" line as if it was an old nursery rhyme in that world really adds to the whole tone of the new season.
If they can keep this quality up throughout the whole season, I think Samurai Jack should go down as a landmark show in television. At least as one of the best animated shows ever.
If they can keep this quality up throughout the whole season, I think Samurai Jack should go down as a landmark show in television. At least as one of the best animated shows ever.
Not that I think the princess would be the high priestess since she hated Aku but 50 years isn't that long. I'm sure people are living to be 100+ with all the cyborg tech they have in the future. I don't know about the Samoorai but the Scotsman is still alive.
KimonoNoNo
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If you ask me it was always one of the best animated shows ever.
The Scotsman is apparently coming back.
NipplesAndToes23
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I always I thought it was weird how Jack's head shape was completely different as a child.
DongBeetle
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Was this past episode TV MA?
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He went through that Hey Arnold phase all kids go through.
No, all three have been TV14.
I would love it this will be the best twistI'd lose it
There probably isn't a good dub for it.
pretty much unknown outside of a niche audience, afaik
The monster is going to be waiting at the bottom with his mouth open, it breaks his fall but well... He gets eaten.
Spoilers for next episode:
Looking at the description for the next episode that's pretty much what happens. Him and Ashi get eaten whole.
Didn't take. Ben 10 on the other hand was huge. Needed a Samurai Gwen to capture that moe/tsundere audience. Lets hope Ashi will fill that void.
NipplesAndToes23
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Man, Japan ain't shit.
to be fair, everybody wasn't shit 'cause the show got cancelled anyway
Huge Succeeded
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no, it'd be jack finally coming to understand what his father once said to him: that Aku's victories are not Jack's failures. Countless people have suffered and died struggling against Aku, but countless people still (and robots and aliens and shit) are still alive to be saved, and once Jack comes to terms with being unable to return to the past, he'll resolve to free the present world by whatever means possible, instead. I think it'd be a fitting ending and a great place to take Jack's character.
lol ain't that some shit
edit: o.0
Acrylic7
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What I imagine from Ending:
Or you know, Genndy could just fuckin destroy my mind like he's been doing.
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Jack defeats Aku and either through Aku's own self deprication/intervention of his ancestors/whatever, gains the knowledge to truely banish Aku for real.
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Gains acess to a time portal, I kind of doubt the guardian one still exists, I feel like Jack never had the opportunity to get a clean blow on the true form of Aku and like a portal would be cut out of his essence or some crap. Jack, with disturbing violence, ricochets through time uncontrollably until conditions far to cheesy to even bother with stop his plummet.
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Jack appears in the past but it is "wrong". He contemplates it being Aku's magic or trickery poisoning the timeline or his mind. It turns out he is in the time of his father the Emperor's first crusade against Aku. Son and Father duo to fight Aku, defeat him, scene mimmicks Emperors original attempt to seal him back to the earth except the sword is pointed to the sky and Aku is sent back to the gods who smite him. Aku is finally destroyed in all space and time.
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World turns white. Reset to baby Jack playing with ball, smiles with father overlooking what would've been Aku infested land instead being the beauty similar to post-decay Japan in like Season 2 SJ.
If I remember right the ending was supposed to be in the form of a theatrical movie but after the Power Puff Girls movie failed at the box office it was canned and the show wasn't renewed.
I think the movie was what Genndy was trying for after it got cancelled, and that's what eventually became Season 5.
yeah just watched the last one, this show is something else, the images. I just want to buy stills and arrange them around my office covering a whole wall like a montage.
actually if I could get stills and then string them out in order to match the story that would be pretty cool.
actually if I could get stills and then string them out in order to match the story that would be pretty cool.
The season (the whole show really) needs an artbook bad. I'd be all over that shit.
The stylization alone blows 99% of all other animated shows out of the water. It's insane.
That's the beauty of Samurai Jack. Each scene tells a story on its own without any dialogue.
Mr. Smiley
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Speculation:
I'm expecting Jack's fate to run similar to Lava Monster. Once he returns to the past, time catches up to him and he has to race against literal time to defeat Aku of the Past while aging rapidly.
I'm honestly expecting the series to end with Jack entering the portal, then it fades to black. A more ambiguous ending would be more my style, anyway.
Admiral Woofington
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why in the ever living fuck would they bring back the series after this many years
and end it ambiguously. It'd be a giant middle finger lmao
Hm. I could see something like this happening.
I'm still debating if the shot of Jack silhouetted and bloody in the cave was supposed to be intentionally evocative of the Lava Monster.
Holy shit! No plz!
Genndy and company knew Season 5 was the last of the original run and had the option to make a proper "finale," but decided against it. Genndy waited until he could do it the way he wanted instead of truncated as the final part of Season 5.
Mr. Smiley
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i cant
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TIME TO LEAVE THEM ALL BEHIND
Mr. Smiley
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a samurai jack game could just be you walking across the land taking in the evironments and sounds with no bgm and i'd buy
You're not alone in that sentiment.
Seeing how Activation handled the Korra Platinum game though, I don't really trust that it would be high tier PG quality, though it would probably at least be good.
You're not wrong.
Tizoc
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Swordsman and wolf seems to be something in Japanese lore/mythology?
One of the older Shinobi arcade games featured a wolf and then you had this early artwork from FF7's development
Did he find the well of immortality or something?
Cuz I secretly want that guy back.
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