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HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 25

impulseSV x Samurai Jack

An image of Minecraft youtuber impulseSV drawn in the style of Samurai Jack. He is waving at someone out of frame and smiling. Above him is his own name in a white, futuristic font. He is on a purple background painted with a rough brush texture. Behind the purple is a solid black canvas.

For Impulse I chose Samurai Jack!

Samurai Jack takes place in a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future, so I thought this would suit Impulse well given his build theme and skin this season.

To learn more about Samurai Jack and see my style references, look below the cut!

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Samurai Jack is a 90s cartoon created by Genndy Tartakovsky. The story follows a samurai prince from a fictional version of Japan who battles a shapeshifting entity of evil named Aku. Right as Aku is about to lose to the samurai, he tears a hole in time and throws the samurai into the future.

Once in the future, the samurai, given the nickname Jack by locals, must find a way to travel back to his own time to defeat the immortal Aku and prevent the future from being shaped under Aku's malicious control.

Samurai Jack is a fantastic, imaginative cartoon that deserves to be called art. Not only are the character designs fantastic, many of the episode concepts themselves are interesting and thought-provoking in a way not achieved by many other shows.

The show originally ran for four seasons and was not concluded. Twelve years later, an fifth season aired that completed the story. The first four seasons are suitable for all ages, but the fifth season is significantly more mature. I highly recommend watching the entire series, including the fifth season, which is a fantastic conclusion to the story.

Style references:

A samurai in a white robe holding up a sword. He is facing the viewer and glaring with flames roaring behind him.

The samurai from Samurai Jack

The samurai speaking to three citizens of the futuristic Aku City. These three people are the ones who give him the name "Jack". Jack is dressed in a white robe with a sword. The three people he is speaking to are colorful young people with dramatic designs. The one closest to Jack is dressed in all orange, with red hair and has a slumped posture. Behind him is a very short bald guy in all blue, and the last person on the right is a very tall guy with a leaning posture dressed in all green. He seems to have a lava lamp on his head. All four of them are standing in an urban setting where all the buildings are black with glowing red windows.

Characters in Samurai Jack are colorful and have strong shape language

The words SAMURAI JACK in a bold, futuristic white font. Behind the text is a red brush texture over a drawing of Jack"s eyes. The entire image is on a black background.

The Samurai Jack title design

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Samurai Jack is one of the best cartoons I've ever watched At first I didn't want to give it a chance as a kid because the concept seemed so weird but once I finally watched it I was like dang this is incredible actually Impulse's theme this season reminds me a lot of Aku City from the show but with a purple and black theme rather than red and black impulsesv hermitcraft hermitaday
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