(Repost as my original was removed for some reason)

Recently revealed via WB's press site. Please do yourself a favor and purchase the blu-ray version of Season 5. DVDs will never do it justice (though I don't see why you'd not want a nice complete boxset with remastered episodes).

I am stoked to see this. I hope we see a preview of how a remastered episode looks. The DVD's for Samurai Jack were plagued by compression artifacts and interlacing, effectively sucking the life out of the artwork.

The only way this boxset could get any better is if they had included a complete soundtrack with it (Season 5's soundtrack will receive a digital-only release on October 20th via iTunes).

¡~Orders are open on Amazon~!

• Complete Series (now 16% less at $94.84USD as of the Aug 25th/23% less at $87.39USD as of Sept 1st/Increased back to $94.84 as of November 2017/$87.39USD for December/$81.35 as of January 2018)

Special Features:

• The Evolution of Jack!
• Pitch Movies
• The Making of Samurai Jack
• Genndy's Scrapbook
• The Pitch
• The Martial Arts of Samurai Jack
• Lost Artwork Gallery
• Commentary

• Season 5 (26% less at $22.29USD as of Sept 1st)

Special Features:

• The Evolution of Jack!
• Pitch Movies

If the remaster was done properly, these should look much closer to the original background paintings.

I've put together a series of comparisons by either piecing together the DVD frames to match the wide/panoramic background paintings, or cropping the paintings to match a single background.

Compare the top (background paintings from Scott Wills' blog, cropped to match the DVD frames) images to the bottom (DVD) images:

• Intro
• Episode 10 - "Jack and the Lava Monster"
• Episode 13 - "Aku's Fairy Tales" (A)
• Episode 13 - "Aku's Fairy Tales" (B)
• Episode 15 - "Jack Tales"
• Episode 19 - "Jack Remembers the Past"
• Episode 28 - "Jack and the Rave"
• Episode 33 - "Jack and the Annoying Creature" (A)
• Episode 33 - "Jack and the Annoying Creature" (B)
• Episode 37 - "The Birth of Evil"
• Episode 42 - "Samurai vs. Samurai"
• Episode 45 - "The Scotsman Saves Jack" (A)
• Episode 45 - "The Scotsman Saves Jack" (B)

Remaster VS upscaled DVD

As I've done before, here are comparisons between the press release images and frames from the premiere movie DVD. There is some cropping on the remaster, and I have to assume they had a good reason to do so. Aside from that the details are much better and it seems the colors are either corrected or how they were meant to be seen originally. I hope we get some details on how they remastered these seasons. Can't wait to have the blu-ray set in my hands!

• Press Kit | DVD [1]
• Press Kit | DVD [2]
• Press Kit | DVD [3]
• Press Kit | DVD [4]
• Press Kit | DVD [5]

The Amazon listing won't allow shipping to the UK?

¡~Orders are open on Amazon Complete Series & Season 5 (US only at this point, hopefully other regions will follow?)~!