previously: >>152834882
>>152846950I really like the sword getting in front of the side panels.
>>152846974the series is full of these neat little details
>>152846941This panel may be the absolute peak of Cartoony Rabbit Usagi. It really feels like Sakai got the model dialed in here, it's just a completely different model.Also, the nature/landscape art here is great. If it were a different cartoonist I might have said some of his best, but I've seen the rest of the comic, so.
>>152846970Usagi's dad looks suspiciously Kenichi shaped.
>>152846974The tassels of his hat do the same thing more subtly in panel 1. It's a technique to give the art aa sense of three-dimensionality, and it works really well. That snout projects right out of the page. Just goes to show you how good a cartoonist Sakai already was at this early stage.
as much we praise the serie's historical accuracy, it also buys wholeheartedly into the samurai myth and plays it completely straight. which is fun, I might add.
>>152846991>katsuichi's smirk on the last panel
>>152847006>Usagi's dad also fathered a bastard with Kenichi's momGood god, he's a generational cuck. What awful karma. He must have committed some terrible crimes in his past life, like failing to deliver a rock.
loss of face, the largest cause of death after failed harvests and the deadly japanese cold.
>>152846991Dunno about all this "wisdom" of going home and living a simple villager life when that's they're always getting Feudal Japan'd. Hell, that's exactly what ended up happening to Usagi's own father.
>>152847077>You must strive to learn something new ech day, Usagi.>Like how to make mats, or taiko drums, or pottery, or...
>second panel that could only lead to bad karma down the road, usagi. pray you or your descendants 're not attacked by giant bugs later.
thanks for your effort anon.
>>152847081all cats are kittycats no matter the size
>>152847251it's my pleasure.
>>152847160He doesn't actually want him to, Anon. He's just testing his resolve.
>>152846979Following the line, did he spin? That's a good trick.
>>152847006>>152847105I know! I've been saying this for few years now.
>>152847246Speaking of which, from yesterday's thread I don't think we ever see the same kind of gritty blood splattering again do we? Everything going forward is a bit more cartoony iirc>>152835094>>152835103
my brother in amateratsu you just described the state of japan for the past 100 years.
>>152847301>Their most promising studentYou could almost call him "History's Strongest Disciple, Kenichi".
https://youtu.be/YKZlNriIAM0
>>152846976(TN: Katsuichi roughly means "the one who wins")
>>152847180>Like how to make mats, or taiko drums, or pottery, or...Shoji screens
hold onto your butts! https://youtu.be/Q1W1JnXsAB8
>>152847025Whoa there slow down Katsuichi, tea ceremonies are serious business! Teaching a kid his age about them is just begging to get him killed!
>>152847001>To train with the sword, first master sweeping. When you have mastered sweeping, you must master the way of drawing water. Once you have learned how to draw water, you must split wood. Once you have split wood, you must learn the arts of finding the fine herbs in the forest, the arts of writing, the arts of paper making, and poetry writing. You must become familiar with the awl and the pen in equal measure. When you have mastered all these things you must master building a house. Once your house is built, you have no further need for a sword, since it is an ugly piece of metal and its adherents idiots.
>>152847561anon is observant.
>>152847145Early Lord Mifune looks like a damn Beany Baby
>recreanttoday I learned a new word.
https://youtu.be/muUZjovOFRg
>>152847286WORLD IS A JERK
>>152847637Zylla! Oh no there goes Edo!
>>152847492After learning yesterday that one ryo was supposed to correspond to one koku, I'm gonna have a lot of trouble seeing all the times a year's supply of rice was paid out in exchanged for a single meal at an inn.
I figure this year I'll post the letter pages I collected again.
>>152847774>Upside down textHilarious
this is it for today, thanks for reading.
>>152847312>That walkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgKK0YRQyMQ
Happy St. Patrick's day
>>152847818Can't help but this song fits these Storytimes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObWAo9BP9Sc&pp=ygUeaGVhcnQgb2Ygc3dvcmQgcnVyb3VuaSBrZW5zaGlu
>>152847855>Irish Usagi
>>152847801Interesting, that ad features the proto-Usagi rather than his finished design
>>152847294>Bottom rowHow to draw Usagi
>>152847801>Stan prefers the look of black-and-white. Maybe some day we'll bow down to the inevitable and put out a color album
>>152847409Mifune's 'MENDOZA' moment
Usagi panel counter here againWeirdly enough, 401 more Usagis (801 total)625 panels in this book (1232 panels total)34 Neko (81 total)Mogura lost their way (19 total)>>152847344Pac Man eyes are the only time this monster ever looked cute>>152847006>mfw Kenichi and Usagi are actually half-brothers
>>152847684The silk or the lady?
>>152846979our first instance of YOU INSULT MY SCHOOLS HONOR U MUST DIE
>>152847350>the first panelmust resist urge to make reference to events that haven't happened yet.
>>152846964The Gunichi situation is something I wonder how modern Usagi would look back at. He was way more fixated on Bullshitdo back in those days.
>>152847020You know having floor trailing hair in the mountain forest seems more of a liability than anything else. Things probably full of insects. But maybe they're his pets, that's why he keeps calling Usagi various bugs.
>>152848032That's a great idea! Why didn't I have that one sooner?
>>152848321You crack me up, little fella!
>>152847355Fuzzy booba.
>>152847286Kenichi speaking the truth for once.
Back at it again, but this time I've got a bit of an edge case I want to go over so we're all on the same page here. I'm tentatively counting one of the Dogora students (here >>152846976) and Kaiko the silk merchant as wolves, (one of the bandits in the Zylla chapter is also a wolf but I think he's less of an edge case) I only started counting wolves since one of the gamblers in the last volume was so distinctly wolf-y but I realise that a lot of the time it's going to be difficult to distinguish a wolf from a dog or a fox, so should I keep counting wolves? Anyways, here are our updated totals, as you can see the variety in species is already started to dwindle, but you could put that down to most of this volume only really featuring Usagi, Gen, and Katsuichi>+1 Warthog>+1 Lion>+3 Wolves(?)>+1 Pig>+3 Tigers>+1 Beaver>Total: 41
>>152847329Huh. So Usagis dad had a history of not giving up all of the villages food. Shame it didn't work out for him, but I guess that's no way to get ahead in feudal Japan.
>>152848561I'd count clear wolves and "possibly wolves" separately. There's going to eventually be a general merger of all the animals becoming "generic furry", so I think being clear about what's a clear species and what's you guessing will be worthwhile.
>>152847376Being a lord ages you up fast!
>>152847450It's been a while since I reread, but is this the densest the paneling gets?It's a pretty good way to communicate what a chaotic hellhole a battlefield is
>>152848636I'm 31 years old!
>>152847416(Reminds me of how in cats narrow pupils is comfortable lethargy and the "cute" expanded pupils thing corresponds to murder mode.)
>>152848441>HIKIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!
>>152848561Slight addendum, I forgot to count a tiger from last time so the total is actually 42
>>152847355Mariko's Marikos
>>152847705>>152847711(This has to be a not-so-subtle dig at inbreeding)
>>152847142why is clint eastwood here
>>152847196Really funny how much Stan didn't have Mifune's design sorted out yet, he's almost shape shifting from panel to panel
>>152847711(That's not a kid, that's granpa. He's a bit senile.)
>>152847355Anyone willing to do an NSFW edit?
>>152847573What a tweest!
>>152848647I do think this is the densest page in the whole comic, yeah
>>152847722It's more an indication of how cheap rice was and in turn how little a peasant made, I guess
>>152847779laughing at the sound effects in panel 6
>>152847470>"fallen"Excellent use of grim, dry humor there.
>>152847073Careful Usagi. Remember what happened the last time Gen had a Persimmon.
>>152847470>>152849220Fallen? FALLEN!?!??https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3GjwU1BI9Y
>>152847927They were selling merch with the proto-Usagi first, yeah. Makes the timeline a bit confusing- did they already expect Usagi to be such a hit they made merch before finishing the design? Or did they just think the drawing was sellable even if technically inaccurate?
>>152848884more like the shallow gene pool most piss-ant villages like this are going to have.
>>152848309Poor Kenichi... (Saved)
>>152848309>It's a thinking mans fetish, you wouldn't get it, Usagi!
>>152846976Looks like this lion's gonna have to cut a bitch.
>>152846983Wait, are they actually dead? I didn't see a skull word balloon so I can't tell.
>>152849782by context I think you're meant to take them as dead, yeah, they're drawn with the sort of expressions Stan uses in those killed. The skull balloon was still getting established I guess
I'm not sure if I'd be able to draw something more complex this year, so I'll at least try to do more quick doodles
>>152846957Rip in PeaceI hope we get more stories with him in the past.
>>152847020Trying to keep Usagi on his toes, I see.
>>152847034Aw, you just know Sensei was really proud of him for a good moment for knowing he was behind that tree.
>>152847025>>152847048Someone said in a previous thread about how this comic might have been inspired by Dororo, meanwhile the thing on Sensei's staff is straight up the Hyoutantsugi.
>>152849782He's cleaning blood off the blade, you figure it out.
>>152849841"lol!" said Stan. "lmao even!"
>>152849813adorable, anon. looking forwards to them
>>152850052I'm gonna be honest, I didn't even notice the blood on the initial read.
>>152847150Usagi's finally gained his signature stare.
>>152849947Yeah but the dumb bastard threw away all that good will by walking into what he knew was a trap anyways (Usagi will repeat this behavior in the future proving sensei did not beat him enough)
>>152847243Man, the Dogara is just filled to the brim with sore losers. The hell are they teaching those kids?
>>152835750>>152847722>>152849126STOP POSTING ABOUT RICE AND MONEYI AM SICK TO DEATH OF READING ABOUT ITTHIS IS LITERALLY THE SIXTIETH ARTICLE I HAVE READ ABOUT FEUDAL RICE ECONOMICSIF I HAVE TO READ ONE MORE SOURCE ABOUT RICE EXCHANGE I WILL KILL EVERYONE IN THIS STORYTIME AND THEN MYSELF I AM GOING INSANE AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
>>152847286You know I've noticed it before is it supposed to be that Kenichi knocked out the woman who was pouring him his drink? She's on the floor in the last panel but you don't see an impact and the zzz's would imply more sleeping than knocked unconcious. Just otherwise the only explanation I can think of is she suddendly passed out from drunkeness inbetween panels.
>>152847006No wonder Usagi's dad keeps Kenichi around. Was always wondering why if the two despise each other Usagi's dad is always pairing them up and sending them together in the flashbacksAlso>fatherless bastard>cucked by half-brotherBrutal. At least he inherited his dads position as village magistrate
>>152847250>You don't expect me to listen to the rest of your story sober, do you?Lmao, love this guy.
>>152847705>peasant wife is happy to see husband bring home a vagrant samurai, does not immediately seize up in fear or angerYou can tell this issue is from waaay before Stan started doing some serious research into the time period.
>>152850574I think the idea is she fell asleep drunk, yes. Her look on panel 1 can read more "seductive" but I think it's meant to be that she's so drunk she can barely keep her eyes open, and so by her next panel she's gone
Today's doodles, retouched a lot of yesterday's and added Gunichi, Lord Mifune, Usagi's dad (does he ever get named? I don't recall right now actually), and Katsuichi with a lot of elements more from Stan's later drawings of him intentionally not drawing the eyepatch yet for the sake of spoilers
>>152849813>>152850647You love to see /co/ exclusive fanart in the storytime.
>>152850647I want to boop Tomoe on the snoot
>>152847409>Dead Children: 1
>>152850647Forgot to link yesterday's for comparison, have fun >>152841672
>>152847286Wow, did not peg Kenichi as a filthy drunk. I kind of expected him to be such a hardass he wouldn't even touch a drink normally.
>>152848935I mean he was a talented actor.
>>152847294Usagi's stupid fucking face, kek.
>>152850743I'd expect that's why he becomes said hardass- as a recovery from the pit he sunk to in here
>>152847271Usagi warned you about graverobbing, Gen. Now all you'll get is shitty wine!
>>152847312The sheer contrast between these silly little goobers and the badass background is equal parts hilarious and awesome.
>>152847344>"Don't be a hero!"
>>152847352RIP horse.
>>152850498Bushido.When sword schools live or die on their reputation, they gotta defend that reputation with tooth and nail.
>>152847355Bunny boobs.
>>152849972...huh.
>>152847361Goddamn, if there a single person in this comic that HASN'T killed at this rate?
>>152850546Sorry Enma, I just thought it would be a neat thing to tell the new guys.
>>152851029Keiko
>>152847371All this backstory just to find out what happened between Usagi and Gunichi.
>>152847350my cooked ahh genuinely thought Usagi's dad was Kenichi they look alike
>>152848636Shit, with all the crap we've seen so far with Usagi alone I'm not surprised. Mifune's basically living in a perpetual warzone.
>>152847393RIP helper lady.
I can't get over how people call Kenichi a cuck. Usagi is a homeless, poor, single vagabond. Meanwhie Kenichi has "stolen" from Usagi his first love, his home, his father's position in their home village (one which Usagi should typically inherit) and Usagi's only son is calling Kenichi "dad" and loves him deeply. People keep saying how Jotaro looks and acts exactly as Usagi, but then, decades later, the "bowman on the roof" panel in >>152847350 comes back with a vengeance. Aside from Mariko being dumb (on multiple levels), Kenichi is the "loser rival" archetype who has actually won the lottery of life, while the hero has almost nothing to show.
>>152847400Mifune: "I'm not trapped in here with you, YOU'RE trapped in here with ME!"
>>152847403Aw fuck...
>>152847409Hikiji?!
Entirely speculative, but imagining how Stan might draw Usagi's dad nowadays. The dad's design was clearly just the Usagi design of the time but angular, yet it no longer matches Usagi as his design's evolved- most notably, his side tufts of fur went from subtle downturned elements of the curve of his head to sideburns jutting out like Scrooge McDuck, meaning his dad's head construction of just being the same thing but flatter no longer makes sense
>>152846970Who sends little kids alone in a quest?
>>152851237Feudal Japan
>>152846970>in the city of SendaiAnother confirmed geographical location!
>>152851205You know we got a "modern" dadsagi not too long ago.
>>152851029The woodcutter couple. I think.They're pure as spring water, poor but happy with their life.
>>152851282I only do these re-reads annually and so there's plenty of time in the year for me to forget stuff. Can you point me to where that was?
>>152851237Related topic actually came up last year. I beleive according to the semi-official timeline published in the TRPG Usagi and Kenichi are supposed to be around 12-14 right here. Although they certainly don't look like it and comparing usual cultural norms of the time period for when boys would begin samurai training they would be 8-10.
>>152847416Lol, the triforce....wait, does this comic actually predate LttP?!
>>152851294Yes it was (spoilered, newcomers read on at your own peril) issue #11 of the IDW run, another flash back to Lil' Usagi and Kenichi in the village and their childhood rivalry for Mariko's affection, see the page here https://files.catbox.moe/tfyt4b.jpgYou basically got modern Dadsagi down to a T, well done drawfriend.
>>152847452Dude you were literally saying a minute ago how overconfidence would be your downfall.
>>1528513271991 is when LttP released, 1989 is this volumes release. But the answer is actually simpler than that. "The Triforce" is actually a historically used clan Mon. I beleive multiple clans have used it though it is most associated with the Hojo clan.
>>152847457Gunichi you cowardly bitch.
>>152851368Huh, thank you anon. I'd forgotten that entirely, yeah. Stan softened the design a bit but otherwise decided to still give him the downturned tufts as opposed to bigger sideburns like Usagi has now, which makes sense but is interesting- it kind of unchains his design from Usagi's.This is making me wonder too, do we ever get a mention of Usagi's mother?
>>152851029That would be a fun count to start, maybe next year. >characters with dialogue balloons who have not broken Buddhist vows by taking life and are thus spared judgement and sentencing in Lord Enma's court in the afterlife
>>152851327That's the mon of the Hojo clan.
>>152847476Wow, I'm shocked the horse survived that onsl- oh, spoke too soon.
>>152851404We do! During that same IDW run a few issues later cousin oliver makes his debut, it's mentioned that Usagi's mother has a sister that is Yuichi's mother.
>>152847528Ah shit, Usagi fucked up somehow.
>>1528475732spoopy4me
>>152851387>>152851409Huh, neat. I'm surprised at how educational this series has been so far.
>>152851372Sure except the only thing he was overconfident in was that his vassals would fucking stay loyaleIf Toda wasn't a toad the noose would've closed around Hikiji completely. Even if he got away now his forced would be scattered or dead while Mifune would have total impetus
>>152851504Hell yeah my dude that's what we're here for.
>>152849004Has Stan Sekai ever drawn NSFW for Usagi Yojimbo, even if it's an Osamu Tezuka situation?
>>152846941Stan backgrounds will become more subtle as the comic advances, I really like the use of blacks here.
>>152848142The silkHOW ITS MADE
>>152851029The Snitch?
>>152847610Oh wow, wasn't especting the monkey peasants from the last storytime to come back.
From Stan's Twitter.
>>152851592Stan's backgrounds and inking in general get worse as the comic goes on. Not saying this as a massive negative- he's making the mother of all eggs, can't fret over every egg, etc etc, worse inking and bgs is the price he paid for ensuring regular constant work for over four decades, it's just the choice he make- but it IS something he did and that is very notable whenever we do the yearly storytime>>152851569Closest I can think is a slightly horny drawing of Tomoe in a pin-up samurai armour where she's got midriff showing
>>152847622Oh come on, Usagi. Sensei did not train you like he did just for you to be in a situation like this.
>>152847561A fellow student of exceptionally poor swordsmanship I see.
>>152847637Is that fucking Gon?
>>152851752Lmao, nice. I'm a sucker for the whole "characters are actually actors playing a movie" trope. You definitely get the vibe of an old samurai movie by reading the comic.
>>152847637>There's still all of US against ONE!This genius is clearly the boss of this local branch of Bad Decisions, Inc.
>>152847034>head lice, he probabbly knows about that with that hair.
>>152847523It seems the use of "vampire" and "goblin" in the first issue is more like generic evil spirit/supernatural being rather then specific archetypes
>>152847048Is fun seeing the Bushido becoming more and more bullshit. Not necesarilly because people don't follow it but because they follow it too much to the letter.
>>152847678>very little payNo way is that true silk was expensive as hell
>>152852036Yes, and? That doesn't mean the money made from it made it to the workers
>>152852036Ask the farmers who make your coffee, bananas, etc... how much THEY make. Shit never changed.
>>152847073The artstyle is becomimg less gremling like.
>>152847196Enter the Swords
>>152847214Usagi is too strong.
>>152852043>>152852064finished reading it and yeah I was a bit hasty.
>>152848142Yes.
>>152848647He actually repeats this exact page structure in his retelling of the battle in "Adachi", roughly 35 years later.
>>152847691Wow, what a bastard.
>>152850647Good stuff I like how you drew lord Mifune like a badasd stuffed animal.
>>152852263Thank you anon, it's the best I could do from Sakai's art- Mifune looks different on basically every single panel, makes it hard to get a grasp on what the design is meant to be so I just kinda merged bits from all of them
>>152850546KekRIP Enma
>>152847733Ah, so Matsutaro's just for show.
>>152847350Mew guys, remember that first panel with Kenichi in the roof, it will come back later.
>>152850647These are great, Anon.
>>152847757200?! Honestly I was expecting the usual 50, Usagi's squeezing this bastard for all he's worth. Not that he doesn't deserve it, of course.
>>152848383Maybe just let him live with his dishonor?
>>152849972>>152850997I'm pretty sure it's just a water gourd.
>>152852329Nah, you can see the pig face (upside-down) in it. It's a Tezuka reference.
>>152852209No worries, hot comments as you read aren't a crime! Enma knows I made my share...(but maybe worry a little, last time I was fined with like 30 koku of rice and that shit got EXPENSIVE from the feudal times... still at least I avoided seppuku, unlike at least a third of anons from last storytime.)
I suspect the Gunichi story deliberately leads up to multiple fake-outs of him making a betrayal only for it to come at the last second when he isn't acutally harming anyone to make the point about the harsh nature of bushido (as appears in this comic at least)
>>152851731L M A O
>>152851569If he has, it's definitely a Tezuka-hiding-his-goon-stash-in-a-locked-drawer situation. The only lavicious, even slightly spicy pic that's floating around is this cover he did for a softcore furry series.https://files.catbox.moe/v2n9fe.jpg
>>152847259Gen is great
>>152852399There's one chapter where Chizu is showing lots of cleavage.
imagine some of the other characters from Critters getting to cameo in Usagi nowadays. I don't have much to add to this thought, just thinking it'd be neat.
>>152850546This is your personal Jigoku. To oversee a rice futures stock exchange in hell for a thousand thousand years, forced to weigh every single silver piece and count every single grain of rice like a Jiangshi.
>>152847301Kenichi's face in the bottom page is awesome.
>>152847789Thanks OP. I wish I still had my FX Shogun seppuku meme folder, was fixing my laptop and deleted everything.
>>152852411There's a lot of cleavage in the series, actually, but no full on lewds that we know of
>>152852453the 'zumasstrongests in the series!
>>152852419That feels like a super team from the 80s.
>>152852345I see... now I can'tI can't unsee
>>152847711I hope Genta becomes a Samurai some day.
>>152848441Mendozaaaa!
>>152852514considering his family just lifted themselves out of poverty, his future looks promising even if he doesnt become a Samurai.
>>152847335Everyone in early Usagi make this face were they are mid chew while angry.
>>152847376I love how silly they look here
>>152847591That was the early 80s furry art style. Stan was still finding his unique look.
>>152852514
>>152849004Not everyone here is horny anon.
>>152849004I'm willing.But I'm not gonna do it.
>>152850546I liek rice
>>152847048>it also buys wholeheartedly into the samurai myth and plays it completely straightI feel like Usagi and Katsuichi are just about the only ones who really buy into all that Samurai spirit and duty and honor shit. Meanwhile Gen's like "I have a sword and I use it to make money" and he's still less of a ruthless scumbag than most of the other samurai who show up. He seems to think Usagi's a dope to believe that stuff.>>152848884I think the buck teeth are just because they're beavers.
>>152847196Now they say there was a willow swordthat the rabbit got from his feudal lordbut you don't really care for honor, do ya?It goes like this, the cuck gets biffed,The sword school falls, the hermit lifts,A teenage rabbit working for MifuneFor Mifune, for Mifune,for Mifu-u-u-u-u-neThe Shadow Lord had caused him pain,your daimyo met him on the plain,Hikiji and the traitor overthrew yaBefore the fight they killed your dad,Mifune died and it made you sad,but you hid his head 'cause shit was gettin' feudalgettin' feudal, gettin' feudalgettin' feudal, gettin' feu-u-u-u-u-dalAnd now Gunichi's dead to rights,you've got that warthog in your sights,in seconds he became a memory to yaYou drank to him, the booze was nice, you paid with two koku of rice,and Enmanon is feeling like FallujahLike Fallujah, like Fallujah,like Fallujah, Like Fallu-u-u-u-u-jah
Here.... a little Usagi from me.https://files.catbox.moe/prpr8l.jpg
>>152851556Can I see the canon booba collage?
>>152846974Have we counted times when art or text escapes a panel in a storytime yet? I am not sure if I will be able to participate much this time around, I've counted 99 in book 1 and 62 in book 2 (this thread) if anyone wants to continue the tally, if not I'll try to count it next year.
>>152852399Might be the only one he did but that's one spicy cat lady
>>152847535The Kappa is going for his ass ball
>>152847084>later, his student goes off to war, fights brigands, duels, meddles at every possible opportunity, and kills nearly two thousand people
>>152851285Evil according to Jei.
Hello all, Auditanon, resident bureaucrat here. After taking the suggestion of an anon last thread, I will now start count visible death screams and death rattles. After last year counting honourable screams, I'm doing the reverse in counting something that's bad fortune. Fleeing screams are way below me, so I won't do it this year.And now, without further ado, here are yesterday's and today's total counts in the death rattle department.
>>152853482No "Floo"?
>>152851682He's certainly willing to take a life, I can't recall if he's done so on panel or not though.
Dang, I basically missed the first two threads! Always glad it's still going strong.
The Annual Usagi story time. Come for the funny animals cutting each other down, stay for the How It's Made sections and financial history
>>152852318Gunichi would either get himself killed in some self-inflicted poetic justice situation or he would redeem himself with a heroic sacrifice. Either way Usagi would end up being able to sidestep the awkward issue of directly making him pay for his treachery.
>>152847113Assuming Katsuichi went for the neck, he stopped centimeters from Usagi's ear.
>>152850546God help us if Stan takes it into his head to have Usagi observe a minting process.
>>152847409>Tiny text inside of a much bigger bubbleFucking tight.
>>152853929
>>152854082Yeah stan knows his paneling and framingLets you know exactly how mifune said it, a low but furious utterance
>>152853644Personally i’m here for the feudal misery and Jerk World™…and Gen, of course
>>152853514No "Floo" in this or the previous storytime. I will add new ones as we go along.
Dishonor falls upon me, I bit more than I could chew with the comic/panel counter project and I ended the day without reading the storytime today. I'll still work on it but not use it for this year's storytime, though I'll take notes to make it work eventually.Though looking back at the previous storytime, I wonder why >>152834954 has Usagi say nothing in his speech bubble, is that normally pointed out?>>152850647Wonderful work Anon!>>152848634Yeah "Canidae" or other taxonomical families nay be good for when it gets to that blurry line>>152853929Careful, Icarus
>>152854361>I wonder why >>152834954 has Usagi say nothing in his speech bubble, is that normally pointed out?Being the first story and being it has no dramatic purpose in its use I can see, betting it's just a mistake, he did the balloon there then changed his mind on where some line would go, or forgot to write the line there, or something
>>152853014Why didn't you just post it?
>>152847711I will never not be surprised that Genta of all the peasant characters is the one who makes later cameos.And actually becomes a samurai in Senso
I sketched some possible merch designs some time ago hoping to have it digital and ready before the storytime. Unfortunately I barely have time to draw these days. I will try to get it finished before Easter.
>>152855074Second idea is simpler Btw there's a restaurant named Usagi Sushi here in Warsaw that uses Usagi's head shape as logo. Best sushi in the area IMO. I made a little clay Usagi and thought of giving it to them.
>>152855082So there is, lmao
Usagi Yojimbo ‘84 comes out this month.I hope we get a good mix of UY and Yakuza plotting.
>>152853929Most of the mints were in the Edo region if I remember right though I think there was also one relatively near Ishida's city.
>>152855322The first issue came out already, anon, you can go read it- we just kinda decided to wait on storytiming it so we can do it at the end of this year's annual
>>152847650One of Stan's favorite stories, judging by some things that happen later on in the series
>>152855325Welp, I went to take a look at internet, hoping to find info on whether or not they minted gold and silver in same places or in different ones (because I recalled that silver was predominantly used around certain region of Japan while gold was used more around Kyo).Instead I found this interesting bit."Early Modern TimesMiddle of the 16th century - First half of the 19th centuryIn the 16th century, gold and silver coins were minted following active mine developments by feudal warlords. Oda Nobunaga fixed the exchange rates between gold, silver and copper coins, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered the mintage of gold and silver coins, including Tensho Oban gold coins. Tokugawa Ieyasu increased his control over gold and silver mines, secured mintage technology and systems, and issued Keicho silver and gold coins in 1601. The Tokugawa Shogunate government subsequently issued Kan'ei Tsuho copper coins, within the process of establishing a unified monetary system called the “tri-metallic monetary system,” based on gold, silver and copper coins. The tri-metallic monetary system was significant because it was a unique monetary system based on the standardized currencies introduced by the central government. The tri-metallic monetary system was a relaxed unification system, which allowed local feudal lords to issue currencies other than the three standardized ones, such as clan notes to be circulated within their territories."Source: https://www.imes.boj.or.jp/cm/english/history/content/
>>152855074>>152855082Pretty sick, anon.
>>152849813>>152850647>>152851205Wow, this storytime is bringing out some incredible artists.
>>152851752>dumb assTime to add to the official curse word collection.
>>152851752Hollywood life getting to his head.
>>152853451Jei is not a particularly effective barometer for Evil Intent, anon
>>152857266You sound... Evil.
>>152857292Jei-san... don't you have a meddling samurai to smite.
>>152857696The Gods guide me to where I must be, I will eventually find Usagi, but on my way, I must attend to other evils.
Ishida will defeat Jei.
Usagi annual storytime, one of the few based events on this godless Indo-Aztec-Bulgarian basket hats imageboard.However, I have to say that the "true" Usagi starts with Grasscutter.>>152855814Usagi in Morrowind. Usagi meeting funny divine sociopaths like Vivec, Dagoth Ur, Alamlexia and Azura.>"Honor? Bushido? This isn't a Boondocks episode my n'wah!?">>152847312Those background lines...Never ever Usagi ends in Kurozu-Cho (or worse meeting Tomie)
>>152850647Hikiji always reminds me of the 2003 Shredder.
>>152858257They do look similar. I wonder if it was intentional?
>>152858415Maybe it's the hairline and glare?
>>152852941What song this is parodying?
>>152853014>Bathing with Usagi>Not Tomoe>Not Kitsune>Not Chizu
>>152859019>Kistune
>>152859058Have mercy on him, Anon. He just can't even bring himself to type the name.
>>152850546>rice price fluctuations and fertility in late tokugawa japan>lategetting pretty lazy, eh? >>152850647can't say I love your designs enough. would you tell which porgram you draw in? >>152850997>>152849972pretty interesting. >>152853482Jesus Christ. I thought counting up deaths was the ultimate challenge, but that was entry level. by the way, new thread: >>152859531
>>152853014you probably didnt need to catbox this.
>>152847034REKT
>>152847048>as much we praise the serie's historical accuracy,to what? edo period revisionism?I love usagi but "historically acurrate" is the last thing i'd call it. maybe culturally acurrate to 1800s japan and the preconceptions the japanese themselves had to their own past. and that's a big "maybe"
>>152847586MAGISTRATES W E R V E
>>152835750>500 grams of rice a daywell the average size then was 1.60 so I can see it it. That said they likely complimented with other sources ie. millet.
>>152847757>200 ryocant you literally finance a 10 man warband with that
>>152849813... you post on a certain general do you
>>152861365No? Not sure which one you're referring to but I rarely frequent generals nowadays so you must be confusing me with someone else, sorry
>>152858830https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHOfvsvvnXANot the only or original version, but I like this one.
>>152847048>historical accuracy>no firearmsMurderanon...
>>152862425dont worry. su.
>>152861315Yes, Usagi's squeezing the guy because he's the only samurai around, they guy's desperate, the guy's an asshole who deserves to get squeezed, and the workers deserve the money.
>>152847355ATTAH
>>152847757He's so smug in this panel, I love it
Does anybody have a 3D modeled Usagi? I'd like to turn it into a gaming piece for board games.
>>152864355Damn smug samurai!Grrr....needs feudal correction!
>>152847591Have some respect, poor thing suffered a severe ambush by a swarm of bees.
>>152847795>>152847801>>152847806Man, it's so cool to see people all around the world appreciating this comic. I bet these sort of letters made Sakai's day.
>>152847806>It's a strange thing: most comics attract readers who ask the artist for a drawing of the characters; Usagi tends to inspire readers to do their own interpretations of the Ronin Rabbit. It's a refreshing change of pace, in a way.If these threads are any indication, that holds true to this very day.
Bad timing.
>>152847818>"I chose a samurai rabbit because the samurai chicken just didn't work outI hope this is foreshadowing.
>>152846920bnuuy
>>152866609Explain.
