previously: >>152871001
two panels of mourning...
>>152884045This got feudal fast.
https://youtu.be/73odZaIy6i4
>>152884149fast and feudal: edo drift
>>152883984Despite what some say, Lee was always positive when talking about other comic book creators, but this might be the nicest thing he has ever written about somebody. I honestly believe he was a fan.
>>152884069>every peasant who has money immediately acts like a massive asshole toward innkeepersWhat causes this phenomenon?>>152884083>actually, they're just fucking scum on every levelOh, okay.
>>152884150How It's Made: Kites
>>152884185You see anon? There are no innocents (except Keiko) the gods are right on unleashing Jei the ultimate murderhobo on them!
>>152884233>Mon-Anon missed this crest too
>>152884212>honest gamblerIs it possible for such a creature to exist?
Blood Wings: The Komori Ninja Clan Themehttps://files.catbox.moe/k7rovj.mp3
>>152884318The fappers have arrived
>>152884035I think one of the reasons Usagi works so well is that Usagi is not some modern person who thinks with a modern perspective but someone of a time and place, yet his common humanity shines through and frequently asks him to reconsider some of his strongly held opinions.
>>152884185>every peasant who has money immediately acts like a massive asshole toward innkeepers>What causes this phenomenon?They're used to mistreatment so the thrill of finally having power makes them overcorrect. Also they tend to be drunk.
>>152884185The downtrodden become wealthy and vent their animosity on those around them, much the same as their tormentors do to them
>>152884129For some reason I always remember this story ending with Usagi meeting the wife again. Must be mixing it up with another story.
>>152884278Always loved the resolution to this one
>>152884641I think it's because he clearly takes pride in the process that it's not a bitter ending.
meifumadou, not even once.
>>152884396RETURN
https://youtu.be/N9NbkWr3KdU
>>152884631>routed the ogres of the eastern mountainsThis is intredasting. I assume Stan just forgot that he wrote this, but I think it's the only implication we ever see of yokai of any kind just being generally accepted as existing, right? This pretty clearly states that the shogunate or at least Higashi province were at straight up war with the tengu at one point.
>>152884766I always read this as he routed some brigands.
>immediately goes for the weapon throw that's how you know Sakai really did read Lone Wolf.
>>152884760Kek, what the actual fuck kind of animal is this lumpy head guy?
>>152884899a tapir, maybe?
I really wish they brought the letter pages back regularly, with fan art like these.
>>152872368I really like these covers too, it's a shame they're used on the colored re-issues.
that's it for today, thanks for reading.
as you might be aware, Lone Wolf and Cub has a huge influence on Usagi, and I can't recommend you read it enough, it's really good. the movies are alright too, I think Baby Cart to Hades is the best one. can't say anything about the tv series, as I didn't watch it yet.
>>152884784>>152884776Killing seven samurai in one fight without apparent effort is actually a pretty high tier feat even by Usagi's own standards
>>152885074>>152885082>>152885091>>152885095>>152885102>>152885108These are some kick ass variants.
>>152884910rip the cart, now they gotta find a gunsmith who can build into a cart another fan gun or even better, a rotating musket.
>>152884001oh, it's this one.
>>152884001The good times are here! >>152884129The good times are over!
>>152884592Then Usagi leaves and the remaining ninjas wipe out the village for resisting them ?
Book 5 counts:313 Usagi panels (1796 total)672 panels (3366 total)A new ninja group to count!30 Komori NinjaNo new Neko (281 total) or Mogura (19 total) today>>152885119Dark Horse is finally doing an unflipped printing, I believe. And yeah even if they aren't, everyone should read Lone Wolf and Cub. Floating Spirits is one of my favorite vignettes.>tv seriesI watched the more recent (most recent?) one from 2002-04 and it was alright. My sincere hope is that the '73-'76 series does the grandson of my heart scene. The Tomisaburo films didn't reach that point and the '02-'04 just had Itto and Retsudo kill each other.
>>152884461True, he is willing to question himself and the social environment he finds himself in.(Though he can afford so because of his freedom and personal strength, others are shown time and time again to have not much choice in the matter.)
>>152884737Personally, I prefer this theme for them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltd0s-n63sI
>>152884737>>152885119I'm reminded that I need to see Shogun Assassin again. I saw it once more that twenty years ago and I want to see it again, it's such a strange experience.
>>152884202>And that's how it's unmade(I would like an episode to see how dices were made in feudal japan.)
>>152885858man retsudou was a great villain, he stole the show every time he appeared.
>>152884226Now that's a big rock...
>>152884470>>152884477This guy is weirdly intelligent
>>152885945I'm hasty again, he gets immediately punished and killed for using his brain
>>152885988Such is life in feudal Japan.
>>152885701Unlikely. Hirone now knows the Komori stole his gold so the Komori will likely stay away from his territory. They might not even know the villagers survived. None of the Komori sent here ever came back, and Hirone knows that they were the gold thieves, so they'll assume their guys wiped out the village and got captured by Hirone and interrogated.
>>152885108Thanks for posting, Murder!
>>152884766>>152884784Might be a reference to Yemishi/Ainu mountain clans?
>>152884106>"But I'll be tried for murder!">"For no reason other than that murder I did!"kek, what an asshole
>>152884620(TN: "Oyaneko" means "boss cat")
>>152884784>>152886084I feel like both of these are a stretch in a setting where yokai are known to exist. Worthy retcons in both cases, but hardly what makes sense as the intended meaning at the time; it seems more like a reference to Yoshitsune or somebody like that. (I can't remember who now, but I feel sure that one of those guys was attributed with campaigns of war against various goblins).That said, of course I have to admit to an obvious mistake myself; "ogre" has never been the accepted translation of tengu AFAIK, so me mentioning tengu specifically was clearly a goof.
>>152885108Thank you OP
>>152884658ENTER THE GOAT (and his son)
What do we think of this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJURv9hHZbY
>>152886535I dont want to give a channel called "Comic Tropes" any engagement.
>>152886468One drawing to honor General Oyaneko please.
>>152884007Hmm, something tells me she's leaving out some important context here.
>>152884022Well, that explains why Koriko didn't give a shit about the body.
>>152884122>HE'S>BUT>ONE>CHAP
>>152885016(The lizard queen will not be pleased...)
>>152886752
>>152885010>Usagi Yojimbo: Kaito '84 fanart by time traveler Chuck Dillon
>>152884035What an...odd moment. I can't say it's truly OOC, because Usagi can get REALLY dumb when it comes to Bushido. But to threaten an innocent is something that just feels strange, seeing how cordial he generally is even to peasants. This is the same guy that carried an old lady down a river for free.
>>152884045Kids, this is why you don't run with scissors. Or play with swords.
>>152884052His sould got corrupted by the kill.
>>152884069What the hell is IN that sake?
>>152884083The cycle of blood money continues.
>>152884089Wow. Lazy bastard didn't even have the decency to bury the body.
>>152884094Holy shit, what a plot twist. Dude is just scum through and through.
There was a good variety in background characters this volume but for the most part it's stuff I'm not counting, though we did get two totally new species>+1 gorilla>+1 walrus>+1 beaver>New Total: 55>>152884899>>152884998I'm just going to consider him a miscellaneous dog-cat-thing, feels like one of those character designs where Stan drew a cartoony human and added animal ears after the fact
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>>152886894I think he's partially aware of the kind of trouble she could get into for hanging on to those especially given the suspicious way he died. He would never cut down an innocent but he's definitely not above a little intimidation if he thinks it'll avoid further trouble down the line. It's harsh, but not unfounded reasoning. And this is a harsh world, feudal Japan is.
Reading through this mini story-arc about the woes of Lord Higashi's clan we can see the answer to anon's question from the last thread->>Ok, how did Shogun tard wrangle the daimyo then?-in action in these stories.>>152884729General Oyaneko, a warrior of advanced age, dying of a terminal illness, immediately takes it upon himself to start public works projects in the hinterland town he's been assigned to govern. Oyaneko does this begrudgingly since he considers civil administration beneath his dignity as a warrior but he executes it with the diligence and competence of a true samurai. Now sure, Oyaneko is an idealized samurai but his circumstances illustrates how economically unviable it was for the daimyo to keep all their samurai with them at all times, especially decades into the peacetime of the era where samurai would become more bureaucrats than warriors anyway. Imagine if the clan had five or ten more men like Oyaneko, each overseeing a town or community that fed their daimyo's coffers.>>152884881And here we see the powerful men of the local court backstabbing and plotting against each other even as they conspire against their mutual foe. Extrapolating this behavior to the wider picture of Japan at the time, while the Tokugawa clan held the balance of power in their favor, even by the slightest of majorities, the rest of the great and minor clans just don't have the ability to form an anti-Tokugawa front, because that begs question of who gets to be the next shogun. Lord Hikiji is probably the most dangerous of the great lords we've met so far simply by virtue of him being able to think more than two moves ahead on the go table, which isn't a trait any other scheming lord has shown yet.
>>152884412I decided not to include that one since its kind of ambiguous whether that was a samurai clan mon or just a decoration on the kite. I definitely missed some other obvious clan mons though.
>>152884119>>152884112In case you ever forget. Pretty much every peasant has it coming to them.
>>152884150I love all the cut marks on it from the last time he went through and cut above that. That shit does indeed grow fast. Anyways, remember what sensei said! Learn something new every day. Now you're learning Kites.
>>152886894One of the ways in which Usagi actually gets some development through the comic is that he does have these turns earlier on where despite him being a nice guy and even willing to coexist with commoners, he will suddenly clash with his values and default first back to his superiority as part of the samurai class, but then they start happening less and less as the comic goes. It's a great throughline. You even see it in other aspects such as how he regards foreign influences such as Christianity>>152884136This one's genuinely one of my favourite of the whole comic>>152884212I really like the random gorilla maguilla over here>>152884283So I'm trying to daily only draw very notable and often recurring characters, right. That's made me realise, we never really get proper characterisation for these guys, do we? The Neko Ninja get like four or five unique characters, but these guys only get Kazehime in her singular story, and I think there's a named leader in Senso?>>152884483I wonder if Tartakovsky was inspired by this for that one episode in Primal>>152884766>>152886317The setting clearly includes the supernatural, but we also see that by and large people live as in real life, so the notion of just a few decades ago there having been clans of monsters feels a bit absurd for most of UY; but so does saying "oh it was just brigands". I think this is maybe moreso just a lingering remainder of the original concept for this setting where you did have goblins and ogres and so on as an open faction with humans which was clearly phasing out by now but possibly not entirely yet (after all Hebi is still seeing regular use and we just introduced flying bat ninjas, when later UY will by and large work on a logic of everyone just existing like humans and not animals)
>>152885119That was a great storytime. I should check out more of the genre.
>>152884106H-he's fast!
>>152886894This is some real hair splitting, but I feel like it was more intended as a warning/gentle reminder then a threat. As far as I know samurai could kill anybody for any reason and the only risk to them was other samurai/higher ranking samurai deciding to meddle. An unscrupulous samurai could just kill her and pocket the compensation.
>>152884112The hyenas turning on Scar.
>>152884461>Usagi is not some modern person who thinks with a modern perspective but someone of a time and place, yet his common humanity shines through and frequently asks him to reconsider some of his strongly held opinions.People really forget stuff like this when they write characters too many of them are completely morally perfect (at least on the "social" side). Usagi is allowed to be wrong and allowed to change
>>152884553Same. Its a weird mandela effect.I like to imagine the wife justifying her own position. Pointing out their marriage had always been one of politics not love, being just as much a prisoner of social class as her husband. But at least she tried to make it work instead of running off with a lover and disgracing them both and she actually cares for her son and his future.
>>152884122>He's only one guy!When will they learn. Also wow, I'm shocked at Usagi's retraint here. Normally he would've cut them all to ribbons by now.
>>152885648Fucking hell, this was the GOOD times?!
>>152887352I'm guessing he managed to hold his sword by the thought of them getting crucified.
>>152884254>His hopes and dreams, gone with the windAnd so the samurai class crushes the aspirations of the innocent once again.
>>152884396Ceiling cat watching your machinations...
>>152884188I still can't beleive that with all the rules and restrictions of fuedal japan that the most preveent form of gambling was high stakes heads/tails.
>>152884185This happens across ages, gender, cultures, races, nationalities and any other divider of mankind. Some motherfuckers get real nasty when they get a little power over someone else after being denied it for so long. Power can bring out the worst in people.
>>152884653>>152884658>>152884663I like that Stan doesn't call attention to it as it's happening but you see everyone respectfully bow to the Lord and even smile, showing how he is actually beloved by the village>>152884696>>152884702Oyaneko just casually made of pure aura>>152884899A Jeep from Popeye of course>>152884983The Eye of Mongombo is horrifying
>>152884899a squid? A jaguar?
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2/2
>>152877803>>152877874>>152879199Thanks everyone for your suggestions from the last thread. Webm related: my P320 to me when I breathe extra loudly in its presence.
>>152884188https://youtu.be/sTqRx-F7ZqA?si=LVBw6BZk7H4btzyr
>>152884185He was an asshole before he got money, actually.
>>152884254Dedicating an entire chapter to showing the kites origins just for this to happen is cruel.
>>152884278I admire his resolve. Also RIP kite.
>>152884881>Don't worry, merchant, you'll get your reward!https://youtu.be/J0zMEv8fjcI?si=80SCkusEWAhKclNp&t=4
>>152887240>I think this is maybe moreso just a lingering remainder of the original concept for this setting where you did have goblins and ogres and so on as an open faction with humansThis is the sort of thing I was thinking too, yeah, that Stan gradually pulled back from his original ideas for the setting to a more outwardly realistic 17th century Japan.
>>152884122>>152886752>>152887352It's never a line which bodes well, but it seems unusually foolish for these three drunken peasants with one stick and one rock between them.
>>152884653>"That is not my business, but -"A summary of how every Usagi story begins
>>152886894At this point, the shogun having consolidated Japan under on rule, I'm pretty sure it was illegal on pain of death for peasants to possess weapons at all. If he were to just cut her down he wouldn't have the slightest problem with the authorities, it would be like a cop shooting a bank robber in the head. It's not just that it's okay, it's that he's *supposed* to do that. It's his literal job. As Anon says, this is also part of Usagi's long-term character development, but the fact that he limits himself to talking to her already makes him a nice guy for his position and the period.
>>152888163
>>152888223Did we ever have a counter of meddling? Like, instances where it's specifically worded as meddling, or him being a meddler
>>152887164The reasoning makes sense in itself but it's definitely a mon, you can see the peasants wearing it, most notably the guy who loses at hancho, e.g. here: >>152884197
>>152888258I wonder if you could extrapolate from that that the person depicted in the kite is the local Lord or something
>>152884845You know this plan might have succeeded had Wakame not suffered from Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
>>152888297The lord himself seems improbable, kind of obscurely insulting in a way what with kites being frivolous objects, but a revered heroic ancestor (potentially the one who started the festival?) would make total sense.
>>152884333Fuedal Japan was the age of the widow.
>>152888258>>152888297Other families besides samurai were allowed to have clan mons. Merchant clans, artisan clans, etc had mons as well. Many Japanese who immigrated to America kept their ancestral house mons until WWII where, regrettably, a lot of the mons were purposefully destroyed in order not to arouse suspicion that these loyal Americans may have harbored pro-Japanese sentiments.
>>152887330I think the same situation happens so often in this series that you just naturally expect it
>>152888208I suppose being an unaffiliated ronin in unfamiliar territory might make it more questionable but you are right that by the law of the land he would be totally justified in just ending her then and there
>>152887330She was the wise one in that marriage, imagine her running away with a low ranking samurai retainer, moving to Edo and starting to do sword tricks for a living.Wouldn't have ended well at all.
>>152884283One of my favorites from the early years.
>>152886974rice wine, it's made of rice and pre-vitriol.
>>152885074Are these from the Mouse Guard guy?
>>152889504It does feel kinda similar
Today's drawings! Didn't have much to add- by my standards of notability it should've just been Yagi and Goro, but I really wanted to try Oyaneko and Monshiro, especially since Oyaneko kinda just looks exactly like Captain Torame- so I wanted to try making the designs more distinct between the two of them. Did some touches on Yagi and Goro based on the actual Lone Wolf and Cub manga, to make the designs more distinct. Otherwise the usual polishing other pre-existing ones- namely, added the bandanna to Chizu since she had it in her appearance this thread>>152879305Yesterday's drawing!>>152885016Very cute Usagi>>152886576It's actually one of the better comic-focused channels on youtube nowadays, but it did develop from a gimmicky early 2010s wannabe Channel Awesome thing and the name stuck, yeah. I think the gimmick was he'd take a shot whenever a "trope" happened?>>152886468Great Goat and>>152887072Great Oyaneko, good expression
>>152884364Usagi you better not let this dog boy die.
>>152884383Oh hey, it's Billy Bat.
>>152884396Lord Hebi doesn't belive in concepts like "looking up".
>>152884430USAGI YOU HAD ONE FUCKING JOB!
>>152884185poor people are evil, unironically.
>>152884463Huh, that's actually a pretty reasonable way to keep Usagi alive.
>>152890001They're about as likely to be evil as anybody else, but in feudal Japan that "as likely" is made pretty high by various shitty factors. The woodcutters are good, honest folks though.
>>152889672Love that you've included the clan mons
>>152890191gotta match 'em all
>>152890071(Insert Kikuchiyo rant here)
>>152884702Time for a real Feudel moment
>>152890191Gotta respect Mon-anon
>>152884830Also I just want to say I love the fact that Usagi consistently dual wields just like his namesake
>>152884516is that a batman reference?
>>152884007In Japanese and Chinese culture, deals are often sealed with a drink. Usagi not touching his foreshadows his doubts and concerns even as he apologizes.
>>152884516RIP observant guardsmen.
>>152884535The gentle soul has been angered once again.
>>152884558Oh that is some incredible panel work here.
>>152884584Glad ti see he got his revenge.
>>152889672This is so fucking cool. Usagi has such a great cast, and you do a wonderful job representing them all.
>>152884611Some notherfuckas always trying to icr skate uphill.
>>152884094>Last PanelThat Usagi has righteous Fury in his eyes
>>152884631The ogre line is fun because UY's world is so batshit bonkers you can't tell if that's even an exaggeration or not.
>>152884185this unironically happens in real lifesome people are just fucking douchebags who happen to have no power or think that they simply must do unto others as was done to them (see: douchebags)
>>152891984One thing I'll never understand is when they do it to restaurant staff. Like why the fuck would you ever treat people who deal with your food out of your eyesight like shit
>>152884631>>152884653Guy has a cough? Sad, looks like he's not long for this world.
>>152892466Just because you're a douchebag doesn't mean you are intelligent.
>>152886894you can tell this branch of stories following immediately after Tomoe trying to throw her life away is Usagi's escalating disillusionment with bushido, the senseless death and suffering that one simply becomes indifferent to
>>152884658Now I want to see a story about the Goat and his Kid.
>>152892466Sociopaths genuinely believe that everyone else is their slaves the moment they get power, that everybody else is beholden to the rules foreverial while they, in their idiotic narcissism, believe they are the only ones able to go around them.Too many people live without getting punched in the face nowadays
>>152892507>>152884670I fucking knew it.
>>152892507>>152892635Dont underestimate the japanese cold
>>152884696Dude what the fuck.
>>152887613fuck they use grape shot ?
>>152884702STANDING HERE, I REALIZE
>>152892677
>>152884705Fuck, Usagi almost had him there.
>>152884716>>152884722Jesus, that was more intense than an actual fight. Nice that Usagi actually reached someone with his words for a change.
>>152892466Some people just genuinely lack any sort of preservation instict or foresight.
>>152884729>"He would later die of a cold."
>>152892785Im still suprised someone saved my art from back then
>>152892582>>152884737Aw neat, didn't think I'd get my wish so soon.
>>152884705We should note how early the cracks in his Bushido sense formLike this is way before the recent stuff
>>152892964Its all in the mega good buddy
>>152892964While I (probably) don't have the original anymore, I do have this edit.
>>152884755EVEN THE GOAT KID HAS KILLED?!
>>152893004I know, but its still funny to see it pop up randomly every year
>>152892984yeah we still haven't met kitsune, sanshobo, stray dog, or ishida yetalways forget just how many stories there are before arguably staple characters show up>>152893026picrelsomething i talked about specifically in last year's thread was average age of military service in warrior cultures is, 14 year olds weren't expected to be slaying just yet but they were close enough to it that it probably happened.
>>152893024>>152893046
>>152884760This is Cobra Commander levels of cartoonish villainy.
damnit i can't find the "bushido moment" in the archive, anybody have it?
>>152884765>>152884771No honor among counselors, good lord.
>>152885350He's only getting stronger, truly terrifying to think about.
>>152884922>Gen seeing 500 ryo on the groundhttps://youtu.be/6WmIo1eRaaM?si=E98ju5rOm_Jhh6cE&t=8
>>152884799>"500 Ryo assassins fee--in advance"Holy shit, this dude certainly doesn't come cheap. I think that's the most amount of money we've seen in the series so far.
>>152884815>"If we draw our swords, one of us DIES"If you win though, you're probably going to end up taking care of the kid. Sounds like a bum deal if you ask me.
>>152884835Goat kid just watching all of this unfazed is hilarious.
>>152884858This goat dude fights so fucking dirty, I love it.
>>152884863Man, these counselors are not very bright.
>>152884890RIP horse. It's been a surprisingly amount of time since the last horse fatality.
>>152884922You know, for once I fully support Gen-style graverobbing in this case.
>>152888637Kek
>>152884549I wonder why nobody has salvaged Komori wing blades, like put a handle on them, instant scythe
>>152889698
>>152884592It’s interesting how the bats actually won this one. They got what they wanted even if they can’t get away with it again.
>>152891385Notice how the first panel divider disappears in Ando's shoulder?Sakai is absolutely great at this.
>>152892507It's interesting as another data point in Sakai's development of the series and setting, because it's clearly implied to be tuberculosis but this time they don't make much of a deal about that. Later it will be much more clearly called out (a couple times IIRC) as a scourge brought by the Black Ships.
>>152895519Kinda makes sense that early cases would not cause a panic yet.
>>152884226>A fucking rock!
>>152893026Gorogoro probably has a higher body count than Usagi. He was raised on the road to hell, that li'l nigga has no sense of right and bushido.
>>152895519Factually untrue, btw.
>>152884558Hey he's doing that 3d effect thingy again. With a bit of Steranko's "walk across the panels" bit.
>>152884755Fucking weird seeing the LW&C pacing in a comic. Let alone one with cartoon animals.
>>152884283I hate these freaks more than any other faction. The kings of coming and going and doggedly pursuing with nigh impunity. They just can’t fuckoff
>>152883984The bit that always gets me about this is that this has none of Stan's usual bombastic showman persona. He only uses four exclamation points in the entire thing! It's just simple, understated praise, because he knows the work will speak for itself without needing him to hype it up.
>>152887330Lady Koriko strikes me as the kind of person who would take umbrage at the mere notion of ever being asked to justify her actions. Every waking moment of her life is devoted to doing the socially correct thing, so (in her mind) her virtue should be self-evident and she herself should be above questioning.
>>152884729>>152884722>>152884716A bushido moment averted, let's go build that damn canal
>>152893102Nah, if this was a Cobra Commander plot, it'd be him passing it off to Firefly who passes it off to Zartan who somehow ropes Destro into doing it.
Welcome back to the death rattle tally! Here are the new screams found in today's storytime:>Urgh!: 1>Ooo!: 2>Uck!: 1>Yug!: 1>Yak!: 1>Eeg!: 1See attachment for total cry so far. As always, if you have any questions about the count, feel free to ask.
>>152896766Excuse me, I now have to work double Karoshi to atone for my sins. Bureaucracy cannot tolerate such failure.
>>152883984Stan is basically a mangaka and usagi is fully his baby.>>152895686That'll be hard to justify seeing as usagi gets into 4 digits
>>152896230That tuberculosis came with the Portuguese? I guess I can believe that, but it's mentioned as fact later, so take it up with Sakai. Presumably it was something that the Japanese at least believed, it shows up in Samurai Champloo too IIRC.
I'm like multiple threads behind but I saw this image and uhhh I don't remember the attractive muscle cat-lady on top here. I've read a decent chunch of Usagi before, is she Chizu ?
>>152896766>>152896790Quick methodological question (and not a criticism, to be clear): why do you group Yaar/Arr/Arck/Yark but separate Yarg/Argh? (Yaar also strikes me as an equally reasonable variant of Arr or Yaaa/Yaah)
>>152896927It's Inazuma, she'll be important for a while later on. You might've just somehow missed her.
>>152896927That's Inazuma. Has the most evidence of being stacked of any female character.
>>152896876>That'll be hard to justify seeing as usagi gets into 4 digitsthatsthejoke.gif
>>152896991>>152896993Well I'm excited to meet and learn about her and feel really bad whenever a tragedy happens. I feel like I should remember her I've read the Mirage and some of the Dark Horse stuff. Anyway I'm not used to being attracted to cat women this is weird.
>>152897046>this is weird.It's fine, you don't have to worry unless you start feeling an urge to wear carpet remnants and have sex with strange dudes wearing similar
>>152896991The odds of missing any particular character grows every year as Stan continues to crank out new volumes.
>>152897046There's nothing weird about liking a traditionally attractive character whether they're human, anthro, alien, or anything elseAnd so long as you dont make it your entire personality nobody but the most booty blasted retards cares to say shit about it
>>152896978I always try to take the cries as if they were spoken. The cries look similar when read but when spoken, they do not necessarily sound in the same family. It's something that a friend who's in phonetics once explained to me that intonation, sequence of vowel and consonant and context can change how to pronounce some words. While we don't have the sound bytes of how they said it, I can at least try to reason the separation of categories:>Yaar/ArrAar was taken when the first cry was a long Aaarrr. Yaarr sounds similar as the the y vowel blends into the cry. You can mix cries when the starting sounds similar but only if the end is also the same. If the end changes, it would most of the time create a different sound.>Arck/YarkShould have separated them from the Arr/Yarr when I tried them again. Will have to correct that.>Yarg/ArghThose g and gh are subtle and do not blend with the heavier -rk sound. Totally different. >Yaah/YaaYaaahs are probably said like a strident sound. The lack of Rs should make like it it's said with a open wide mouth.As I said, I'm not an expert on phonetics. Hell, last year when I did the honorable/battle cries, I had to try and retry to reproduce sounds to see if they needed a different category or not and it took me a long while in the beginning. I don't believe my judgment is infallible (sometimes, I have to check again) and the need to clean up is something that I had to do in the beginning of last year's storytime and I'll need to also do it this year. But, I always take the cries audit seriously and try to do my utmost when doing the tally. If only it didn't take so long as I need to juggle with other things but such is karma.
>>152884729This story’s got to be one of, if not, my favorite out of the entire series. Great climax that spells despair, but everything works out in the end, and the bit of text at the end showing that Oyaneko did see through serving his people is the cherry on topExemplifies my favorite aspect of this comic and what makes its stories stand out; plenty of bitter moments, but it makes the sweet ones all the more sweet
>>152884150How is made episode
>>152884166How do you make soda?
>>152884461What’s good is that even when Usagi starts to seriously question the samurai code and the conventions of his society he never truly breaks free from it all. The rules run too deep and his dedicated his entire life to the ways of the samurai. But that still doesn’t stop him from questioning it all when the bodies of innocnen people start piling up and he doesn’t have much to show for following it all.
>>152884185 peasants make up the vast majority of people across human history so of course you’ll get a lot of assholes who get worse the second some wealth or power comes there way. Here the guys a greedy moron who’s thinks people just as shitty as him actually give a damn about him and wouldn’t screw him over for pocket change. Which is probably what he’d do to them given opportunity.
>>152884180Is that a goat or an antilope?
>>152884254Hastu was later beaten to death by the angry mob. The kite maker went on to make more kites and Usagi went on to meddle some more/
>>152884957Norway.>>152884963>not for any animal sexualityEven in fan letters, she cannot score.>>152884990Australia.>>152884998England.>mawashi Has there ever been a sumo chapter? I can't recall it ever being featured in this comic.
>>152898289Even the best swords at the time were made from pretty bad steel if I remember correctly, an oar seems like an effective weapon if used right.
>>152895392>touching a corpse>using the remains of a corpse as a weaponFilthy spiritually polluted eta claws made this post
>>152898229There actually was some discussion on that during last year’s storytime and from what I recall, given the timeline we’re presented, sumo wrestling wasn’t even a thing during usagi’s time, but it would’ve been just starting up
>have to work mandatory overtime today>not even two consecutive days in a row to researchpost in my favorite annual historical pottery-firing and fabric-dyeing technique discussion threadsFUCK my gay jigokucel life.
>>152892700Its an assassination disguised as a training exercise. Cannons are supposed to be duds but they replaced them with grapeshot. Or something like that
>>152893072In early Islamic history 15-16 years was the youngest age to participate in battle, and younger then that were only allowed to be servants, (gather fallen arrows, be lookouts and tend to the wounded, etc). It's mentioned somewhere that even 18 year olds had difficulty carrying some type of greatswords
>>152899045Too many souls to process, huh? Just set up one of those nodding bird desk toys to hit the "10 000 years in jigoku" button over and over, you know it's not gonna give any different results than you would doing it all by hand.
>>152898698"The Archchancellor polished his staff as he walked along. It was a particularly good one, six feet long and quite magical. Not that he used magic very much. In his experience, anything that couldn't be disposed of with a couple of whacks from six feet of oak was probably immune to magic as well." - Terry PratchettNever underestimate a big stick.
>>152898289During the 1203 siege of Costantinople the crusaders couldn't manage to capture the city walls and begged the venetian sailors to join the assault, armed with oars they stormed the wall captured 25 towers and basically won the siege.As for the swords being bad: I remember a very famous incident where a king hit a peasant on the head with the flat of the blade and the sword snapped in half, the king and his escort had to fled from the mob afterwards.
>>152898009I bet if Stan just made comics about different aspects of Japanese society during different time periods it would sell like hotcakes. Each book could revisit certain jobs and such to show how they evolved over time.
>>152898009I assume "soda" here refers to sodium mineral ashes not the drink
>>152899238its about standard that early teens would be auditing battles from the rear ranks and learning the logistics needed
>>152885119That's what's so fun about this series. It's such an eclectic mix of so many different influences, all of which clearly shine though. You can really tell this series has an intense love for both eastern and western media in equal measure, and as a result has such a wide pool to pull from that you rarely get from most other series.
>>152884226Rock beats Samurai, no really is a recurring thing.
>>152900157did someone say A FUCKIGN ROCK
>>152884383>>152884386The bats looks so cute here, later on the looks pretty ugly.
>>152890562Holy flying furballs is totally what Robin would say in the old 60s show.
>>152884549Aren't Japanese bows suppose to be weirdly tall and shot from the lower third instead of the middle?
>>152900237They sent their cutest representative to deal with Hebi. Damn, I'm hearing Adam West's voice when I read his lines
>>152885701There is a story much much later that serves as a sequel to an early story and we see how things decinitelly sour after the happy ending. I wonder how many other stories ended up bad after Usagi left.
>>152900450You speak of the samurai who was sent to recover his lords sword, but got talked into becoming a freelancer by Usagi?
>>152884684Such is Karma
>>152884749>>152884755I don't know whats worso, I guy going straight to kill the baby or dying to said baby.
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>>152885010Cholosagi.
>>152887190This is a fun idea but a pain to read.
>>152887555Feels like a sleep paralisis demon.
>>152889672You gave gorogoro pretty cute eyes.
>>152900864Need someone to edit in that sleeping priest from later on.
>>152900682Poor Yukichi, he didn't deserve it. Having his manhood split like that, it was just all sorts of wrong.
>>152900854I should have linked the original (and put some arrows to show that it's read from below right to left), but the gist of it is that you only read the middle left panel.
>>152899045>mandatory overtimeyou should be glad for this opportunity to render service unto your lord- I mean corporation. anyway, new thread: >>152902707
>>152898698Yes, Musashi was known as "the sword slayer" for his habit of using wooden training swords and things to slap the side of his opponent's sword, causing the steel to shatter. Kind of a dick move, but Musashi considered most samurai to be assholes and seemingly felt no qualms about just straight-up fucking with them.
