Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai.
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Usagi yojimbo story time - 7
Luis Johnson
Ethan Thomas
Very basic mythology of the Jizo statue: When children die they are told to stack stones in order to move on and reincarnate. However, demons will destroy the piles they make, so Jizo-Sama a saint figure protects the children. Travelers can give offerings of stones to these statues to help the children. Very basic understanding, maybe youtube-user can dig something more in depth up.
William Davis
A couple familiar faces in panel one.
Brody Long
Isaiah Ross
Anthony Harris
Charles Kelly
Levi Reed
Jason Butler
Camden Clark
Isaac Sanchez
Caleb Gomez
Owen Harris
Aaron Wilson
Blake Johnson
Brayden Price
William Brown
>Dat ass
Asher Gutierrez
Jack Hughes
Let me guess, the sensei gave him fake seeds/pebbles to test his perseverance, trust or something. He knew it would not grow in the first place. Reminds me of a story/fable with a father and 3 sons. He knew 2 of them cheated cause they had crops.
Jace Rodriguez
Jaxon Cruz
Dang posted a few seconds right after you but it almost seemed obvious or something.
Sebastian Richardson
It's a common fable, I've heard around 3 different versions of it myself.
Henry Nguyen
Blake Sullivan
Robert Jenkins
Jason Gomez
That look reminds me of Gaiman's Sandman
Jeremiah Jones
Bentley Hernandez
Nathaniel Brooks
Parker Martinez
Connor Watson
Brandon Cruz
Owen Clark
Leo Lee
Samuel Hall
Jordan Harris
Alexander King
Levi King
Luis Allen
Caleb Rodriguez
Carter Hernandez
Robert Rivera
Eli Diaz
Brandon Wilson
Anthony Phillips
Daniel Cox
Ethan Nelson
Josiah Ward
THIS is the one we keep alive forever.
Jaxon Peterson
James Edwards
Josiah Butler
Brody Miller
Yes that jacket really brings the booty out on jizo-sama.
Blake Hughes
Apparently there's quite a few ways to say or spell 4 depending on what you're counting.
Andrew Gonzalez
Kevin Bailey
Gavin Reed
Parker Turner
Usagi looking at that ass like "the gods put me on the RIGHT PATH."
Jaxson Edwards
Luke Moore
Calling it a night here. We'll finish this story tomorrow! thank you for reading!
Xavier Long
I like to believe that in Japan instead of "I'm going to count to three!" to scare children to behave they go with four as in death.
Carter Richardson
AW YOU COCKTEASE.
One of the best stories in all of Usagi and you stop mid-thrust.
Samuel Scott
Thanks for posting
Xavier Flores
Thanks again.
Xavier Long
>ninja smoke bomb [tm]
You call Dharmanon-sama and i appear
>Jizo statue
Now this one was intersting to research as theres more to Jizo than a protector of unborn children we see here:
>ancientpages.com
>en.wikipedia.org
Also the practice of placing Jizo statues is, like a lot of Japans customs, still commonly done today
>youtu.be
>youtu.be
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From mourning the ending of life we move to the beginning of the new as this last month has marked the begining of Cherry blossom season - a time to celebrate new life, and the chance to enjoy late nght parties to view the cherry blossoms [with the accompanying hangovers afterwards]
>youtu.be
NHK worlds english language program "japanology plus" covers more about this traditional practice:
>youtu.be
finally heres my previous links i put up that some may have missed due to the previous thread dropping off
till next time
>ninja smoke[tm]
Ian Ramirez
What is 'death' compared to running into Jei in the dead of night?
Xavier Brooks
Saving throw for posterity.
Parker Young
Bump
Alexander Rogers
Kevin Roberts
Whenever we see a character touching/scratching their face, they seem to almost always take their hand out of their sleeve and through their clothes. Why is that?
Robert Long
Best guess is a way to avoid your elbow bumping your swords. Don't wanna dishonor them blades just to rub you chin or scratch your nose.
Julian Price
You ever think the magistrates think Usagi is a secret psychopathic mass murderer with his body count?
"Oh dear. It seems I left another pile of bodies. I wonder how that happened?"
Evan Peterson
Poor Kimie. A peasant girl just can't compete with a ninja girl, a samurai girl, and a beyblade thief.
Justin Bell
Yeah I've been wondering that too. Seems like it would be dangerous if you need to draw your sword quickly
Matthew Cooper
I figured they were keeping their hands warm inside their shirts