So some random people on the street call him "Jack"

Quiet, anon.

>>90693101
When in Rome....

>>90693101
Don't think too much about it. Just go with it.

>>90693101
He's been called it for FIFTY. YEARS.

>>90693101
His real name was probably complicated and just went with the flow.

Why did those three call him Jack anyway?

>>90693346
They thought he was cool and it was a nickname they gave. His true name had to made secret so he decided to instead just take the title "Jack".

>>90693346
Jack is a mixure of old slangs. "You don't know jack" "jump back, Jack" and I think it's like a British version of calling someone a John Doe.

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>>90693258
>It's been so long he's forgotten his own name.

>>90693101
You're concerned about that and not how he understood them perfectly?

>>90693673
Jack was trained by multiple different teachers from around the world. He probably picked up english.

>>90693101
Is there something I missed? Did the new eps at some point reveal that Jack isn't his real name?

>>90693704
>ancient japanese boy
>named jack

That should be your first hint. He starts to say his real name as well (gets out a g at best) before they interrupt him with Jack.

Can you fucks keep it to one thread?

>>90693101
He never said his name was Jack, just "They call me Jack".

>>90693101
So if Jack was sent to a black neighborhood in our time would he call himself "Samurai Nigga"?

>>90693756
Shut the fuck up.
I'm from /sug/ and I want these threads to exist.
Without the autism of a general.

>>90693264
>Jacks real name is Probably some jap shit that only a weeb or actual Japanese person could pronounce

Makes a lot of sense actually.

>>90693846
>a /sug/ idiot has stupid opinions
Who would've guessed.

>>90693704
How could you ever think it was his real name? We literally see the moment he is given it as a nickname in the first episode.

>>90693346
he was nimble and quick

>>90693704
Anon it was in the second episode

>>90693673
well he did travel as a young child until he was an adult.
It's possible he learned several languages along the way

>>90693673
>>90693961
It could also be because Aku gained sentience in Japan that Japanese became the dominant language

>>90693101
Outside of Aku, no one in the show has a specific name.

Like Jack's father is just referred to as "The Emperor" and Jack as "The Prince".

>>90693673
>You're concerned about that and not how he understood them perfectly?

He trained under Robin Hood. He knows at least some english.

>>90694141
>Aku
Aku literally just means 'evil' in Japanese senpai.

>>90693999
Possibly but I don't like that theory.
It would be really off putting to find out everyone is speaking Japanese but it's presented to viewers as English "because reasons".

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>>90693835
The Blind Nigga Samurai

>>90693900
>>90693950
Look it's been a long time since I watched the beginning of the show

>>90693346
It's an old school way of saying "dude", if you hang around old men too much you'll hear them say it

>tfw the show could have been called Samurai Dude
>might have made the show even better

>>90694171
>I, Aku, the shapeshifting master of darkness

It's his name too.

>>90693999
>Japanese with a thick Scottish accent

Now that I want to see

>>90693101
>he could have been named Samurai Nigga
>or Samurai Senpai
>or Samurai Dude

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>>90693101
>so Gendy what is the real name of Jacks dad?
>It's The Emperor

Well I guess then Samurai Jack's real name is The Prince

>>90694171
Makes you wonder what his name in the Japanese translation is. And if it's Aku, if it's weird or stupid.

>>90694553
what if his name was Evil

>>90694553
I guess for the japanese audiende he is just called "the evil" then. Like, the essence of evil. Makes sense really.

Like Yami in the game Okami. It just means "Darkness" yet that's his name even in the japanese original.

>>90693835
>Implying that wouldn't be even cooler

>>90694487
In the west, his surname would be The.

His Royal Highness, Prince Prince The.

>>90694553
It's Aku in Japanese, too. They might just think it's some kind of nickname, like the way people in One Piece frequently refer to Luffy as Strawhat.

>>90693101
What was up with those three guys and why did they call him Jack?, is that like a hip name in the future?

>>90694286
https://youtu.be/wsCS4olWhgs

This is probably the closest thing your gonna get. It comes off sounding Chinese.

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>>90693578
Not the only thing he's forgotten.

>>90694853
Jack is basicly story book version of John Doe. It is the generic name for a middle age or lower guy in any given story as a filler name. Lots and lots of old stories star a kid or guy named Jack because it is shorthand for some boy or man but it could be anyone who ends up a protagonist.

>>90694693
Fuck I lost it.

>>90693918
holy fuck youre right

>>90694981
Fuckin' kek.

>>90693835
There was a black...blue guy there calling him jack

>>90694141
Or the scotsman is just "the Scotsman".

>>90693673
He traveled across the world in his childhood.

He's most likely multilingual.

>>90693524
"Jack" was basically the British version of "male human", yes.

If they ever reveal his true name, then it'll most likely be Mako, to honor Aku's original voice actor.

>>90695049
>>90697230
Also, in SJ's future setting, Jack has probably ceased being a name for any random dude and is pretty much reserved for THE Jack, alone.

It's like the heroic version of Adolf.

>>90693673
He clearly had trouble understanding them at first. 2000+ years of street vernacular dumped on you all at once is going to disorient anyone, he probably focused on Jack because it was the only thing they said that he completely understood.

>>90693101
What language were they speaking?

>>90693703
>He probably picked up english.
Yeah, he picked up Ancient Saxon and was able to understand FUTURE English.
(Assuming the language spoken is English, as we do see it being used in Ancient Japan so it means the "Aku World" language is just another idiom being adapted in a similar fashion.)

>>90694180
Cyberpunk, bro.

>>90698115
Because of the way he understands old English he thinks this is a name and not slang.

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>>90693101
Did episode 2 come out? I see some people talking about some stuff I dont' recognize

Is there a good place to download it like someone mega's link or something? And what's the release schedule for these new episodes?

>>90702143
Episode 2 isn't out yet.

New episodes air every Saturday, assuming there are no break weeks.

>>90702171
Ah ok. Must be that that episode 2 teaser then. Thank you anon

>>90697344
>Implying

>>90702143
There was a premiere in LA that showed the first 3 episodes and some people here saw it

>>90693835
Samurai SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIT

>>90693101
It's a good name

>>90698115
Didn't he speak sparingly in the first season?
I always assumed it was because he didn't know much English.
Damned its been so long, like middle school or something.
>>90693101
He was trying to lay low I think, 50 years later for all he cares that's his name.

>>90694693
Like Sonic's middle name?

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>>90693835
>"They call me "Nigga"."
>Every black guy in the ghetto immediately glares at him.
ohshit.jpeg

>>90694981
didnt samuri jack end up saving his mom and dad in the future? or was that just some old fuck?

>>90693101
Why not just called him Joe?

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>>90695522
>You are now starting to realize that the blue kid showed up in the series... twice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppMe1I0xVo8

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>>90707291
Because Joe doesn't rhyme as well.
"To the past, to the past you go, Samurai Joe?" C'mon, we both know that's awful.

>>90694487

Jack's real name is Ōuji, if that's the case.

>>90707403
"By Allah, stop calling me Joe or you will get taste of my shoe"

>>90707467
That doesn't even rhyme. What are you trying to do here?

>>90707474
Read shoe like retard. Not like a normal person. Then shoe and joe rhymes

>>90693101
Jack was not born a first son so in ancient Japanese tradition he was destined to become a bathouse boy and thus nobody gave him a name
When they started tearing aku tho they had to train him as a soldier since first born son rules the land and there were only sisters left

>>90693101
You ever met an ethnic kid with a name that's complicated for the natives, so they go by a nickname?

It's the same thing.

>>90693999
Ruru
amaimono

>>90693835
Afro samurai

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>>90693101
>BANANA

>>90693876
Did he ever learn English? He was in England at one time, but it was for a short period

>>90693756
>You can only talk about currently airing shows in one thread as a general.
>Except for certain shows like Samurai Jack or Rick and Morty in which case generals get deleted on sight.
I actually detest generals and much prefer this style of free-form thread making like things used to operate before they existed, but they really should fucking stick to their word at least.

>>90707199
He saved them in the past but only momentarily before getting flung to future.

>Next week on Samurai Jack
>Jack is attacked by the Daughters of Aku
>he doesn't know they're human
>"Just nuts and bolts."

Jack is gonna kill one of the daughters, or seriously wound the one that turns good, isn't he?

>>90707371
>You can't use it yet, Samurai Jack. Not yet.

>Not yet.
What did he mean by this?

>>90707162

He's just like

>What? They do!

He thinks it's just a name

>>90693101
Because he knew Jack shit about the future

It was kid's for fuck sake and he was so naive when he came to the future anyway

leave him be

>>90710807
>Jack is gonna kill one of the daughters
If one of the anons in another thread was telling the truth, Jack's going to massacre all of the daughters save 'Ashi'. It'll be brutal.

After all, they're just "nuts and bolts".

>>90707435
found the weeb

>>90707403
>Yes, I remember Samurai Joe
>I once fought him a long time ago
>Where did you come from? Where did you go?
>Where did you come from Samurai Joe?

>>90712341
You'd think just cutting through one of them would be a tip off, when there's no metal noise, blood, the feeling of cutting through something soft, screeching, etc.

Judging from previews, he limps around half murdered himself for a while, so I imagine it'll take 2-3 episodes.

"cut me some slack jack"

They were speaking Jive

>>90713180
kek

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>>90709375
>After aku threw jack down the portal he likely went back to torturing the shit out Jacks mom and dad as some form of revenge

>>90693264
Makes sense. I've noticed a lot of Asian people take up English names when they're in America.

>>90694203
WHAT'S GOOD NIGGA?!
WHAT'S REALLY GOOD?!

>>90713907
>The screams in his visions are the actual screams of Aku's tortured victims

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>>90713180

>>90693101
It's not just three random people, it's the name that the people of the future have come to know his legend by. Even if he started telling people that his real name was Toshinori or something I doubt they would stop, the cultural impact of the hero "samurai jack" just got to be that important.

Besides, us knowing his real name I feel would mess with jack being this mythical hero trapped in the future.

>>90708731

He trained under Robin Hood, so he must have been there at least a year. He wouldn't need to learn fundamentals or anything, but to improve his technique by studying bow and staff there. That's enough time to pick up a third or fourth or fifth language. (Your second language is the hardest to learn, after that it gets easier.)

He never really said to the dogs in the second episode 'My name is Jack', instead he said 'They call me Jack'.

He totally just ran with it.

>>90693578
SHOW ME A GOOD TIME JACK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3QmHNd0HWo

it all comes full circle

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>>90694256
>We never got your name.
>They called me... Dude.

>>90698115
I always assumed that since Aku took over the world and Aku had formed in Japan that Aku simply made Japanese the first language of everyone on the planet.

>>90694180
>It would be really off putting to find out everyone is speaking Japanese but it's presented to viewers as English "because reasons"
Because most viewers don't understand japanese?

>>90716276
if I know anything from my animes, it's that japanese is the language spoken across the universe

>mako doesn't play aku in the japanese dub

>>90693101
>GT says that Jack's father is named Emperor
>the Royal Family of Jack's homeland don't have names for some reason
>everyone refers to Jack's father as emperor, except his family who use the appropriate title
>same for Jack and his mother
>Jack goes to the future and suddenly everyone starts calling him Jack
>he has no idea how to handle this

I'm guessing this is what the series was going for.

Who has that image of the robot wanting to make children and where did it come from?!

>>90712341
I swear if Jack acts sad because this is "his first time killing a human" I will drop the show on the spot.

He can be sad because they are young, or because they didn't have a option in the matter, or that they are family. But not this bs "no human kills" thing when it was asstablidhed in the original cartoon that he has killed humans before.

Probably just a reference to "Jack"ie Chan.

>>90718695
Jackie Chan is Chinese, not Japanese, like Jack.

>>90718742
doesn't matter

>>90718603
>asstablidhed in the original cartoon that he has killed humans before.
He did?

>>90718742
Like anyone who watches this shit even knows or cares.

>>90693999
I am okay with this

>>90718603
Genndy said in an interview that this season will be the first time Jack would kill a human, though.