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>>153185396
don't worry about it, we'll get to that story soon.
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>>153185574
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYW_lPlekiQ
Excuse me, what does a kitsune need with money?
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She's perfect.
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>The Valiant Cherry Blossoms - Sakura's Theme
https://youtu.be/jB5N8DxDz24
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>>153185724
see >>153185722
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Possible Alternative Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZIej-ZraE&pp=ygUhZnVua3kgZGVhbGVyIGp ldCBzZXQgcmFkaW8gZnV0dXJl
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Kitsune story with a satisfying ending. Rare!
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>>153185766
nice. I've never played it, but I do enjoy jet set radio songs.
>>153185776
>one who imposes his will without reason is no man.
>and when threatened by an animal, you defend yourself!
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https://youtu.be/yeVx1C73o8k
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https://youtu.be/Pqj119D9kDg
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>>153185882this ending still befuddles me a bit. I guess the idea is she's using the supposed tragedy of the brother, who is actually herself as an excuse to go around taking revenge on those who enslave girls like she was enslaved? feels a bit needlessly convoluted and makes me wonder if it's a reference or idea I'm just not getting. Also IIRC we don't see her again, do we?
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>>153185922
I think it's either that orshe made up that story cause she doesn't really trust usagi. and no, we don't see her again yet.
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>>153185954
I must have missed it
https://youtu.be/cpbbuaIA3Ds
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>>153185898
Another money song. Can probably be applied to Gen, Stray Dog and The Informant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-X4W3B83UA&pp=ygUmZ290dGEgZ2V0IHRoZSB jYXNoIGdvdHRhIGdldCB0aGUgZG91Z2g%3D
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>>153185922It could also be just her making up a story so she doesn't have to tell Usagi that she was sold to a brothel or to some gamblers and so she's on a road for general vengeance now and no, we never saw her again, which is a shame but I guess Stan couldn't stand writing her sakura blossoms too often.
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>I'm thinking! I'm thinking!
this is true commitment to the craft.
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added!
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>>153186059
>Hey, I said, your money or your life!
>I'm thinking! I'm thinking!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VTBMznLrWs
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>>153186142
or maybe he beat too much.
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https://youtu.be/z3rLnRmFEmk?t=13
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>>153186185
Glowie/Metsuke theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fyeYAA6gnU
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>>153186206
incredible how lolis were just free back then.
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Fuckin brutal takedown. I do definitely like this girl
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>>153185121
Considering Priest Ji and Ibaraki recognise Ibaraki's masters as "Dark Kami" and Jubei's village have no qualms about praying to them instead of the Buddha, its clear they must be head and shoulder above even the greatest demons, and Jei must be some sort of gestating god-in-waiting. He's probably telling the truth about how killing Usagi will allow him to ascend to the ranks of the kami, specifically the Dark Kami honoured by Ibaraki and shunned by the Buddhists.
And Jei's arbitrary labelling of everyone he meets as evil, probably indicates the Dark Kami really are lawgiving deities who judge mortals and are a part of nature and harmony. Not rapacious selfish demons who only seek dominance and destruction and defilement.
But Sanshobo successfully exorcising Jei goes against that. Maybe the Dark Kami are rulers over demons, and the demon spared Hama because he recognised Jei as a superior. I guess just like the Tengu, even the demons have castes in feudal Japan
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>Usagi: Tonight's the night you get in some shit?
>Metsuke: Yeah, Deep cover, on the incognito tip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op9Ml7pS6uA&pp=ygUhZGVlcCBjb3ZlciBkciB kcmUgZmVhdCBzbm9vcCBkb2dn0gcJCdoKAY cqIYzv
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>>153186284
>kimi is cute
fact checked by real shinobi experts!
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>>153186370
I'm convinced they are clones, and that the neko nnja really do spawn from a hole in the ground, fully formed.
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>>153186293
I mean to be fair if you piss off the shogun especially by rejecting a direct gift you look weak to your other political opponents and he probably is gonna be really pissed off and you're gonna fall out of favor.
So really damned if you do damned if you don't nothing to do but march into the meat grinder and say you did your duty
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>>153185361
How many Jizzo statues in the cover? You gonna add these to the count?
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>>153186377
This is one of only two times we see the Tokugawa clan mon in the series (so far), confirming this isn't some Shogun deal with alt-history personages but the same clan that rose to power in the series called Real Life History.
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Anon pointed out one year how the last panel has a weird angle, it's titled to show Lord Awase dying "upright:" his last act was the successful fulfillment of his samurai duty.
Also worth mentioning that these kinds of shogunate appointed successions were the only way for one clan to take another clan's land/territory. I remember that being a question a few threads ago, how did the daimyo fight amongst themselves during the shogunate and the answer is they didn't, any inter-clan warfare is fictional.
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>>153186522
Melancholy music for a melancholy moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2aE0u5nxSo
Here's a translated version for you bakas who don't speak nihongo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyZpTP6KgPM
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I don't remember exactly where I read it, maybe it was L. Hearn, about a european vising japan in the 1850s that describes a very similar scene happening in a town close to edo.
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Someone get Sasuke and tell him to quell this frog yokai. Oh don't worry about how much it will cost us, either.He'll do it for free!
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>Punishes slavers with a whip
This is here real theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QIuNU_gRys
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>>153186564
Stray is actually a sort of interesting character in that sense.
We know for a fact he's genuinely a good person who does this terrible thing to support those less fortunate but we see the lengths he goes to (holding that one woman hostage) and we are now seeing the consequences of this profession first hand (good men dying who don't deserve it).
He's very much a product of his environment and we even see him lighten up in his interactions with Gen so it's not like he turns off his emotions but he lets himself he callous. Feudal Japan is an awful world. In a better time he'd be able to help those without having to take lives
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Interesting that Sakura doesn't have her distinctive skunk-like stripe of white in the middle of her hair in these colored versions.
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>>153185854
There's something I've always liked about the last panel. The tilted zoom-in sells a sense of the frenzy Gen's worked up.
>>153185877
Usagi having a chummy smile while he stands over one of the several people he just killed, wiping off a sword genuinely SOAKED in their blood is great.
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>>153186281
Given Japan and Buddhism's view towards Demons and Monsters, it's entirely plausible we're not dealing with an Either/Or situation. Oni, Tengu, Kitsune and fucking Tanuki run the gamut of "trustworthy servant of the gods" "serial killer" with some goofy pranksters and churlish bullies between. And we've already seen Men turn into Monsters as early as issue one and that's got s lot of folkloric precedent too. It's very probable that Jei is a Monster working for a God who's has a vested interest in Killing. But it's filtered through Jizonobu's view of the world. So he doesn't kill everyone, sparing the innocent. So whatever's in the pilot seat is using a narrower and narrower of "innocence."
Eventually. Even kids like Keiko won't be safe.
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Oh, it feels very bitter this year. On March 4th, Mike Richardson was fired and mo longer is the CEO of Dark Horse Comics.
Why was he fired? Embracer Group (yes, THAT Embracer Group) bought Dark Horse some time ago and wants to focus on "products and experiences, growth and multimedia synergy". Not once in their press release have they mentioned creator owned comics and/or great stories.
Richardson was replaced by a guy who worked for EA and Activision. EA. AND. ACTIVISION.
I predict 2-3 years tops till Stan and Usagi jump ship AGAIN.
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>>153186567
>Watch closely, you're about to experience a Feudal Japan moment
>Preist Sanshobo defined the Feudal Japan moment as a moment when ignorance overwhelms the mind of an otherwise logical samurai. Causing them to act in an illogical. Self-destructive manner, I.E As if in Feudal Japan
>Feudal Japan moments are un-predictable. But they all end up bad
>If they had their own category. Fedual Japan moments would be the 3rd leading killer of samurai behind Shougn Peace and Jei.
>It's a fact.
>A big misconception about the Feudal Japan moment is that it can be avoided by simply moving away from samurai
>If only it were that easy. See, samurai always got a new trick right around the corner.
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https://youtu.be/VP6eZu3SAak
That is VERY disappointing news to learn, anon.
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>>153186862
that sucks so much.
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So this Snitch has cousin, and that cousins sister is married to a bootleg Usagi who gets killed by Jeinazuma.
Also what does "twin" cousin mean? Identical, or he has cousins who are twins, which means theres a third snitch?
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>Inazuma could've lived
STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
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>I never think of my characters as furry
well, there you go. all of them are real human beans.
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that's it for today, see you tomorrow.
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>>153186993
Thanks again Murder, see you tomorrow.
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This sucks on ice!
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Board queller has been informed.
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>>153185952
>he always comes back
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>>153187010
Upon retrospect this felt so obvious, I gotta wonder why I haven't made this earlier.
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Hello there.
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>>153186874
>Now let's see what happens with a nanban* (*southern barbarian)
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>>153186963
>Japan during Usagi's time was still predominantly a barter economy
NO IT FUCKING WASN'T STAN
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>>153187010
>notices typo
Excuse me for a second, I'll commit a seppuku without a second now.
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>>153187090
Yes sir!
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>>153186371
this is the most ridiculous case of bullshido yet
what like 300 people just killed themselves in unison??? I actually laughed out loud its too retarded to take seriously
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-V1uf75T0U
Sweet home Kanto!
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Excuse me while I painfully kill myself
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>>153185608
This might be a bad subject to talk about but why is it the implied thread of rape so common in fiction? I recon historically women got raped a lot, but why even in not necessarily adult stories is the implication or danger of rape so common?
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>>153187397
Because it's an easy way to demonstrate very quickly that you're dealing with some real lowlifes. Have them kick a puppy, have them threaten to rape a woman. It's the Press A To Jump of storytelling.
>>153187451
Others have said she's a skunk. I'm not 100% sure myself. There is a confirmed skunk character in an unpublished joke story we'll eventually get to. I think Sakura is supposed to be that generic bear or cat furry animal, personally, but with a distinctive hair feature like Inazuma.
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I noticed that very emphatic phrasing too. Sakura has a lot going on.
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>>153187478
Dogu Publishing does seem like that's what Stan wants to set up and move towards. But at his age, and while I hope he's still with us for decades to come of course, I wonder how much energy he has to put into that.
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>Three hundred men commit Seppuku in protest
>One Lord has to muster enough strength while mortally wounded to claim a fortress he'll never inhabit
This shit is the most Fuedal moment in the entire series so far
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>>153185922Could be a trauma related fake backstory, or she might be a compulsive liar, or a mix of both. The way she acted was pretty compulsive seeing the little girl and immediately going for the whip when the boss refuse to sell her to her
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Book 25
469 Usagis (11231 total)
1157 Panels (24263 total)
83 Nekos (1183 total)
1 Komori (198 total)
No Mogura (37 total)
No Ninjas of the Dark Light (4 total)
>eleven thousandth panel is him getting followed by the shogun glowie
Nice.
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https://youtu.be/yt5V8Ro-6jw?si=Je39OeMBwa13Qcb_&t=149
The page kinda reminds me of this.
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>>153186080
Is Bum time; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuAGgMDC6FA
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>this is the most ridiculous case of bullshido yet
>what like 300 people just killed themselves in unison??? I actually laughed out loud its too retarded to take seriously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHk2RSMCS8
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>EA and Activision
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It was just a flesh wound.
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Is nice that Kimi is on Shizu's side an all but she just straight up jumped to kill them with no idea who they were, What if they were on her side?, what if she killed Kimi first?
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>>153187945
Listen it's one thing if it's the shogunate over another warring states period
But it's an entire other when it's about Big Topknots administry of accounting and recounting spying on you and every other Joe blow-san. Fuck that noise
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I've have issues with Chizu's story, being a runaway ninja and killing your pursuers is one thing, but showing up to killing your comrades on unrelated missions feels counterproductive to her mission.
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The boondocks was such a good show.
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>>153187985
>Big Topknot
>A wholly owned subsidiary of Bushido, Inc
We live in a feudal society.
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>Accost another's scabbard
This sounds like gay innuendo
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>You cough my sword in your scabbard
This also sounds like a gay innuendo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClSwEW8DSqQ&t=4
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yeah i wonder of this too since usagi is generally suportive of the shogunate but he's done some incriminating things on occasion
same way you might generally support your company but don't necessarily tell the cops you were just speeding and torrenting movies and shit
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Missed a page
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What's this I hear about you owning slaves?
t: Feudal Japanese Abraham Lincoln
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>>153186862
embracer is such a shit show
they bought up so much shit in the early 2020's
all
ALL
on the idea/hope saudi's were going to buy them out
like that was literally the entire gameplan, buy up a lot of ip/devs just to sell the whole shebang
but then the potential buyer backed out of the deal at the last moment
and they've been in the shitter ever since
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Okay, since we're a little deeper in the story here's my roster idea for a Usagi fighter.
Gameplay: Last Blade w/Fatal Fury 3 Oversway
Roster
>Usagi
>Gen
>Tomoe
>Kitsune
>Stray Dog
>Jei
>Inazuma
>Inazuma Jei(EX Inazuma)
>Noriko
>Sakura
>Chizu
>Shingen
>Kagemaru
>Sasuke
>Katsuichi
>Sanshobo
>Yagi
>Zato-Ino
>Leonardo
>Koji
[Spoiler]Kazehime[/spoiler]
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this part is so shit goddamn
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Sakura is very clearly a cat. We've seen in the past character designs change from cover to page- the covers are done first, so my guess here is just Stan decided on the stripe only after making the covers. Sakura in general, especially with the context of the letters pages these issues where Stan makes it clear he's still deciding what her deal is (IE, wrote her in a rush) and that he only decided to kill Inazuma at the very last moment, leaving a possibility of her surviving at first by having another corpse there to burn, seems to me clearly just Stan regretting where Inazuma's story ended up and making a replacement, the same way Inazuma herself was a replacement for Tomoe. Similar design, similar backstory elements, etc.
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You're getting to learn why Usagi is kinda the only one of the furry indie comics of its time to be remembered, because everyone else had this corny sense of humour and sensibility. Scott Shaw is one of the creators of Captain Carrot, and one of the people who started Archie Sonic, which is also early on constructed of basically just dumb shit like this.
>>153187077
I do want to get back into it but man, got to finish drawing a small GN, then draw my own comics, also do a cover for another book, etc. The dance card is pretty full. But thank you for thinking of me, anon.
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>>153188656
Could Hikiji be a playable character too? Maybe serves as the final boss in arcade mode?
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>>153188859
I just hope you get paid enough. Good to know you're still here.
>>153188427
And here's yet another artist who's been carrying this year on their back.
Fanart must flow!
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>>153189009
Meh, if we're gonna have daimyo in this game then we should also include Mifune, Mataichi, Ikeda, maybe even Noriyuki, if he gets to be some weird combo character with Koro.
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https://youtu.be/vzmIB931lQ8?si=egnSWVSIKrH27oMh
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Looks like "Blue Pig"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubs_and_inns_in_Grantham#%22Blue%22_pub s
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Fuck's sake, RIP Dark Horse.
If Stan does jump and do another set of character re-introductions, how would you like them done (ideally with a little more progress for the older readers)? This is what I've got, addressing the concerns of some anons. Long time readers, just tack onYukichiwherever applicable with Usagi.
>Usagi approaches a rest stop, sees a ragtag group of armed men loitering around
>another runs up and shouting they have her cornered
>Usagi stops to rest and have some tea, asks the owner what's happening
>he explains that they're bounty hunters after an easy target
>Usagi wonders why are so many working together if the target is easy
>owner goes back inside to get the bounty poster, mentions that she's evaded capture for weeks
>Usagi spits drink
>it's Kitsune
>spits drink again
>this is the largest bounty he's ever seen, could set even a group of hunters up for life
>Usagi pays the owner and runs off, owner bemusedly comments thinking he's like all the others
>arrives on the heels of the group as they surround the shack where Kitsune is
>they plan on burning her out, Usagi jumps in to stop them
>too many for just one ronin
>suddenly Gen bursts out and saves Usagi
>Usagi is pissed, he didn't think Gen was so heartless as to go after their friend
>Gen smacks him before he can finish his sentence, raises eyebrow towards shack
>Stray Dog comes out
>Usagi rephrases into why they didn't assist a friend
>Kiyokois following him
I think the basic points to hit for newbs would be Gen/Stray Dog being bounty hunters, Kitsune/Kiyoko thieves, Usagi meddling. For old time readers, this arc would also set upKitsune settling down with Gen. I also think it's time to crack the Stray Dog nut. Kitsune and Gen end up having to go one way, while Usagi, Stray Dog, and Kiyoko go to the orphanage and we get some more depth to his character.
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I think for simplicity's sake I'd prefer he do it like he did at the start of either Mirage or Dark Horse, I don't remember, where he just plain had a montage going "here's what the deal is". I don't think we got time to waste doing a whole bunch of new reintroduction stories.
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So what are we thinking, some kind of badger something? skunk?
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>>153186245
I really like this dialogue for some reason.
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>Fucking meddler...
>>153186491
Frogposter gets 10 000 years in jigoku stuffed inside a samonella-infested raw turkey.
>>153186967
It's the same guy, lying to get out of trouble.
>>153187945
As Anon said, he specifically did NOT want the shogun to have the sword and that's why he brought it to Atsuta Shrine instead of giving it to Noriyuki, who is a loyalist and would have forked it over immediately. And which... actually would probably have strengthened his prestige with the bakufu immensely and allowed him to thwart Hikiji more or less permanently, so this wasn't necessarily Usagi's biggest-brained moment.
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The story could be that Usagi and Gen are both tracking down a bandit, who has accrued a massive bounty, and stumble onto a plot where someone is raising a massive army of roninIt's Noriko, who wants to kill Tomoe and Noriyuki and set herself up as opposing warlord with the aid of some kinda supernatural bullshit
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>>153189091
>are you a ronin?
No?
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Send Oriber with Stray Dog. Real Odd Couple shit.
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I think these storytimes are starting to give me a thing for women yakuza tattoos
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>>153186676
Either it's a highlight, or it's just an artifact of the covers being drawn months in advance of the completed story. He may have had only thumbnails or partial pencil roughs at the point when he drew those, and later decided she needed a more striking look, while inking the first part for example.
>>153186800
>Sergio shitting on Stan's ability to draw historically accurate Japanese armor
This will never not be funny.
>>153186862
B-b-but they'll still reprint Saga 9, right?
R-right?!
Aw, fuck.
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So who's the nerd who's going to tell us why women with bitching tattoos are stereotypical dice handlers?
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I don't know if there's more historical context than just "tattoos were something only low-life people, the sort who'd be thugs gambling, had; and they'd want hot women doing the dice handling because hot" and "it's probably not that accurate historically and just became a retroactive stereotype in later fiction, just like ninjas wearing black pyjamas"
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Ffs I thought these foxes just messed with you a bit...creeped you out! Not murder lol
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>>153189091Hijiki's alt skin will be the Shredder
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Christ I know Dark Horse isn't the name it used to be but this is sad as fuck. I remember when they used to be THE prestige publisher and were my first introduction to adult comics and manga. Shit better see if I can get all of Berserk and Blade of the Immortal before DH gets stripped for parts
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>>153187781
There are presumably more, but that doesn't mean the whole 300 killed themselves. I wouldn't be suprised if half that are up in the castle going about their business saying to themselves "nah, fuck that. one lord's as good as another"
Bushido overemphasized loyalty so hard because it wasn't nearly as common as the noble class wanted it to be.
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You're kidding with that, right? For the Neko Ninja that would be the best advertisement for her case. The whole reason they went over to her Jonin's side is that he convinced them that she's not a hardass motherfucker but weak little baby. "I killed 50% of you motherfuckers, don't make me do it again" is a solid way to answer that accusation.
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>>15318637140 skulls for this page! This is getting out of hand.
Welcome back to the death rattle tally! Here are the new scream found in today's storytime:
>Urt!: 1
>Guh!: 1
>Floop!: 1
>Glik!: 1
See attachment for total cry so far. As always, if you have any questions about the count, feel free to ask.
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It going to be really funny when it turns out neither are the fox and they're just being idiots.
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>>153188656
Sprite-based 2D fighting games my beloved
>>153188859
You got up to book 10 before work and life finally overwhelmed you, and that's no mean feat. We will always look forward to any contribution you see fit to grace the storytime with but there's no pressure. The first rule of Feudal Japan is to be true to yourself and have fun!**this is not the first rule of Feudal Japan at all
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>this wasn't necessarily Usagi's biggest-brained moment.
No, but it was principled, and that's consistent with Usagi's character. Katsuichi-sensei says something similar about him regarding Nakamura Koji, how he was glad even though it could have been a literal lifesaver, that Usagi didn't compromise his principles, even for his old sensei. It is interesting, looking back on that story, how Ikeda has to fight to keep that Bushido Moment down when he has Grasscutter in his grasp, while Usagi's conflict isn't in grasping or seizing power for himself, to correct some past slight or gain some present advantage, but in how to use power so it doesn't cause unnecessary suffering, or even if power should be held at all.
Alright, we're at 496 posts and it's 9:15PM/17:15 on the East Coast of Feudal America. Do you Usagi FREAKS want a talk back thread or should we just keep going until this slides off the catalog?
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There's still a little room in #24 >>153169488
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>keiko ends up being recognized as evil and jei has to kill her
I don’t know if i’d be able to handle such an event
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>>153191525
We need an Usagi edit for this for his fighting game.
>There was someone who traveled the warriors path, to be ultimate. He meddled so much, it was no surprise that he was involved in troubles.
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Stan's posting stuff about Kaito issue 2, which is coming out in 10 days
>The crew is reunited; the target is in sight. A high-stakes heist promises a new beginning, but when the job goes sideways, a relentless chase erupts across Osaka. Now, with the cops closing in and an even more dangerous foe on their tail, Kaitō must outwit his enemies—and confront a chilling vision from his past that could unravel everything he's fighting for.
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Eastman!
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>>153191663
No, Stan's basically using ninja-movie shuriken, which operate on rule-of-cool.
IRL shuriken were used like caltrops to slow and distract pursuers, and about as dangerous as poking them with a pen-knife.
Sure, it hurts like hell, and it will make you stop to pull it out, but it's not gonna cause you to drop dead on the spot.
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Kaito looks like he has to Get Wild & Tough.
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Thanks anon.
>>153191681
I meant the dark kami stuff...gona read the previous storytime
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>>153186371
I never commented on it before, but this would be a story for the history books forever, wouldn't it? As large a number of 300 men committing seppuku at once would be a tale of the Bullshitdo spirit of samurai well into the modern day of Usagi's world.
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Hmm, hard to tell at that distance, but...
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Those are indeed his pants on the next two pages.
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>>153191683
I'm not sure anything can top one of the actual lines from the actual Usagi video game.
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https://youtu.be/lD_ag67tH3I?si=Dv6CN7NIC-UZxZMx
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I knew it!
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>>153192344
It kind of amazes me how this game managed to make the simple swordfighting mechanics it uses represent the iconic samurai duel, where you and an enemy charge at each other, swords held high, and the damage is down to whoever has the faster reflexes and times the strike better.
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And Usagi kills himself if he runs out of honor.
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