![]() She helplessly hangs off a cliff by her kusarigama (chain-sickle). Ashi is the last girl standing so to speak. Another girl is punched so hard that her neck snaps. He slits the throat of one girl and skewers three others. The samurai doesn’t hold back as sword wielding heroes usually do against flesh and blood opponents. When the Daughters of Aku track down Jack, he gives them a chance to walk away and avoid their “destiny.” Of course, they refuse. She sees beauty in the world whereas her sisters are disturbed by the very sight of two deer kissing. And yet Ashi (Tara Strong) is not like her sisters. Both nature and nurture have fated the Daughters of Aku for a life of villainy. It’s a stark contrast to the popular trope of having parents with dueling natures of light and dark. Their mother shows them only tough love including throwing the toddlers into a pit of hot coals. The sisters were raised in complete isolation and trained as assassins to kill Samurai Jack whom they have been taught is the real bad guy. She gave birth to septuplets known as the Daughters of Aku, yet another group of characters in a seemingly hopeless situation. The High Priestess (Grey Griffin) impregnated herself by drinking the demon blood. Long ago, he showed favor to a cult of female worshipers by offering them his blood. Not even a direct assault on Aku’s castle by the Scotsman (John DiMaggio) can get him off the couch for long.Īku’s wish comes true unbeknownst to him. Scaramouche is repeatedly thwarted in his attempts to relay Jack’s vulnerability following the loss of his sword. The decapitated robot spends the rest of the season serving as comic relief. Aku’s henchman Scaramouche (Tom Kenny) tries but also loses his head. Both Akus break the fourth wall by looking into the camera and wishing for someone to kill Jack for them. The villain has given up just like the hero of the story. However, time travel has had the unintended effect of making Jack immortal. He explains that his plan was to destroy the time portals and wait for the samurai to die. Aku creates a clone to psychoanalyzes himself. Jack isn’t the only one dealing with depression. It’s just one of many introspective scenes you won’t find in your average American cartoon. The confrontation happens during a tea ceremony on the astral plane. He defeats Omen but to regain his sword he must overcome his greatest opponent. Jack comes to his senses only when he learns the children are alive. Yes, all those children dead because of you.” “Death follows in your wake,” Omen tells him. A samurai ghost dubbed the Omen (Aaron LaPlante) encourages him commit seppuku, ritual suicide by disembowelment. The breaking point comes when Jack mistakenly believes he has killed an army of children under mind control. Manifestations of his own psyche urge him to give into his dark side. Jack is haunted by the ghost of his father, who is shown burning in hellfire. He talks to spirits both real and imagined. The years have taken a toll on Jack, who seems to be suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The story begins with Jack having aimlessly wandered the world for 50 years without aging.Īll work and no play makes Jack a dull boy With no hope or purpose, he becomes a full-fledged rōnin typical in samurai films. ![]() The samurai’s fate is literally sealed when Aku closes the last time portal home. Its loss is tied to the murdering of three innocent rams that were transformed into monsters by Aku. A flashback reveals Jack lost his magical sword, the one thing that can defeat Aku. It’s not until mid-season that we learn the reason for his hopelessness. ![]() Jack (Phil LaMarr) has given up on returning home after being thrown into the distant future by the demon Aku, voiced by Greg Baldwin who fills in for the late Makoto Iwamatsu. While the spirit of the show remains, it’s much darker (read: PG-13). I know what I like and what the crew likes.” I really don’t even know what an adult likes. I don’t know what an eight-year-old likes. “We knew we couldn’t do racy stuff and swear obviously. “We never did stuff for kids specifically,” Tartakovsky explained during a Q&A. However, it was never intended as a children’s cartoon insists series creator Genndy Tartakovsky. The samurai trades in his bushido code for a motorcycle and a gun! Samurai Jack season 5 moves the recently revived series from its old time slot on kid friendly Cartoon Network to the late night block Adult Swim. Samurai Jack is a rebel without a cause in the new season on Adult Swim.
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