In Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, Aku made a last ditch attempt effort to save his existence and secure his rule in the future. The kanji can also be pronounced as "Waru". While he's usually presented as a serious and threatening foe, Aku was also a source of comedy in the show, due to his outrageous design and sometimes wise-guy behavior, that was supported by Mako's over the top voice-acting.Īku means "Evil" in Japanese. Aku had the most focus in the narrative besides Jack.
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Aku could have been considered the Deuteragonist of the series as a whole (albeit a rare, villainous one), as while Ashi became that in Season 5. Aku was entirely aware of his inability to defeat Jack and even lamp-shaded that in " Episode XLVIII: Jack versus Aku", which eventually discouraged him from fighting Jack further. Prior to Ashi sending Jack back in time to vanquish Aku's past self, the two seem doomed never to defeat each other, and while Jack had beaten Aku on numerous occasions, Aku merely transformed into a creature, retreated, and usually called out a taunt over his shoulder. Aku can stand several stories tall and a deep droning noise was often heard around him when he appeared.Īku constantly antagonized Samurai Jack: he often attacked him when he was weak, and other times defended himself from Jack's own gambits. There is one known instance where Aku removes the robe to reveal his thin legs in " Jack and the Zombies". Aku typically assumes a humanoid form, concealing his entire lower body in a massive, thick robe that sometimes manifested as flames. Aku had six horns, four long and two short, that extended from his head, and his eyebrows were made of red, flickering flame. Though Aku was capable of shifting his form into virtually anything that he wished due to his metamorphic body, his standard form after he self-upgraded and adapted to the Earth was roughly a humanoid being with a black body, a green mouth, and a red beard which extended from the bottom of his chin. Throughout seasons 1-4, Aku was voiced by Mako Iwamatsu, but due to Mako's death in 2006, Aku was voiced by Greg Baldwin in Season 5. Born from The Black Mass of Darkness, Aku was an evil, shape-shifting demon who took over the world and ruled it for countless eons, the arch-nemesis of Samurai Jack and the biological father of Ashi and her twin sisters. He was surprised by Jack's arrival and finally met his demise at the hands of the samurai, at the cost of losing his daughter.Aku is the main antagonist of the series Samurai Jack. Jack let Ashi time travel to the day when Aku opened a portal for Jack. He let Ashi unleash her darkness and imprision Jack. Once Jack finally encounters Aku with his surviving daughter Ashi, he saw Jack got his sword back and destroyed Scaramouche.
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His ally, Scaramouche the Merciless informed Aku that Samurai Jack lost his sword. He became bored, not remembering the fact that he fathered seven daughters. He met a High Priestess and made her give birth to seven daughters from his own essence. Aku wanted to prevent Jack from going back to Feudal Japan.įifty years have passed since Aku made Jack fail at every attempt to get him back to the past and destroyed every time portal in the process. Jack like his father, killed every last beetle. Aku sent an army of robotic beetles to defeat Jack. The Emperor's son took the name Jack after a couple of teenage aliens called him Jack. The Emperor's son was about to kill Aku but Aku sent the Emperor's son to the future. Aku became a tree for the next ten years. The Emperor killed every last one and stabbed Aku's mass into the sword and was sent into the Earth. He got separated and infected samurai armor and became an army of Samurai Akus. He met the Emperor again but the Emperor had a sword of righteousness made by Odin, Ra and Rama. The black mass was known as Aku, the Shogun of Sorrow and the Deliverer of Darkness. The black mass became a tree-like creature and gained arms, hands, a face and a voice. In feudal Japan, the Emperor was about to destroy him with a poisoned arrow and sun energy. A tuft of him was sent to Earth, killing the dinosaurs. He was separated into pieces by Odin, Ra and Rama. 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!"- from the show's opening (seasons 1-4). "Long ago, in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me.