He also doesn’t age, so he’s been living for years without death’s release. But Jack still can’t find a way back to his own time, so he can’t reunite with his family. Aku still rules the earth (now with a few more interesting followers). On the surface, everything looks exactly where we left it: the signature animation style makes a comeback (albeit with sleeker lines and richer colors), and the visuals still hold more authority than the dialogue. More than 12 years have passed since the Season 4 finale, but for Jack it’s been 50. Image via Adult Swim, Cartoon Network Studios He stares into the crashing waves below, despaired. So even without the new season’s brief logline, we need only look at the opening image of the trailer to get a sense of what’s been happening in Jack’s world: the samurai is standing at the edge of a cliff, with only his shadowed silhouette visible from a distance as the wind tosses back his un-cinched hair.
They’re bold, they’re evocative, they tell stories, they are frozen moments in time. But compared to what viewers have been through, Jack himself has had it much, much worse.Īn image is worth a thousand words, and the frames in Samurai Jack have always had a tendency to knock you on your ass.
Now, Jack is back in the form of a 10-episode fifth season that’ll finally give fans the conclusion they’ve been aching for. Creator Genndy Tartakovsky was able to keep hope alive that he would one day revisit Samurai Jack with a movie, but it seemed trapped in development hell.
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That day became the unexpected series finale, and the following years weren’t that much kinder to viewers. It was Septemwhen the Season 4 finale saw the warrior reuniting a lost infant with its mother before walking off towards the horizon, continuing his pursuit of the shapeshifting demon Aku - only he didn’t.
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