The essential episodes of Samurai Jack
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Samurai Jack — each pick states its reason.
- 01
When the ancient evil Aku returns to terrorize Japan, the emperor's young son is send to distant lands to train in the ways of the warrior. Only then can he wield his fathers magical sword to stop Aku from taking over the world.
- 02
Jack aided by an equally skilled warrior woman, to whom has a dark secret, search for a crystal with magical properties.
- 03
Jack and the Three Blind Archers
Jack learns about a wishing well of King Osric on top of a tower protected by three unbeatable archers and vows to make his way past them.
- 04
Samurai Jack is crossing a seemingly endless rope bridge when he meets another wanted man coming from the other side: the Scotsman. After fighting each other to a stalemate, they are forced to team-up when bounty hunters arrive on the scene and shackle Jack and the Scotsman to each other.
- 05
While bathing, Jack's sword, shoes and clothing are stolen by what looks like a white rabbit. When Jack follows the culprit down a hole, he enters a strange underground realm like none he has ever seen.
- 06
Samurai Jack follows a little girl to return the doll she lost in the woods. She leads him into a haunted house filled with memories of the previous inhabitants.
- 07
During battle, Samurai Jack accidentally swallows a piece of darkness coughed up by a sickly Aku. When Aku's blackness begins to take over the Samurai, he seeks help from Master Ning.
- 08
After fifty years, Jack is still trapped in the future. Unaged by his passage through time, Jack has upgraded his arsenal but continues his fight against the minions of Aku... unaware that a group of priestesses are training the Daughters of Aku to kill him.
- 09
Jack faces his newest enemy, while Aku ponders what to do with his unaging foe
- 10
After dealing with his wound, Jack turns to fight the remaining six Daughters of Aku and draws upon the wisdom of his father.
- 11
After he and Ashi are swallowed by a gigantic monolithic monster, Jack must struggle to escape with a prisoner intent on his death.
- 12
After Jack convinces Ashi of Aku's evil, the two of them go to rescue enslaved children. However, Jack soon believes that he has killed them. Meanwhile, an ally from the past leads an attack on Aku's fortress.
- 13
While Jack meditates to restore his balance and recover his mystic sword, Ashi protects him against thousands of soldiers... and the woman who was like a mother to her.
- 14
Aku learns from Scaramouch that Jack has lost his sword... but doesn't learn that Jack has recovered it. However, the demon discovers that he has another far more potent weapon to use against Jaack.
- 15
Aku televises Jack's pending death to the entire world, and the armies of the future rise up against him. But all hope lies in the love of a man for a woman.
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