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>>153478796Space Usagi part 2 themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rpXOgyazRo
>>153478814it's a little early for that but I won't complain.
>>153478821>SHAAA SHAAA SHAAAA SHAAA SHAAAAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1AAXRu3TBA
KOROSHI!
>>153478869>Kumanoh minoru>little bear>Ursa Minor STAAAAAAAN!!!!
>>153478929https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaLe1ZZ97S0
>>153478860One thing I miss about Gen from the mainline comics were moments like these. He always joked that him and Usagi were "best friends", but there was a point where that sentiment felt genuine, even if neither would actually admit it.
>>153478972>>153478985You were saying?
>>153479014Move zig!For great justice!
>>153478814god that sound track is so good. also this is your yearly reminder to go read the nausicaa manga, it blows the movie out of the water.
>>153470518maybe I was wrong, these are the space emishi.
>>153479029I second this statementt: anon who got lord Enma into pottery, by recommending him and the rest of this thread Hyouge mono. READ THAT ONE TOO, IT'S GREAT!
>>153478821No fancy new coloured version for this volume?
>>153479042A FUCKING ROCK!
>>153479070not yet, no.
I swear that ninja is doing the wilhelm scream, I could hear it.
>>153479085Was there ever a colored version of Space Usagi 2?
>>153479077So we know in the years after this, Stan backports some of the unique elements of Space Usagi back to normal Usagi. With that in mind, I'm wondering if that time where he tries to be carried and hates it might be a reference to this
>>153479120stormtrooper tier accuracy.
>>153479123I don't actually know...
>>153478842>what's pulp?
>>153479163>What's pulp?The Corporate answerhttps://www.upmpulp.com/
>>153479163Pulping is defined as a process in which woody raw materials are refined to produce pulp, with mechanical pulping being energy-intensive and cellulases used to enhance efficiency and quality by reducing energy consumption and improving pulp characteristics.
>>153478929>Real human being>and a real hero!>>153479193but how does it compare to mulch
>>153479207about 20% funnier than mulch, guaranteed!
>>153479238The Real treasure was the loyalty of our vassals all along!
>>153479258Naw, I was just messing with you, the real treasure was metric tons of gold!>>153479251
>>153479273Holy shit, they are all Kagemarus!
>>153479282When did this come out? Did Stan copy treasure planet, or vice versa?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a5O5_ehLI0
>>153479285every single one of them are running their own schemes to become the new leader of the space neko.
>>153479288hey hold on she specifically calls out earlier that she lost her slingdoing the noprize assumption she took one from her body's corpse or something
THE OL' RELIABLE
>>153478913Was it really necessary for them to stick the tracking device in his brain? Wouldn't it make more sense to put it somewhere it isn't competing for space with a vital organ? Fleshy part of the thigh, maybe?
>>153479374Was this story made before the previous one? Something about the art feels prior
>FLOO!: 36
>>153479029Yes, it does. Like Akira, the manga goes far beyond the movie, and Nausicaa's manga goes some incredible places.
>>153479385you're right, it was published earlier! good eyes.
>>153479060Ikm ashmed to say I opened a tab for it last year, and have realized I've had it open an entire year.
and this is all we have for space usagi...
...until recently. kinda. these two new stories came bundled with the new color editions, I believe:
>jizo statues: 259
>>153479070>>153479123>>153479147Unlike previous two, this volume was never in color. It was also published by Dark Horse (previous two were Mirage).
>>153479450Hai?
>>153479470Holy shit
*manga = comic books
>>153479573In this bonus episode Kareem Abdul-Jabbar interprets Jei.
*mangaka = comic book author terrible lack of translation, stan. how are we supposed to know?
that's our new protagonist, Akemi- can't say I'm too fond of her.
now this story left me dumbfounded when I first read it. it's just, uh, you'll see...
>>153479553Spider bride? I thought it was translated as spider whore.
>>153479612I don't see the reason to raise a stink about it.
>>153479631quoting the quotable page
are we really doing this, stan?
>>153479553Spider wife!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaJtll5JEog
she's an usagi descendant, alright- killing in cold blood.
>>153479616THIS STORYTIME NEEDS A HERO
the terrifying implication of space france
they're all dead.
I don't know if it's because there's so little of it, but I am left wanting for more space usagi. the fact stan's art is at its prime is definitely part of it too. not too fond of akemi, but we're not really the target audience anyway. tune in tomorrow for Kaitō '84 ! let's see if it's as good as some anons make it out to be...
>>153472746>those tabs
>>153479631>>153479637>>153479648We clearly aren't the intended target of this story. Besides Enma, that is.
>>153479842Is that the same mysterious cat/raccoon in the centre that's in one of the covers for the yuki-onna story?
>>153479766>they're all deadGronko!
>>153479930you're right. no clue who or what he is, though.
>>153479956Wonder if it's just like, their family cat or something
>>153479842Always a pleasure to read these with you, Murder.IMO Kaito has some pacing issues (then again, it's only two issues right now, things could change), besides that I think the art is great and the story has bee pretty good too.Editfags note: Deleted the earlier post, because I noticed all the mistakes in my first picture, also wasn't happy with the first panel, so redid Usagi's mouth in that one. Hopefully I got all the mistakes right in this improved version of Usagi's spider wife.
>>153479601backpack
>>153480442TECH-HERESY!
>>153478814https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOYnGG1WJxM
>>153479719AKEMI and the secret! Part invasion¡ Three
>>153479238Maybe the treasure was t he friends we made a long the way >>153479251Or a shit ton of gold. Also good.
>>153480476>in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only bushido
>>153479306You know one of these Space Usagi is going to try and duel his way out of a situation and they're just going to say NO. That's stupid.
>>153479621probably should have scanned BEFORE I opened the hatch and there's still the matter of potential airborne pathogens but whatever
>>153479956THAT'S the Shogunate spy who's telling all about Usagi! The stealthiest man in Japan, walking at your shoulder through all your adventures, completely unseen! He is your SHADOOOOOW
>>153478894Lord Tamanegi is literally named Onion.
>>153479353I don't think it is in his brain. I think Takenoko's point is they would've had to mess with his brain *if* they wanted a bigger battery, which is clearly a bad idea so the range is limited.
>>153479123If you mean this arc, it's Space Usagi 3 (arc 2 was White Star Rising), and as Anon says, no, it was never issued in color.
>>153480990Kick punch it's all in the mind
>>153479181>The neko ninja of yore were masters of jobbing. I built my organiztion of stealth-jobbers upon their teachings!
>>153481027I know that, I'm saying that if they put it somewhere else in his body they'd be able to make it bigger without worrying
>>153479314>in both of Space Usagi's duels, a friend of Usagi's is planning to completely disregard honor and just blast the piss out of the other guy if he winsTwo nickels, etc.
>>153479359Space Usagi has some brutal ass kills.
>>153479273>GENMA! BURN IN YOUR GOLDEN HELL!!!
>>153479612She's alright. It probably doesn't do her any favors that her big breakout adventure was the planet of the farting tribbles.
>>153479442So this adventure takes place before any of Usagi's other adventures, apparently.
>>153481274Scar status checks out.
Is it over? I was skeptical but I'd love like five more space usagi storytimes
>>153481315If you want more feudal japan in space, check out Battletech, the setting. The Cartoon is mid as fuck, but the setting is great.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQhzlXcmTzw2:45 for the relevant part.
>>153481315That's pretty much how we all felt the first time reading Space Usagi.>The fuck is this?>Hey, it's pretty cool.>What do you mean it's over already?!
>>153481379thanks anon will give it a look>>153481436yeah lol it's cool as fuck. Usagi meeting Usagi has so much potential for an adventure.
>In the grim darkness of the far future there is only feudal Japan
>>153481663>The Mendicant meddlers chapterNice, which legion are they founded from?
>>153481695White Scars is the designated Asian first founding chapter.
>>153481663>In every way except physical, I am a Space Wolf.>Awooooo!
>>153481734The Shirohoshi are the White Stars, Anon, not Scars.
>>153481734Huh, I could have sworn that with all the honor and loyalty stuff they would had been a Ultramarines successor chapter.On the other hand, their general friendliness to citizenry could imply Salamanders heritage.Also, this guy has a point >>153481788The Curse of Lagomorpha could be seen as a further mutation of the furry boys.
>>153479450either my japanese studies haven't advanced as far as I'd have hoped or this japanese is kind of off; it's mixing polite speech (imasu) and informal speech (tokoro DA), and that middle sentence looks off ("you're watching me often"? with the particle "ni" where it should be "o"?)yes I'm overthinking this throwaway gag
>>153481833Stan is not a first-language Japanese speaker IIRC.
>>153481829Ultramarines aren’t honorable, they’re ostentatious. They’re based on the Romans after all.
>>153481436I thought there was at least one more. Didn't he get a new love interest?
>>153479511FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS I LAY DORMANT
>>153481937But they're the ones literally screaming "COURAGE AND HONOR!" as their battlecry.>>153481990You dropped this, my king.
>>153479819Buddha Christ, what is wrong with your face, Space Usagi?
>>153479626Pootis birds
Book 44486 Usagis (18934 total)763 Panels (38195 total)76 Neko (1399 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)No Usagichi (2 total)No Yukichi (1340 total)>>153479573The catchphrase is seared into my mind now.
>>153478938Look out! Weinermonster!
>>153479956Well, from Facebook, here's an answer.>He is the mascot for Other Realms Ltd (a comic and game specialty store in Hawaii) and is a cat named Gunther. Both covers pictured above were for Other Realms exclusive variants.
>>153479056Ziggy Stardust cat is a bit of a jerk, but I can see where he's coming from
>>153483427Nice find, Anon!
>>153479144Stormtroopers are better shots, actually. They miss Luke and friends in the first movie because they've been ordered to let them escape.
>>153483332The Hentai yokai!
>>153479766This story is fine. It's just a silly kid's comedy-adventure rather than pulp action or feudal sadness.
>>153483539>they've been ordered to let them escapeWasn't that part added later?They're STILL not that bad shots as the meme tells, though; plenty of the time they're clearly just barraging rather than taking aimed shots.
>>153479139jesusspace usagi is pretty brutal
>>153481195Maybe it's so that if it's discovered, they can't just cut off the part of the body that contains the tracker, assuming they want to keep him alive.
>>153479385yeah it was really obvious right awayusagi's cheek tufts are usually the easiest way to tell what era you're in of usagi
>>153479465>Usagi cannoically roasted dozens of ninja with a sci-fi blasterI wonder what he did with it when the battery was drained.
>>153479459love the double tap
>>153479465lmao love this ending
>>153479504skull patern tokage cool
>>153479736this nigga eating beans
>>153483427oh that's really cool
>>153483838Yeah, I don't really see how this is surprising for Stan, we'd already seen Chibi Usagi at the point that came out.
>>153479631https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLwfvFRWsBE
>>153479828>Jigoku-boy Usagikek
>>153483897Nope, that's literally Vader's plot to find the rebel base in the original movie. He doesn't come right out and shout "THAT WAS MY EVIL PLOT TO FIND THE REBEL BASE!" at any point but if you're paying attention, it's clearly what they're doing, and Luke and friends are dumb enough to fall for it and lead them right to the very thing that he couldn't get Leia to reveal. Compare how the stomtroopers act in the initial scene when they're skillfully gunning down rebel fighters like trained professionals, blithely ignoring C3P0 wandering across the line of fire and staying on target, with their terrible performance later.
>>153485045By "later", I don't mean the '90s special editions, I mean the editing that went into producing the original final version. The "I'm taking an awful risk, Vader" scene is pretty odd....and Leia sees through it but lets it slide and endanger the rebel base?In a pre-release version the rebel base is never attacked by the Death Star and they proactively go out to destroy it for the sake of destroying it.
>>153485122Oh yeah, the pre-release is full of little things like that. I think it's a change for the better. The whole story makes more sense if Vader intentionally allows them to rescue Leia. It's a sensible way to repurpose a captive who isn't giving you anything useful anymore, it makes Vader and the Empire look clever, and it neatly explains the previously-deadly stormtroopers' sudden inability to hit anything and the way the Falcon was placed into a deserted hangar with just a single squad of troopers sent in to investigate with no backup waiting outside.
I wish Stan would deviate from mundane feudal Japan stuff more often, I enjoy his yokai and sci-fi creatures quite a bit
>>153485482But Vader ISN'T clever in the first movie; he's a violent, impaitent thug. Kidnapping Leia was his idea; an imperial officer complains to him that it'll backfire on them and she won't betray the rebels, but Vader is confident...but the officer was right. After torturing Leia fails he paces around bitching about it uselessly.Tarkin is the villian and Vader is his weird lackey, like in a James Bond movie.
>>153478972? I don't think there's a point where they stopped being friends. I'd also argue they have the closest connection out of anyone except maybe Usagi and Jotaro or Usagi and his master.
Space Usagi 100 milestones.
Welcome back to the death rattle tally! Here are the new screams found in today's storytime:>Ahaggh!: 1>Skee!: 1>Chyaa!: 1>Gronk!: 3>Grunk!: 1See attachment for total cry so far. As always, if you have any questions about the count, feel free to ask.
>>153480990dojocasinoits all in the mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kjljxxJOaAMakes a factual error in the first 10 seconds but still pretty cool.
>>153479374This was the one issue of Space Usagi my mom had when I was a kid (except that one was in color) and the concept fascinated me so much. I had no idea there was more. Finally reading them has been a lot of fun>>153479431I don't remember this backup comic, though
Volume 3 is my favorite Space Usagi story. Akira brings a more layered and menacing level of villainy than the previous stories, and even compared to the main comic at the time. I also like the buggs.
>>153486531Usagi being a total bro to Kiyoshi
>>153479053>>153479056I too watched Nausicaa of the valley of the wind, great manga, I recommend it.
>>153485644Same here, I like this weird aliens and drawing the cast in different clothes for a change, I really like some of the spaceships he drew, like the ship that shoot the glider in the last volume.
>>153481663I can't truly say who is more autistic the ultramarines or the Samurai,
>>153479219>>153479224For a villain I like this guy, he really feels a cut above the rest. Or maybe I'm just too used to Usagi villains being randoms that get killed quickly or cowardly bureaucrats. This guy feels like he as the brains and the brawl.
>>153479251Space Stucco!
>>153487906*brawn
>>153479273>>153479282Remember Kiyoshi's dad did all this in like 3 months in secret, he move all the money of the planet and made an elaborate trap vault in the sandy part of insect planet without anyone noticing.
>>153479306You could call it a back stabbing conga line.>>153479314>>153481217Nobody has faith in Space Usagi skills.
>>153479379Brutal
>>153479426Get it? he was unarmed so he killed him with the arm of the robot.
>>153479504https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsHKg6Q2Bh8
>>153479517Usagi really has the Goofy problem but tenfold, It sucks that half of Japanese Yokai are talking animals with clothes.
>>153479608Space Jizo.
>>153479631This feels like the Piss Wizard but for farts.
>>153479725Damn, WTF!?
>>153487842consider this. THE SAMURAI WERE REAL.
>>153479766Even in a silly fart cartoon Usagi Yojimbo continues the bleak endings.
>>153488183Actually if you think about it, the Samurai do have a divine emperor and are extremely xenophobic don't they.
>>153479447>Now neither of us will be virgins>About that...
>>153479453>Holy shit there's two of them
>>153479453This is getting is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!
>>153487626then you'll get this one
>>153488183they were real as fuck.
>>153488183Well, there's the historical samurai, and then there's the chanbara and samurai movie samurai, which are closer to Usagi Yojimbo
>>153479771I'm guessing Julie is the fart humor aficionado.
>>153481379its a little fucking weird, but I do love seeing some Draconis Combine shit in a Usagi thread.
>>153481379>TTB in my Usagi threadGod fucking bless anon. Love his stuff.
Thing I did last year
>>153478860>criticizing a [space]samurai appropriateness of killing himselfThats crossing the line!
>>153478961>TonoShouldn't it be Lord Tono? Guy his been lord for a few hours and already he gets no respect!
>>153490275Lord**Tono****Translator's Note: tono means lord
>>153479359https://youtu.be/3NUgr9fePXI?si=CtAp3VfOJ0K36EGc
Slow day, huh?
>>153490029Hehe hehe
>>153478842There are some japanese terms that get used and then translated which is nice, but sometimes those terms are used only once, like shirasu <white sand of judgement> and suri <pickpocket>. https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/152957441/#152958123Also I don't know why Sakai uses double minus sign instead of em dashes or writing E' instead of É despite hand-lettering the speech bubbles. It's not as if he was limited by a 90's computer software.
>>153478869>lord Kumanoh Minoru>of Akageta>of ShirohoshiI guess he and Kyoshi have a common great great great grandfather or something.
>>153491670I don't get the point of translations outside of very specific terms like Shogun or Ronin. the comic repeating Kashira means chief feels like the Keikaku means plan.
>>153478872>I pledge allegiance, but I must go and I'm not telling when I come back.This is just so Rhogen has some sanctuary to escape from his enemies when smuggling goes wrong, isn't it?Unless this is somehow a setup for the doppelganger reveal, but I don't see how.
>>153478869I like this one guy waving at the camera.
>>153479023It took me three storytimes to notice double G in buggs.
>>153479533Didn't he already solve her case.
>>153479573>Let her go!>As you wish.>Well, that was easy.
>>153491818jei already knows he loses that dick waving contest from the last times
>>153491806That was a different Okiku, this is the famous one while the well one just had the same name.
>>153479601Hold on! Pause, How old is Usagi's daughter here? to anyone in this thread would you give a young child a copy of Usagi Yojimbo to read, knowing of all the suicide, dead grandmas and general human misery that is in the book.
>>153489626Wait until Senso
>>153479305>>153479385>>153481274>>153487042Space Usagi's publishing history is a mess, even more so than Usagi Yojimbo. I've made a little graph to help us keep it coherent for anyone who's having a problem mentally mapping the timeline.
>>153490299He could be Lord Tono the Lord. We've had a few of those like Senbei
>>153479914Shut the FUCK up. I am not a brapfag. I am not a brapfag! I am NoooOOoooOOOOT a brapfag. ANONYMOUS! Iamnotabrapfagiamnotabrapfagiamnotabrapfag!!!!
With the Cyber Neko Ninja, I wonder what kind of gear would a version of Chizu would have.>Plasma Arm Blades>Various types of shuriken & kunai(explosive, poison, etc.)>Body is mostly cybernetic
>>153492336Take a moment andfreshen up
>>153492252That's very useful!You missed Senso
>>153492336Jeez, will a fresh main comic kill count calm you down?Then look, it's up to date! No thanks needed, just doing my best ever since Murder was assigned to... other duties. Since the last storytime, we gained... 5 kills. None by Usagi. So... yay?BOOT!Ha ha, made you look!
>>153492252That's a great timeline (although you left out the recolor Death and Honor for some reason? Simply because it didn't contain any new material?), but I, >>153481274, wasn't referring to the physical publication order, I meant that non-space Usagi's reference to being on a mission for Lord Mifune when he gets time-abducted implies that it's his earliest adventure after his origin story, in the in-story timeline.
>>153492921Now that you mention it, he really didn't kill anybody for three whole issues, did he? Nutty. I guess it would've been sort of against the spirit of Tabo for him to be cleaving through hordes of bandits and shogunate officials, though.
>>153479601So who's the mother? It's not space Tomoe
>>153492252Thank you, I was confused as fuck.
>>153492921>madeOnly 90 more and we to the big 1K!!!
>>153493099maybe Koto?
>>153479453Reposting from last year>>153479359Noo, don't all go down into the sand pit!Who'll fish you out afterwards?!
>>153492921Nice numbers what about his ERA, OPS & Wins Above Replacement(WAR)?
>>153492921Realistically, then, deaths we haven't seen on-panel should easily push this over 1000. Usagi has killed more than a thousand people. No wonder the shogun is keeping tabs on him- it's been 2 or 3 years. Meddling is a statistically significant cause of death in funny animal feudal Japan
>>153492921ahh, feels good to have underlings do the hard work for you. and it's even better while reclining on a beach chair with a drink with a little umbrella on top, let me tell ya. >>153488183the horror! let's see if this Kaitō thing is any good: >>153493478
>>153493099>>153493174Stick around to the end and maybe you'll find out!
