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Post by usagigoya on Feb 7, 2016 15:56:45 GMT -5
Back to A Life of Mush....
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 7, 2016 15:51:39 GMT -5
I have to admit to rarely watching "cartoons" much anymore, but I have to admit that I would gladly start again if they ever came out with an animated Usagi Yojimbo series....
Of course, this was just an excuse to post this video!
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 7, 2016 15:11:28 GMT -5
Of course, neither can women (as folks keep telling Tomoe). Where did you hear this?
It was uncommon for women to become samurai warriors, but the samurai class was both men and women, much like the peasant class was men and women, and the merchant class was men and women, otherwise you would not be able to have samurai children, peasant children, and merchant (?) children.... Also, samurai womenfolk were expected to be able to defend their homes and castles when their menfolk were out fighting wars and such.
This was actually a big debate / argument at different times on both the Samurai Archives Citadel (forum for snobby Japanese history buffs) and the Ninja Dojo (samurai film forum) which caused a lot of bad will between various members of both forums.
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 7, 2016 14:52:04 GMT -5
1. Gen is the character that really sucked me in at the beginning, always love the interaction between him and Usagi. They really are best friends.
2. Sasuké the Demon queller is the character which I would really enjoy seeing appear in more stories, maybe learn more about his backstory (and his secret connection to the Mike Mignola Universe).
3. Inspector Ishida is the other character which I would love to see more of, mainly because I feel he could carry any number of stories on his own, and a "Law and Order: Edo" type of series would be a perfect fit for him.
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 7, 2016 13:39:05 GMT -5
Cool! I had never heard of it either. Description says it was made by Graphitti Designs....
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 7, 2016 3:37:51 GMT -5
Just to throw in my two Rin worth about Usagi Yojimbo in the great Graphic Novel debate, I just want to say that I consider Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai and Usagi Yojimbo: Senso to be graphic novels.
Yokai was actually marketed as an "original graphic novel" while Senso just "feels" like a graphic novel to me even though it was published in installments as a mini-series.
I feel that all the rest of the Usagi Yojimbo books are just compilations, even the ones containing book length stories like Dragon Bellow Conspiracy, Grasscutter 1 or 2, or Mother of Mountains.
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 5, 2016 13:29:17 GMT -5
My enjoyment of Usagi Yojimbo led me to check out Lone Wolf and Cub, and I have become a fan of everything I could find by Koike and Kojima including the Samurai Executioner and Path of the Assassin. Currently buying the New Lone Wolf and Cub series from Dark Horse (Not the Lone Wolf 2099 or whatever). Have you tried Road to Perdition, by Max Collins? It's Lonewolf and Cub adapted into Gangland Mafia; really powerful stuff. No, but I have read some of his old articles about Lone Wolf and Cub written back in the Eighties for Asian Cult Cinema magazine.
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 5, 2016 12:36:46 GMT -5
What are the few other comic series you like? I have been reading and collecting Sergio Aragones' Groo the Wanderer since '84 or '85. Love everything Sergio draws.
I have a full run of The Goon comics by Eric Powell, have yet to read a bunch of them.
I believe I have most of the Hellboy comics and short story appearances, but not much of the spin-off series. I have not read very many of them yet.
Really enjoyed the Beasts of Burden stories by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson, and the Sabertooth Swordsman stories by Damon Gentry and Aaron Conley (would love to see an on-going series made out of both of these).
My enjoyment of Usagi Yojimbo led me to check out Lone Wolf and Cub, and I have become a fan of everything I could find by Koike and Kojima including the Samurai Executioner and Path of the Assassin. Currently buying the New Lone Wolf and Cub series from Dark Horse (Not the Lone Wolf 2099 or whatever).
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 5, 2016 12:03:20 GMT -5
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 3, 2016 22:34:31 GMT -5
And calendars!
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 3, 2016 22:33:13 GMT -5
Since I fall into that strange group of comic fans that have only found a few comics that they enjoy reading and collecting, I have a fairly unique way of buying my Usagi comics. 1. I buy the comics (floppies) when they are published. 2. I buy the collected editions when they are published. (#30 coming this summer ) 3. I buy the omnibus editions when they are published. 5. I buy the foreign language translations when they are published. * * I have complete runs of Usagi Yojimbo in French, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Croatian, and Dutch. I am still looking for three of the four Usagi Yojimbo books published in Indonesia. I question your commitment to the series. Just a perfect combination of finding a series I enjoy reading and one that is diverse enough to make collecting interesting. I also collect prints, posters, signing cards, and original artwork related to the series.
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 3, 2016 11:52:12 GMT -5
Since I fall into that strange group of comic fans that have only found a few comics that they enjoy reading and collecting, I have a fairly unique way of buying my Usagi comics. 1. I buy the comics (floppies) when they are published. 2. I buy the collected editions when they are published. (#30 coming this summer ) 3. I buy the omnibus editions when they are published. 5. I buy the foreign language translations when they are published. * * I have complete runs of Usagi Yojimbo in French, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Croatian, and Dutch. I am still looking for three of the four Usagi Yojimbo books published in Indonesia. I'm not a huge foreign language collector, but sometimes looking at how familiar books get printed else where is pretty fun. Have you noticed any interesting changes in the foreign prints of Usagi? The stories which have been translated into Dutch were published by a publisher in Belgium named Enigma (which aptly described trying to communicate with them). They published a total of 14 issues (floppies) of Usagi Yojimbo, each with a cover original to the comic, not new artwork but rather an interior piece of art converted into cover art. Each issue also featured an original full-color Usagi back-cover created by a Belgium artist.They also offered a couple leather bound omnibus editions of four issues each (which I do not own).
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Post by usagigoya on Feb 1, 2016 20:10:26 GMT -5
Since I fall into that strange group of comic fans that have only found a few comics that they enjoy reading and collecting, I have a fairly unique way of buying my Usagi comics. 1. I buy the comics (floppies) when they are published. 2. I buy the collected editions when they are published. (#30 coming this summer ) 3. I buy the omnibus editions when they are published. 5. I buy the foreign language translations when they are published. * * I have complete runs of Usagi Yojimbo in French, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Croatian, and Dutch. I am still looking for three of the four Usagi Yojimbo books published in Indonesia.
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