Was it satisfactory?

Was it satisfactory?

How did "you" want it to end?

it was KINO and no one can convince me differently

ashi fades to nothing but it shows the future timeline without aku and ashi and her sisters and everyone is there honoring a statue of jack

I would've liked it if the gods brought back Ashi just for Jack for all he's done, but other than that, absolutely perfect.

Perfect

Gurren laggan did it better.

I was satisfied yet I still feel empty.

I thought it was OK, the best for a bittersweet ending. I honestly thought he was never going to go back into the past: metaphor for letting go of past mistakes/regrets.

I'm glad Ashi disappeared. If she didn't, it would have implied alternate timelines existed and that would have meant everyone in Aku's future would have to live with an unstoppable Aku

I accept this ending. This is the journey that he was train to do and he did it. The future won't have to suffer from Aku's terror anymore, and if his future friends still exist without Aku's altering the timeline, then they're safe

I was hoping Jack would have a revelation about his focus on returning to the past. I was hoping he'd realize that while going back will save people that used to be in his life, many people now that are so important to him wouldn't exist as a consequence.

He would see how all these new friends willing to die to protect him and see the love of his life and decide that he can defeat the evil in the present world and enjoy it for that is has become to him: a new home.

Damn, it's been so long since I saw the series I forgot it ended like that.

I was hoping Scaramouche would come back

Aku died like a pussy, the ending was cliche as fuck and frankly didn't make sense. Whole thing was just rushed, even felt like they were forced to talk faster. 0/10 ruined the entire series for me.

So since people can't exist in a timeline where they were never born and can't have possibly existed, my headcanon is that, from Scotsman's and everyone in the future's perspective, Aku faded away before their eyes, screaming in rage and fear, after Ashi and Jack went back in time, since he couldn't exist after his past self was destroyed. The future timeline then continued to exist and the world was rebuilt, with Jack and Ashi honored forever.

This hope brings me comfort and it's what I choose to believe in. The saddest thing about the ending, for me, is not Ashi's death, but all of the characters from the past 5 seasons supposedly ceasing to exist.

I know I'm a faggot but this is how I view the ending, other than the lack of closure for the other characters I thought it was amazing.

satisfactory but nothing more
>horrible pacing
>not much closure
>dumb ending
it just needed to be longer really
still, nice visuals and there was some closure

Was great, glad I didn't miss it.

>Aku died like a pussy
Well he is in his weakest state and even in the future, he almost got kill by Jack many times

God forbid anyone try what Gurren Laggan does, right?

elaborate

There's being inspired and then there's copying the ending 1:1

Better res if anyone wants it.

This was seriously the only outcome I was expecting once the whole "Aku is a part of her" thing was brought up weeks ago.

"She's going to get Nia'd, isn't she?"

Yup, I was fucking right.

...

It wasn't good and no one can convince me it was, just because it techically "was an ending" doesn't mean it was good. Sure Samurai Jack is over, Aku is dead but this season just stuck out like a sore thumb. For starters literally none of it matter, it literally existed to make us feel bad for Jack. So yeah we can say their was an ending to Jack, but two years ago I could of told you "Jack gets back to the past and kills Aku" and you'd have literally the exact same closure. I'm not satisfied honestly but I guess I can accept it. I feel anyone who actually watched the series before this season probably hated this finale.

It was literally TTGL, and I kind of saw it coming

It was alright. It had no twist or turns, they took the pure and simple route which while was a little lame, also had little room to mess up as well. I was also an anti-Past so I'm somewhat disappointed. That said:
>mfw 90% of all the complaining was people bitching how he'll never go through a time portal
>mfw now all of a sudden 90% of people want him to stay in the future
What the fuck is wrong with you faggots.

That's because Aku IS a pussy user. I mean, he was a world-enslaving, if not galaxy-enslaving, evil hiring goddamn bounty hunters, having to give himself therapy, and even somehow got the common cold. Not to mention he's been trashed before.

Yes because that was a shit tier ending to start with.

So why isn't pic related a bigger deal?

How do people live knowing that a moon-sized leviathan lives deep underground and can emerge at any time to chomp an entire city in one bite?

No one else is concerned?

Would have been perfect if, in this scene, he pulled a sword out from his robe and thrust it into himself, immediately cutting to black with the iconic "WATCHAA". Although I was really expecting the space deities to materialize Ashi in front of him at the end there.

Nah. It was great with TTGL because Simon HAD THE POWER to make Nia continue existing, but chose not to since he promised the Anti-Spirals that humans would not abuse Spiral Energy like they predicted they would.
It was the most personal sacrifice for the good of the entire universe.

>I was also an anti-Past

I don't get how people can be against the main fucking thing that the entire show is based upon

also, Sup Forums is not 1 person you dingus

I really wanted seppuku.

It was fine.

To be honest I probably would have liked it more if the comic hadn't done it first and five times better.

seemed off
jack refused to go back in the past to kill aku and undo his evil at least once, probably more
so why at the end, did he just leave the present to go to the past?
why did he save those archer monks instead of just going to the past, killing aku, and making it so none of that shit happened?
it seemed like jack cared more about saving those in the present than going back. but suddenly that was no more and jack wants to go to the past to end it.

I dunno. maybe he finally wised up and realized saving those in the present is pointless and going back in the past is the better plan.

Ashi staying would have been uncomfortable. She was the daughter of Aku. She could turn evil at any moment without warning. Their children could be ticking time bombs.

I felt a little bad that those people who jack helped stopped existing.
But im aware that 1000 years of Aku is worth it.

At least Jack got a little better cause of the ladybug.

He was a moral person. If he hadn't saved those people, the sword wouldn't have deemed him worthy to wield it.

Underrated post. Thanks for the new desktop background.

Aku keeps that around as his pet.

What a mess.

>Everything was SO FUCKING RUSHED.
>So many fucking loose ends.
>Aku's demise was unceremonious.
>Everyone from the future is basically just gone and never mentioned again.
>Scotsman reunion was shit.
>That stolen ending from TTGL.

What a fucking letdown...

whenever I see two posts with the same image right beside each other I wonder if it's some sort of psychology experiment

seems dooming literally everyone on earth and beyond so he could save like, 40 people is rather immoral

again, it seemed like jack wanted to do the right thing by not leaving people behind, and save them rather than just leave through a portal. that made some sense. but now that we see jack just wants to stop aku, why didn't he do that from the get go?

I expected him to realize that by going back to the past everything in the future would no longer exist, and him being determined savior of the future and what not decided it's not worth to sacrifice one world to save another. It didn't help the whole shtick of season 5 being all time portals were gone. But whatever, the one we got was decent enough.

>Sup Forums is not 1 person you dingus
Fair enough, but when see the amount of rage a week ago because people thought he won't go back to the amount of rage now that he did, it seems a little fucky.

Aku brought those monsters (probably from space) to the world.

Jashifags were BTFO. It was all I wanted.

>what is a plot device

Gotta be honest though, the designs for the creature's innards were amazing.

It ended basically exactly how I wanted it to (Jack getting back to the past and Ashi sacrificing herself) it was just rushed as fuck. Way too much shit happened in only 22 minutes which robbed everything of it's impact. I think the main plot of S5 was fine, it was just way too much for only 10 episodes to cover. It gets hammered in but ep 1-3 were fantastic and everything since has felt slapdash in comparison. Still glad it happened of course, but I can't help but feel a little disappointed. I'd probably like it more on a rewatch now that I know the full picture.

Hopefully we get a complete series blu ray or something.

I better not be banned you piece of shit

>loose ends
Going back to the past erases the future, none of what happened exists now.

When Jack was about to land the killing stroke that would undo the future timeline, future Aku should have popped into the past as well.

He'd have fused with his past incarnation into an even greater monstrosity, leaving Jack and Ashi to duke it out with him in a climactic final battle.

>expecting something that grand when there was like 4 minutes left

They fucked up with the typical run-time on this episode. Goddamn, was this episode rushed.

>>Scotsman reunion was shit.
nah

I think Genndy planned to flesh out the Ashi relationship way more but had to fit it into the 10 episode limit.
We can clearly see he still has the ability to make great episodes judging by the first few, but he decided that finishing the story was the most important thing.

The plot itself was fine, it was just too rushed. Final battle should have been extended over an hour ep and Guardian should have had a proper sendoff

Otherwise no gripes this season

I guess we don't need to know who the High Priestess was or what happened to the Guardian or any of that shit.

After Aku's defeat, there would have been a long uncensored sex scene for 10 minutes.

What a great way to end the series, by making all the characters we've come to know and love not even exist anymore. 16 years all for nothing.

honestly i thought he would die within one slash

>High Priestess was
some slut who drank aku jizz
> or what happened to the Guardian or any of that shit.
he died

It was fine, bittersweet even. I applaud him for having the balls to do it too. not every show, well western shows go for an ending that isn't a happy note. I'll enjoy these few moments until some of those faggots decide to sperg out again with how it was the worst ending ever.

>Scotsman reunion was shit

I laughed all the way through, lighten up.

What a terrible way for this show to go out.

Huge fucking letdown.

First few episodes were fantastic, though. But this...damn, what a fucking mess.

What fantastic writing. Truly amazing.

I want to believe the got a little freaky before rebuilding Japan

Between Samurai Jack and Humanz, I feel like all the forces of my childhood are coming together to collectively disappoint me.

horillaz was always shit just like jack

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but...
If Ashi had lived, it would have created TONS of logical paradoxes and dilemmas. The most severe of which is... she would have been immortal. Jack was a time traveller, Aku's magic made him immortal because he was out of sync with his own timeline.
Ashi was as well, so logically she would have outlived Jack and everyone else. She would be unable to die unless she killed herself.
I think Genndy wanted to avoid that scenario

same

There could have been an entire race of people living inside that thing.

My biggest gripes were
>not enough Scotsman
>Oh Ashi! You have Aku's powers
>instantly time portal

I expected it to be longer.

Anyways, the best part is that this episode somehow more like a original SJ episode than the others. I don't know why. Maybe it was the scene of Ashi struggling with Aku's evilness or the final blow to Aku in that 3 way cut.

Overall, the pacing was the biggest problem, Even two more episodes would have been so much better to tell the story and don't feel rushed.

>show ends the way it was set out to
>a letdown

Clearly, you did not watch the show growing up, and only bandwagoned this season.

...was that seriously how it ended?

What the fuck? That was easily some of the most rushed plot development I've seen in quite a while. Holy fuck. Also, seriously, they did the Gurren Lagann thing? I was kinda expecting that part, but holy fuck was this entire episode just one huge clusterfuck of a rush job.

For be Akus
>On no.
Scene made it good, him realizing that it's all over and he's probably about to vanish was pretty satisfying in the end

I've seen the episodes back in the 2000's.

Quit being a blind bitch fanboy and see the rushed and terrible writing for what it is.

People expected some huge twist, but Genndy just wanted to make it as simple as possible as to be able to finish it within the limited span they gave him.

Apart from the usual time travel fuckery there is no plotholes, everything was explained and the explanation really are that simple. I agree that it's disappointing but I do feel your making it look far worse then is, though I suppose you could make the argument that this is largely due to the first three episodes which really while absolutely amazing does a terrible job of creating the opening tone of what the show is about.

I was waiting for jack to commit seppuku

this, sad this was retconned

I felt like the entire thing went downhill once Ashi turned into a Disney fairy. This last episode was pretty bad.

Genndy only had 10 episodes. 210 minutes in total.

If he had 15-20 episodes, I think it would have been more satisfying, but I bet 10 is the most CN would give him.

Could have been better, but still really happy we got an ending at all.

that is literally what I thought was gonna happen at the end.

I thought Jack was riding off to see them.

If anything, this just made me want to watch TTGL again.

Yes I agree I'm disappointed, I have no problem with the fact that Jack and Ashi fall in love, I really liked where it was going, until I realized that after episode 8 there was only 2 more episodes left. I was like WTF THIS SHIT IS SO RUSHED there's no way i'm not going to be disappointed.

>GENNDY CAN DO NO WRONG MUH KINO

10 half hours seems to be a standard for Adult Swim

>everything gets resolved in 20 minutes
>oh ashi has time portal powers, oh ok
>aku just dies, whatever
>ashi gets nia'd
>jack is a lonely soul with no will left to live
>the end

ayy lmao

do it/ it's the 10th anniversary of kamina's death. or was.

>literally better than what we got
Genndy is a fucking hack

>>oh ashi has time portal powers, oh ok
she had his other powers
>>aku just dies, whatever
that was aku at his weakest

>>jack is a lonely soul with no will left to live

"Life goes on" is the message.
Did you not watch Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, or any Ghibli movie, scrub?

If Aku being defeated meant Ashi never existed, then Ashi never existing means they never defeated Aku, which means Ashi did exist, which means they did defeat Aku, which means Ashi didn't exist, which means they didn't defeat Aku, etc.

Fine to me, but apparently 'fine' isn't good enough for Sup Forums

On the other hand, nothing is good enough for Sup Forums unless there is an abundance of porn involved so whatever.

Did you watch episode 9?

>someone made funnay joke
>BETTER TAKE A PICTURE OF IT
>>>/reddit/

What if he went further back in time and raped Aku

>Evangelion,
I thought the message was everyone hates you for a reason
>Gurren Lagann,
Willpower can overcome anything
>or any Ghibli movie
im not a child

Only difference was that those works weren't rushed like hell.

>only had 10 episodes

He could've done plenty with 10.
There was so much filler this season it was unbelievable.
The prison monster episode was nothing. Literally nothing. The ONLY thing it established was "they're in love now."
Cut out that entire episode and just have them make out at the end of the previous one and absolutely nothing would have changed.

You can tell a tight, compelling story in 20 minutes if you have the talent, but they filled this season to the brim with unnecessary tropes.
The fact that they 1:1 recreated the ending of Gurren Lagann tells me that Genndy didn't even want to do this, he probably never intended Samurai Jack to end at all.
He just took all the most stock plot devices he could have and strung them out in a sequence with no nuance.

it's bttf rules. you change something it changes no matter what

And that is why you fail user.