Yes, he did have a lot of funny and entertaining moments throughout the series, but you can't deny that, conceptually, he was one of the most horrifying creatures to come from any cartoon.
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Yes, he did have a lot of funny and entertaining moments throughout the series, but you can't deny that, conceptually, he was one of the most hor...
>Genuinely threatening villain that just does goofy shit
This is the most based type of villain
it's not like he flayed babies alive and then licked them to death, get fricking real
You don't know what goes down in the Pit of Hate, anon.
Why didn't these guys just come down and triple penetrate Aku?
Something about the Emperor creating him with the poison arrow making it a 'human problem'.
Plot
truly frightening, I'm shaking in my boots right now
>Samurai -ACK
I remember seeing a shitpost comic where Aku showed up to that duel at the desert ruins as Ikra, can't find it anywhere though
The show made him genuinely intimidating when it needed to and the way they animated his motions at a smoother framerate than the other characters gave him an otherworldly feeling. I actually thought it was really cool how they were able to so perfectly make him really funny and also feel insanely threatening at the same time.
>I CAN SMELL YOUR BLOOD
The graveyard episode is GOAT. Even as a kid I knew Jack won't die, but I was still scared for him in that battle.
>Aku sex
>you literally drink him
Nah
The mark of a truly good villain is that they can have moments of levity and humor while still being completely vile and terrible.
What's Cinemaphile verdict?
He's just an immortal, poisonous shapeshifter. Not really breaking the bottom of the well with that one.
and conquered the universe and kingdom for 1000 years.
He fulfilled every villain's wet dream.
Aku is a fragment of Nyarlathotep.
Eh, him being funny makes him less scary. Something that maintains the aura of menace the whole time, like The Beast from Over the Garden Wall, is much more intimidating.
I never found Aku that scary. He could be intimidating but he never really did much that was evil on-screen outside of frick with Jack or hire people to frick with Jack. You get told that the world is dystopian and conquered by Aku, but outside of a few episodes largely at the beginning, it doesn't really seem that bad and many people live normal lives.
Also whenever Jack and Aku fight, Aku almost always jobs and has to flee. That makes him not scary at all Other villains like the haunted house demon are far more threatening than Aku is.
He's just a primordial evil / evil god with a penchant for shape shifting. That's not exactly unreasonably horrifying or anything.
Aku
>Once an amorphous blob, a piece of a piece that refused to burn.
>Killed the dinosaurs.
>Spent millions of years growing, consuming plant, man, and beast i to its black tar.
>Grew huge trees that destroyed the land and could have, in time, covered all of Japan.
>Emperor believed that he could stop it by burning away the tar at its source, a great Pit.
>Poison arrow, enhanced by flame, consumed by the tar.
It is terrifying, conceptually. No earthly weapon can harm him, hes ageless and timeless.
But he has an ego. He has will and thought. Not a force of nature anymore.