What happened to Aku?

The joke is that he's serious when it comes to evil, but he can't turn it off.

yeajh like come on Aku has been hamming it up since the very fucking beggining. the whole point is that he's an asshole that takes nothing serious agaisn't the super stoic and lawful hero Jack. its all about the damn contrast.

This, obviously. But OP, you seem to forget that 50 years have passed from the last season. 50 years is a long time to stop giving a fuck when everything is now yours because your enemy has fucked off somewhere for no reason.

In the comics, which supposedly happened after the last episode of season 4, the sword broke and Aku felt the lack of it magical power. The way Jack lost it was also different from what was depicted in the flashback in season 5 of him "losing" the sword.

Being a unique magical sword that was bestowed to his father by the 3 gods, Jack got it back after a series of trials from the gods to prove his worth as a warrior.

Assuming the comics are canon, this implies that the sword is still out there and it's just a matter of obtaining it again, rather than going through the trials again in order to fix it.

So you watched the scene where Aku explains in depth why he's feeling depressed but you don't understand why he's acting differently than he used to? He doesn't destroy the mud men because he's feeling dejected and doesn't care. The mud men only even exist to show that Aku's feeling down because it's surprising that he doesn't destroy them the way you'd expect him to.

Aku doesn't know Jack lost his sword because he's spent his time recently waiting for Jack to die on his own and sulking in his pit when that didn't happen.

This moment is taken EXACTLY from how Discord in MLP would behave.

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

Discord is an aku copycat if anything..

Aku doesn't know because he didn't care. He destroyed the time portals and assumed he could just wait Jack out until he was either killed by his minions or died of old age. When this didn't occur, and it turned out Jack was ageless, Aku fell into depression.

Seriously, did you watch the fucking episode?

OP, if you suffered from clinical depression, you'd be pretty dour too.

Obviously he watched it while on the phone, like the ADHD spazz he is.

For all its posturing, Holla Forums is really no better than Holla Forums.

No we've recently had an influx of newfags after new Holla Forums hit-pieces got released. Why do you think there's been increase in spam, shit threads like the cheesecake one and cuckchan tier posting.

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You're the only shitposter here, VPNfag. We all know your posting habits and your triggers.

Go back over the wall where they don't have internet, you autistic spic.

Probably not, and if he did, he didn't pay attention. Aku is clinically depressed, not only is he at a loss of what to do with Jack now that he can't just wait the Samurai out, total and complete control of the world at large has left him bored. Both of them have fallen into a rut.

In regards to the sword, Jack has likely gone to great lengths to make sure the information regarding his loss of it doesn't get out. He kills Scaramoush before he can tell Aku. The people he saves over the years probably don't even know his sword is magic, or necessarily that he fights with one in the first place. It's not exactly common knowledge that his sword is magical. Even then, they probably wouldn't run to Aku to tell him that they didn't notice he had a sword, guy did save their lives after all, and without Aku going out of his way to check up on Jack he probably won't learn that fact.

Says a lot how it reflects the show itself.
More or likely he won't be getting it back until the third or second to last episode.

I never thought this show would come back only to be an apt commentary on user's life.

In the end they'll realize their importance for each other And beat each other into a bloody pulp

He's practically Q

Nevermind he is Q

Shit, I need me one of that

i didnt asked for feels

Honestly I think Aku is just fucking bored. He completed all his life goals and really has nothing left to do for eternity. Samurai shtick can only keep him entertained for so long.

I think that he feels depresses because he accomplished all his life goals, also he feels constantly threatened because Jack can strike any moment and just doesnt die, any slip can course Aku downfall and that put big amount of stress on his back

Yes, though as pointed out countless times, evil doesn't mean being a brooding, serious edgefag. Part of Aku's charm is that he literally doesn't give a shit; if you've watched the previous seasons you'll know this. Look at episodes like "Aku's Fairy Tales", "Jack learns to jump good", and "Jack and the Swamp Monster". With your logic, why doesn't Aku just brainwash or threaten the children into believing Jack is a bad-guy, instead of reading them abridged fairy tales where he is either the hero, or Jack the villain? Why doesn't Aku just destroy the portal and leave, instead of mocking jack? Why doesn't Aku just kill jack on the raft ride when he has a chance?

explains it pretty well.

1. How do you know its the very bottom of the pit? We see Aku get out of supposed bed, doesn't mean its the very bottom
2. Why the fuck does this even matter? Do you expect some shrouded secret at the bottom? Am I missing something?

Yes. Thats his "home", its where we've seen Aku most throughout the show, and its also where people come to offer something to Aku in hopes of gaining his favor, or at least his attention.

This post is already way too long so I'm just gonna stop.

The comics are not canon so none of that matters.

For who knows how long, the world was Aku's playground. He could force people to work themselves to death to build statues for him, send robot monstrosities to kill people for kicks, and do anything he wanted. If anybody objected to Aku using humanity as his personal toybox, he'd just zap them with his laser eyes.

But now he can't enjoy the world he's made for himself, because there is one thing out in his perfect world that can bitchslap him, so he cowers in his lair, hoping that the problem will go away on it's own.

Nothing wrong with that.

you guys gotta bitch about everything dont you

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yes

jack doesn't age, but im pretty sure he can die like any other mortal.

whats a good place to watch the episodes? please no kisscartoon, i fucking hate those assholes and their watermarks.

They're actually still up on Kiketube. Or you could just le ebin pirate them. The possibilities are endless.

whats the difference between watching it on kiketube and "ebin pirate" them?

Aku is pure evil. He enjoys causing non-stop suffering, to the point where he allows moments of beauty and hope purely to delight in crushing it. He has expanded his empire to other planets so that he has even more opportunities to cause misery, from the grand to the petty.

Aku isn't bored. He wants to be out causing sorrow and mayhem, robbing creatures of what little joy they had so he can laugh in their faces. The samurai turning out to be ageless has left Aku frustrated, which has led to his depression. It's difficult to be pure evil when somewhere out there is a man who can defeat you and has overcome all of your attempts to kill him, including old age.

On the topic of kisscartoon, anyone have trouble using that site lately? I tried using it for the first time in a long time recently to watch the new Samurai Jack episodes and it was lagging intensely, to the point of being nearly unusable.

Aku is actually just mad jelly of Jack's rugged new look. He spends all day sulking about the samurai's new beard because his beard and skin tone make him look like a bunch of carrots in a void.

Wrong. I love discord and I'll maintain til the day I die that Discord is too good of a character to be on MLP. But Aku had this sort of schtick down for years before Discord was even a thought.

>>>/pone/

I actually hate the show. I just like discord. Good character design, and he was always funny when my brony friend from high school made me watch it

>>>/mlp/

I can't wait for that finale

scammed from what.

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Thats a shame.

It could be the servers therr using, hosting shows isn't cheap.

Hey Holla Forums

you can't be serious

>>>/mlp/

I think it's more both of them draw from the cartoon trickster god shapeshifter well. The therapist persona definitely has a bit of Discord to him, something about the shape. Otherwise, Discord is basically a meaner, more immature Q. (If such a thing is possible)

you know they're married right? gendy and faust?

This really, it just bugged me that someone would suggest that Aku is the progenitor of the concept. Though tbh I don't think the therapist was all that out of character and it was an admittedly interesting contrast to Jack's other self tormenting him.

No they aren't Faust is married to Craig Mccracken

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mistakes were made

Being Craig is suffering

Aku is kind of his own thing. I think he may have been inspired by kabuki theatre, his design is basically a stylised Samurai mask and helmet. (A bit ironic/interesting given Jack starts out in a futuristic version of full samurai regalia…)

Aku is the demon from Frank Miller's Ronin, right down to the spider legs on his head.

Even if it isn't canon can we storytime it or did we already?

Him getting bored reminds me of Dr. Doom when he takes over the world and wins but gets bored as a result.

That'd be cool. We can praise the good parts, and bitch about what IDW did wrong.

Because the revival is not as good as the original. It always happens, people cream over their nostalgia being revived but then lo and behold, they can't remember what made the original so enjoyable.

The 50 year time-skip explains a lot of the shit they pull, but it's still a worse idea than just continuing from where Season 4 left off. The new Scotsman design sucks ass too.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, you have it wrong. He wants to rule the world, but he wants to earn it and have the people willingly submit, not have the people be mind-controlled into doing so.

Excuse me?

You heard me faggot

But he did use mind control to make the world leaders submit. He used Purple Man's ability to get everyone to agree with him.

And that's exactly why he willingly lets the heroes return the world to normal at the end, because he says that he wants to rule the world by earning it, not doing what he did.

Oh, I thought he willingly let them do that because he wanted a challenge. Well, thanks for reminding me.

You know there was no way they could do that, not after all these years. You said it yourself: people can't remember.

It would be hard, but it would even at its worst end up better than this.

Your a dumbass

Get out CIA

post yfw alphabet agencies operatives that fester here out-autism the locals. Like I read that shit you replied to and immediately thought "this guy got hit hard with the assburgers." God damn.

nah, you're a faggot

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I mean, it all comes back to the knowledge that if he doesn't rule the world, Humanity would be doomed.
Batleworlds and what not made his prophecy pass, so it's quite probable his need to rule the world is no longer necessary. Now it's just his belief that he's the best overall option for humanity.

Aku's plan was to simply destroy the portals and wait until Jack died of natural causes, great plan, brilliant plan. But now he discovers Jack doesn't age and on one hand he's glad that Jack is stuck in a world with no time portals but on the other hand he's depressed that Jack will seemingly be around forever.

His 'victory' for 50 years has obviously made him rather complacent and lazy, now he seems like there is no danger or meaning to his life, which is very understandable.

Also a reminder that Aku has always been both terrifying and absurd. Vid extremely related.

On kiketube you can stream the episode. As in, you can start watching while it buffers… On the other hand, if you pirate you'll have to download the whole episode first then watch it.

I go for pirating. Because for some reason pirate downloads are usually of better quality than streams and survive shit like copyright strikes which plague streaming sites.

I have the comics, will storytime soon.

OP here, you guys are raising some great arguments. For some reason it just didn't connect that Aku acted softer than usual because he was depressed, the two just seemed completely unrelated. Either way, thank you all for the information.

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I forgot how dark this show was

It's okay when it's shown in a comical manner.

this is my favorite moment from the show hands down.

Aku tells increasingly nonsensical and absurd stories to portray jack in a negative manner culminating in the humpty-dumpty reference.

Not enough posing. Frankly given the wooden sound effects of his movement he might take more inspiration from Bunraku if any kind of theatre.

Almost forgot about that last part

Aku is very clearly based off an Oni.

Most excellent. Do so.

What the damn…?

How anons?

Jack must be really good at hiding. That also may have been the last time Aku saw Jack before refusing to even look for him through his viewport

Probably

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Secret Wars 2 ended with the dumbest fucking ending though, with Reed saying "I could have done better!" but he fucking didn't. He didn't do better, he fucked about while Doom saved the universes. And we're supposed to believe Reed is the good guy.

Fucking CIA horsefuckers

The show really hasn't missed a beat. Episode 1 had some wonky choreography but 2 was pretty much exactly what everyone could have asked for out of the continuation.

I'd expect nothing less from someone who is quite obviously twelve.

Go troll somewhere else.

Aku Got LAZY. I see this as a time where if Aku Doesn't expect it jack could strike.

This.

Aku cannot mold the kids into doing what he wants because he can't comprehend good. He gets robots, who by themselves are devoid of morality, to do his bidding, but he cannot get humans outside of bounty hunters to do the same.

Aku knows but he just doesn't care that much about killing Jack anymore.

Just in case that someone wonder what happened with that matter of doggo alien and das nightstick.

Orders from George Soros.

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It looks like it has a form of retardation.

IKRA

Aku got a job at WB

It was inevitable…

They've both overstated their welcome heavily. Not like they even deliver quality stuff anymore.

The plot twist is that Aku is controlled opposition of the Rotschild's foundations

Now I want to see a GIF of that Big Gal stepping in at that frame and then instead of showing her from the front, we get Batman scowling like with the Little Mermaid GIF.

fuck off abusefag

Just FYI, this is never going to become a meme.

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Zone could make something pretty entertaining at least.

Shadman is still the best example I can think of of somebody getting famous for doing porn who cannot draw.

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This is it- the post that killed Holla Forums

Ah, the ol' "Shadman can't draw" meme.

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As I said, 12. This isn't Samurai Jack, it's a mischaracterized attempt at recreating it without understanding what made the original good.

Samurai Jack is fake anime btw.

Samurai Jack Seasons 1-4 are classics which are better than a third of the JoJo parts at least.

Samurai Jack is a fake Kurosawa film with Htichcock elements, get it right faggot.

Samurai Jack is Frank Miller's Ronin, and one of these days Imina storytime it just to rub it in your bitch faces.

A Samurai in the future?
Jack is more about the different cultures and designs than it is about the future but whatever.

fucking pottery

The show needs some levity since Jack's story has become so fucking serious.

there's actually a dog named Rothschild in the second episode

DoA pr0n?

Aku was always a weirdo with occasional goofy tendencies. He lived the high life for centuries ruling the earth but then out of the blue shows up the only guy who can kill him and now that he's in charge he was sure that he would be destroyed within a few days. But that wasn't the case. Days, weeks, months, years, decades pass and no results while all the way Aku has to become more political and do stupid shit to keep his subjects from rebelling while maintaining what little is left of his "enslaved approval ratings" to the point where his stupid shit involves reading stories to kiddies and being nice to literal mudslime immigrants. While all the while he has to keep hunting the guy who fucks up his immortal life. But the guy is also seemingly immortal and now he realizes that after 50 years, this guy ain't going nowhere and no matter what he does he can't win. So now he spends every waking moment in fear not knowing when that guy will show up to fuck his shit up and he can't do anything because he's already tried every single trick in the book. He has nothing now and he can only hope that the Samurai will just fuck off and leave him alone if he's not doing too much evil. Remember, Aku is just a tiny little itsy bitsy fragment of an ancient life destroying embodiment of demonic chaos and evil. When you add that to his long exposure to earth environment and human ways, what you get is just a really powerful sorcerer who realizes his pitiful place in life. That's why none of the gods or other mighty warriors and spirits do not bother with him. He is just that worthless to the point where he can't even conquer anything beyond earth. For you see, Jack's true purpose is not to slay this monster, but to inspire others and spread hope through his righteousness and nobility, and his actions have not only influenced earthlings but even people and other beings from beyond the stars. That is what his quest is truly about. Its never been about slaying Aku, its always been about his actions and the good he does and inspires in others. Aku himself may have finally realized this and its driving him insane knowing that not only he cannot stop this guy, but that his entire existence and all of his actions were all just part of a fated goalpost for the true hero of that world. Aku is just that worthless and it pains him so.

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Jack didn't fall to his death?
Samurai Jack partners with a deadly assassin in order to escape a gargantuan creature that has swallowed them whole.
It airs on April 1st at 11 PM only on Toonami

I thought it was March 29th as per the AS website?
inb4 it gets delayed because "haha april fools!"

oh my mistake, 12 years
September 25, 2004 to March 11, 2017

they have been airing saturdays man

damnit man

SPAZKID GETTING BACKPACK CUCKED WHEN maybe throw cutepet in there

checked and keked

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What quality are these?

DUB MY CHEX

What makes you thinks that I'm slav?

Is just a black eye.

AKUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

Will he show up again? Not the deer

cuz it suks nao

Has horns? Must be Aku

Kinda funny that Jack is being stalked by what seems like two visions of himself; the blue one looks like his younger self and seems to be the manifestation of all his thoughts and feelings he doesn't want to deal with, while the green one… looks sinister, but always appears in a context encouraging him to keep moving and keep fighting.

The "Green one" was likely a living legend in Jack's time before Aku came.

I've seen some theories saying this was an actual samurai back in the day, but I like to think that this is some japanese symbol for a samurai that abandoned his masters, a soldier that does nothing, but stand by and watch the carnage unfold.

His armor maybe a reference to that but it's clear the shogun is someone Jack's encountered and is afraid of. Possibly being the person who made him drop his sword down the hole.

Wow, that's bland.

fucking race mixing kikes

you realize its a trace right?

That's species-mixing, Uncle Holla Forums. Also a very doggy name, now that I think on it.

Back to cuckchan

Well, HONDA is supposed to the ultimate samurai like Lancelot being the ultimate Knight.

Honda Tadakatsu was a real figure. He's got some mythos surrounding him that he was invincible, leaving battles with at most a few scratches.

The main story about getting the sword back sounds the same.

I still can't get over Jack and Ashi allying after he killed 6 of her sisters.

They didn't care when they saw the body of the first one. It was how they were raised; there's no caring about blood. It's like how the people who escape North Korean labor camps say how there's no feeling of familial love and how they'll willingly sell out their family, to the point where moms sometimes kill and cook their children so as not to starve.

your post has really integrated my intellect.

That's true. He can. And the fact that Aku tried for so long he figured it'd be easier to just destroy the portals and wait for old age to kill Jack should tell you how simple a task that really is.

When Mako Died, Aku Died Too.

Show of Return effect like how new futurama was so shit and PPG and all these others. When you have a good thing going you either keep it going or it gets too rancid to feed to the masses years later.

There IS danger: as far as Aku knows, Jack can kill him anytime the two face each other.

But nothing Aku throws at Jack, not even hopelessness and old age, not even a cult of human ninjas, can kill Jack. At any moment, Jack can find Aku and kill him. So the stress. so the hopelessness.

Aku just wants Jack to die so he can finally enjoy his victory. But apparently the only thing that can kill jack is Aku, and Aku isnt into risking his own life to kill Jack.

Jack honestly seems more evil than Aku is now. I mean how many people have you seen Aku kill compared to Jack? He doesn't even eat children or anything.

That's probably the worst disappointment about this whole thing. I had hope the censors would be off and more now and they would kill openly more so than ever and they do but mostly concerning and reinforcing Aku's evil. He was mostly always a joke but he wasn't Joker jokevil but just a joke and still is.

Jack x Ashi
Kissing? Kidding…

NEXT WEEK HYPE

Same whiny fag.

Aku vs Scotsman?

The Gods couldn't even beat Aku but he's scared of some Pajama-Wearing, Basket-Face, Slipper-Wielding, Clype-Dreep-Bachle, Gether-Uping-Blate-Maw, Bleathering, Gomeril, Jessie, Oaf-Looking, Scooner, Nyaff, Plookie, Shan, Milk-Drinking, Soy-Faced Shilpit, Mim-Moothed, Sniveling, Worm-Eyed, Hotten-Blaugh, Vile-Stoochie, Cally-Breek-Tattie.

Serious question, why doesn't Jack utilise his "jump good" skill anymore? He only ever did it in the episode where he learns it and that time he dueled the Scotsman.

I hope Jack's new rival will be a knight so we can finally solve the most ancient and contested question, Knight vs Samurai, who would win?

Since there are no other SJ threads alive I'll just post this here.

/storytime/ is back and I've resumed uploading the SJ comic there, now on chapter 6.
>>>/storytime/9058

Are you calling him a coward?

He was jumping all over the bioluminescent animals in the last episode.

Jump Good was basically an excuse for why a man with no supernatural powers can jump all over the place. It's never been as exaggerated as it was in the original episode but he makes 30ft jumps on the regular.