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>>153169488*rushes in* I'M UP! I'M UP! Sorry for being late!
>>153169656GOYO! GOYO!
>>153169586>Ichiro>Fell off a roofStan. Pls.
Can you hear it? The voices of the gods?
>>153169628I''ll chalk this slight to your ignorance, this time.
>>153169692Surely it's not as bad as lord official business?
https://youtu.be/j0QNiO-VcpU
>>153169804Some feal "Seven Deadly Enemies of Man" energy on this page.
>>153169670If he just didn't ask that one question about the symptoms, the lord might not have had such high expectations and put the pressure on him to take his path to hell. Truly the "You're saying the Tattaglias guarantee our investment?" of the entire series.
>>153169706Middle left would be good for "muh daughter"
>>153169905Hwhat?
>>153169899ENTER
>>153169918>first day on the job>immediately get stabbed to death
>>153169948The gods say: Ravioli ravioli do not kill the feudal loli
>>153169918>An I am DOWNRIGHT AMAZED>At how much I can destroy WITH JUST A HAMA
I quite like this backstory. if you're gonna make the slasher villain have an origin story, it better involve mysterious evil kami.
>fat crime bosses: 1oh boy, finally. maybe I should've just done crime bosses in general.
>>153170011Who could have guess the criminal underground keeps so trim?
>>153170039https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PumFnlu9EIY
>>153170047Aww hell, Sanshobo's a Pentecostal.
>>153170011Shouldn't you have counted Boss Hamanaka? He seemed pretty beefy.
dowman sayman let's go
>jizo statues: 16>>153170084I suppose I should've, even if he's on the leaner side.
>>153170127btw, you missed couple of jizo statues yesterday, one in the panel where we see baka for the first time and another one by a tree stump when Usagi looks at the cliff where Mayumi was later revealed to be yelling his name.
>>153170158oh dang, you're right. I must be blind. >jizo statues: 18
>>153170213>"Someone soiled himself, must be a dead person or someone with fecal incontinence"
>>153170245RE-ENTER
like dragons, huh?
>>153170423TITLE DROP
>>153170431https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdsr1n0pPK4>My friends don't like you>I don't like you either>I'm wanted in 12 Han's
>>153170171>It's only a flesh wound
>>153169488Missed goddamn bridge of tears my all time favourite volume...
>>153170542https://youtu.be/MqiiCD7ECVk?si=UraGjGqCoc_Ddvuq&t=24>>153170538Go back and check the thread, it was breddy good.
>>153170066He's just already seen enough shit to know.
>>153170538good, you don't need to suffer through it.
>>153170583I only now noticed, Inazuma's sword switches it's black off when she's not possessed.
>>153170220>I wonder who that is>oh, it's Budget Shizukiri
>>153170309This part is bitter sweet. I hope Orphan Maker makes it out alright by the end.
>>153170645Another man joins the party!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yERQqvP0598
>>153170602if only she'd stay like that longer.
always nice to have a cleric on hand
feudal japan: greatest hits collection page
>>153170000We need a story where Sasuke goes after the evil priest
>>153170490>>153170508at' nasty. You nasty.
https://youtu.be/yeVx1C73o8k
>>153170729Bootleg usagi returns>>153170752…aaaand he’s dead
>>153170805Language anons, what does Isamu mean in Japanese?
https://youtu.be/uAimtslGjWI
>>153169702I hear voices in my head. They council me, they understand. They talk to me.
>>153170855Another exorcism? Let's go!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GBJyMryLU0
>>153169565>>153169550this guy insnt the priest who was being hunted by dorito-san right? Cuz they seem really similar but he had a different name
>>153170030That's why he's the Kingpin!
>FLOO!: 17
>>153170921Because of his WEIGHT.
>>153170900it's another guy.
>>153170385I wish I saved that edit from last yearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3dCyVS2XE
>>153171027Don't worry anon, I'll post it later.
>>153170820"Courage" " Bravery" "Gallantry" or "War" depending on the Kanji.
>>153171054Thanks translator anon!
>>153169624>>153169636This is interesting. Conflict between Buddhism and native Shinto/shamanism?
R.I.P. Inazuma, she deserved more.
>>153171054*Douche Bag Valkryie Pilot*
>>153171024>>153171044>>153171069https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWLdUrqoCMI
>>153170033well, I suppose this is why.
>>153170319>for some reason I'm having trouble moving>it might be related to the giant, gaping wound in my stomach, but I'm not sure
>>153171072With a bit of a "Devil at the Crossroads."
>>153169518>top four panelsMust not...
>>153170903Stray Dog, stop bitching about every shit
>>153170159Genuinely insane feat, even if we ignore that Jei is possessing the best sword fighter in the series getting a kill shot on Jei alone is incredible for a random bandit
>>153170928>I even took a new name, Fisk-san, but I quickly became known as... F A T
>>153169766>>153169804https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqiFXMHspcQ
that's it for today, thanks for reading. if you haven't seen it, there's a TMNT storytime going on, too! >>153162216
>>153171082This storytime IS missing a Pinpoint Barrier Punch. Just saying.
>>153171197>Being offed by a random red shirtThis is the shit that drove Sephiroth crazy in FF7
>>153170594Fantastic last panel
>>153171127Gosh, of course! Natural Selection!
>>153171237Thanks for storytiming Murder, see you again tomorrow.
>>153171027>>153171041As promised!
>>153171094>he said he liked the way I looked, for some reason
>>153171371
>>153169602>when in doubt, blame foreigners!A tale as old as time
>>153171250It was a great move too with the cape.
>>153171466
>>153170729this guy really cracked a girl who looks like the snitch.
>>153171005"You think you can defeat me with such a weak jawline, demon?"
Isamu is the best.Book 24153 Usagis (10744 total)953 Panels (23106 total)No Neko (1100 total)No Komori (197 total)No Mogura (37 total)No Ninjas of the Dark Light (4 total)Another depressing showing from our friendly neighborhood ronin. 46%.
>>153170793Jubei is a young man now lets assume 25, and Jei first appears when he's a boy let's say 5. So Jei has probably been around for 20 years up until this point. So when Usagi was getting knocked on the head by Katsuichi Jei was going around disemboweling peopleI guess this would also put Hama in his 40s. Keifumi Goyo would be all grown up now. Do we ever see the Goyo clan again?
>>153171633
>>153171005I think Jei has finally learned fear.
>>153171078Conflicted on this desu, feels like such a waste of a perfecty good character
>>153170490>>153170508Say what you will about this storyline, this dream sequence is genuinely creepy as fuck.
>>153170583>the little freak intuited somehow that Inazuma isn't long for this world and wandered off toward the next Jei EditionThat kid ain't right.
>>153171732>Do we ever see the Goyo clan again?Yes thanks to the work of Monanon. Go back to Jei's very first appearence and compare the mons of the samurai accosting him for killing their lord. Apart from being a neat bit of continuity it also confirms that Goyo probably was just talking from stress when he threatened the temple as he claimed later, as his samurai proclaim he was a fair lord that inspired great loyalty.
>>153172582I dunno man, Oda Nobunaga inspired great loyalty.
>>153170616>You've got your ears. I've got my nose.>Gen's got nothing.Kek
>>153170204Stray Dog makes me laugh with how much of an ass he is
>>153172612EAT SHIT MITSUHIDE!
>>153172571>>153171086Keiko is 100% becoming the next Ibaraki. All thats left is to stumble on his underground temple and start carving idols
>>153172257The bit where he stars rubbing his face with the Jei-dust is some Clive Barker creep shit.
>>153170480>HE WAS>JUST>ONE >GUY
>>153170672now that's what i call feudal japan vol. 153169488
>>153172582Huh. Where would the Goyo clan, (and Hama's temple) be then? It's close to Sanshobo's temple.And another thing, could Ibarakai be from the "mountain tribe" that Kitanamono and Neneki are from? They're both "familiars" and Ibaraki is a devil worshipper.
>>153170952>THEY>AREvery skilled bounty hunters, and their ally looks dangerous, numbers may not be enough
>>153171033The rare nonlethal FLOO--! ?
>>153170688>I'm pouring this one out for my homie Noodles!
>>153170528Bootleg Stray Dog
>>153172920
>>153170659It was only a flesh wound! Come back here, Jei will bite your legs off!
>>153173039
>>153173039>literally me
>>153173057
>>153173067Fin
While I'm at it, I might as well post some more comics by anon.
>>153173188
>>153173201Fin
>>153172850Ibaraki is an interesting case, because that's the name of a region of Japan arond Osaka AND the name of a Heian Japanese demon child Ibaraki-Doji, who has a backstory somewhat similar to Jei's, where said monster is a man transformed. It's worth noting, he was part of a Gang of Demons that Yorimitsu and company slaughtered after getting them sloshed, and he was the sole survivor among said demons.
>>153173277Interesting, care to tell us more?
>>153169969RIP the impaled Goyo retainer
>>153173057I like that he literally says "*spits loudly*" kek
>>153173410>filenamejej
>>153157020The Merchant's daughter from Sanshobo's first appearanceThat one sheltered princess when Usagi just learned about Mariko's marriage and Gunichi stops him from going back to his village
>>153170467I love how Stan left us a huge clue right in the open. Just look what they both do after a fight. That's a 12 years long callback!
>>153170030So why didn't he just hire Koroshi?
>>153169961Should have brought along more ranged DPS.
>>153173978It's a pretty typical "cleaning the blade" motion, but it is notable enough here that it's no doubt intentional (even though Inazuma wouldn't have learned it from the same place, though maybe she remembered seeing it once she started learning).
>>153174390>typicalTypical? Man, that's some crazy "secret master technique" shit! Normal human beings have to wipe the blade with a cloth, they can't just flick the blade and have the blood fly off perfectly like literal magic.
>>153174418Typical in a media sense. It looks fucking cool too, so you see it way more than people probably actually did and of course it looks much cooler and more effective than it ever was in real life.
>>153174390Could be his husband was trained at same jerk school her brother was taught at.
>>153174067The League of jobbers? Bah!
>>153170423This was revealed to me in a dream*TN: Se me concedió una visión.https://youtu.be/MQkKcwfue0c
>>153174541>in real lifeYeah, pretty sure it doesn't actually work
>>153174799
>>153174823Maybe it could work, if your arm had the strength to flick your sword at mach speeds.
>>153174862>Austin: Hijiki, son, they call yourself the Shadow Lord but you hee-haw, like a jackass!!
>>153164249Speaking of Dororo this definitely a reference to it.
>>153174879>mach speedsYeah, that is basically the problem right there. Try drying water off a knife IRL by flicking it (carefully!) once and then examine the remaining layer of water and consider that blood is thicker and harder to remove. This is the kinda thing Mythbusters used to do, I bet they could have figured out how fast your sword would have to move to effectively wipe it clean. It would definitely be superhuman
>>153175075The tip of a sword would be moving faster since you'd have a longer lever arm than a knife. Irl you'd still probably want to wipe down the blade before it goes in the scabbard for who knows how long, but it's for rule of cool, and wiping down the blade is coolness debt
>>153175165Usagi and the other main characters don't do it, it's literally just these two.
>>153171072>Conflict between Buddhism and native Shinto/shamanism?I did some research into this. Buddhism and Shinto, as we all know, were highly syncretic with each other. They meshed together so well that after the Meiji Restoration, the new government had to issue a decree formally separating what was Buddhist and what was Shinto in an effort to re-Japanify if you will the Shintoism from "foreign" Buddhist elements. It's not that there was never conflict between Buddhism and Shinto, but Buddhism came out ahead so quickly and so pervasively that it was a one-sided contest and Buddhism would enjoy unprecedented supremacy ahead of Shinto right up until the aforementioned decree during the Meiji period when shinto became State Shinto with a capital S. Surprisingly, do you know what religion actually came into conflict with Buddhism in Japan? Neo-Confucianism, of all things. For a time, the Confucians were even regarded with the same suspicion as Christian converts by the Tokugawa bakufu. There was a tug of war going on all through the 1600s between the Buddhist clergy and the hardline Confucianists of the Tokugawa bureaucracy. Buddhist temples were closed and their lands seized by the government when Confucianists had more power in court, and likewise Confucian schools were closed and their lands seized when the Buddhists had more influence. The matter was only settled when Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the 'dog shogun,' ascended to the position in 1680 and the Buddhists won out, but with major concessions to the Confucian scholars in so far as Neo-Confucianism was now going to be the official political theory of the bakufu. Sources:“The Persecution of Confucianism in Early Tokugawa Japan.” https://doi.org/10.2307/2385128.“Creating State Shintō: The Great Promulgation Campaign and the New Religions.” https://doi.org/10.2307/132446.
>>153173067>mind your own waifubeautiful
>>153169766>>153169774This scene is straight from Dororo
Welcome back to the death rattle tally! Here are the new scream found in today's storytime:>Oop!: 1>Kyah!: 1See attachment for total cry so far. As always, if you have any questions about the count, feel free to ask.
>>153169539This dude has no chill.
>>153171197>jobs to a rock as Inazuma>jobs to a literal who as JeizumaI'm not bothered by Stan giving her via Word Of God the number one fighter spot in the cast, somewhat counterintuitively, because of scenes like this. This kind of energy that Stan puts in the comic really helps to put any power rankings into perspective. Like Katsuichi said in his duel with Nakamura Koji, on another day it could have been him that died, or both of them. All that training any of these sword saints go through and it's just one bad day or a single slip up and your career is done for no matter what your rank is or how many honors and titles you have. Of course if you don't put in the sweat and hours at all you're instantly cannon fodder to begin with, so it's not like the training is useless either, it's just very, very ephemeral and hard to translate from talking points to absolutes in practice.
>>153177452Most fiction makes up think skill in tiers, if you are lower that X level you can't hurt anyone above, but this is more realistic, even the best can't dodge every attack, some can shove a speak in your back while your sword is mid swing on the other side and whatnot
>>153177452I think a big problem is how people look at power levels. Inazuma may be the best swordfighter but she's not radiating an aura that makes people explode as soon as they get near her. real fighters can have all the skill they can dream of it doesn't mean shit if someone gets lucky with a knife.
>>153169577Cute. It's nice to see even peasant villages have their own local heroes.
>>153169602>>153171487I was literally reading page thinking they were just going to peg it as TB, only to hit that last panel, kek.
>>153169706
>>153173067>>153173085Stray Dog is a man of culture and taste
>>153169613>I hear they are not human, as we are!Stan's just taking the piss atp.
>>153169636Ohhhh. Oh no.
>>153169613>a few of them might be quite decentJizo really is a cool dude
>>153169602>spits out waterRabies, already dead
>>153169656Oh hey, it's my favorite ygo monster.
>>153169670Dude what the fuck.
>>153171072maybe it's the native Emishi religion? They're always up to no good anyways, unlike our good, bushido-loving Yamato lords.
>>153170649If the series ever actually winds up ending, I'm hoping that it's Orphan Maker that finally exorcises Jei once and for all.
>>153169706I'm convinced this fucker wanted an excuse to raze the temple regardless. Blaming them for not curing an incurable disease was just convenient for Goyo.
>>153169732Oh, this shit's a trap.
>>153169766No fucking way, it's the demon statues from Dororo!
>>153170116>he attacked me, but i recoveredhe fucking stabbed you in the gut, how do you recover from that?
>>153172612NOBUNAGA WAS RIGHT, THE PRIESTS DESERVED IT
>>153169817This smug bastard planned this from the start.
>>153169841This is like the fourth evil Quasimodo we've seen from this series.
>>153178516>evil Quasimodotautology, all deformed are evil or former evil
>>153173438jei gets some supernatural strength but he rarely uses it like this. >>153173410me on bottom right>>153173067this edit still makes me lose it every time I see it, lol. >>153177452we can even kinda see something like this in the more recent stories when usagi loses to >a fucking rock at the start of the second homecoming arc>>153175741>Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the 'dog shoguna.k.a. best girl who did nothing wrong
>>153178530Go to bed, Stan.
>>153170000It's interesting how his backstory has such a tragic bent to it. He tried to save his temple, only have it all burn down by his own hands anyway.
>>153171024just like that, huh? I can see why a lot of anons were annoyed by the wasted potential here. especially with how strong her introduction was.
>>153178367Or the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man from Captain Marvel aka "Shazam!"
>>153178820The idealist never should have thrown away his morals to dark gods even if it's to save people and his home. It just gets worse than you ever could have imagined.
You'll ronin ready for some fanart?>i drew this back in october 2024 for a tribute book in honor of usagi yojimbo’s 40th anniversary and haven’t posted it online until now :] always loved usagi’s nightmare of being possessed by jei and wish there was more done with the concept so here i imagine jotaro taking the role of keiko and traveling alongside his uncle who hasn’t been the same after he had been found
>>153179295Very nice, Anon!
>>153172850>Huh. Where would the Goyo clan, (and Hama's temple) be then? It's close to Sanshobo's temple.Well, we don't know how far those samurai have pursued Jei, but, let's say for simplicity that somebody recognized him and they're either in or just outside of Goyo's old domain. Not long after his initial encounter with Jei, Usagi entered the Geishu province so they would met in a neighboring one. He had previous been up norrh so it's presumably to the east of Geishu. So the likely suspects are Izumo, Bingo, Hoki, and Bitchu.Of those, I think Izumo or Hoki is more likely to be where Jizonobu's temple is located. Why? Because the Gate to Yomi was located in Izumo while the resting place of Izanami is near the border between those two. Ibaraki's cave is likely the literal entrance to the Underworld.
>>153170011I'm surprised it yook this long to get to the fat crime boss trope.
>>153179341I didn't draw it. Sorry should have been more specific.>You'll ronin ready for some fanart that I found online?
>>153170024Poor girl in the background's having a heart attack.
>>153170030What a bastard.
>>153170063Wow, just immediately prove Sanshobo right.
>>153170687He'll get around to it some day, maybe in the WWII setting where Usagi's descendant is an American soldier.
>>153170171I guess getting gut stabbed isn't as effective as it used to.
>>153170194Gen, you're one to talk.
>>153170204Oh, so Inazuma's who the crime boss is after.>>153172649Tbf, he has to deal with Gen.
>>153170030>>153170921>>153170928>>15317120290s Kingpin sweeps Feudal Japan!>>153174067That's just pissing money away.
>>153170245Is that the guy from Noriko's gang? Wow, talk about a fall from grace (what little he had, anyway).
>>153179620>Jei finally tracks down the descendent of the Ronin>He's in northern Italy, along with other evil men>Jei climbs a hill to try to see better, light glints off his spear>Captain Usagi sees it, assumes it's either enemy snipers or forward observers>Either way, gotta go>Calls over LT Shingen, has him call in an artillery fire mission, mixed fragmentation and incendiary >Jei barely has time to register the whistling of incoming fire before being blown all over hell and creation>By sheer coincidence, the fire mission detonated an ammo dump for a concealed German position>The Nisei congratulate themselves on a job well done>A young private picks up a black spearhead for a souvenir
>>153178919That's what I thought at first too. I wouldn't be surprised Stan pulled from both the old Fawcett Comics and Dororo.
>>153170309Never thought I'd feel for Orphan-Maker of all people.
>>153171129No one ever said Jei was smart.
>>153170039Sparrows is also the original name for mahjong. Never ever play mahjong.https://youtu.be/FZQLmrT79vg
Inazuma was shafted
>>153179908If I was somehow in charge of an adaptation, I'd either put her earlier in the story than Jei, with more stories, have her brother roll her out of the back of the hut and have her spend the rest of her life in a feudal wheelchair, or replace Mayumi with her
>>153170921That's not a rhino though.
>>153179949He's a force of nature all his own.
>>153170452Get fucked.
>>153170560Goddammit, she was so close to being free.
>>153170594Lmao, Usagi you fuck.
>>153180563Usagi as a person is 30% honorable samurai, 10% tormented father and 60% silly goober.
>>153170645The gangs all here.
>>153170659>He got betterLmao, this whole arc really is just Stan taking the piss.
>>153180918The best part is, at this point Gen is established well enough for this being perfectly in character.
man this comic is total ass
>>153170688Okay Jei, I don't mind you wiping these bastards off the face of the earth.
>>153170729Good ol informant.
>>153170752Holy shit WHAT.
>>153170194Inazuma really should have got a haircut or something. She'd be recognized a lot less without the big lightning bolt dyed into her hair.
>>153170855
>>153179348>Ibaraki's cave is likely the literal entrance to the Underworld>Where are we going Uncle? >To Enma's HellOh holy fuck.
>>153170883A flat out war, just for one demon girl.
>>153170897IT'S JUST THREE GUYS!
>>153170903You'd think SD would be relieved about one less guy to split the bounty with.
>>153170913Lmao, the whiplash of the last two panels is pure comedy.
>>153171005Sanshobo really is just built different.
>>153171024FUCK, ARE YOU KIDDING ME.
>>153171062Gen you of all people should know they're not going to throw away their lives for nothing.
>>153171078And how, I'm salty as hell with how Inazuma was treated.
>>153171094Holy shit. So Jei is like some sort of spiritual disease. This bastard is functionally immortal.
>>153171127RIP bozo.
>>153181906I'd say, he's more like a body hopping spirit.
>>153171237Thanks OP. I'm a bit mixed on this. On one hand I liked Jei's backstory and the character interactions were on point. On the other, Inazuma is such a waste of a cool character it's actively infuriating. It wasn't enough to effectively kill her off after only a handful of appearances, her carcass had to be dragged across the mud Weekend at Bernies style for countless chapters, giving you the faint hope that she might be able to make it out of all this. It almost feels spiteful.Ah well. At least she had a more dignified death than most in this comic.
>>153181986*more dignified send-off
>>153181986Thanks for commenting anon, it's always great to see new people reacting to feudal bullshit.
>>153181979He can posess multiple people at once though, and can simply take over whatever body he's "infected" with his spiritual stuff. That also explains what he was doing to Gen, he was partially possessing him through that wound he made.
>>153182048Question is, how did Jei infect Inazuma?
>>153179939The thing that bugs me is the male Jeis having Wolverine invulnerability while she somehow doesn't
>>153182287My schizo theory is that Jei wasn't in full control of her body, so he was unable to regenerate his wounds like he could in his wolf forms.
>>153181906>>153181979Yes. Jei-san is just one big dumb pun by Stan The Man to have an immortal, unkillable horror movie villain like JASON for Usagi to fight. >>153182343That's not a schizo theory, it's fairly well supported by the textual evidence. Priest Ji (Jei 1) willingly made a dark pact to save Lord Goyo's daughter, Priest Hama (Jei 3) had been slowly mindbroken by Jei mentally for years to be a willing host. Inazuma's case was a lot different and the mystical sword Grasscutter was involved.
>>153179331PVRE, VNFILTERED KINO
>>15318253520 years of nonstop Jei nightmares if we go by this >>153171732
>>153179348jeez, it's kind of weird how much of this comic takes place in the Chūgoku region.
>>153177918I have an upgraded edit of that meme
>>153181788I think he's pissed that Usagi might try to stop him from claiming her bounty for the same reason they're stopping the other bounty hunters. Then again Stray Dog is just kind of pissed off all the time at everyone except Matron and orphans.
>>153182577nice!
>Commission! Hellboy VS Jei from Usagi Yojimbo. Done around the same time as the BPRD and Usagi commissions, this was a lot of fun. Played around with lots of shadows.Damn if only the shogunate hadn't outlawed teppō
>>153182626Cool
>>153182626>Future Jei grabs a revolver>It turns black
>>153169488Nice
Commission by artist Chris Johnson. I like this interpretation of Jei (a wolf) being much bigger than Usagi.
>>153170159Yeah this is pretty impressiveJei og never get done like this even when attacked by huge entouragestho there's never archers when any jei's show up
>>153182730It's nice, but Jei is missing his spear tip.
>>153182793Look closer at Usagi's crotch
>>153182825Sorry man, I'm not a cat lady.Also look at the end of the shaft, there's no adhesive or anything indicating a spear tip has been attached.
>>153170560y'know i never felt that bad for inazuma as she showed up and got possessed really quick and she was made for itbut damn she didn't do anything wrong or had any connection with jei and got her life stolen
>>153171213"Sergio has a no crossover policy"Guess he changed his mind
>>153182846I admire your autistic insistence on biblically accurate weapon production but the glint of white is clearly meant to be Jei's black speartip.
>>153170659>somehow jei returned
>>153182872Nope, that's just the edge and fold of Usagi's hakama.
>>153182902Looking at it again, I'm inclined to agree. Middle fingers go out to you, Chris Johnson, you stupid retarded fuck. How dare you depict the blade of the gods as a *spits loudly* bō cuck and not a based yarichad.
>>153181979>>153182048Yeah I was gonna bring this up cause like, he's not even just a body hopper I guess it's more like he somehow prepares people for mantling, lie prepossession? I've never seen this kind of possession in another workLike I wonder if he would've actually took over senzo as a backup option if Senzo had died from something else over the years.
>>153171237oh shit will have to read that too thanks for the heads up
>>153177452Yeah while I don't think of her as the best I do subscribe to the notion shit happens so being beaten by anyone doesn't make you a shitter shit happens here
>>153178620>me on bottom right
>>153182847Welcome to the rice fields mother fucker.
>>153183107i've been through a few storytimes nowi had just never thought much about inazuma in the past but all the talk of her story being kinda fucky got me thinking more on itshe shows up, gets unlucky, and then get essentially tortured for years of issues until she dies
>>153182857To be fair you don't say no to Conan the Cimmerian
>>153169961>>153169993Those Mon are the same as this guys from early in the comic, that means Jei's introduction happens right after this flashback
>>153182535>Jei-san>JasonOhhhh goddamnit, I don't know how I never caught that.
>>153169624Why do evil gods LOVE bad hygiene SO much.
>>153183262>Right afterMy friend, I think you might have missed a little detail on Jei there which implies passage of time.
>>153183313Well a short enough a mount of time for the retainers of the lord still being in pursue of Jei.
>>153182825>quit fucking around dude get your spear out of my pants
>>153183464Remember Dorito boy or Ikeda's retainer or lady Asano and her retainer, plus Gen's dad?These Japanese take their grudges seriously.
>>153178203>Those filthy Emishi savages.>With their barbarian animal gods>And their primitive wood and straw huts>Our noble Yamato culture>With our reverence for balance with nature>And the esthetic simplicity of our hand-crafted dwellings
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>>153178367Look at this cover, is the same room >>153171159 too. Dororo is a weird Manga, I love it, is full of suffering and dead children like Usagi but is always weird that the MC is suppose to be a guy with no real eyes, mouth, ears, legs, hands, etc, but in practice that doesn't affect the story at all. The anime tries to fix this detail by making him a weirdo who acts like you would think a mute, blind person would act but in doing so basically is a different protagonist.
>>153170108Maybe stating the obvious, but I think the demon didn't spare Hama because he invoked the Buddha but because the demon recognized Jei's presence in him and didn't want that smoke. Between terrifying a demon and surviving Grasscutter it seems Jei is being set up as something greater than just a regular evil spirit that got on the loose.
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>>153183290In Buddhism, foulness and evilness are joined at the hip, you have to keep yourself clean. That's the reson for the eta body removers in Japan, you don't touch dirty things lest you be spiritually polluted.
