Usagi Yojimbo

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #1

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  • Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #1
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  • Writer: Stan Sakai
  • Artist: Stan Sakai

Ever since Usagi moved to IDW, here’s the crossover fans have been waiting for. Although the first issue of the new five-issue crossover mini-series doesn’t offer much in the way of interactions between characters of the two brands, it does set up an interesting situation with multiple time-displaced characters. With Lord Noriyuki leading an army against Lord Hikiju, Miyamoto Usagi‘s heartstrings are pulled by villagers in need of aid. And so Usagi, Tomoe, Jotaro, and Yukichi go in search of an evil Kappa.

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Usagi Yojimbo #31

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The “Secret of the Green Dragon” arc concludes with an issue more about  Miyamoto Usagi, Yukichi, and Chizu out-running and out-thinking the perusing Komori Ninja than battling them. Chizu’s dangerous decisions will push Usagi to the breaking point especially after he learns they are going to all this trouble to protect a document that isn’t even real leading to a final face-to-face with the Komori.

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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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