>>116516614It's pretty mixed, so asking that might not help you make a decision.
Personally I think overall it's excellent and completely worthwhile, though I understand some of the gripes.
>>116516616Jack longed for the beauty of his past world, and Ashi always secretly yearned for it too. There was a certain poetry to the fact that she would be the one who sends Jack back and give her life to make his world beautiful again, which I kinda feel like is the natural evolution of her character. I think the Daughters of Aku would either need to be reworked or removed otherwise.
I know Ashi is also a point of contention with /co/, since a lot of anons feel like she hijacked the show, but I enjoyed her character, and the final scene under that tree that mirrored the first tree Jack showed her except surrounded by vibrant life instead of death--again, restoring his world as her last gift to him--was something I thought was romantic as fuck, cheesy bastard that I am.
I feel like issues regarding dwelling on the past vs looking forward weren't so much the focus as holding onto hope and believing in change. Again, it's kind of a result of Ashi's significance to Jack, but the fact that she was born from his greatest enemy makes his love wresting from Aku's control thematically relevant even as dumb and cliched as people take that moment, as setting aside his hatred to restore balance in his soul was also a theme in the series.
>Plus Jack being the ruler the future needed would've been coolYeah I guess. I don't know if him taking a ruler position would make a whole lot of sense outside of his own time. A leader of some kind, sure, but I don't know about a ruler.
And him being able stay with the people he's come to care about is something I'd like to see, cause I love the guy, and I want to see him happy and put a bunch of samurai babies in Ashi, but the way it was structured I don't know if that would be narratively satisfying without reworking.
