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A child soul

This little visual moment is interesting not only because it demonstrates, how Aku moves his vibrissae (you can also notice it in 9 episode of 4 season, he lows them when he is sad, for example, just like ears), but also his playful child nature. He literally uses his vibrissae for making puppet/shadow show just like mortals used their own hands for making shadows of animals. And, well, just like a kid, he shows himself higher than potential "worthless mortal" (I'd more compare that to a kid, who burns anthills for fun).

Imagine, if he did that shadow/puppet show to those kids from 13 episode of 1 season or for comforting some kid. Or to young Jack, for example. That could be pretty cute and funny.

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Aku's prank?

13 episode of 3 season was funny (especially with Jigen), but the baseline of this episode is weird. Like, some guys tell to Jack pieces of information (heard from some another guys and considered as truth, I guess,) about the pyramid-like fortress with lots of traps and guard, created by Aku (or he just ordered it to another scientists or robots to build this), and that allegedly the jewel in this fortress will send Jack to the past.

Guess, either Aku tried himself in artist role, or one of scientists once watched Aku making cosplay of Osiris (like, it is exactly Osiris's tools Aku holds), so he did that, when he was free from job. Interesting, this hieroglyphs sequence means something? The hieroglyph that looks like a cup of tea, means "master/lord" (but not a god). I assume, these hieroglyphs mean something like "This jewel is our gift for the immortal master of masters" or whatever, because these bird-people (and jackal-people?) bring to Aku this jewel, and the eye on the ship and the guardian's shield kinda means Eye of Horus, i.e. "protection" or whatever. As well as these Osiris's tools Aku holds here symbolize a ruler.

Maybe Aku tried himself in story-writing also. Because, again, he made this pyramid fortress with tons of various traps and robot guards that almost killed exhausted Jack. This fortress is fully technological, just its design is in Egyptian style. But the weird thing is in this jewel itself — why on Earth Aku would keep this jewel, if he always destroyed portals or artifacts with the ability of time travelling? Especially, if Jack and Jigen easily (accidentally) destroyed it.

I think, this jewel is useless in therms of magic or time travelling. I.e. Aku was so bored, so he used lots of resources for making this place just for pranks over various thieves. And it exists for 4000 years, how Jigen apparently states (or maybe he just joked, mentioning random date).

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Aku's usual serpent-like stand

I noticed interesting detail in Aku's design, when he just stands, and we don't see his hands or legs, only his spiky shoulders and this, ah, "fluffy tail" that looks like the hem of a cloak or dress.

In some senses it looks like the cobra's stance and its open hood.

Well, even Aku's gaze is often hypnotic.

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Lost and frozen in time

I think, the Shaolin warriors are the only habitants of the future, who live in the full isolation from the world, knowing nothing about it.

They have no technologies, only the martial arts and the magic they call as Chi. And although their ancient leader tells about their backstory, there's still a few little weird things. Okay, they probably tried to fight Aku's demonic and robotic armies, so that's why he destroyed their temple, while most part of people were either enslaved or killed during battle and destruction of the temple. Some of them survived and hid in woods and built the new temple, while the leader merged with the tree and got powers that allowed to him to live eons and to protect their home from Aku's eyes.

Explained pretty well. But I still have questions — how they escaped? How they were able somehow to build the new temple, so nobody found them? Moreover, the episode shows that Aku's mirror doesn't work on this territory. So, from Aku's position, it is some weird anomaly that has to be investigated. Why he ignored this place?

Even if he cares about nature and didn't want to burn these green and inviting lands (what makes sense), he still should check this place for possible stuff that can help to Jack to create time paradoxes (even if he wasn't interested in Shaolin warriors etc).

But here's the one interesting thing about these Shaolin warriors themselves. There are only men. Absolutely no children, women, old people. Only men. And they don't mention that some travellers became new members of their community, for example. So, how they still exist? The only reasonable explanation is their ancient leader and his powers.

He with the help of Chi (and magic from trees/nature) not only protected their home, but also freezed the time for his young pupils (the survivors from the distant past), so after eons they are still young and live happily in this anomaly place, separated from the world.

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Aku's favourite plants

We know that Aku's favourite tree was a bonsai.

Pretty odd that cactuses haven't become Aku's favourite plants.

Especially these ones.

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The message was understood wrong

Previously I promised to make a post about some weird aspect of the bullying scene. Here I'll discuss about the one particular moment of this scene — Steele's taunting toward Balto and his mother. Okay, the original film never mentions Balto's parents and their species directly, in the entire movie Balto once answers to Jenna with embarrassment "Big paws kinda run in my family... At least, ah... one side of my family.", rejecting the wolf parent and not stating who was the wolf parent in his family. And I always confidently though that exactly Balto's father was a wolf (and the director of the original film also confirmed this, but in this specific post it doesn't matter).

Later I'll make the detailed post about the subtle moments, which hint the father as Balto's wolf side, but now let's look at it from the story writing perspective. We have the dog protagonist, who lives among humans and dogs. He interacts with humans and dogs, he desperately wants to be a sled dog and never interacts with wolves, wanting to have nothing to do with them and considering wolf blood in him as his curse, so he even never howls. The movie never hints that he came from the wilderness, the core is in him being alienated by others from the town he lives in as in his home. And he is exactly in the human/dog world, far far away from wolf world, which was always unknown for him. And he's very meek and timid and behaves like a regular dog (and absolutely all his early designs depicted him as a dog, in scripts he even barked).

Why on Earth the filmmakers would ever make exactly Balto's mother to be a wolf? It makes zero sense (and here I explained, why — although I don't consider Wolf Quest as a canon at all). But there's the one problem. For some reason many people use Steele's taunting "Oh, Balto, I've got a mesage for your mother: Awhooo!" as a smoking gun, that this line allegedly implies Balto's mother being a wolf (then more sense would be to make Steele say "I have a message from your mother: Arwooo!" in this case, i.e. he parodies her, implying that she lost/abandoned her son or died and greets him from heavens or whatever — and, well, it would make more sense to tell directly that she's a wild animal in therms of insulting). Okay, how it confirms Balto's mother as a wolf? And how the very vague joke from the random malamute, who knows nothing about Balto except of him being a stray half-wolf, can be a serious proof? Moreover, then what's insulting here in his taunting? There's nothing what could cause Balto's anger — like, she is a wolf, and wolves only howl or whatever, and... where is there something insulting? What's the core of this insulting? What Steele wanted to tell by this line and actions later? It doesn't work here at all. Plus, if to watch the full scene, you can notice, that they just make fun of the wolf language, asking Balto to translate the howlings. Since he is unable to howl, there's a clear teasing with meaning "The wolf, who can't howl" or "You're half-wolf, so you have to know wolf language, so translate to us some howls". They don't mock on Balto's mom, they mock on exactly Balto and the wolf language. But... is that really so insulting and painful for Balto to get so pissed off?

However, the laugh and jokes about the wolf language clearly were added way later, because the recording is different from other sounds. Their laugh happens during the howling scene, but nobody could laugh and say something, 'cause they all howled at this moment. Simply saying, this sequence wasn't in the script. The production crew clearly tried to hide the dirty joke and really dark, adult and deep meaning, changing the focus toward childish jokes about the wolf language. The example of such "toning down to make the movie more family-friendly", how it erases logic, I showed here. But about what this dark, deep and adult meaning is, we will talk a bit later. For now keep in mind, Steele arrived after the race he ran for many miles among snowy deserts, mountains and woods, so he could see wolves (maybe even exactly the pack Balto meets later). The novel version of this scene is even more confusing. For some reason they scrapped the entire sequence with jokes about translating from wolf language, but kept the "Hi, mom" line (earlier I already told about the origin of "Hi mom!" line here). While the only one, who howled, was Steele, and he howled only once. I guess, here it is just a "yo momma" joke, i.e. he just provoked Balto without any thoughts about his mother's species. Because the novel just points out "Balto had had enough" without any details, it never mentions his parents at all, calling Balto just a wolfdog. And the novel never mentions that Balto came to Nome from wilderness — townfolks thought he's wild only because he is half-wolf.

The official novel doesn't state Balto's mother as a wolf.

But let's return back to the movie version of this scene. Have you ever noticed Balto's reaction at this?

Look at Balto's reaction at how they parody a wolf pack and howl "messages" for his mother.

Look at his eyes especially. The pupils narrowed, the ears flattened and lowered, the fur stood up. He doesn't react at everything else anymore. In the entire movie it is the only scene, where Balto really is pissed off and gets furious.

Balto immediately becomes in rage mode and is ready to fight them. And it happens way before their talks and jokes about wolf language. And only Boris stops him and asks to go away.

Plus, in the beginning of this sequence, when Steele made the first howl, look at how he moves his head and dramatically howls. And look at the yearning in facial expressions he performs during this moment and for a second looks and smiles to Balto. As if he parodies a wolf in love, who plaintively and imploringly calls for the lover.

And then his gang joins him for parodying entire pack of such wolves in love.

What does it mean? Steele and his dogs literally mocked on Balto's mother for falling in love with a wolf and having a pup with a wolf. It is a dirty joke about her being a "harlot dog, who runs and mates with wolves". They parody a wolf pack, asking Balto's husky-mother to come to them for dallying. And it explains Balto's anger in this scene. He, denying his wolf heritage and being bullied for wolf heritage, is pissed off, because Steele and his gang insult his husky-mother, who is presumably dead. Balto loves his mother and will never allow to insult her (his dog side) and her choice (her love toward a wolf). And Steele actually already made such kind of insults earlier. When Jenna rejected him, he said "Well, maybe your tastes run more toward... wolf?".

And that is Jenna's reaction at his words. And the only what stops her from kicking Steele's butt is Rosie.

So, yes, Steele's insult toward Balto's mother is a logical progression of his line toward Jenna. Not to mention, how Jenna's friends, Sylvie and Dixie, show disgust toward the fact that Jenna likes Balto. They view him as a mixed abomination, a creature of shame.

From my perspective, it is the only plausible and reasonable explanation. In the original film either Balto's backstory was never developed or his wolf side came from his father. Nothing else.

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The language in Samurai Jack

I want to cover the aspect about language. There are two moments. And both of them are connected to both Jack and Aku.

Let's start from Jack. Did you ever realize that Jack is a polyglot? Yep, as a kid he travelled and trained in different countries, that's how he learnt many languages. And also this ability helped to him to understand habitants of the future and even of the past.

As well as it saved his life. Now about Aku. Although he was born in Japan and hated humans and other mortals, he kept exactly languages humankind used (and he is okay with many habitants using their native languages).

But as the main one Aku stated the English language (or maybe some mix of many languages, but with still dominant part of exactly English and with minimum of changes even after eons of his reign).

I think, he decided to do so, 'cause English language is one of the easiest (if not the easiest) languages to learn, hence it is both official and international language every habitant of Earth has to know since childhood. And at the same time (I guess, it is for tourists) we can see some alien language (probably international too, so habitants of various planets and galaxies can also communicate with each other without problem).

Pretty cool detail. And, well, Aku kept ancient fairy tales, made by humans.

Another cool detail.

Wait, "Aku X-mas"? You mean, Aku is okay with citizens having/spending Christmas Holiday? Surprisingly nice.

Weird that nobody imagined Aku in A Christmas Carol style.

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To give a tool and a choice

Although earlier I many times pointed out that Aku created multi-cultural society with technological progress, hence he clearly wants sincere gratitude from citizens. In this particular comic, of course, Jack is portrayed as the one who is absolutely right like "Human interaction is important" (everything needs a measure), but what I like here is the detail about Aku — he doesn't act as some caricature evil embodiment of social media or whatever, he just creates some technology and makes it available for habitans, nothing more. He doesn't force them to use it, he gives a benefit of civilization and a choice.

Simply saying, the choice is always their, to use it or not to. Pretty nice detail.

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Only a tool (and only a thief)

Although, I covered every problem with Ashi as a character (mostly here), I want to analyze from the point I usually don't take into account. Ashi was based on Genndy's girlfriend from his childhood dreams, so in the way how she is introduced and presented, Ashi is literally a Mary Sue. She becomes the protagonist of 5 season, she is the only character who changes in 5 season (or, at least, changes the side of the conflict she knows nothing about and blindly believes to mother and then to Jack), she gets superpowers literally from nowhere and without any knowledge fights the very powerful and experienced opponent, and she is the one, who resolves and ends the long conflict between Jack and Aku, genociding all habitants of the future.

From another side, ironically, at the same time Ashi is not a character with personality, she is a plot device, a function, a tool, who breaks the canon and leads to the events the author wants. She is shoe-horned into the events, which make it impossible for her character to appear in the story 5 season chose and in the circumstances she would never handle. The similar problem happens with Mira from 2 season of Primal, but from different angle (here is more details about problems of 2 season). Well, before 10 episode Mira was an independent character with personality, a completely full-fledged character with her own story, the equal member in Spear's and Fang's team.

However, in 2 season 10 episode in the disgusting necrophilia scene Mira lost her own self and independence and was turned into a plot function to focus, emphasize and enhance the forced drama of another character — in this case, Spear (i.e. she became an appendage).

In Ashi's case, from the beginning she exists only for sending Jack back in time and for making the sad ending (or happy ending in the game). Simply saying, she is not an independent character, not an autonomous person, not a character with her own story and arc. She exists only for resolving the problem of the two other characters and as an appendage to enhance the drama of another character (Jack in this case), 'cause Genndy's intention was to focus on Jack's bittersweet or happy end of path, i.e. forced drama (how he once said in interview "We are going to make\force Jack to fall in love"; or how in interview about the game his crew compared Ashi with some guiding light for Jack).

And realizing this, I remembered all those fans' sketches-ideas about "The antagonist has a blood/adopted daughter he loves, but she runs away and falls in love with his enemy, and her tragic death stops years of enmity between them" — and they have exactly the same problem, because the new character was again created only as empty function solely for the sake of enhancing the drama of other characters and solving their conflict. A character, who did not originally exist, should not have existed, and who would not have existed due to the circumstances of the story, setting and characters of the characters.

But now let's talk about the "thief" thing. I don't know, whether it was done intentionally or accidentally, but it really seems that Ashi was created as a mockery toward fans, who wanted the story about how Jack and Aku become allies against some greater deadly force, and how the demon finds other sides (noble sides) of his personality and becomes more a trickster antihero, rather than pure hero or pure bad guy. Because if to watch the scene from 9 episode from this perspective, you can notice that Aku basically acts toward Ashi in pretty similar way how Jack's father acted toward him, when Aku only was born. Like, Emperor wanted to "destroy the evil", but instead he accidentally gave the life to Aku and then rejected him, telling about his intentions to kill the demon and then attacking him, when Aku just said "Thank you!" and wasn't aggressive (and here I already pointed out, that Jack's father is not worthy).

And now Aku meets the young girl, infected by his blood without his knowing, and kinda considers her as his unplanned creation(?) and then uses as a puppet, mocking on her and Jack and trapping her inside of the black mass. From this perspective Ashi is a "human/female and kind" version of Aku, who replaced him and stole Aku's and Jack's backstories and arcs.

For real, Tartakovsky took experienced and fierce demon with great potential for character development and exploring tragic aspects of his personality… and replaced with young human girl, whose backstory is a mix (I'd say, ripoff) of backstories of both Jack and Aku. What a crime.

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No prejudices

I like the fact that in Aku's multi-cultural society also intermarriages are allowed, and there are no prejudices.

Zeke is clearly an alien, while Josie is a human.

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The weird aspect of Cronus episode

Okay, I think, everyone knows that 8 episode of 3 season was a bit weird. I can tell that each time, when the show tries to add some references to real myths into own established lore, it doesn't bother how it will all work together, hence we have no idea what is it. The episode with Cronus was really weird. Even his backstory — Zeus imprisoned his own father, but instead of destroying Cronus's gems (and also helmet and gloves) he just trows it on Earth for them to be lost forever.

...And instead of being in black holes, volcano or bottomless abyss in ocean, Cronus's artifacts lie in some ancient temples with primitive traps (somebody created them, I guess), so even a mortal can pass.

The ending of the episode also raises questions. Like, has Jack lost the Eye of Cronus? How and when? Or why these gems apparently lost their power, if exactly they have this magic power, not golden helmet and gloves?

But there are even more questions. Aku in disguise travels with Jack for these three gems of Cronus for "sending Jack back in time" (actually for killing him). However, I never understood — what kind of entity was summoned by Aku into Cronus's artifacts? Like, Cronus lost all his powers and was imprisoned in bowels of space. Is it a cosmic/time entity Cronus previously ruled by?

It looks like Cronus, when he had power over the time. But this thing shows no powers and somehow is under Aku's control (like, it would make sense, if Aku took and posessed the Eye of Cronus or all three gems, but he didn't).

Plus, Aku himself can manipulate with time (at least, to open time portals), so, more sense for him was to steal or to use Cronus's gems immediately against Jack, not to try to summon something.

And the main mind-blowing detail — Jack's sword easily destroyed the helmet and the gloves. The titan's creation.

Some part of me assumes that these artifacts, just like Neptun's jewel, for example, had a simple legend, not some true facts, hence these artifacts could be created not by titans or gods, and maybe even for something else. While Aku... Aku just wanted to see Jack one more time.

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The devil in details

This scene, obviously the best in entire 5 season, is a reference to the scene from "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly".

Even the score is a cover of "The Ecstasy of Gold".

However, unfortunately, the scene in 5 season lacks the logic. Because if in "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly" one of the main characters seeks the certain grave with gold, looking at plaques with inscriptions of names,

in 5 season there's nothing what hints how the seven sisters found Jack, how understood, where exactly he hides. Hence the hommage doesn't work.

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No way to hide from these eyes

Although I mentioned everything, what's wrong with the seven sisters earlier (mostly here and here), I have an assumption of how some certain elements could be fixed, so the sisters would be really dangerous opponents. 5 season hinted that their mother can watch and tell on the distance, hence she knows magic. That's how she knew that the six girls died, while Ashi is a traitor.

Let's ignore for a second that with such abilities there's no reason for the seven sisters to exist. And in 2 episode some visual moments gave impression that the sisters kinda have one mind, and they easily find Jack (although, I already covered these logical holes here, but now it doesn't matter).

So, I have no idea, why Genndy and the team didn't come up with the idea, how the cult leader watches the entire battle and telepathically tells to her daughters, where the enemy is, so she would predict almost all his attacks, so it becomes challenge for Jack. Because Jack doesn't know, how to outsmart a sorcerer, who hides somewhere and uses the girls as puppets or as a distractive toy for him. Plus, the addition with logical progression of the defeating them by using wild nature. More sense would be, if Jack hid in fog near waterfalls (maybe even in caves), so the sisters would be totally blind and deaf and hence vulnerable and easy to kill.

I think, in 3 episode that would be the only way of keeping the sisters impressive as they were in 2 episode. Not to mention that it would lead to revealing the nature and goals of the antagonist.

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Different houses of Jenna's family

The original movie never showed the house, where Rosie's family and Jenna live. While the sequels (made by different writers) show absolutely different locations with different buildings. That's Jenna's house in Wolf Quest.

And that's Jenna's house in Wings of Change.

They live near the sea basically.

Wings of Change happens in 1928, i.e. 3 years after the original film. Maybe they had two houses (from two sides of Rosie's family — mother's and father's), so something happened with their previous house, so they live here for a while.

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Instructions are not included

Small addition to my previous post. I think, I already covered all aspects of the alien gods from "Birth of Evil", Jack's father, as well as weird elements of the sword and the impossibility of Aku's death. But there's another moment that needs to be mentioned. Back to "Birth of Evil" to the moment, when Jack's father encounters the alien gods, who create the sword to him.

Although they told to him that the human spirit can destroy "the evil" (and both 1 episode of 1 season and Aku Infection episode hinted that the sword is only a weapon and demonstrated that, and about the alien gods' weird marking humans as some superior race I discussed here), they never explained to Emperor, how and what to do during the battle and after Aku will be weakened.

Yep, they just gave the sword to him and sent to the battle against Aku (instead of fighting themselves). Why they didn't tell to him, how and what to do? I mean, despite Emperor mentions in 1 episode of 1 season that "the magic force of the sword implanted Aku into earth, forever petrifying him in wasteland (imprisoning in the stone tree)", in "Birth of Evil" the sword only absorbed Aku into itself, while exactly Emperor decided to pierce the sword into earth.

Why he did exactly that? And why the sword absorbed the weakened Aku into itself?

If to think about it a bit longer, the alien gods could just tell to him "Dude, just burn his entire dark flesh with your sword, don't miss his separated tiny parts, or he will heal himself and grow again" — because exactly that's how they murdered Aku's ancestor.

I'm still racking my brain in attempt to understand that. P.S. Interesting, if Aku looked like a small cub (similar to his small version in Fairy Tales episode) after his birth instead of the large creature with clearly adult traits, would Jack's father still consider him as the evil and act aggressively toward him?

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Aku's eyebrows

I many times pointed out that Aku has similar traits with snakes and felines. Especially his face, eyes and gaze.

Obviously, in realistic style Aku's face would look like muzzle of these beautiful horned vipers atheris snakes.

Their fire-like horns look like eyebrows.

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Where Aku was imprisoned, again?

Earlier I mentioned about a visual blooper in location (and about contradictional aspects also), where Aku was imprisoned, but it can be explained by different camera focus from another place. Even in "The Birth of Evil" episodes you still can notice some small inconsistencies in locations, but even they can be explained by "closer shots are detailed, far shots are minimalistic" rule (examples of these slightly different designs here and here). However, the problems start to happen, when it is related to the story. Here and here, for example, I pointed out that Jack's father is not the type of absolutely kind, noble and good person, what also raises questions to the three alien gods, who decided to use Emperor's soul for creating the magic sword (I guess, there was a logic like "You gave the life to this abomination, then exactly you have to take his life away" or whatever). I mean, Jack's dad could have tried to solve everything diplomatically. When Aku was born, he thanked him. Emperor could have asked his name and said something like "I am glad to help! You seem like a friendly being! You, the spirit of the mountains and wastelands, have a huge territory for your possessions, the whole plateau is yours! We have already moved as far away from your home as possible many times, so as not to anger your ancestor, and our kingdom is much smaller and has no claims on yours! Remove the thorns from my lands, please! Let's live peacefully together without causing harm and inconvenience to each other!" or whatever. In theory, these are the words that a person with a pure heart should have said, right?

Like, once Aku was born, his first word was "Thank you!" to Emperor, who then rejected him. And after this moment through the entire series Aku never says "Thank you!" again even in ironic way. It was the only scene, when Aku ever thanked somebody. But now let's talk about the moment with how Jack's father imprisoned Aku in the stone tree. In 1 episode of 1 season Emperor tells to Jack that Aku became this stone tree forever in "the wasteland that he created" — this line gives impression that the demon was imprisoned in the place of his birth (i.e. the wasteland with black spikes from "Birth of Evil"). And the location is pretty suitable to think so.

However, it's not true. How "Birth of Evil" demonstrates, Aku and Jack's father fought on the territory of Emperor's kingdom among burning houses and buildings. Simply saying, Aku was imprisoned exactly on the territory of the kingdom, not of own wastelands.

Yep, Emperor imprisoned him exactly on the territory of his own kingdom.

On another hand, Emperor doesn't mention that he and his people moved to other lands from this place— he tells that they restored exactly their lands and kingdom. However, whether version you choose, the wasteland or the kingdom, here's still the question — how Jack's father (or guard or citizens) didn't see the solar eclipse and how its energy strikes at the stone tree and gives the freedom to Aku, if from the palace he would be able to see this?

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