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Season 5 (2017)

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“ Fifty years have passed, but I do not age. Time has lost its effect on me, yet the suffering continues. Aku's grasp chokes the past, present and future. All hope is lost.

Got to get back. Back to the past. Samurai Jack. 		”

—Samurai Jack, Opening Sequence for Season 5

Season 5 is the final season which premiered March 11, 2017.

On December 2, 2015, Adult Swim announced that it would be airing a new season of Samurai Jack on its Toonami programming block. The fifth season of Samurai Jack will be the final season and will officially conclude the story with a proper ending. It is also consists of the least amount of episodes; a total of ten as opposed to the usual thirteen.

Genndy Tartakovsky, the series' creator, returned as executive producer for this season.

Development

Background

Created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Samurai Jack originally aired on Cartoon Network from 2001 to 2004, comprising four seasons. The series was left open-ended since 2004. Tartakovsky previously expressed interest in a film adaptation of the series to provide a genuine conclusion, but the project never materialized.

Production

“ "Technology is different, we're using computers now,

instead of hamsters like the old days."

”

—Craig Kellman (character designer), Behind the Scenes featurette

Starting in 2014, reruns of Samurai Jack were aired on Toonami, an action-oriented programming block on Adult Swim. The network released a short teaser in December 2015 after it green-lit the return of the series with Genndy Tartakovsky as executive producer and Cartoon Network Studios as the season's production company. Artwork used in the teaser derived from the cover of an issue from IDW Publishing's comic book adaptation of the series. The new season received further mention ahead of the network's 2016 upfront press release. The fifth season was announced for the 2016–17 television season. Work-in-progress excerpts were shared at the 2016 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

Voice Cast

Episodes

See also: Episode Guide

Season Episodes Season premiere Season finale
5 10 March 11, 2017 May 20, 2017
No. # Title Airdate Prod. Code
53 1 "Episode XCII" March 11, 2017 501
After 50 years in the future, Jack had lost hope and was tormented by hallucinations of his parents, his kingdom, and a mysterious figure on horseback, then, battled against Scaramouch. Meanwhile, seven young girls are raised and trained from birth to become the Daughters of Aku, a team of elite assassins with the sole purpose of killing Jack.
54 2 "Episode XCIII" March 18, 2017 502
Aku has grown tired of pursuing Jack and is starting to give up hope of ever defeating him, especially since he has stopped aging. The Daughters of Aku overwhelm and disarm Jack; while hiding from them, he hallucinates an argument with his younger self about the point of keeping on living and fighting. He flees to a nearby temple ruin, pursued by the Daughters. One of them stabs him in the side as he kills her, and he discovers the Daughters are human, not robots as he assumed. Jack uses Scaramouch's tuning fork-like dagger to make the temple walls explode, and escapes into a river flowing past it.
55 3 "Episode XCIV" March 25, 2017 503
Jack floats downriver and takes shelter in a cave, while the six surviving Daughters of Aku track him. He hallucinates an argument with himself over whether he can bring himself to kill all the Daughters if necessary. A wounded wolf joins Jack in the cave, and they both recuperate from their injuries. Jack recalls an incident from his childhood when his family was accosted by assassins, where his father gave the assassins a choice: leave, or "face your destiny". They attacked, and were killed by Jack's father. As the Daughters of Aku close in on Jack, he gives them the same choice, echoing his father's words. When they stay, he quickly kills three and lures the others onto a branch hanging over an abyss. One by one Jack drops them into the abyss, but before he can return to solid ground, the branch breaks and he too falls into the abyss.
56 4 "Episode XCV" April 8, 2017 504
Jack awakens from his fall into the abyss after the last confrontation and finds Ashi, one of the Daughters of Aku, lying wounded and unconscious nearby. She begins to attack him as soon as she comes to, but he quickly subdues her and binds her with the chain from her own weapon. As she hurls insults and threats at him, an earthquake opens a fissure in the earth — actually the mouth of an enormous creature — and they fall in. Jack hallucinates an argument with himself over the wisdom of saving Ashi or leaving her to die. He ultimately rescues her and the two escape to the surface, Ashi's chains breaking in the process. Jack saves her from drowning in the sea where they land and brings her to an island, where she prepares to kill him. However, she relents upon seeing Jack spare the life of a ladybug and remembering, when her mother had killed one that was distracting her.
57 5 "Episode XCVI" April 15, 2017 505
Samurai Jack fights to save a group of enslaved people from being harvested as the power source for a monstrous Mega-Robot.
58 6 "Episode XCVII" April 22, 2017 506
Ashi's search for Samurai Jack helps her to see his effect on the world after encountering numerous people and places where he has changed things for the better.
59 7 "Episode XCVIII" April 29, 2017 507
Jack and Ashi overcome a series of dangerous physical and spiritual tests in order to recover Jack's sword.
60 8 "Episode XCIX" May 6, 2017 508
The burgeoning relationship between Jack and Ashi takes a turn after they are hunted by one of the galaxy's deadliest creatures.
61 9 "Episode C" May 13, 2017 509
62 10 "Episode CI" May 20, 2017 510

Trivia

  • A five-second teaser was released on YouTube the same day of the announcement.
  • Artwork used in the teaser derived from the cover of an issue from IDW Publishing's comic book adaptation of the series.
  • Work-in-progress excerpts were shared at the 2016 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
  • The new season has more mature elements and forms a cohesive story. The story picks up fifty years after the end of the original series and follows Jack on a journey that will conclude the story of the series.
  • The season is set to have only 10 episodes instead of the usual 13.
  • This the first and only season, in where Jack is to have a probable romantic interest/lover throughout the remainder of the show.
  • Jack is significantly different this season from prior appearances, both in terms of his character design with a shaggy beard and tattered clothes, and in terms of his personality.
  • Tartakovsky, at a panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2016, affirmed that the Scotsman will return to the series.
  • Due to the passing of Makoto Iwamatsu in 2006, who originally voiced the series' lead villain Aku, Tartakovsky at first considered using a completely different voice for the character. However, considering how Mako's voice was an important element of the character, Tartakovsky stated that he has hired "a guy who does a pretty good imitation; I'll be upfront about it—nobody can replace Mako." Voice actor Greg Baldwin was brought in to mimic the original voice.
  • The season was expected to air in 2016, but on October 11, 2016, Chris Reccardi announced on his official Facebook page that the new season will premiere on March 2017. However, there were conflicting reports of that date, as Toonami's showrunner Jason DeMarco has said there was no definite premiere date set. Reccardi later deleted his post.
  • #JackIsBack was used to promote Season 5 of the series.
  • Tyler Bates will be providing the music score for this season.
  • This season will be co-produced by Williams Street.
    • This is the first season that is co-produced by Williams Street despite of Seasons 1 till 4 were co-produced by Cartoon Network Studios.
  • In an interview at Comic-Con 2016, it was revealed that Jack will experience directly killing his first human being in this season. [1] (1:58)
    • The closest in the series to this so far was when Jack was shown to have possibly killed three human bounty hunters in the episode "The Princess and the Bounty Hunters". However, it is likely he simply incapacitated them. This can be seen on the absence of blood. And despite being hit by the explosives, it is likely that Boris was simply badly injured.
  • The episodes of Season 5 are listed as 'XCII' as the official name of the first episode of Season 5 instead of LIII
    • They started with 'XCII' because when naming it 'LIII' for the first episode of Season 5, it would be consider as a continuation after the events of Episode LII.

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