'Samurai Jack' Season 5 Latest News: First Clip From Final Season Released
More than a decade has passed since Catoon Network's "Samurai Jack" animated series went off the air. After such a long time, Genndy Tartakovsk'y show is set to make a comeback for its final chapter. As fans await the return of the popular cartoon show this coming March, a first clip from its upcoming fifth and final season has recently been released.
Entertainment Weekly shared a sneak peek from the season premiere, in which Jack is seen battling with an army of giant robotic bugs. He rides on his spiked motorbike to run over and destroy them.
The villain Aku is heard speaking in the opening of each episode of the original "Samurai Jack" series, "I, Aku, the shape shifting master of darkness, unleashed and unspeakable evil. But a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time, and flung him into the future where my evil is law. Now the fool seeks to return to the past and undo the future that is Aku," he says.
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However, as reported by Coming Soon, Jack never made it back to the past he originally belonged to. In the beginning of "Samurai Jack" season 5, 50 years have passed in the story since the events at the end of the show's fourth season, and time has not been kind to the hero. He is still trapped in a dysopian future after Aku destroyed all the time portals.
As a side effect of time travel, Jack has stopped aging, seemingly cursed to roam the land for all eternity. Not only is he haunted by his past, a cult of assassins is also intent on killing him in the name of Aku's glory.
"Samurai Jack" season 5 is scheduled to premiere on March 11 at 11 p.m. ET/PT on Adult Swim. A trailer for the upcoming final season of the animated series was also released and can be viewed here.
