Usagi Yojimbo story time

Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai. Let's start at the very beginning and see how far we go.

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For those of you not familiar with the story.

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Those early days before Stan nailed down his style and everyone looked a little weird.

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What a twist!

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That's the first story done, on to the next! Please bump if you're reading!

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no pressure, kid.

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And now we meet two very unique characters in the series. Stan would regret making Hikiji human, and will later on hide his face whenever possible.

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Third story tonight.
There must be some kind of story timing golden hours or something, still lonely here.

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Bump

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Thank you

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>He can't kill us all!
Oh you silly ninja, over the years Usagi has killed enough neko ninja to populate a large city.

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There's a face I'll never forget.

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Neat.

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Nice vest, Usagi.

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The shogun of this time should be Tokogawa, if I recall correctly. Not that he ever gets mentioned by name

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I will take a break after this one, but let's get through it and meet one of the more fun characters: Gen.

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Tokage had a lot of fun little variations in the early days. That's one thing I'd have liked to see continue

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Those tokage don't even wait for the fighting to finish...

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Good ol' Gen!

Well, thanks for reading. If the threads still up when I'm back I'll keep going. If not, tomorrow.

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Bumpin'

Fucking love this series. Thanks OP

Bump.

Well this ought to be a good thread.
Love me some UY.

I'm back! Figure I can churn out a couple more stories for the night. I'm not one of those amazing story timers who can just fill an entire thread with these, but I'm interested in seeing how far I can get. So look out for these threads cropping up after today!

Thank you for your service. UY is indeed a great series.

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I just started reading the Fantagraphics two volume set. I've had it for like 9 months. I'm just about halfway through the second volume. I finished Circles last night. I've already bought the first four Saga's. Seven is out of print though. So that'll suck. I can't wait for Saga 8. I can go for issues after that.

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I'm eagerly awaiting 8 as well.

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For whatever it's worth, I got confirmation from Dark Horse they are planning one, but no timeline. My spitballing guess is after volume 31 has been on the racks at least a year. So June at the earliest. I'm just so annoyed at the shrunk art in the normal volumes, I could never bring myself to do it. The Saga's are perfect. If not for how they all seem to come pre damaged anyway.

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Thanks for the tip. Sorry to hear about your Sagas, all of mine came in pretty good condition.

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I wonder who has a higher body count in comics. Usagi, or Frank Castle?

Every store that has them, they seem to be damaged already. I decided to be slow and careful in getting them, and sort of forgot about it for a while. Now that I'm going for it, I've gotta pay out the ass for 7. Sad trombone. Oh well.

The wood cutters' first appearance! I don't recall them ever having a horse after this, so it probably got confiscated again.

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These guys shitty luck is a running gag? Like Avatar's cabbage merchant? They've only appeared one more time where I am.

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No, they just get around a lot.

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Groo

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This'll probably be our last story for tonight.

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Thanks for promoting Usagi, OP. One of the best American comics all of time IMO.

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I remember my first Usagi story time. I immediately went out and bought it to give Stan money.

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It truly is.

As you should, the guy really deserves what we can give him.

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Fancy that, a three-headed, winged tokage. Wonder if they're a local species.

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I met Mr. Sakai at a con last year. Nicest most humble guy there.

He had very few people stopping by. Made me sad.

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I envy you, user. I would love to meet this guy

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