Usagi Yojimbo

Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles – Yokai

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  • Title: Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles – Yokai
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The second episode of Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles finishes the set-up for the series as Yuichi Usagi (Darren Barnet) is imprisoned for the various trouble he has caused in the city with those he has met eventually coming to his aid (and getting arrested as well). However, the city’s new Yokai problem needs a solution and Yuichi, Gen (Aleks Le), Kitsune (Shelby Rabara), and Chizu (Mallory Low) working together appear to be the solution.

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Usagi Yojimbo #30

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The Komori Ninja continue to search for the lost treasure in “The Secret of the Green Dragon: Part Two.” Relying on some help from some still loyal Neko Ninja, Chizu is able to offer our wandering rabbit ronin shelter for the night before the trio set out once more headed south with news of treachery and betrayal. The comic continues to play on Yukichi‘s discomfort with what must be done while giving us a glimpse into the hidden world of the Neko.

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Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles – The Big City

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  • Title: Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles – The Big City
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Poor Usagi, what has Netflix done to you? Inspired by the rabbit ronin creation of Stan Sakai, but feeling more like a watered down version of the TV adventures of Kung Fu Panda (which themselves were watered-down version of the Kung Fu Panda films), Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles introduces us to Yuichi Usagi (Darren Barnet). Unlike his ancestor, Miyamoto Usagi, our new Usagi is a bit of a screw-up who dreams of becoming a samurai although his only true skill is bringing chaos and disaster with him. 

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Usagi Yojimbo #29

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Miyamoto Usagi and Yukichi travel north to deliver the jade dragon the recovered from thieves from the previous issue the Part One of “The Secret of the Green Dragon” when the pair come across a courier who they are unable to save from Komori Ninja. Reaching the town they find the merchant dead and a corrupt official willing to accept the jewels in possession but not the story of any actual Komori.

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Usagi Yojimbo: Lone Goat and Kid #6

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The six-issue mini-series concludes with a reprinting of another classic Usagi Yojimbo story. “Lone Goat and Kid,” which has provided the title to the mini-series, features the disgraced Yagi now working at an assassin and his son Gorogoro travelling from town to town avoiding assassins sent by the unscrupulous Counselor Wakame who comes up with a new plan to put Miyamoto Usagi in his path and see what happens assuming any outcome would be favorable to his cause.

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