Finally realizing that Jack was not the enemy, she drops her weapon and reconsiders her purpose, deciding to meditate with Jack on an island from a distance, indicating that she has made peace with the Samurai. After being saved by Jack from the belly of a colossal beast (despite her constant animosity towards him and continued attempts to kill him) and watching his humble and honorable nature to the most simple of life, she started to question her ways. This triggered a flashback to when she was a small child training with her sisters, when a ladybug flew into her hand and she observed the beauty of it, before it was unceremoniously squished and killed by her mother, labeling it a distraction and "not part of Aku's order." Ashi continued to hear these words until she sees Jack hold the ladybug in his hand and releasing it unharmed. Eventually, after escaping the monster, Ashi attempts to kill Jack with her sickle by sneaking up on him, before noticing a ladybug fly by. Initially playing dead, Ashi survived the fall and tried to kill Jack again numerous times, despite being chained up with her own weapon, eaten whole by a giant monster and Jack's numerous attempts to save her life, undeterred from her purpose. Seeing her sisters perish and having been bested, Ashi had a momentary breakdown as she ranted and swore that she would kill Jack, even as he dropped her to her presumed death. Unlike their first battle, she found herself and her sisters overwhelmed as one by one Jack killed the other Daughters until only Ashi was left, hanging off a cliff by the chain of her kusarigama. However, this time Jack had the elements of concealment and surprise on his side, rather than the other way around as previously. ( Episode XCIII)Īfter breaking out of the rubble and tracking the samurai to a forest, Ashi fought Jack again in the next episode. Here they had another intense battle with the samurai, but he succeeded in killing one of Ashi's sisters and blew up the temple with the others still inside. Ashi and her sisters looked for their hiding enemy, pursuing him to the temple's underground crypt. ( Episode XCII)Īshi and her sisters set up traps for Jack in a forest, destroying his motorbike and starting an intense battle with the samurai, forcing him to hide and later escape to an abandoned temple. When their training was complete years later, they donned their masks and head coverings, and set out to fulfill their mission. She was then thrown back into training and received punishment. The High Priestess told her that the world was a creation of their master, Aku, and that it was threatened so long as Jack lived to oppose Aku's rule. During her training as a child, Ashi found a hole in the wall to gaze upon the outside world.
The High Priestess named them the Daughters of Aku and raised them with the most brutal methods of training throughout all of their childhood and youth, attempting to sculpt them into the ultimate warriors. In Episode CI, she used her powers as a human-demon hybrid to help transport Jack back to the past to defeat Aku, but tragically passes away on the day of her wedding to Jack as a consequence of Aku's death.Ashi later becomes Jack's love interest and later wife in the series.Īshi and her six sisters were birthed from the High Priestess, the leader of an all-female cult of Aku, and raised as assassins by them to do what no other fighter could do: kill Samurai Jack. Eventually, after meeting Aku in person in Episode C, it is revealed that Aku was her biological father, after which he corrupts her unwillingly into his service.
She served as Jack's most important ally in Season 5, in Episode XCIX she and Jack eventually fall in love with each other.
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It is only later that she came to have doubts about Aku's true nature after Jack saves her life and she makes a full turn-around when Jack shows her the destruction Aku has unleashed on the world. She was the former leader and the only confirmed living member of the Daughters of Aku, seven sisters who served as assassins attempting to kill Jack. She was also originally quaternary antagonist before becoming an ally of Samurai Jack in Season 5) of Samurai Jack.
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Ashi was the deuteragonist (Though in the series as a whole, Aku could fill this role, while Ashi shares the role of tritagonist with the Scottsman and The Emperor.