previously: >>153403197
For once I am around since the very beginning!
>>153420229You're supposed to say "first!" Don't they teach you kids anything?
>>153420229welcome, anon!
Cousin Oriver continues
>>153420211Welcome back, Dark Horse! Those 31 issues of the IDW run went by crazy fast! What do we have he...>HIFI COLOUR DESIGNSigh. I wish Emi Fuji did more than just a handful of "current" issues.
>>153420303oops, forgot to mention that IDW went under and we're back on Dark Horse.
>>153420321Jizo count +1!
>>153420331>forgotSpeaking of, Jizo. >>153420321
>>153420331>idw went underYou’re telling me the company dependent on Hasbro comics went suffered hardship when Hasbro jumped ship? At least they still have Godzilla, Trek, and the Turtles… for now
>>153420361>>153420365alright alright, I heard the first time, geez(o)
This story is very special, it has two of the dumbest coloring errors in the entire history of the franchise.
>>153420378well they didn't actually file for bankruptcy, but they're having difficulties as far as I understand it.
>>153420406Enter!! The Jei-Gang!! It felt weird to see Jei have goons
abs lute 0 survival instinct here on usagi's part.
infamous panel right there.
>>153420380>I've got a bounty on my head in THREE PROVINCESWhenever someone says that, this starts playing in my head.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdsr1n0pPK4
>>153420417I wonder if this is how Jei got his previous gang too.
>>153420463Usagichi
>>153420238Good day Murder,
having jei interact with normal people for once makes wonders to make him interesting again, imo.
>>153420472DAMN BOAH SHE THICC!
>>153420543good evening Anon,
>>153420267Let me scream louder how much money I'm carrying
>>153420472Would the snow demon
>>153420310Cute pair.
>>153420554Jei kills half of this gang before they even find Usagi
>>153420574is it really worth it to get frostbite on your dick?
>>153420525I wonder if a human Usagi would have Clark Gable sized ears as his most prominent feature and that's how people who only heard about him before would recognize him.
>>153420331>IDW went underAnd nothing of value was lost.
>>153420560>>153420463This is asking for an edit.>Yukichi, wake up, you are wearing my pajamas again!
>>153420554Always thought keiko could fill that role somewhat. Maybe not her specifically but with jei having to care for her he’s put in scenarios where he is interacting with people and give keiko more purpose besides just being there
>>153420621>Throw a burning cape at a womanhttps://youtu.be/OW47FkThbio?si=Lo3N8eKNC9xHdQgk&t=5
>>153420688>>153420695I have chills. Amazing pages.Also>Nobu
>>153420674>that beutiful dawn coloringWas this by Luth or someone else?
>>153420761by Hi-fi
YOKAI ON YOKAI - ONLY ON WWE SUUUUUUPERSLAAAAAAM
jei is slacking for not instantly murdering that guy for wanting to eat foreign impure tubers
>>153420856Shame, would’ve been neat if she did team up with jei and became aunt yuki
>>153420849That smile and… Jei’s eyes
>>153420554Hah. I kill me. And by me I mean him.
I feel so bad for these goons, they're way out of their league
>>153419251>And it's because he was such textbook goody goody he could be played like a fiddle and slam dunked into the garbage by such an ambitious figure as HikijiWas that really the case? Hikiji tried to assassinate him and ended up killing his wife and toddler son in front of him which resulted in an uncompromising enemy hell-bent on revenge, and Mifune was on the cusp of victory if not stabbed in the back at the last minute by a greedy retard (and ungrateful if we compare how Mifune's other vassals were treated) who was then rewarded as a traitor deserves. Hikiji seems to have barely survived that misadventure.Maybe that experience is what made Hikiji the cautious schemer that he is now.
what an ending. I really liked this story, even if on paper it's just another jei attack there's enough differences to make it interesting again.
>>153421063SMILE YOU SON OF A BITCH!
>>153421071The big question is what happens to Jei now. New host body? Does he claw his way out of the ice? Does he become a twisted inversion of Captain America and wake up in the future?
>>153420310What a good guardian Jei is!
>>153421071>Usagi a child is lost in the froze>No.Damn, I know Keiko is creepy as hell but that's grim, Usagi.
>>153420434He was part of a gang back in his second story
>>153420331>IDW went underA source of perpetual irritation for me since they also crashed the Obscure Cities publications they were doing with Alaxis Press.>>153420380>>153420389What's interesting about this is that it's a return to original form for Jei. Remember how he was doing this exact type of shit a month and two incarnations ago?
>>153420463This is indeed an unprecedented level of bunglement. Though you can kind of see how the LLM autocolorist got confused.
>>153420612Kek, but it's been established that he would be a "long-haired samurai" as a human, with an improbably long topknot.
>>153420761Luth was already dead when this issue came out IIRC.
not the furries again!
>>153420890Maybe he knows that the black ships have not imported such tubers and the bandits must be talking about yamaimo*.*wild mountain yams
>>153420251>the Stan Sakai-inspired comic Narrow RoadI can't find anything about this, a search either wants to show me interviews with Davisson, or some Christian webcomic by the same name.
>>153421059>Mifune was on the cusp of victory if not stabbed in the back at the last minute by a greedy retardYes, this is the strongest proof that Anons' theory of Mifune being a minor warlord is incorrect. He was able to not only go toe to toe with Hikiji on the field but defeat him, and he was also in possession of Sendai which was one of the most valuable holdings in the country at the time. (When Date Masamune received the Sendai domain in trade for his own ancestral lands he became the third-richest daimyo in Japan.)
>>153420260weird, I was always under the impression that Honshu had pretty much the same climate throughout.
and now for some art appreciation.
look at that sexy, sexy crosshatching
>>153421071I like how it was mostly Jei's story and he got most panels. I also liked his interactions with Keiko and the bandits.>>153421105Now? Jei-san takes Manhattan!
while between the two I still prefer b&w, E. Fuji is much better to look at.
>>153421392>Jei-san takes Manhattan!filmed in Vancouver
>>153420371>but not too muchhank hill would like this girl
I googled it and still have no idea what this king guy is.
one of my favorite fan arts. even if woodblock printing wasn't even in its infancy during usagi's time, I still wish stan would make a story about it.
>>153421004Last sighting of Keiko. Her creepy ability to know in advance when Jei's fucked is her best character trait.>>153421071I always thought this arc was the most obviously padded for length, if you compare it to something like Grasscutter the decompression is very obvious. It doesn't seem to be worth five issues. I agree that the confrontation between Jei and the snow woman and his fate are great though.I hope he's been Captain America-ed into a block of ice and won't resurface for hundreds of years, although once again Senso contradicts this.
Tomoe!!
>>153420280>middle lower panelThis might be the first time I've ever seen someone throw a punch in UY, or even just fight bare handed. Whatever happened to martial arts and such? I know karate, kung fu and taekwondo arent Japanese but surely samurai had their own bare handed martial art?
>>153421223Mmm, digital gradients.
>>153421467Tomoe, right next to Chizu! What sorcery is this?
>>153421349just from the fact it is very mountainous there's bound to be some regional difference in climate. plus they're in winter.
>>153420856All things considered, Jei gave her plenty of chances.
>jared cullum hey it's the guy who's working on Kaito >>153421459you're right, the stories are much more padded than before. but I don't know, reading it all at once wasn't so bad.
>>153420267Guys, please stop talking at length about how heavy your coinpurses are. All of feudal japan can hear you.
>>153420272THEY'RE JUST TWO GUYS
>>153420310Our favorite wandering eldritch abomination and his niece.
>>153420340Never trust suspicious ladies in huts who are not bothered by the conditions around them and who claim to have already eaten. You've been through this so many times already, Usagi.
>>153420446Even if she wasn't clearly an ice demon, Usagi should remember the last time he spend the night in a slowy mountain with some weird widow.
>>153421236No... No! That's impossible! The Cat people were actually cat people!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7vIT6ri8dM
>>153420513Disastrous failure to read the room
>>153420380Jei looks very serene whenever his eyes are closed.
>>153421105My money is on him surviving the river with Keiko finding him. I could see Stan letting someone else do a mini focused on them picking up from there.
>>153421401Who's this raccoon guy?>>153421437Agreed, it's not like he hasn't done anachronistic How It's Mades before.>>153421475IIRC in this period striking arts were typically encompassed in ju-jutsu, which was taught in sword schools as a supplemental art to kenjutsu (similar to e.g. naginatajutsu or batto; most koryu encompass at least some of these types of art) or even sumo, which originates in the sengoku period as sportive wrestling between samurai in war camps and which in this period included things like kicks with the sole of the foot.Most of the entirely empty-handed arts are indeed Chinese in origin – karate descends from White Crane kung fu and shorinjikempo is literally Shaolin Temple boxing – and the mainland bushi don't seem to have had much use for those. (Also, for all their claims of ancient pedigree many of them originate in the 18th century, which is also true of surviving koryu of kenjutsu. The oldest verifiably authentic weapon arts are found in Western European fencing treatises.)
>>153420435>Yuki>Usagi still hasn't put the pieces togetherAaaaaaaaaaa
and here's why we're back on DH, plus some interesting information on time passage.>his home town in northern honshu >they've just left sendaiwe're right on the money!anyway, thanks for reading.
>>153420849And once again, behold! Here's the dumbest coloring mistake of them all. I know that Hi-Fi is a team and multiple colorists work one ach issue (this, in tandem with poor communication, is the source of all the different eye colors), but I'd like to meet the dweeb who made this ludicrous error. Even if we stop focusing on the mistake itself, there's still the aspect of lame colors. Look at those bulging... eyes... Jei was unfairly gifted with. Look at that ugly color, like a damp dirty cotton swab. Disgusting. The guy who did that must be the champion of daft colorists. A true KING of coloring things wrong.If only I knew who the fuck he even is, I'd ask him some very important questions. Like: where do you have to look to find someone so incompetent as you? What are you planning do with your life as the King of Bad Colorists? Where does a career of a hack even lead to, what projects are you currently fucking up?Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from, Jei's cotton-eyes Colorist-oh?
So how much longer is cousin olifur gonna be around?
>>153421607>Our favorite wandering eldritch abomination and her uncleFTFY
>>153421699Thanks for posting.
>>153420453She isn't even trying to hide what she is and they're STILL falling for it.
>>153420482>I know you like to chew on the eyeballsWhat the fuck?
>>153421640Kek, it's funny because it's true. He'd have four nickels! Which isn't a lot, but...(Actually, women who claim not to be affected by the cold aren't trustworthy in real life either.)
>>153420496Hey, Jei is offering! What a nice guy!
>>153421647Yeah, the cats turning into cats will never not be funny. Especially since it's visually obvious to everybody that they're monsters now. I assume it's like a Hulk-type thing where anyone can spot that it's not just the normal Banner, but still.
>>153420513Fool!>>153420522100%
>>153421105He'll just pull a Jason Vorhees once it hits spring/summer. Some (totally evil) passerby on a boat will be going by and he pops out of the water to drag em under before swimming to shore.
>>153420532>Jei can read mindsCould he always do this?
>>153421714>I'd like to meet the dweeb who made this ludicrous errorEyeanon, we've been over this. "Incompetent coloring" is not a defense that's admissible in court.
>>153420554Did that poor bastard deserve getting his soul slurped out by Jei?
>>153420574Your dick would freeze.
>>153420513This man really wins the All-Japan Genius Award, it's shocking that he doesn't score a Darwin too. In fact, in spite of the inconsistent coloring, he seems to escape alive from the battle on the ice here: >>153420995
>>153420310With the head tilt he looks like he's just being a sassy bitch about this. Like a flowery way of saying skill issue.
>>153420650I think this yuki-onna might be one of the most durable demons the series has had in a while.
>>153420739>>153420750interesting that jei was willing to bargain at first>>153420791wait, what's with this super repetitive page??
>>153420310>we must find you shelter.>And food.>And food.>And cute boys!>...
>>153420688>>153420695S-She's fast!
>>153420574All fine and good, but can you afford to feed her plus your ten kids on modern feudal american salary?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfONK0Z1I1o
>>153420739>>153420750>the demons are allyingSASUKE WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU
>>153420351I can only picture her flute playing as justGod awful.Like prince Eric from Ariel needs Legs.
>>153420803She's going to try and eat him and explode, isn't she.
>>153420688>>153420695fucking candlejack, out here kidnapping ran
>>153420856Shame such a powerful yokai decided to pick a fight with fucking Jei instead of working together.
>>153421044classic jei-san move
>>153420472Repost from last year
>>153422022That's a great one.Reposting another anons edit from that same year.1/3
>>153421699Thanks, Murder!And yeah, this seems to confirm it's currently winter, early 1607 or just possibly late 1606.>>153421952Please understand, the goblins of Mt. Funai are being a huge pain in the ass. He didn't even make it out to Sendai in time for the tengu war!
>>1534220432/3
>>1534220563/3
>>153421809Do not question the will of the gods
>>153422069That doesn't explain anything!
>>153422116The will of the gods says gods can freely choose what is the will of the gods.
>>153421691Didnt karate develop because Ryukyuan/Okinawans needed a means of resistance after being conquered by the Shogunate and having their weapons taken from them?
>>153422043Yeah those were mine too, glad to see they were good enough to be saved though.
>>153421004>Keiko just playing background music
>>153421467I miss Tomoe>>153421489It's weird they never met right? Like where they ever even in the same story? Senso doesn't count.
>>153420310My guy Jei and his creepy as fuck niece. Jei's been killing for about 20 years nowm?
>>153420849I've seen the same mistake on the first issue of PK, but I think those were made on purpose.Would be funny if it was a callback to this error though.What year was this issue published in?
>>153420560Oh no! Who could have seen this coming?
>>153420380What would happen if I cuddled sleeping Jei?
Jei should talk like Yosemite Sam
>>153421512Yukichi looks like such a little punk here. I kinda like it.>>153421521Even more now that they forgot to gibe him ears.
>>153422214>I miss TomoeAs do I with every shot so far!
>>153420893Kino couple murder wolf and snow demon princess
>>153421792kek, imagine Usagi seeing the Hulk and saying "He just turned into a slightly different human?" "What do you mean he's /clearly/ a monster, you all look just like him!"
>>153422166So I've heard, yes, but it's less "developed" and more "was spread". Karate is a demonstrable descendant of White Crane, so presumably what happened was that there already was some practitioner present and the demand for him to teach his art increased after the Ryukyu Kingdom was conquered.
>>153421071My daughter Keiko
>>153420434>>153421146>>153420522I recall he was an actually successful and competent leader so bandits would naturally gravitate to him
>>153421428Skottie seems to see Usagi as being mustached through his cheek fluff and whiskers.
>>153421512Kitsune and Tomoe...
>>153421428>>153422541diabeetus
>>153421604Yuki Onna wife WHEN???? Great kami send me a yuki onna wife please I will make a loving mother out of her
>>153422555kek
>>153421512
>>153421952This was his first vacation in 800 years
>>153422564You should just go watch Jigoku Sensei Nube. the original. Fuck remakes.
>>153422541Could you imagine if that's what Stan always intended?
>>153422214These threads ruined me. I'd do unspeakable things to Tomoe's furry body.
>>153422641Anyone who says he wouldn't is a fag. Not that there's anything wrong with that!
>>153420896Thank you Keiko. Very meaningful contribution to the conversation at hand like always. >>153421531We saw him do the same with the Witches familiar back in Grasscutter. He even felt remorse for having to kill it. I think in is strange moralistic eyes, a yokai or things close to it are so pure in purpose that they probably get the pass from him.
Book 40216 Usagis (17583 total)174 Yukichi (939 total)553 Panels (35558 total)No Neko (1311 total)No Komori (258 total)No Mogura (37 total)No Ninjas of the Dark Light (4 total)No Zō Ninja (1 total)No Hae Ninja (1 total)1 Usagichi (1 total)Image compilation contains the next Yukichi 100 milestones.
>>153422767No Noh
>>153422214>>153422641>>153422687Tomoe is currently being PLAPPED by her 600 lb ugly bastard rich husband btw
>>153421124>I like my flute>I THINK YOU SHOULD DIE
Future anons is this Jei and Keiko's last tale outside stuff thats been mentioned like Senso? If it is I wish the story carried a bit more weight to it but there's something fitting about Jei and Usagi's last clash taking place on a cold empty winter mountain.
>>153420482>>153420560Only now noticing the other bit of weird colouring going on- surely, this is supposed to be happening at night? Dawn, at most?
>>153422817>Future anons is this Jei and Keiko's last tale outside stuff thats been mentioned like Senso?We're not really that far off currently from this story. I think there's like ONE more mini before we get to space and senso and such
>>153421302YOUYOUDOUBLE CAT
>>153420389>Keiko will never serenade you while Jei chokes your boss to death
>>153422832Nearing the end after weeks of Usagi kino I'm not ready
>>153422767The bottom panel is perhaps the first time we see Yukichi with dot eyes.
>>153422882yeah it always feels like it goes by so fast.
>>153420463Didn't we have an edit where Usagi's clothes switched colors too?
>>153422789IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME
>>153422789>Tomoe about to gift herself to her husband on their first night>he has a massive wang>Tomoe thinks maybe the next 30 to 40 years won't be so bad after all
>>153422924I AM A GREAT MAGICIAN!
>>153422767>1 Usagichi (1 total)kek
>>153422934SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE I'VE FINALLY FOUND YOU!
>>153422890If I'm here for the next go around I hope I can jump on from storytime 1
>>153422949>>153422767>>1 Usagichi (1 total)regrettably this number will only rise
>>153422817As Anon says, there are only two more books of Usagi proper left, then we're up to speed with publication. This is their *latest* appearance, and it's pretty recent as such things go.
>>153422925>>153422934>>153422957>Kitsune gets corrected and becomes not shit through the power of Gen's huge dick>Tomoe accepts her new marriage to ugly bastard rich husband thanks to his massive dick and surprising fucking skills>he even lets her continue to train>both are happy>Usagi settles down with the kino gambling chick who wanders around
>>153422977It's not like it can go down, Anon.
>>153422960Murder and Enma can correct me if I'm talking out of my ass, but storytime usually starts around St. Patrick's Day. If you keep a lookout for the warmup thread around mid-March you should be able to make it.
>>153422166>>153422455There were pre-existing Okinawan martial arts, but yeah, my goju-ryu teachers also always maintained that it was a direct descendant of White Crane.
>>153423047Pretty sure mid-march is the start date, and the pre-game threads happen before then. This year it was a few days before thing kicked off but in ‘25 it was mid/late february
>>153420302Shoki's influence begins!
>>153423047>>153423174Thanks anons. Will mark that down if I don't hunt down the physicals.
>>153420302>>153423179Yeah what the shit even was this panel about. If it's some nascent Yokai Sense I love that his first thought is to just rush blindly into it.
>>153422789Her husband is pretty handsome going by that one story. But he's a traditional bullshitdo faggot so he's still pretty awful.
>>153420935Poor bastards.
>>153423253>Her husband is pretty handsome going by that one story.I'm sorry do you not remember what honorable lord Ito looks like?It wasn't the the dude with the brow like a caveman, that was just one of his trusted samurai come to look over the goods.
>>153423307You have poor reading comprehension and are completely brain rotted by porn.
>>153421279Oh No! and entire civilization of part animal part human creatures! the horror!
>>153422194Never underestimate the bard cleric combo
>>153423247No, it's his old Jei Wound pulling at him. Usagi's basically being lightly mind controlled by Jei.
>>153423318No, he's actually correct that the guy on the left there, Ito Noren, is Tomoe's intended husband. Saburo only went to the Geishus to scope her out because Lord Ito can't do that himself for Japanese reasons.And yes, in Senso she's married to another guy who's a Geishu retainer and neither Ito nor Saburo, but it's anyone's guess how that comes about, if it's even canon for mainline Usagi.
>>153421911I wonder if Jei would approve of any boy for Keiko even if he was a yokai which he seems to be mostly chill with
>>153421884>You may be innocent but damn you're weak, girly.
>>153420331>we're back on Dark HorseAll this re-introduction for new readers gone to waste?
>>153420360Lookin' creepy, Keiko.
>>153422258He's a tall guy.
>>153420435The "Age of Battles" that last 150 years and only just ended?
>>153421302
>>153422214They were both in dragon bellows and probably saw each other but never spoke or interacted. Chizu was a background character then
>>153421318Why was Sendai so profitable? Gold/silver mines?
>>153421759She's a growing girl.
>>153420739I remember we joking Jei was gonna get a GF back when this story came out.
>>153423539https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hihEhsdwiIk
>>153423376That's a cool trope. Archnemesis nearby. The old wound begins to ache. Fate has decided you will meet again.
>>153422789Ito is so old any erection he has would result in a heart attack
