Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 4 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 4 Review (Spoilers)

“Ashi is hilarious”

Robert Knuckles

Toonami messed up last week giving us an April Fools Prank not showing Samurai Jack… I was sad but hey at least yesterday we got our beloved Jack back. So let’s dive into last night’s episode.

The episode starts off with Jack waking up and attacking but remembers himself falling from branch to branch (Looked liked it really hurt). He soon follows a trail of blood leading to Ashi knocked out. Crows begin taunting Jack yelling murderer and killer. Jack yells at the crows “They chose this path!!!.” Ashi wakes up and immediately attacks Jack but he’s able to counter and wrap Ashi’s weapon around her.

Ashi begins yelling “Die! Die! I will undo the evil from you!!” Jack tells her that Aku is the evil one but Ashi refuses to listen to Jack. Both Jack and Ashi are soon swallowed up a huge creature. While they are falling Ashi (although still wrapped up) still tries to kill which is pretty funny.

After they fall inside the creature Ashi once again tries to kill Jack when she’s still wrapped up. They are soon attack by creatures. While the creatures are about to kill Ashi Jack saves her and makes her his backpack. It actually looked adorable seeing Ashi as a backpack.

Jack is soon encountered by a small floating cotton ball telling him let’s get out of here and leave the girl. Jack says that she’s innocent and lost her way. Jack must be feeling guilt and now probably wants to redeem himself. Jack is soon encountered his younger self once again. This time looking normal and not a monster. His younger self questions why are you helping her? “We should just leave her.” Current Jack says that it’s his fault why she’s here. Jack is really feeling guilty and sees Ashi as an innocent girl. Ashi is soon kidnapped by a monster and Jack saves her once again.

As Jack is walking around with his Ashi backpack she still keeps on yelling at Jack and praising Aku. Jack lost patience and flipped out at Ashi saying you need to let go of the hate and you’ll see the truth but Ashi refuses to listen. It soon starts raining needles. The two find shelter. Jack starts getting the needles off him and Ashi. It was really funny seeing Ashi’s facial expression during that scene.

After the needle storm is over the two climb up and once they climb up they see beautiful creatures flying around. Samurai Jack always know how to make beautiful art in this show. They see the exit open up. Jack grabs on one of the creatures and starts flying towards the exit but a huge skellington like fish tries to eat them. The two eventually manage to get of the creature and end up on an island.

Jack sits down and recovers. As Jack is sitting down Ashi wakes up and plans to sneak attack Jack as she’s preparing for the kill she see’s a ladybug and we see a flashback of a younger Ashi training and is fascinated and distracted after seeing a ladybug. Her mother tells her “This is not part of Aku’s order.” Ashi see’s the ladybug fly onto Jack and she drops her weapon thus ending the episode.

I really enjoyed this episode. It didn’t have the action that we saw two weeks ago but we see Jack caring for someone that’s trying to kill him. Jack deep down knows that Ashi is an innocent girl. Perhaps Ashi could be a big part of Jack finding his way. Ashi made this episode fun to watch as well. Always yelling at Jack and praising Aku was hilarious. We see Ashi drop her weapon as she was preparing to kill Jack. Has Ashi see the errors of her ways? Does she see that Jack is a good guy? We can only wonder. Another question that comes up is what about her other sisters that fell too? Something inside me tells me that the other two are still alive and will they see error of their ways too? Until the next episode!!