History Summarized: Samurai
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Published 2017-07-17
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All Comments (21)
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History Samuraized
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Tired of your local government not paying attention to you? HIRE A SAMURAI
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Westerners aren't the only ones who romanticize samurai. A lot of that stuff about samurai comes from Japanese media too.
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"Isn't a bandit" Well.. by the standards of the guy in charge in the time period he's stuck in, he kind of is? He's definitely an outlaw.
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Blue: Samurai Jack is complete inaccurate, Also Blue: starts and ends with a Samurai Jack reference
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Fun fact: the naginata was also the traditionally favored weapon of the samurai-ko, or female samurai. Samurai as a social caste included the wives and daughters of a daimiyo's retainers and, while they rarely rode out in pitched battlefields, they were still rigorously trained for combat, as they were expected to be the first line of defense if their homes and villages were ever invaded. Since the invaders were usually on horseback and the samurai-ko usually weren't, the naginata was the weapon of choice for lady samurai and was known as a woman's weapon.
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10:36 An absolute pleasure good sir! and thank you very much for this wonderful video and the glowing mention ^_^ I can't wait to see your future work!
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Jack isn't a samurai. He's a prince. A samurai is a servant. Jack is a ruler.
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HIRE A SAMURAI.
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In the year -1000000000 Japan may have not be here.
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This video can get stolen, HIRE A SAMURAI
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Jack is Royalty by the way; he is the Son of the freakin' Emperor :)
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Well now you gotta do a ninja episode. I want to know whether or not the Naruto run existed.
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The Japanese have mythologised the samurai themselves as well, with Hakegure being a very influential text even beyond the era of samurai. Many of the values there are still found in Japanese culture. Don't just blame the west.
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This is amazing, I’m half Japanese and my mother’s maiden name was Taira (平) , which was from a samurai clan in Japan.
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It's as if thousands of weebs screamed in agony as their fantasies got ruined in an instant XD
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In today's competitive world, it's rare to see someone selflessly promoting somebody else in this manner. It's so nice to see, that the YouTube community tends to stick together, especially the education focused channels. It was Shad who led me to these videos, by the way, and I couldn't be more grateful.
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I guess you could say that this was history......samuraised....ayyy
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Y'know, you say that Jack isn't a samurai and you're right, but, the show flat out tells us that to be the case from day 1. Aku states: "A foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword..." Aku is such a history buff he knows Jack is just a con and isn't even wielding ANY proper blades a Samurai would use, let alone everything else.
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0:00 Speaking of Aku, he shares the same voice actors with Uncle Iroh from Avatar: The Last Airbender, the late Mako Iwamatsu (1933-2006) and Greg Baldwin (b. 1960)
