Samurai Jack Finale

It's been a long time coming, but Samurai Jack's journey is finally coming to an end tonight on Toonami. A long time ago, when Cartoon Network was still new and good, Samurai Jack was the contribution of Genndy Tartakovsky and was a tribute to...well everything he could make a tribute to. Primarily it was derived frommthe graphic novel Ronin which was also about a samurai fighting a demon with a magic sword whose battle is taken into the future. Jack's specific story was told every episode by Aku himself.

Jack's father had defeated Aku when he first emerged using a sword forged by Odin, Shiva and Osiris. WIht the blessings of three gods from three different lands, the samurai weakened the incarnation of pure evil and sealed him away. But then, a few years later, the demon escaped. The samurai sent his son away to be safe and the boy grew up learning to fight in every style humans had ever come up with on Earth. As a grown man, his journey around the world ended where it began and he took up his father's sword and went to finish Aku once and for all, but Aku sent the young samurai into the distant future where Aku rules the entire Earth and has invited many creatures from many worlds to inhabit Earth and terrorize the populace. In this future the samurai ends up with the name Jack and becomes a beacon of hope for the hopeless, fighting a nearly endless supply of enemies. Some battles have been particularly special, like the Woolies, and the jumping apes, and the three cursed archers, and the Spartans. my personal favorite was when he fought five specialized robots and got a cyberarm to help him fight them, mostly because thisis the part most like 7th Moon.

Of course if you ask any other fan, the best part of a ll was the Scotsman, the only recurring character in the entire series, the Scotsman was a warrior with a machine gun for a leg who wielded a magic sword covered in runes and had a habit of sputing celtic gibberish that stood out in a series that got by mostly on visuals and could often go nearly an entire episode without any spoken dialogue. The style itself was pretty impressive, and the character of Jack always seemed to live up to the hype, being so heroic an d selfless, that multiple times he found a time protal that could take him home, but when faced with the choice whether to take the easy way out or help others, he always saved people at his own expense.

Sadly, despite how fun the show was, it just ran on with no clear end in sight until Cartoon Network cancelled it, leaving fans wondering how this journey ended. It was years of no Jack until just a few months ago, Jack was brought back to finally finish what he started. In this final mini-series, Aku has fathered an elite group of assasins who Jack made short work of, except one, named Ashi. For the past few weeks, Jack and Ashi have had a very wierd adventure as Jack reclaims his lost sword along with his destiny, and Ashi learns the true evil of AKu and switches sides, even falling in love with Samurai Jack. Now Aku steps forward to challenge Samurai Jack one last time, but in a twist, the newly reformed Ashi is corrupted by her father and becomes the one enemy Jack can not fight. The stage is set and the most epic battle in american animation ends tonight...