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Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 23:08:08 2017 No.93030140 View Reply Original Report

Now that the dust has settled, how did you enjoy Samurai Jack?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:09:08 No.93030164 Report

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>>93030140
I loved the hell out of the first 4 seasons and the first three eps of season 5.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:09:45 No.93030182 Report

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sure did, all of it was great

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:09:55 No.93030187 Report

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Final fight was far too short

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:10:17 No.93030196 Report

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I've yet to sit through it on its entirety

not crazy about it but it's cool I guess

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:10:41 No.93030201 Report

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>>93030187
You missed the point of the entire show. How sad

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:12:22 No.93030237 Report

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>>93030140
He didn't even get the girl. Why can't Jack get a happy ending?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:15:11 No.93030289 Report

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>>93030201
yeah, clearly he didn't lower his expectations enough.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:15:21 No.93030295 Report

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>>93030140
First 3 eps, 10/10
Ashi focused eps, 7.5/10
Finale 7/10

Season 5 overall? 8.5/10, felt perfectly at home with seasons 1~4.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:17:26 No.93030349 Report

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>>93030289
The final season has MANY flaws, but past Aku being defeated quickly is NOT one of them at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:18:42 No.93030371 Report

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>>93030237
He ended with a smile on his face. He found peace.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:19:49 No.93030394 Report

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>>93030371
I still found the finale super depressing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:19:53 No.93030396 Report

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>>93030140
I enjoyed it every fucking week, except that filler episode, fuck that. Filler in a 10 episode limited series. Overall would still give either 8.5 or 9/10 despite Ashi being shoe-horned into everything.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:20:05 No.93030404 Report

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:20:12 No.93030409 Report

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>>93030164
Memeing aside, this. The fault lies in the fact that there was so much shit that could have been done but so little time to do it. Couple that with Gennedy's rabid insistence on shoving Ashi into an important role, obvious plot hooks and subpar attempt at a bittersweet ending and it's easy to see why some felt it fell flat towards the end. I think the show would have probably been aces if it had been allowed another season or two beyond s5. At least then we could have enjoyed punished jack a bit longer and maybe gotten some decent character development.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:21:27 No.93030437 Report

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>>93030164
This
Pic related is better and the true ending

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:22:03 No.93030448 Report

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>>93030140
Season 5 suffered from being crammed into 10 episodes, hell, the final episode felt like they tried to cram 3 into one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:23:15 No.93030475 Report

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>>93030409
I agree with you on a very deep level anon, good post

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:24:12 No.93030502 Report

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>>93030409
Punished and armored Jack were fucking 10/10. And yeah, feelsbadman, Ashi was way too forced, by the time I stopped disliking/hating her character, she was gone, so her disappearing was all moot to me. Could've been a just as good, if not better, season without her in it imo. But it is what it is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:24:41 No.93030508 Report

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>>93030140
I liked it but the first three were the best. The rest were still good for the most part but episode 8 was awkward as fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:25:20 No.93030521 Report

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>>93030140
I loved every episode; it was a great miniseries as a whole.
It did have some problems, some of them range from minor inconveniences to major ones that hurt the plot.
However, despite its shortcomings, I had a lot of fun watching it, I was emotionally invested from the begin gin till the end and I think it works better as a conclusion to Jack's story. It could have been told in a million different ways. but the one we got was good enough to sustain it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:26:30 No.93030540 Report

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>>93030394
It was quite hollow, in a good way. It did leave me longing for more, but I consider that a positive; that's the effect a bittersweet ending should be chasing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:28:21 No.93030583 Report

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>>93030502
I wish the armor and the fireguns has stayed longer, or that at least they hadn't built them up so much during the previews. They relied too much on the "wow, Jack's riding on a motorcycle and firing guns, he's not like he used too" for the little payoff we got. If they hadn't hyped it up I wouldn't have minded and I didn't really do, but it kinda rubbed me the wrong way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:38:06 No.93030800 Report

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yeah

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:43:47 No.93030943 Report

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>>93030140
Honestly, I loved it. First 3 episodes were amazing, the rest was okay. Wish it was just a little longer though. Ending wasn't actually that bad, it was just rushed.

7/10

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:45:38 No.93030980 Report

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>>93030140
I did, though the ending felt underwhelming and I wish some aspects of the 5th season had been handled differently

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:48:46 No.93031039 Report

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I wonder how good or bad it could have turned out of this season bad been purely like the old Jack with a greater edge. Just just in his bike going from place to place saving people, getting the sword back at some point and ending the series with a two parter a la Birth of Evil.
Still, I can't help but admire the fact that they took chances and tried to do something different from what was expected.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:49:24 No.93031050 Report

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Although it could be better, I honestly liked it and thought that it was better then most shows we have today.

Honestly, I was just amazed we got a 5th season after all these years, I was ready to take what I could get. At least it would be a finale.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:49:51 No.93031063 Report

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Yep pretty great.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:51:00 No.93031089 Report

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>>93030140
First 4 seasons of SJ is SJ, whats is there to say? Fun cool show that had flaws but was good overall.

5 had a fantastic start, rushed as fuck finish. The Ecstasy of Gold Scene was fucking amazing and Scaramouche was great for how short his time was. Greg Aku started off not that good, but as time went on and Aku became Aku again, he was pretty good. Forced Waifu is bad, and was pretty much a plot device with barely any real character and made specifically to be unique and important for ass pull purposes. Episode XCIX was easily the worst of the series, and it was literally only to shove Ashi down some more, while being a pointless filler episode.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:56:39 No.93031206 Report

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>>93031089
lol who invited Tumblr?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 23:59:31 No.93031276 Report

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>>93030140
Is it better if you want it all at once rather than watch it episode by episode on a weekly basis?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:01:51 No.93031335 Report

Quoted By: >>93031381

>>93031276
I personally enjoyed it more watching it as just a very long episode. Might be different for you, but that's the way it was designed to be seen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:02:09 No.93031348 Report

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>>93030140
Episode 1-3 are self-explanatory.

Episode 9 was okay.

Episodes 4-8 and 10 are ripe with both padded out filler, such as the opening of episode CI and most of episode 4 and 5 and the scene with the daughters getting listed and the orc army fight, which would be fine if it wasn't balanced out with extremely rushed and unsatisfying plot elements, from the Omen to Mad Jack to the romance to Jack getting back to the past to Aku dying.

We would have been better off with nothing, honestly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:03:24 No.93031380 Report

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>>93030140
Loved all of it. I pity the Autists who couldn't get the same enjoyment out of Jack, it was a truly fun experience all around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:03:24 No.93031381 Report

Quoted By: >>93031429

>>93031335
They literally could've just sewn it together and made it an amazing movie.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:05:00 No.93031429 Report

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>>93031381
A 2 hour long movie or a 4 hour long one? It would have gone full circle with 7 Samurai.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:10:55 No.93031616 Report

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>>93030140
I liked it
it's not a 10 I know it was rushed and somethings could have been done better but fuck it it was great

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:12:30 No.93031659 Report

Quoted By: >>93031693 >>93039434

>>93031206
>Can't argue against his points
>"Muh Tumblr"

lol who invited this retard?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:13:09 No.93031672 Report

Quoted By: >>93031790

>>93030140
Will be viewed as a pinnacle of western animation in time, and rightfully so.

The final season really did need to be 13 episodes, though.

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:14:01 No.93031693 Report

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>>93031659
what points haha

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:17:59 No.93031790 Report

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>>93031672
Either 13 episodes with the story it told us or 10 with a different format more akin to the original 4 seasons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:20:56 No.93031863 Report

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Disappointing ending to some of the most memorable characters such as Samoorai and Momatoa. 10 episodes was far too little and it was apparent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:23:43 No.93031946 Report

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>>93030140
Good til the last episode.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:06:13 No.93033004 Report

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Jack died when he fell of the cliff in episode three, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:09:14 No.93033089 Report

Quoted By: >>93033168

The ending was really fucking bad and people cut it way too much slack on the basis of
>he got back to the past
>happy endings are trash
>it had a pretty final shot

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:12:49 No.93033168 Report

Quoted By: >>93033254

>>93033089
I wouldn't simplify it that much.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:15:52 No.93033254 Report

Quoted By: >>93033416

>>93033168
Those are the main things I hear as reasons to why specifically CI was a good episode.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:17:05 No.93033296 Report

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It was ok

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:20:39 No.93033405 Report

Quoted By: >>93033474

>>93030140
6. TL,DR:
The wedding was given more screentime than Jack defeating Aku once and for all. Jack was a wimp and didn't have any badass moments that we know and love him for. Ashi stole the show and did nothing interesting with it. Jack’s friends helping him had a lot of dumb problems that were the result of pandering. Apparently none of it fucking mattered anyways.
Love being the moral of the story is stupid. Love being the moral of Samurai Jack is really stupid. As sad and emotional and melancholy as the reuinion, wedding, and ladybug thing were, they had no significance to what we loved about Samurai Jack.
Also, Jack shouldn't even know that ladybugs were significant to Ashi. So that's really stupid too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:21:05 No.93033416 Report

Quoted By: >>93036677

>>93033254
I was entertained enough by the fight, and I liked the way it wrapped up. Whether had Jack gone to the past or not wasn't very important to me because you could make strong argument supporting each side.
The bitterness of the ending I feel was well leveled by the fact that it would have been a coup out to have the future erased and keep Ashi around. You either go all the way or not at all.
The final shot was for me wonderful because not only was it beautiful to see, but its representation of hope for a better future as well as the value of Ashi's sacrifice were pretty meaningful to me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:23:28 No.93033474 Report

Quoted By: >>93033542

>>93033405
I don't think love was the moral; hoping despite the worst of circumstances is the closest to a moral we got. "Even in the darkest of caverns there can still be beautiful light."

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:25:49 No.93033542 Report

Quoted By: >>93033833

>>93033474
What light? Ashi was a complete waste of a character and I felt 0 emotional attachment to her. She was literally only there to give Jack a reason not to kill AKU which he clearly was going to do anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:28:24 No.93033616 Report

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- finale should've been an hour
- I didn't care for the extended "Ashi learning how good Jack is" segments because it was unnecessary - she turned good basically instantly
- I didn't care for the cringe romance parts
- That Frank Sinatra shit broke immersion it didn't belong
- Would've liked to see more adventuring
- "You've forgotten your purpose" shit was a forgotten plot point tbqh
- Good vs. evil Jack not fully explored as a concept

I had fun overall. 7/10 for the season.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:37:37 No.93033833 Report

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>>93033542
Ashi wasn't the light, at least, she wasn't in the end. She provided the light, but the light itself was the possibility of a world without Aku. She got Jack to try one final time to rid the world of Aku and she managed to send him back.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 01:42:25 No.93033945 Report

Quoted By: >>93036676

>>93030164
This. SJ will always be one of my favorite shows, but s5 was disappointing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 02:34:43 No.93035166 Report

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>>93030164
fpbp

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 03:55:24 No.93036621 Report

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>>93030140

I'm glad we didn't have to pay real money for a season 5 dvd set! lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 03:56:55 No.93036651 Report

Quoted By: >>93036676

Season 5 was brilliant and more than I could have asked for, pretty much perfect conclusion to the series.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 03:58:44 No.93036676 Report

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>>93033945
Sad, but there it is.

>>93036651
I cannot for the life of me understand this opinion.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 03:58:50 No.93036677 Report

Quoted By: >>93037094

>>93033416
I get what you're saying, but in regards to the bitter part of the ending, I think going back to the past was the wrong narrative choice, both for ashis sake and jacks.
This is mainly due to the fact that it contrasts thematically with almost every other episode in the season, and contrasts tonally with over half of the episodes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 03:59:51 No.93036693 Report

Quoted By: >>93036867 >>93037347

The three episode meme is getting really tiring.

You didn't really want an ending did you, you just wanted more arthouse episodes and a hasty wrap up right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:00:49 No.93036707 Report

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>>93030164
Same as I feel. I actually really liked S5 as a whole even if the pacing was off but there's no kidding that the first three episodes were on a completely different level.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:01:46 No.93036722 Report

Quoted By: >>93037045 >>93037136

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-8llqE6om4

Perfect send off.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:04:29 No.93036764 Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-8llqE6om4

B A S E D
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Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:09:28 No.93036835 Report

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>>93030140
S3 > S4 > S2 > S1 > S5

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:11:37 No.93036867 Report

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>>93036693
>The three episode meme
Shut the fuck up already, ep 1-3 are better and more promising than the rest of the season, either prove this FACT wrong or shut the fuck up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:19:17 No.93036992 Report

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>>93030140
Needed to be 13 episodes.
>Episodes 8 and 9 could have been one episode combined
>Episode 7 should have been a 2-parter
>Finale should have been a 3-part movie thing like the pilot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:20:32 No.93037014 Report

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>>93030140
This promo picture is better than all of Season 5.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:22:13 No.93037045 Report

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>>93036722
>>93036764
I wasn't a fan of his voice, but I love this man now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:24:27 No.93037094 Report

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>>93036677
This guy gets it. You get set up themes and tones and lead your audience one way only to do a complete 180 in the last 5 min of the already rushed finale. #stillSalty

Finale aside, I loved every episode we got in season. The first three episodes in particular manage to stick out to me, great action, awesome art, cool symbolism, interesting psychological shit, amazing atmosphere; they just really captured what I remember the series being all about. Subsequent episodes were great too, but they were missing something that the first three had. I think the rushed pacing by the 10 ep limit might have forced them to leave out or cut back on some of that stuff in favor of progressing the plot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:24:48 No.93037101 Report

Quoted By: >>93037176

>>93031206
>>93031693
Why does this show attract so many shitposters?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:26:39 No.93037136 Report

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>>93036722
>>93036764
>F

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:28:42 No.93037176 Report

Quoted By: >>93037208

>>93037101
Because it generates the dankest of memes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:30:36 No.93037208 Report

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>>93037176
>the unspeakable evil Aku unleashed was memes

AKUUUUUUUUUU!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 04:39:46 No.93037347 Report

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>>93036693
whoah anon you've just convinced me all episodes are a solid 10

you do have a way with words you know

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 06:21:34 No.93039037 Report

Quoted By: >>93039047

Fun Fact: while 9 of season 10's episodes were animated at digital eMation, XCVIII was animated at rough draft korea (the studio that did the original series)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 06:22:38 No.93039047 Report

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>>93039037
>season 10
fuck I meant season 5

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 06:30:37 No.93039133 Report

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>>93030140
The first three episodes were absolutely amazing

Episode 4-6 felt a bit more standard but I still found them quite enjoyable

And the rest of the episode completely feel apart to absolutely terrible pacing and just plain unsatisfying conclusions to dozens of plot points (Ashi's mother, Jack getting the sword back, Mad Jack dying, and of course the final battle with Aku)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 06:36:50 No.93039202 Report

Quoted By: >>93039462

First 2 episodes were God tier. Episode 3 was good but where it began to decline, then fall apart.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 06:56:36 No.93039400 Report

Quoted By: >>93039602

>>93030349
It's a flaw because it's literally the only Aku vs Jack fight in the whole season.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 06:57:53 No.93039416 Report

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Episodes 1-2 were 10/10. Episode 3 was still great. After that, it fell apart.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 06:59:43 No.93039434 Report

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>>93031659
>I'm not tumblr!
Fine
Then go fucking kill yourself, MySpace

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 07:02:12 No.93039462 Report

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>>93039202
Why does the decline begin in episode 3? What's the turning point there?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 07:14:17 No.93039602 Report

Quoted By: >>93039678

>>93039400
You mean besides the future Aku fight? Oh right, you fightfags didn't like everyone else getting involved in that. Fucking unpleasable fanbase...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 07:19:31 No.93039678 Report

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>>93039602
Not him but reading comprehension doesn't seem to be your strong suit.
>It's literally the only Aku vs JACK fight
If he was counting all Aku fights then he would have said Aku vs scotsmans first army.

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