previously: >>153420211
instead of a standard introduction, it's a comic! pretty neat.
>jizo statues: 252
oops, there it is again!
>>153434967RE-ENTER
>jizo statues: 253
>>153435049Fuck yeah, Gen
>>153435111>Usagi: "Dear kami, did I sound like that back in the day?"
>>153435061Yukichi is too pure for this world
>>153435067Cousin learns to never tell Gen that he has cash.
>>153434967Yukichi is blue again! It keeps happening!
!!!
>>153435268Has Yukichi had his Bullshit-do moment yet?
>>153434920>First introduction was NoodlesWell, might as well see Feudal Japan upfront.
>>153435049I love Gen, but I miss him on his own. Not that I don't like Stray Dog either, but always pairing them together like this alters the dynamic, and Gen is usually at his best when he's playing directly off of Usagi.
>>153435380>Arrow through the mouth. Fucking hell.
lmao
>>153435146I like the coloring on this page
>>153435412>Masa ain't shitAmazing
here is the reveal, confirmed. I love it when a random one-off character comes back like this, same with Orphan Maker after Mother of Mountains.
>>153435336Fun fact: Crows have excellent memories, especially with regards to acts towards them. Act kind to them (like leaving something shiny), and they're remember it; possibly even leaving you something in return. Cross one, though, and they'll not only hold that grudge, but warn other crows in the area about you, spreading said grudge to the rest of the flock.
>>153435389It wasn't just usagi either because cousin olifur is still there
>>153435118Yukichi you don't have either of those things. You were a sword school virgin till like a week ago. You never followed a lord. You never were in a war. You wouldn't know what principals and honor was if they kicked you in the wakizashi.
>>153435061Yukichi why
little snitch-in-training
>>153434992This is cool because it shows that Usagi's actually learned something in his travels, whereas Yukichi has the impetuousness Usagi used to have.
>>153435503damn brat is Kitsune's kid
>Nobus +1
>>153435016>we should reach the town in a couple of hoursNigga that's twelve miles, it's going to take you all day to walk in uneven terrain. You'll be lucky to get there before nightfall. What the fuck.
>>153434967This Usagichi is odd because Stan seemingly drew Yukichi instead of Usagi. You can tell because Yukichi is holding his sword in all of the other panels.
>>153435523was one ryo really worth a year's money for an average citizen?
>>153435314Will somebody please cue that boid.
>jizo statues: 254
>jizo statues: 256>pineapple jizu: 1>>153435584if only you knew how bad things really are
>>153435584having any kind of money at all will do you pretty well.
>>153435443Crows are neat. They're smarter than a 5th grader.
>>153435642Well until someone becomes aware you have some and try to kill you over it
>>153435481>Yeah me tooLmao
the weirdest gag to date
>>153435741Wow, everything about this page is like one step beyond anything this comic usually depicts.
>>153435871Not the bird! Booo!
>>153435548Couple of hours sounds right. You are a slow sedentary burger
>>153435899Rip
>>15343554820km is absolutely doable in a full day, I do it once every year in half a day and I'm sedentary as fuck...
>>153435909Ouch. Goddamn Usagi. You receipt haiku with that mouth?
>>153435548I walk about that much at work.
>>153435929>>153435940And to think Usagi would have just left that kid alone to rot by himself. Inukai still the best boy. Fuck you, Usagi you bushido blinded retard.
you might've already noticed these last few volumes have less stories and are relying on art to fill the remaining space...
>>153435909I like that at the end of Stray Dog's first appearance Usagi is like, "Hmm, methinks there's more to him than meets the eye ;)" and then here he absolutely hates Stray Dog.
>>153435437It honestly surprises me that he didnkt instantly recognize Usagi- it's been what, two years? since Usagi was his companion through his life's implosion and convinced him to become a wanderer.
>>153436006I said it a thread or two ago. IDW Usagi really learns he kind of hates his friends.
>>153435909Always find it odd how usagi lays it on stray dog for not giving a fuck here when in their first encounter he was willing to shrug off him threatening an innocent girls life (who helped them btw) to get fujii’s head for himself
>>153436019could she SOLO Jimmu or Jei?
>>153436022This is back at dark horse thoughever
>>153435767Hey another rabbit.>>153435775"They're slaughtering each other! Cool!"
>>153435584The Average coin people used back then were copper coins.Silver and gold coins were also in use, with one gold coin being worth 1000 coppers.Also, gold coins had a fixed exchange rate of one coin being worth 1 koku of rice, which was supposed to be a standardized unit, fit to feed a person for a year.However, 1 koku of rice (theoretically) was the same as 180 litres or 48 US gallons.This value however fluctuated based on years rice harvest.Nott relevant to Usagi's time, but In 1700 the official exchange rate was adjusted to 1 ryō equal to 60 monme silver (225 grams) or 4000 brass coins.
>>153436047yes unless their objective is to kill noriyuki
>>153436050Well the wheels where put in motion back in IDW
that's it for today, thanks for reading. tomorrow we'll be all caught up with the latest usagi story!
>>153436081Cool Cheeze. I don't think I saw this one.
>>153436063>>153435767>Hey another rabbit.He looks cool, Stan should reuse his design.
I never understood crows being so commonly used as enemies in Japanese games until actually going there myself. They're pretty big in Feudaland.
>>153436019reminder that if you want Tomoe you have to make the first move because she's shy
>>153436022I think I said something similar last year.
>>153436161as a non Japanese speaker I see this sign and can only shirk in terror at what I can only assume is a warning regarding radioactive giant corvids
>>153435011yugioh players getting ptsd from that name
>>153436161>Beware of Tengu
>>153436161Crows can be samurai too
>>153436367
>>153434967Bluesagi or Ukishi?
Bounty hunters, we don't need that scum
>>153436010Some real banger variants today.
>>153435929Inukai, the Feudal Japan Naoto Date.>>153436022Sakai is cooking anything about Usagi's story and development?Because these stories seem to be "weaker" than the previous ones.
>>153435230missed a jizzo big man
>>153436022>Gen & Kitsune use his money/get him into some bullshit >Stray Dog is an ass to him at every opportunity >Chizu is a Ninja, so deception is always a possibility(though Chizu hates doing so)>Sasuke always gets him into some supernatural bullshit
Book 41180 Usagis (17763 total)189 Yukichis (1128 total)518 Panels (36076 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 (2 total)The Yukichi 100 panels compilation grows
>>153435024I've been feeling it for a while but the really unfinished faces look so bad in full color. Before at least there was some visual clarity with just black and white but now you have barely formed dot and line faces on shaded and colored characters and it just looks wrong.
>>153437016Lmao, this looks like a season summary of a show.>Last time, on "Misadventures of Yukichi", Yukichi done goofed. Again.
>>153435146Shogunate spook spotted reeeeeeeeeI wonder if the pants are standard issue or they have to get their own.
>>153435118I like they aren't even mad, they are more like "is this guy for real?"
>>153435283An important lesson of what happens if you keep talking shit while tied to a fucking pole. At least he didn't snap that off in his bunny ass
>>153435283>BRUTAL
>>153435905>I'm not a bounty hunter.>Good.Is there an intended double meaning to Stray Dog's reaction or is it just about getting more money.
>>153435437Is cool we see a one off character return but at the same time is kind of sad seeing him so bitter bow when his story ended is a happy-ish note. Makes me wonder how many other characters who Usagi helped got killed the day after he left.
>>153435407reading through various historical texts and this was surprisingly common along with arrow through the neck. If its any consolation, arrow through the eye seems to have been rare and a sign of expert marksmanship, especially if it blinded but did not kill
>>153435871I like how in this honor based culture, going 2 against 1 or slashing someone in the back are not seen as dishonorable.
>>153437268>how many other characters who Usagi helped got killed the day after he left.
>>153435888Fuck honor, his master was an asshole.
>>153437257Money, Stray Dog doesn't care about anyone other than those orphans
>>153437310Well, considering that bows were mostly used in battles and during those people tend to wear as much armor as they can, then probably a suprisingly high percent of bodies of people who mattered enough to write about them (and who probably wore the heaviest armor) had arrows stuck in unprotecred areas, like mouth or throat.
>>153437325If you commit a dishonorable act, but no one’s around to judge you (cause you killed them), are you dishonorable?
>>153435857>YOU MAKE MONEY THROUGH DEATH>I can say this despite murdering all the defenseless porters of the caravanJimmy you are a fucking cunt and deserve what you get.
>>153437325Most honorable thing to do is win.
>>153435741Didn't even let my man pull his pants back up. Cold blood. Hot piss.
>>153435929So this is actually interesting. Isamu is the single person who knows what Stray Dog does to get the money. I wish we could have had a page or something of Inukai telling him to keep quiet, or shooting a look to stop him from saying it out loud.
>>153437599Remember when Usagi found out what a softy Gen was?
>>153434920I love the accurate depiction of TMNT figure usagi vs crysanthenum usagi.Hey, this dude is the one who did a comic on car repair.
>>153437599>I wish we could have had a page or something of Inukai telling him to keep quiet, or shooting a look to stop him from saying it out loud.Damn, I should have thought of that.t. Stan Sakai
>>153436262>>153435011CAW CAW MOTHERFUCKERS. 3 legs for heaven, earth and man. The boss of bosses...but still disrespected by mountain tenguk.
>>153435024His kimono has fly patterns.>>153435130The inn is named Toriyama.
>>153435146Check the buisness name. It's the Pineapple inn. They might even have a pineapple in there.
>>153435303...implied dick removal. >>153435310Some people need to take their first bushido lesson rectally...at full speed...from someone on horseback.
>>153438109>His kimono has fly patterns.He does look pretty fresh, thank you
>>153435548Rabbit speed. Also, these two are peak physical condition.
>>153435584This changes over time bcause of monetary policy shit, but one ryo was nominally one koku of rice, but was later up to 5 koku. One koku is the rice an adult needs for one year. One ryo is an obscene amount that no normal peasant would touch. My family's stipend was 1000 a year, and we were literally the dudes on horseback carrying the lords banner. My name is still enough to get me into places by accident in my hometown.Keep in mind that this is chambara rules. The ryo is more about taking a stack of cash out out to show they mean buiseness rathern than a specific amount..
>>153435718https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tFvFo7KxDs
>>153435871The crow shaped skull is a hoot. >>153435925Oh shit. Stray dog has PINEAPPLE money. >>153435929And stray dog is totally tapping that. Like a stray dog...
>>153435963Hey, Usagi is great at all sorts of shit, but parenting is very obviously not one of them.
>>153438478Crows don't hoot
>>153436098PROTECT THE LORD. PROTECT THE LORD. >>153436161>>153436250the fuckers are huge, they open up trash cans and have sex on top of the trash cawing all the time. >>153436215And because she has NO GAME.
>>153435275Is this the guy from one of the recent kitsune stories who turned on his merchant boss who was trying to kill kitsune? Or is this someone else?
>>153436161https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tNyW8rGndII bet you've seen this in an NES game.
>>153437109He's new at his job. His fancy hakama are a tipoff that he's no ordinary beggar.
>>153438554No he's the guy with the Lord who paid a clan treasure to ransom his shitty son and it turns out it was an inside job by the son to clear his debts. Usagi told him to keep the sword because the shit kid is lord now and will make him Seppuku when he gets back to avoid the secret coming out so now he's a bounty hunter
>>153437257I'm going to say both. Look at how harsh his facial expression is. It's also him being pissed off that cousin oliver is "too good" to kill criminals for money.
>>153437325Getting 50 people to jump the criminal is also not dishonorable. This pearl harbor job is fine.
>>153438545>the fuckers are huge, they open up trash cans and have sex on top of the trash cawing all the time.How terrifying
>>153438676Let's not overlook how he totally just stabbed the guy in the back. Super honorable.
>>153438695They had a wingspan of almost a meter, and would leave us coathangers that they stole from grumpy neighbors. They would rip open the mosquito netting on their place, to steal them.
>>153438716Correct. This is not a duel. Different rules apply.
Only one addition today, I almost want to count Jimmu as a hare on account of his ears but I'm not confident and either way, it doesn't make much sense to count hares if I'm not counting rabbits>+1 Rat>New Total: 101
>>153435481Kek
>>153435097>>153435111This feels like that one hobo samurai that lived under a bridge and refused to work because samurai shouldn't lower themselves.
>>153435494What a little shit.
>>153438378I'm always positively surprised by actual Japanese readers in Usagi threads. I really wish Sakai had a bigger audience there.
>>153438378>Keep in mind that this is chambara rules. The ryo is more about taking a stack of cash out out to show they mean buiseness rathern than a specific amount..Like a briefcase full of money.
>>153435283Yukichi gets trolled.
>>153435523This kid is smart being aware he probably gonna get killed for having so much money.
>>153435307You could say he's having it right now.
>>153435024Now that Usagi is back among proper civilization and away from weird yokai, a certain someone is around to watch again.
>>153437310The last Anglo-Saxon king of England is said to have died from an arrow to the eye.
>>153436122Thanks Murder.
>>153435622Oh yeah!
>>153439337Nobody in cowboy movies makes change. Someone just throws coins on a table.
>>153439421>The last Anglo-Saxon king of England is said to have died from an arrow to the eye.That's hilarious
>>153435696How do you think Swords are passed down Yukishi?
>>153439553Oriver's really kind of pissing me off this go around. The naivete was cute at first but this is just being a retard.
>>153435741Famn, he didn't even wsit for him to finish
>>153439200Yep. That would be Yukichi if he didn't get any form of waking up. He'd be living in a crate down by the river!
>>153435963>And to think Usagi would have just left that kid alone to rot by himselfSuch is karma
>>153438409One of American's multiple periods of fascination with Japan.Here's something from almost 20 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bf8y3v1BvU
>>153435741I've never thought abut what gives a piss stream its force; could a dead man wizz an arc like that?
>>153435857>>153437535Shades of Usagi and the "general" bandit
>>153435741someone make it white
>>153439716Probably, maybe beheading caused all his muscles to contract and seize up or something. I know people usually shit themselves right after they die, but never heard of fountain pissing like this
>>153435704Oh, the second scout made it back. For some reason I assumed he was going to get caught by the bandits and killed.
>>153435909>>153435925Replaying Stray Dog's twist 1:1 from the original...although I remember right the first time around he threatened to kill some chick to extort Usagi of cash rather than just being mean to him.
>>153439541Here he is, second from left, trying to pull it out (?)
>>153436006Usagi has come across Stray Dog on numerous occasions and Stray Dog has the same surly attitude every time, and has never let on that he's doing anything noble with his rewards. From Usagi's perspective, he was willing to give the benefit of the doubt at first but at this point has nothing but a series of bad impressions.
>>153435087I like Usagi's DOY face in the last panel here.
>>153433137>>153433281>>153433419>Could she even refuse if her lord wanted her as his mistress?Yes, absolutely she could. If she protests but he still persists and then sexually assaults her then it is rape. Which, since Tomoe is an unmarried woman, in Tokugawa legal terms is a case of destruction of property (Tomoe's father's).>yes daimyo did have multiple wives just like the shogunNeither the daimyos nor the shogun had multiple wives. They were under Tokugawa law and Shinto-Buddhist/Neo-Confucianist cultural/religious precepts not forbidden from having a theoretically unlimited number of concubines but only one woman and the children born by her could be recognized as the wife of a man and his true-born children and heirs. This differed slightly from earlier periods where inheritance laws were looser and the lines between what constituted a concubine and a wife were more blurry.Sources:The Japanese Law of Marriage.” http://www.jstor.org/stable/752351“The Janus Face of Normativities in a Global Mirror: Viewing 16th-Century Marriage Practices in Japan from Christian and Japanese Traditions.”http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv2gjwzg8.11“Adultery, Punishment, and Reconciliation in Tokugawa Japan.” http://www.jstor.org/stable/25064722.
>>153440295Thank you Enma
>>153440295Ok. But Tomoe's father is dead. What now?And if he wasn't dead, what if his lord came to him and ordered that he wants his daughter as a concubine? Would he have a choice? Also, her lord can arrange her marriage, can he declare her his wife by himself? Innthis case we're pretending the differences in social hierarchy don't matter.Just to be clear, I'm not trying to make Tomoe have sex at all costs, she's just an interesting case, which makes her very helpful in understanding what power a lord had over women in his court.
>>153439337Briefcase full of money is a box of ryo. A roy is just one banded stack.
>>153440450Me thinks the property rights go to his son, so Tomoe's brother,
>>153439716Yes. But he'd really have to be holding it in berfore.>>153439826At first I thought it was a coloring error and supposed to be a blood guyser.,
>>153435118I actually like this crashout because it gives Yukichi more of a character.
>>153435140>>153435146>>153435152These city scenes are also really nice, despite what people say about Stan's art degrading I don't remember him ever drawing a vista like in the first panel of >>153435140 before and gives a great feel for the vibe of an Edo-era city, and check out the woodgrain interacting with the calligraphy on the pineapple store sign. This is great art IMO.Plus, it's funny that there's a bug store.
>>153436122>mfw soon there will be no more storytimes to look forward to on my afternoon break>>153438378This source may interest you, because it is specifically using hatamoto families and their stipend from the bakufu. Some points I found interesting:>hatamoto were paid partially in cash and partially in rice, from bakufu warehouse. The bakufu set their own prices for rice, and this could and was sometimes used as a light 'tax' in years of financial difficulty.>hatamoto were forbidden from setting their own tax rate on their lands, they had to use whatever tax rate the bakufu assigned them. "Reclaimed" ("shinden") land that could have increased a hatamoto's personal wealth was declared untaxable for up to 20 years >the stipend assigned to each hatamoto was meant to provide for all the expenses necessary including household staff, armor, weapons, a mount, etc. These were, you guessed it, expressly regulated by the bakufu and the hatamoto had to maintain a certain quality and amount.>as early as 1633, the bakufu was extending government loans to hatamoto that received less than 1000 koku in stipends so they could meet their spending obligations>in order to exchange what they were paid in rice grains for cash, the hatamoto had to go through merchants, rice-jobbers as the paper calls them. The bakufu declared loans invalid repeatedly in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Since the rice-jobbers could no longer be guaranteed their payments, they responded in kind each time by increasing the interest rate to the hatamoto.>Nasagawa Motochiko, a samurai who held the position of Master Of Court Ceremonies (like our good friend Lord Kira...), and who had an annual stipend of 1960 koku, still had to borrow THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE RYO to meet his financial obligations for the year 1711.Source: “The Increasing Poverty of the Samurai in Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1868.” http://www.jstor.org/stable/2117050.
>>153437325Victory wipes away dishonor! but for real, before the edo period properly settled in, this >>153437553 was what most people cared about, from all the way back in pre-medieval times. >>153439694Japonisme never truly died. >>153440295>in Tokugawa legal terms is a case of destruction of property (Tomoe's father's)lmao. there was simply no escape the feudal bullshit.
>>153440367>MANLY eyebrows of bushido on Jimmu>but no honor!It's over. The shogunate has fallen. Billions must die.>>153440450I'm going to answer each point but I'm going to make it clear my answers are based on some "vibe-coding" and I don't have like a specific source to point to as objective proof.>But Tomoe's father is dead. What now?I think anon here >>153440465 is right and Tomoe's brother is now master of clan Ame so he ultimately has the right of arbitration until Tomoe is properly wedded and recorded in their local Buddhist temple registry as being the wife (property) of another man.>her lord can arrange her marriage, can he declare her his wife by himself?He would have to get permission from the bakufu since the shogunate didn't want lords forming powerful family alliances without their express permission and knowledge. In this case I wonder if the shogunate wouldn't actually look kindly on it. You know "Really? Her? A onna-bugeisha? You don't want to marry, like Lord Yamada's niece or something?">what if his lord came to him and ordered that he wants his daughter as a concubine? Would he have a choice?He could refuse, sure. There's some autonomy still for individual agency even within the rigid hierarchy of bushido. He could commit kanshi in protest. He could even rise up in rebellion just like Lord Araki did against Noriyuki's father. We never did find out WHY Lord Araki rebelled against his daimyo....
>>153440295I should rewatch Roshomon
>>153440465>so Tomoe's brother,Man there's a potential character we've really slept on
>>153437016>189 Yukichis (1128 total)Hang on a 分 anon, how many Yukichi panels are there in total, and what was your last Yukichi montage from the previous thread? I assumed each Yukichi was the next 100th Yukichi panel but I am mistaken?
>>153435283part of me wishes this didn't happen so it could happen to usagi as a big shocklike it's one of the few big upsetting things that could happen to him at this point and it'd be a huge make/break moment with his tenuous connection to bushido as he's faltered on a lot of other aspects but is still super into his swordsit's kinda funny that we've only had one arc really deal with his swords so directly too
>>153435412>>153435481these guys are pretty cool, we never really get to see small vignettes about regular niggas that live to see another day and have an interesting quick story tooalso i like to imagine they went home and dp'd jiro's wife like true bros
>>153435741i remember being quite shocked by this the first time this issue came out
>>153435481>Me too
>>153440367cute isamu
>perfectly good spunky femboy traveling companion>no good tasteless punks itt keep wanting him to be a f*moidFor what purpose.
Why do I have a crush on Yukichi?
>>153435509This kid looks like Kagemaru's bastard.
>>153439971been a long time since I've done or seen one of these >>153440625>soon there will be no more storytimes to look forward to alas, the proud do not endure, they are as dust before the wind. >Nasagawa Motochiko, a samurai who held the position of Master Of Court Ceremonies (like our good friend Lord Kira...), and who had an annual stipend of 1960 koku, still had to borrow THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE RYO to meet his financial obligations for the year 1711.maybe Lord Asano really was being a dick not wanting to lend some monetary assistance...
>>153441259is it so wrong to dream of usagi accidentally wandering up on yukichi in the onsen and catching sight of yukichi's yukichis?
>>153440840>that pict-this is a blue board!
>>153441320Calm down Fujotsune...
>>153441374it's not fujo if i want yukichi to be a gril tho
>>153435230Jizo statue
>>153435397>>153435404>>153435412Did a little 'Sakai B/W Classic' edit of best boys.
>>153435323Another Jizo statue in the top panel
>>153441479Whatever happened to these guys?
>>153441320>>153441420what if Yukichi leaves the series due to pregnancy?
>>153436942>>153441424>>153441484I was just blind today huh>>153440601>check out the woodgrain interacting with the calligraphy stan is a monster when it comes to calligraphy. it's easy to gloss over every other battle scream being a calligraphy piece on its own, not to mention actually lettering every single word balloon by hand. it's the reason I'm not keen on buying a translated version of the books, it loses that magic.
>>153441643Speedreaders will be forced to serve as office clerks in Enma's Hell for 10,000 years as punishment >>153435481
>>153435380I love these two porter bros.>>153435407There's something about how the comic handles violence that makes that sort of thing seem all the more brutal when it does come up.
>>153435548Average marching pace for an army used to be 20 miles a day and that's with a baggage train. Rucking 12 miles shouldn't take you more than 4-6 hours
>>153435437Same. This lad returned after 13 volumes, that has to be a record until Tomoe comes back.
>>153440542Even Usagi is a bit surprised that Yukichi has his own opinions.
>>153435520>damn brat is Kitsune's kid>>153441291>This kid looks like Kagemaru's bastard....Oh, no.
>>153434920Wow, getting hit with the tragedy right off the bat.
>>153435515orphan tally incremented
12 page thread about whether Stray Dog being an actual dog is part of the in-universe reasoning for him being called "Stray Dog."
>>153441666Who did Yukichi knock up?
>>153441666who's the daddy tho
>>153441291>>153441832I think if anyone is a stray Neko Ninja brat it would be Kiyoko. Her physical abilities are way too high.
>>153435718I can't believe Inspector Ishida is fucking dead.
>>153435759Usagi's like "Always tell me the numbers!"
>>153439716His pelvic muscles would stay contracted and make him whizz even harder; the medical term is rigor morpiss.
>>153442021Kiyoko's dad is a near mythical ninja who fucked Kitsune then disappeared like a true master nin! Now Kitsune raises her freak of nature daughter as a thief apprentice.
>>153437535His indignation, along with his overall talent for command and tactics makes me wonder if he really was a deposed lord or general who has been reduced to doing whatever it takes, like Stray Dog mentioned earlier. But I guess we'll never know Jimmu's story.
>>153434923Dude's got a pretty unique style, I like it.
>>153434967I know I've seen this guy before, but I'm drawing a blank here.
>>153434983>Oh boy, here I go meddling again!
>>153435495Agreed, that's why I like him. If Jotaro is basically Kid Usagi but with more humility, Yukichi is basically teen/YA Usagi had he never been screwed over by Hikiji.
>>153437469That's Gen's motto.>"Hey, Usagi, look over there!">Gee, whaddya know, the dead bandit's purse just fell into my hands, guess the gods want me to have this.
Welcome back to the death rattle tally! Here are the new scream found in today's storytime:>Jii!: 1>Crawk!: 1See attachment for total cry so far. As always, if you have any questions about the count, feel free to ask.
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>>153435947Lady you don't know Stray Dog the way Gen does.
>>153442295>They did the math
>>153441479I prefer the black and white look
>>153441320This is not that kind of manga.
>>153440840If Noriyuki was smart (and became smitten with Tomoe for some reason), he could probably make it work by being adamant about needing to secure the family bloodline ASAP and also wanting a wife that isn't highly vulnerable to being Feudal Japan'd. His family among others have been the target of assassins. He could argue that having a skilled onna-bugeisha as a wife would mean having a wife that can defend herself or their children from assassinations, and in the current turbulent times, that would best serve the clan's interests. A political marriage is of no value to the Geishus if the result is his family tree gets cut down by shinobi. That can wait until the next generation when there's spares and hopefully less assassination attempts. He should have favor from the Shogunate especially after Dragon Bellows and Tomoe's brother should be in favor of his sister marrying up and making him the brother-in-law to a powerful lord.
>>153442558but we got see Inazuma's gazongas!!it's only fair we get the barest glimpse of yukichi's small yet firm bosom!
>>153442063That takes a while to kick in.
>>153441968
>>153434999A FUCKING CROW.
>>153435011>Yata GarasuDon't allow him near Chaos Emperor Dragon.
>>153435548Usagi is the power walking champion of Japan.
>>153435389While I agree, in this particular case it feels like a way to introduce SD to Yukichi without giving him a dedicated story.
>>153435061Yukichi you dumb fuck, you truly are related to Usagi.
>>153435370>>153435380damn, not even a "leave your shit and we'll let you go"just straight to murder.
>>153435389>>153442952This particular arc is really about Stray Dog and Yukichi more so than Gen or Usagi. A standoff of the sidekicks, if you will. Although I'm sure Stray Dog would resent that characterization.
>>153435418>>153435423lots of yeahs in these pages.
>>153435073I do find it funny how Usagi will only ever accept sake for the sake of courtesy, not because he likes it. It's the most Japanese thing ever.
>>153435261who was this guy again
>>153435087This is what you get for meddling in things you don't understand, Usagi.
>>153435437>loyalty should go both waysTRVTH NVKEbushidocels will never uunderstand
>>153442973Given that Jimmu has successfully hid the true size of his gang up until this point, a "none shall survive" approach is strategically important to keeping their profile lower. If word gets out that he's practically raising an army, the crackdown against them will become that much more intense.
>>153439200Oh man, imagine if Yukichi was in that story instead of Jotaro. He'd probably have an existential crisis.
>>153435130Fuck, can't go five feet in Japan without some bandits and bounty hunters up your ass.
>>153435158Yukichi you gullible fuck.
>>153435171Lil' bastard coming in clutch.
>>153435061>Cousin, huh? Sure, whatever.Hmmmm...
>>153443019The guy questing to recover a lost sword in volume 27. The scar and ragged appearance are new, the ruthless disposition is not.
>>153434967>>153435254>>153435261Took me a bit to recognize this guy, I keep mixing him up with the Shogun's Bible hunters.
>>153436951Teams Ishida and Sanshobo remain strong!
>>153435209>how can we not succeed?Way to jynx it, Gen.
>>153435222Welp, Yukichi's on his own. Gonna be interesting to have him as the Usagi of the story.
>>153440625Jesus, the entire Edo period was just one elaborate humiliation ritual for everyone who wasn't one of the Tokugawa's personal fuck-buddies, wasn't it?
>>153439716I think the muscles contracting after death would cut the stream off.
>>153435268Yukichi shut the fuck up!
>>153441289because you're a child on deviantart in 2006
>>153443406A government of professional warriors is the least stable possible thing if the warriors aren't kept from just using violence to improve their situation. The Shogun was not a king and he could be betrayed as replaced; Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who preceded Tokugawa tried desperately to get everyone around him to pledge to support his son after his death...but it didn't work.
>>153443483correctsee: pretty much all of african history including todayso many military juntas
>>153443483>>153443406It's either be wrangled or be the wrangler
>>153435283Oh SHIT.
>>153441094If it happened to Usagi he might have pulled a Scrooge Mcduck and murdered the dude with his bare hands.
>>153439971It might be a spear. Or he was carrying a spear. The tapestry has been mended a few times and another scene is him being chopped with swords.
>>153435283
>>153443227he's eventually gonna get in some kind of trouble for this sword, isn't he?
>>153443406Its what happens when your government doesn't establish any legitimacy except through force of armsViolence is the ultimate authority from which all other authority is derived but you still need all the dressings later on. Other leaders would've sidestepped those problems by leading foreign excursions, trying to start colonial empires that would help the young and restless blow off steam where it doesn't hurt the homeland while also allowing upwards mobility in other places by outright creating new lands and roles but tokugawa wanted complete isolationism out of constant fear for his power base overthrowing him the second some euroes felt like meddling
>>153439971He's carrying a spear in his other hand, which is depicted differently from the arrow. The English soldier to the left also clearly has some arrows embedded in his shield.I've heard the later part might be a eye-arrow-wounded Harold being finished off, or even a dead Harold's body being mutilated by a Norman knight, who was punished by Duke William for this behavior.
>>153442542Excel (and its spinoffs) are a boon for someone to track an excessive amount of different things like cries.
>>153437599I like to think Stray Dog kept up his grim and tough act all the way to the orphanage. Really just giving Isamu hell right before letting him into a new home.
>>153435303The audacity of this dude to show Usagi his cousin's broken sword.
>>153435348Even the Woodcutters are in on this?!
>>153435412LMAO.
>>153443818How else do you think they can afford so many houses all over the country?
>>153443003Yeah.
>>153437310>>153437440It does like it might be a survivorship bias sort of issue. Mail armor typically left the face exposed so it makes sense that's where a lot of kill shots landed.
>>153435437What's sad is that he's not even wrong here.
>>153435011This is actually kind of odd. We never really see any other individual working with a perfectly mundane animal right?Yeah there are horses, but they exist to carry people and die there's no attachment. Noriyuki has his one mute dwarf he pretends is a domestic dog. Everything else we see are usually just people fighting with Tokage. The old chatterbox of the mountain made bird cages but I don't think we ever saw any pet birds at any point. I know it's the Pluto Problem, it just makes things like this stick out more than usual.
>>153440917You are correct that each panel is the next 100th but I think it's just a simple miscommunication. Top left filename should be 100 through 900. Originally I was just going to stitch each thread's milestone together (the 200 through 400 picture for example) but a thread or two ago, someone asked for the previous day's milestones. So I just started updating the previous day's image with each new milestone panel, if that makes sense. Today's would be 100 through 1100.
>>153440840>MANLY eyebrows of bushido on Jimmu>but no honor!He's not the first to have the formidable eyebrows yet use them for dishonorable acts, there was a crooked samurai last week:>>153325350 >>153330058
>>153444021>crookedHe was an agent of the Shogun hunting in forbidden zealots. If anything, he was the most honorable person in that arc.
>>15344174220 miles a day in a straight path over level ground, preferably with a road.. Winding mountain trails like 90% of Japan is far worse.
>>153435899Inuyoshi, bro, you should have listened to Usagi when you first met him and went to work for the Geishu. You could've got a letter of introduction from Usagi and everything. ...Though it'd be a nice twist if he actually did try that after a bit of wandering and Horikawa had refused to even let him talk to Tomoe or Noriyuki.
>>153435481>yeah, me too!
>>153443710>Excel (and its spinoffs)Excel didn't invent spreadsheets, although Microsoft would be happy to hear you imply that.
>>153444045He's still murdering cops and covering it up and doing other heinously dishonorable shit.
>>153443882We have seen crows before. I don't think there have been any other birds, but definitely crows.Other mentions of domestic animals that we never see are pet cats and Yukcihi's desire to eat chicken in this volume. Odd in context, but I also wonder what sort of domestic animals were actually raised in Japan in this time period.
>>153435494>money money money
>>153435515>where are your parents?Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy.
>>153435533>lead us to the temple and we'll keep you out of harms wayYou said that to the last kid that tried to help you and he got ganked by Komori.
>>153435547There's always a Starscream with these bandit gangs.
>>153435613Wow, the kid actually survived. Color me shocked, because that usually doesn't happen.
>>153443882The snake dude but he's also a more recent oneOld usagi was just horses, falcons, tokage, and foxes which were inevitably yokai
>>153444184Oh god, suddenly I've realized it's been over 20 years now since internet retards convinced a good chunk of the public that automatic kerning was invented by Microsoft Word, in the stupidest journalism "scandal" of my lifetime
>>153444294>Odd in context, but I also wonder what sort of domestic animals were actually raised in Japan in this time period.For the most part, large scale animal husbandry wasn't that big a part of Japanese agriculture. Not just because the land use involved was better spent on raising crops but because of social stigma involved with slaughtering and processing animal carcasses. Butchers, tanners, and the like were eta. Plus there were plenty of fish in the sea as well as game in the forests and mountains if you wanted meat. (Why raise pigs in farms if you can go out and get boar if you want? These gaijin are crazy.) Since meat wasn't really a goal, large animals such as oxen, cattle, water buffalo, and horses were mostly used as draft animals and as walking fertilizer factories. Milk or beef basically only become popular in Japan after the Meiji Restoration.Far as small animals are concerned, there were chickens, quail, ducks, and dogs though eating the last was banned by a shogun about a century after the time Usagi was set.
>>153444676Were you eta if you killed fish?
>>153435947What a tweest. Who doesn't love a scoundrel who secretly has a heart of gold?
>>153444705I think fishermen were just part of the peasant caste. Not that things weren't regimented in what you could do back then though; if your village was designated as a farming village, then that's what you were supposed to do and not waste your time fishing when it could be spent raising rice. Same if it was designated as a fishing village. I think the Tokugawa shogun after the current one in the series was the guy who declared that farmers had to hand over ALL of their crops after the harvest and then depend on the charity of their lord for enough food to live on.
>>153441780The current record of being back after a break goes to Kenichi and Mariko: 29 years and 218 issues.Tomoe is more tricky. If we count her not appearing physically in the main run, then it's 20 years and 132 issues. If we count flashbacks and fever dreams, then it's 19 years and 124 issues, but that opens the door to dead characters and screw that.If we count any new publication from "Usagiverse" with feudal Tomoe, then it gets very complicated (Senso is counted as an issue in the series, but Wherewhen is not), but it's 7 years and 45 issues long break at lest and 8 years and 59 issues at most.
>>153444872>farmers had to hand over ALL of their crops after the harvest and then depend on the charity of their lord for enough food to live onwasn't the pharaoh of old and middle kingdoms the same? Though they had a dedicated method of returning beer and bread back to the farmers outside of harvest season with public building projects
>>153435668Well that was quick. Really seemed like no ones heart was in the confrontation to begin with and got an easy way out of it.
>>153435684Honestly probably for the best he dealt with the Starscream beforehand.
>>153435548dunno why you got so many replies going "12 miles is perfectly doable in a day" when your point was specifically that the comic says "a couple hours"
>>153435696>Yukichi now carries the soul of a dishonorable RoninPretty cool concept, ngl.
>>153442542Ask Murderanon how he got his name. Doing the math is our traditiooon - TRADITION! - here.>>153442565>Tomoe's brother should be in favor of his sister marrying up and making him the brother-in-law to a powerful lord.That's a whole other thing. Even if it was only supposed to be "she's my mistress" thing, whoring out your daughter or sister to a horny lord may get you his favor (and refusal his ire). Considering how women were treated in general, I think most samurai would agree to that deal. Which means even a proud samurai warrior woman who loves another and doesn't care about gaining influence over her lord through bed, would have nothing to say. Unless she decides to kill herself, that is.
>>153445073>dunno why you got so many repliesThis is why>it's going to take you all day to walk>You'll be lucky to get there before nightfallAn army with full baggage would be expected to make that march inside of a day with enough light to make camp by the end, let alone two lone guys with zero extra weight besides some swords and rice balls
>>153435741Jesus, the sheer whiplash of this page.
>>153435481>me, too!Oh damn
>>153445199you know what, anon, I got distracted answering you with speculating what time of day it is, etc, and I'm realising it's disconnected with the actual point which is that Usagi says they'd do a town that's 4 ri away in a couple hours- let's charitably say that means 3 hours, that's still doing circa 7kph which isn't impossible but definitely feels optimistic as an estimate.I'm posting the original post anyway because I bothered to write it-We have no reason to assume the comic is starting at precisely daybreak, in fact we can contextually assume that it must already be at least around midday- we saw them head off at dawn at the end of the previous story, and they had to walk down all the mountains, so we can assume a few hours have passed. It's also still around winter, so we can assume dusk will be a bit earlier. If we assume they're around Hokkaido, since it's "the north" and a snow area, and it's around winter, then the daybreak will have been around 7am, and the end of the day will be around 4pm, meaning 9 hours. So if we assume of those 9 hours probably 2 or 3 were already lost going down the mountains, that's about 6 hours left. We also have no reason to assume they're doing a marching pace, especially as they'll be tired after all that happened in the mountains. Playing with averages, they're probably walking about a ri per hour; so Usagi estimating that in just (then I realised what I did in the first paragraph)
>>153444705Fish weren't considered real meat, just like in Catholicism where you can eat fish even during major holidays, when you are supposed to avoid meat. That's why Japan has such a massive seafood culture and why people in Poland consume absurd amounts of fish during Christmas.
>>153436122Fuck! Can't believe it's gonna be over! Thanks for the storytime, Murdersama, now I got a new comic series to perseverate over>>153436367Crow, meet Owl
>>153445474It's not close to over! There are fun as fuck spin-offs, crazy (in a good way) possible endings, crossovers (mostly of the Turtle kind) and an actual semi-historical samurai story left.By the way, what's your stance on rock operas?
>>153441259>>153441289>>153441320You are all homosexuals but that's okay because I crave samurai rabbit twink, too
>>153445460>Fish weren't considered real meatI'll take a moment to possibly trigger the vegans by reminding them that pescatarian is a vegetarian stricture.>"I'm with you guys!"
>>153445511Guess I enjoy picrel... something tells me that it's gonna be very relevant to our Bushido bunny
>>153445346>If we assume they're around Hokkaido, since it's "the north" and a snow areaIt's definitely not Hokkaido, Usagi and Yukichi left Hikiji's province (called Sendai Province in the introduction to Ice and Snow but Mutsu in real life) at the start of the previous volume. They're probably in either Shimotsuke or Kozuke.
>>153445134I want to imagine Bromoe Ame is a total siscon who would do anything for his sisters happiness. I mean think about it, sword school schmord school his sister is basically on of the immediate hands of their lord, a position that so eclipses his own we forget he exists most of the time. And despite this his intestine remain wakazashi free as he feels no shame in this.
>>153440295>only one woman and the children born by her could be recognized as the wife of a man and his true-born children and heirsWouldn't that mean there was no reason to kill Lady Maple and Kotaro? Since she wasn't the lord's wife Kotaro would have no claim to power.
>>153445474>Crow, meet Owl
>>153445906>Feudal Japan>Double ultra mega futile Oh nooooOOOoooooo
>>153445898>I want to imagine Bromoe Ame is a total siscon who would do anything for his sisters happinessHe's actually a spoiled dick that only inherited the school because it would have been improper for his sister (well, sisters) to do so.
>>153445073Last time I walked a mile I timed it and it only took me ~18 minutes. Considering Usagi and Yukichi are in much better shape than me so if we round that down to 15, 12 miles would be roughly 3 hours, which checks out with >>153445346 's estimate.
>>153445906Kotaro is apparently Yamahashi's only child and Lady Maple had actual papers signed by him declaring Kotaro legitimate.
>>153442525She knows Stray Dog biblically.
>>153442620That one kinda arced over your head in a solid stream, huh.
>>153445946I mean, they're in better shape but they're also coming down from a freezing mountain after days on end of fighting monster cats, bandits with a slasher villain, a yuki-onna, and ninja
>>153443483>A government of professional warriors is the least stable possible thingFeudalism in Europe lasted for over a thousand years. The rule of the French kings specifically extended from Hugo Capet circa 900 to 1793. The problem isn't the warriors, the problem is what this anon mentions: >>153443631In a situation where there is no settled source of legitimacy everyone with any access to power thinks he could be the caliph instead of the caliph and murder and backstabbing is the norm. Joseph Le Maistre wrote about this in the aftermath of the French Revolution, saying that the revolutionaries hadn't just killed the king but the entire structure of legitimacy of the ancien regime, which was worse than anything the ancien regime had done to the people because now every cobbler and baker in the land would think he could be the next ruler. He's considered an edgy read now beacuse he was much more conservative than modern liberals are comfortable with, but if you look at the French 19th (and even 20th) century it's hard to call him wrong.
>>153445460>>153445545It's not that strange when you remember most pre-modern categorizations had more to do with practical considerations than objective attempts to understand the world outside of yourself.Most prescriptions on meat, and taboos around handling it, can be thought of less as being about the specific animals as understand them and rather focusing on the idea of "purity" that coalesced around it. It might seem odd that cultures on the opposite side of the planet might have similar taboos about land mammal meat and fish meat, but it makes sense once you remember these animals could be literally unclean. A fish has diseases and parasites and the like, and one probably shouldn't eat it raw, but the vast differences in its environment compared to means it's just not gonna have to much crossover with the truly dangerous sicknesses. Whereas a land mammal, especially pigs, are much more similar biologically and tend to live in similar environments (and often in close quarters with humans.) Aside from the smell being more of a problem, everything about this makes them much more likely to have something that'll make a person really sick. It makes sense to proscribe it, and even makes sense to otherize the people who handle it, lest they give you something they caught.It's still not entirely "practical," and obviously different places had bigger and smaller taboos alongside other local pressures pushing them towards using or not using certain animals. But people have always been trying to understand the world, and before it was possible to really observe the totality of it, people did the best they could to land on things that, at least, would not make things worse (for certain period of time anyway. I'm sure the Eta didn't think it was that great a deal).
>>153435515+1 Orphan.How many are we at?
>>153444294>I don't think there have been any other birds, but definitely crows.Noriyuki is out hunting pheasants that time Tomoe gets lost in the mist. I think there's a scene of Mifune hunting pheasants too, but I might be confusing this with robo-pheasants in Space Usagi.
>>153445460>Fish weren't considered real meatIndeed and that is why catholic church would declare some bizarre creatures as fish, like guinea pigs for instance.The Main reason for this particular one, was the fact that the Incan population living in south-america, was particularly fond of said meat and were wiling to ignore church orders for lent, just to munch on them.So, to not lose face or authority, the church decided to categorize the guinea pigs as fish, for purposes of following religious eating habits.
>>153446174From what I can tell I beleive that puts the count at 23.
>>153446141But that's the point anon is making, anon: the warriors of Europe achieved the difficult goal of legitimizing their positions. In a way that was outside of purely martial character. Sure, your landed nobility must display certain warrior traits, but the actual thing that mattered was hereditary and the belief that such bloodlines had not only rights and God himself backstopped them.You must be more than warriors. Japan essentially went backwards on this: they had a ruler with built in legitimacy, but then the warriors carved out a bunch of metaphysical area underneath to maneuver in. And in that area, only physical force seemed to matter. Not for nothing the whole concept of bushido is awkwardly retconned backwards through history. Had such a thing actually existed as imagined, the whole thing would've been different. But pretending such a thing existed is a necessity for building legitimacy afterwards.It, of course, would continue to not work all the way up until (and after!) the 19th-20th century Imperial project. Right up until the Japanese surrendered, during the surrender process, you had a bunch of mid-ranked crazy officers running around trying to do everything from attack the American leaders to fucking kidnapping the Emperor (in the name of the Emperor!) because the Meiji restoration actually fucked it all up again. The Meiji government ostensibly restored the Emperor to his position, but in actuality it was just another group of warriors doing whatever the fuck they felt like. All it taught the frustrated young men was you could do a lot of stuff unilaterally and say it was for the betterment of your superiors. Officers on the ground would just go ahead and attack and invade places, against both the implicit and explicit orders of the generals back home. You had political assassinations of high level ministers, carried out in the name of the Emperor, who would then get mad and point out they had killed his own fucking men in his name.
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>>153444954>The current record of being back after a break goes to Kenichi and Mariko: 29 years and 218 issues.Holy crap, I'd forgotten about that. Fathers and Sons to Homecoming? Okay, that's not getting broken any time soon.
>>153445073I also don't really get it. I didn't want to start a large autistic backpack argument with half a dozen anons so I let it slide, but I don't think they read my post.>>153445346Right, it's clearly midday when he makes the remark but either way, doing it in a couple hours means they have to ruck it over uneven terrain at a clip of 4-5 mph, wearing straw sandals.
>>153446146Pork also goes bad very quickly in warm conditions. It's something about the composition of the fat. That's why pork has been specifically regarded as unclean even in several meat-eating cultures.
>>153446141>if you look at the French 19th (and even 20th) century it's hard to call him wrong.Total nonsense. France's problems have nothing whatsoever to do with their leaders not being a bunch of inbred royals.
>>153446244>It, of course, would continue to not work all the way up until (and after!) the 19th-20th century Imperial project.You don't say!
>>153445906if the lord legitimized the bastard then its still a possible power strugglethe law says what it says from people trying to pull up the ladder behind him, it doesn't change the will of the vassals
>>153435548>>153446339>>153445073When I was in elementary school I used to hike with my grandparents in the mountains - not hills, actual rocky, steep mountains - at least 10 times a year. Our favorite route was about 21 miles long and it usually took us a little over 8 hours to finish. An 11 year old and two people in their early 60s. I think two samurai in their prime who are used to daily long walks could do that much faster.
>>153443998Gotcha, thanks!>>153442565What I meant was the shogunate would probably approve his marriage to Tomoe right away. It didn't threaten their interests, it only serves to isolate and weaken Noriyuki by him throwing away his only wife slot. It's a bad move politically all around, and you never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake (yes he is technically the shogun's staunch ally and vassal but you know how these people are).>>153444872>I think the Tokugawa shogun after the current one in the series was the guy who declared that farmers had to hand over ALL of their crops after the harvest and then depend on the charity of their lord for enough food to live on.That doesn't sound right to me. I'm sure that would have resulted in a nationwide IKKI immediately.>>153443406Humiliation ritual is right. As the Edo period went on and the financial situation for both the bakufu itself and the provincial daimyo got worse and worse, it became customary for the samurai receiving a stipend to """""loan""""" a part of it back to their lord ("onkariage," it was understood this loan was never going to be paid back).Source: Samurai and Merchant in Mid-Tokugawa Japan: Tani Tannai’s Record of Daily Necessities (1748-54). https://doi.org/10.2307/2652704
>>153445199>besides some swords and rice ballsThere's no need to be this lewd AND racist just because they're Japanese, anon.
>>153435548>>153445073>>153445199>>153446562Before we turn this into this years backpack talk, let's also consider another thing nobody here has yet talked about.While Usagi says it'll take them couple of hours to travel, we forget that in Feudal Japan(tm) they counted their hours differently.Instead of having 24 equal length hours, they had 12 hours, the length of which varied based on the time of year, with winter hours being shorter than summer hours.For reference, here's how their hours were divided.Dawn (6th Hour): Rabbit (卯, u)Morning: Dragon (辰, tatsu)Mid-morning: Snake (巳, mi)Noon (9th Hour): Horse (午, uma)Afternoon: Goat (未, hitsuji)Late afternoon: Monkey (申, saru)Dusk (6th Hour): Rooster (酉, tori)Evening: Dog (戌, inu)Nightfall: Boar (亥, i)Midnight (9th Hour): Rat (子, ne)Late night: Ox (丑, ushi)Before dawn: Tiger (寅, tora)
>>153446244The warrior class could've achieved legitimacy through other means but at no point did they ever stop the whole dual capitals business where the actual aristocracy was completely separate from the functional rulers.As far back as the roman republic you had landed gentry who were raised from lower classes purely out of military achievement the difference is that they also started acting the part of being responsible for their lands and first men to risk everything fighting for them. Aristocrat families were called upon regularly to prove their worth in combat in europe. They not only got the religious and hereditary backing but they also regularly reaffirmed their right to rule by showing that they're still a credible threat to their enemies, a welcome boon to their friends, and lordly and generous to their subordinates. A count who wins battles and showers his swords with spoils, titles and lands, will always remain in charge until an act of God droughts the land. Tokugawa chose the opposite path, to carefully starve everyone out so they couldn't hope to truly stand together, because he shut everyone up in the one island instead of letting everyone roam wild and free onto the mainland. He chose to employ the extremely precarious balancing act, one which required blind devotion and loyalty at multiple levels, instead of just out and out crushing any complainers and leading the winners to take manchuria or something. Fear over love type shit
>>153446599>this year's backpack talkOh fuck no.I think they're fit and fast and used to walking and we all should just shut up and take their word for it.
>>153435747Yata Garasu you fucking snitch.
>>153435775Oh that kid is so dead.
>>153435846They slayed an entire army's worth of men, holy shit.
>>153435863>>153435871Get fucked.
>>153435899RIP.
>>153436041I feel like it's a bit different here because of Inuyoshi. I get the impression that hUsagi was rooting for him to live a better life, so to see someone he helped die like this is more devastating than usual.
>>153435929Oh sweet, kid got a decent home after all.
>>153441289>>153441320>>153445514More of a twunk guy
>>153435940It's sweet how he immediately went back to being a kid now that he no longer has to grow up fast.
>>153436122Thanks OP. Pretty solid set of stories once again. I really liked how this was focusing on giving Yukichi some characterization, he really shined here.
>>153435443IIRC researchers have gone out wearing stupid masks harassing crows until they got a bad name for themselves, then waited until that entire generation of crows had died off. When they then went out again with the same masks but doing nothing unusual, local crows STILL hated them. So they can actually tell their descendants about you, and have enough language to at least vaguely describe you without needing to point you out.
>>153435443>>153446771>anon_raises_a_crow_army.gif
>>153446848murder and enma end up on tv for raising an army of million crows>but why? news reporters around the globe asked>for the final war against resurrected hikiji and hijiki>stan sakai's spirit smiles down at us like shinzo abe's smile that wishes the Japanese youth would reproduce
>>153444184If I refered instead to LANPAR and VisiCalc, lots of anons here wouldn't know what that is. But you're right, the right term I should have used is digital spreadsheets.
>>153437268>>153438554>>153437268fellas...
>>153444569please elaborate
>>153445032Not as far as I know. They tended to have extensive granaries to give food back to the public in times of famine, and they could impose taxes in the form of labour toward building public works, you might be mixing those two up. But "Old and Middle Kingdom" spans a metric shit ton of history.
>>153447427More than once supposedly pre-digital documents have been attacked as fakes on the basis of kerning. Phototypesetting will have kerning; typewritten documents will not.
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>>153443882Mammals sans horses are replaced by tokague but birds and other types of animals seem to be fair game.
>>153448480>usasgi>inciteA good base memetic, but needs editing.
>>153435283Penile fracture
>>153448557yeah its a first attempt - might use it for the next readathonany recommendations?
>>153445460Why so many cultures don't consider fish meat. Crabs I get they are goo until cooked but fish have bones, muscle and all the red and white stuff, they are unquestionable meat.
>>153435283>>153448629!!!!
>>153448678Fix the typos, use consistent capitalization of names, either use periods (.) or ellipses(...), not just two dots.
>>153441289Who's the bigger Samurai Twink>Netflix Usagi >Yukichi
>>153448877never do something like this ever again. I could almost feel it. >>153445474there's a lot more left, don't worry. new thread here: >>153449934
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>>153447427I'm specifically thinking of "Rathergate" where a document that said George W. Bush was awol from his national guard duties (a fact that was already attested by loads of witnesses anyway, and should have surprised no one) was supposedly super fake>because of some of the kerning and having seen a few Word documents in my time>>153448258>Phototypesetting will have kerning; typewritten documents will not.Except that autokerning typewriters were sold by IBM since the 60s, and IBM were the main suppliers for the US government, which reduces the "proof" to mere speculation that they probably didn't have one of those more expensive models, because the military never wastes money contracting for costly gizmos.
>>153442149>His indignation, along with his overall talent for command and tactics makes me wonder if he really was a deposed lord or general who has been reduced to doing whatever it takesSeems the most likely option, though the fact he calls himself Jimmu makes me wonder if he's was just a peasant with a natural talent at commanding and big aspirations.
>>153452218>be peasant levy>watch your commander make obvious tactical mistakes>get the peasants in your unit to listen to you thanks to your charisma>save lord's ass with clever maneuvering>your reward is him saying "war's over, get your ass back to farming. those taxes wont pay themselves!"I'd go into freelancing, too
>>153444872Even the Shogun ended up being a glorified bandit, fucking hell.
>>153452365You'd be lucky if he did that.He might as well have you killed for being too clever for your position.
>>153453967That's basically all that kings are, jumped-up bandits who settled in for the long haul, offering to protect you from the other bandits if you let them steal a sustainable amount of whatever you made or earned.
>>153451855>picking rathergate of all hills to die onCome on that shit was fake as fuck
>>153455038>die onA gaggle of screeching wikipedia-experts should never have been taken seriously by anybody. And the document wasn't some sort of bombshell, it was pointless, it only said what everybody already knew from people who were there -- Dubya was a rich-kid fratboy who skived off from his bullshit air national guard job to go partying all the time, because who the fuck is going to launch an aerial attack on Texas anyway?
>>153455128>Also on September 10, The Dallas Morning News reported, "the officer named in one memo as exerting pressure to 'sugarcoat' Bush's military record was discharged a year and a half before the memo was written.[78] The paper cited a military record showing that Col. Walter 'Buck' Staudt was honorably discharged on March 1, 1972, while the memo cited by CBS as showing that Staudt was interfering with evaluations of Bush was dated August 18, 1973."[79]Come on man, get real. This is just one thing wrong with it, I'm not even going to bother going in depth about the source of documents history of fraud, or the people close to the office these were supposedly made in attesting to their lack of authenticity, or how not a single credible expert has ever backed up their authenticity (cbs selectively quoting people is just fraud), or the other millions of things wrong including the autokerning typewriter cope. (Said typewriter requires typing the same line twice to get it to add kerning. If you don't see any problem with this then you're beyond all help.)This is just such a bizarre thing to stay so mad about and to bring up in an usagi storytime on /co/ of all places more than 20 years later.
>>153455483Fair enough. (I should say I don't actually care if Dubya blew off his duties, I think it makes him more likable) I was mostly just irritated by talking heads blithely repeating the false claim that it was impossible for typewriters to do kerning all throughout that nonsense.
>>153455549If you want to stick your head in the sand and keep insisting they were totally real, then be my guest. Doesn't change how strange it is to be so obsessed with it here of all places.
>>153455723>keep insistingI didn't? Relax, my dude.
>>153441289Because you are a HOMOSEXUAL. Next question?>>153445514When it's samurai, it's called shodo.
>>153439716Yes. I would show you but liveleak is gone. No pun intendedd.
>>153435515Stray Dog kinda letting it out he isn't as mean and cynical as he seems, as if that kind of guy would care about where this kid's parents are.
>>153455751>I didn't? You did? >Relax, my dude.picrel
>>153456434What do you think "fair enough" means? Past that point you're just continuing to argue with somebody who's not me.
