{"id":99992,"date":"2017-05-01T20:43:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T04:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=174834"},"modified":"2017-05-01T20:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T04:43:32","slug":"samurai-jack-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/01\/samurai-jack-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai Jack is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VSrv_n4tw7w?ecver=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B01N3WGYMA\/geneexpressio-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-174835\" src=\"http:\/\/nofe.me\/razib\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/jack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a>After all these years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B01N3WGYMA\/geneexpressio-20\">Samurai Jack<\/a> is back. You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adultswim.com\/videos\/samurai-jack\/\">the first three episodes<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adultswim.com\/videos\/samurai-jack\/\">Adult Swim<\/a> website. A little Googling will get you the rest of them. There are three episodes left to finish out the series.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty incredible that this short, which I watched in the first half of the 2000s, comes back in 2017. In the interim the original actor who voiced <a href=\"http:\/\/villains.wikia.com\/wiki\/Aku\">Aku<\/a> died, but the replacement seems rather good to me (I wouldn&#8217;t have noticed the difference).<\/p>\n<p>What makes this series so special? I think it&#8217;s the seamless melange of motifs, whether from medieval Japan to a steampunk retrofuture, to science fictional time travel, combined with a stylized animation which gives one the appropriate impression of disorientation that the protagonist must be feeling when confronted with a nightmarish future.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F05%2F01%2Fsamurai-jack-is-back%2F&amp;linkname=Samurai%20Jack%20is%20back%21\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F05%2F01%2Fsamurai-jack-is-back%2F&amp;linkname=Samurai%20Jack%20is%20back%21\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/google_plus?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F05%2F01%2Fsamurai-jack-is-back%2F&amp;linkname=Samurai%20Jack%20is%20back%21\" title=\"Google+\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F05%2F01%2Fsamurai-jack-is-back%2F&amp;title=Samurai%20Jack%20is%20back%21\" data-a2a-url=\"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/2017\/05\/01\/samurai-jack-is-back\/\" data-a2a-title=\"Samurai Jack is back!\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all these years, Samurai Jack is back. You can find the first three episodes at the Adult Swim website. A little Googling will get you the rest of them. There are three episodes left to finish out the series. It&rsquo;s pretty incredible that this short, which I watched in the first half of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-samurai-jack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100005,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99992\/revisions\/100005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}