previously: >>153554044
>>153568979Thread theme.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opMFlvW8dZU
>>153568979Ahh, the pleasures of an inoffensive artbook. Surely nobody will be the victim of a brutal killing today.
the art book has a bunch of these useless pages, which I'll skip.
oh Stan, if only you had access to more modern scholarship back then. >>153569072very nice
>>153569088Useless in what sense?
too bad he doesn't explain here how he does the brushwork for the titles and screams
>>153569112they're just a close up of the art, with a transparent page with the title of the chapter. also some of them have problems with 4chan for some reason, they give an error and can't be uploaded. I think it has to do with the files being .webp originally.
>>153569210So when he draws the panels, he draws them full sized and then they edit them to fit in the panels?
>>153569199>I think it has to do with the files being .webp originally.In that case you should be able to open them in any image program, save them under a new name as the proper file type, and get it to work.That said, I agree with you that those pages are hardly essential.
>>153569106>the author portrait on the back of the book is Sergio
>>153569229>After the cover is inked, I pass it on to colorist Tom Luth to fuck my shit up.
>>153569323I had used a program to convert them in bulk, I think, so maybe the problem lies there. let's see if this one works.
>>153569106>middle left panelThats a pretty good miyamoto musashi
>it's time to unsheathe my sword!
I do miss the more detailed, realistic backgrounds.
>he is absolutely loyal to his lord https://youtu.be/jJZ--fcguDY
>>153569547Well, he is expected to be loyal to his lord (if he's a hatamoto).>The Samurai follows "bushido" <the way of the warrior>Nope! That's just some 1700s historical revisionism/ an attempt by pencil pusher samurai to make his profession seem more glorious than it is, coupled with further revisionism from 1800s, 1930s and the entire clusterfuck that was the entertainment industry of mid- to late 1900s.
>>153569322No, that's just to showcase the size difference, he draws an entire page at 10x15'' and then it gets reduced to 6.625x10.25''
>>153569012>time to unsheathe my sword!>pulls down hakama
at least these two were spared.
this one is fantastic.
>>153569720What are you talking about? Goat man Ittou had his own ending in his own manga.
if they have to go with colors, they should've gone with watercolors.
>>153569665Bottom right about to save the timeline>>153569720Funnily enough I just bought the two new Lone Wolf and Cub printings. Looks like they're doing two and a half volumes per book. Looking forward to the unflipped art.
>>153569771well, we never saw them again...
>>153569806never had any problem with the flipped art, they did a great job cleaning and typesetting it.
I love this little story.
The watercolors are beautiful
>>153569102This one is also in one of the previous volumes, isn't it?
>>153569960I think it was a different one?
>>153569747It's amazing that back then every samurai carried his own personal banner (or a Horo which is even more weird).
>>153569309>no computer coloring,no 60 # glossy stock. This was flat, four- color printing on cheap news print for a dimeI reminded of all the shitty recolors marvel and dc have done over the years that people in the shelf thread complain about.
>>153570081I figured out why it seemed familiar. Anon scanned his Art of v1 for Enma's 18.5 thread:https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/153076661/#q153082226
>>153570227oh, there you go! no harm in posting that one again.
the most unsettling thing in this whole series is the bottom left guy.
...strawberry grows on trees!?
>>153570341Oh yeah, looks like he escaped out of a analogue horror story.
>>153570341Looks like bottom-left would fit right in over in the new Star Fox game
>>153569547>>he is absolutely loyal to his lordUnless they're a Geishu councilor in which case their first loyalty is to whoever is paying them the most.
>>153569387>>153569408>>153569431Neat seeing the Mifune mon start as a tree then streamlined into its final abstract form.
>>153569387Those cloud pants are pretty cool.
>>153569458Funny how in the first Noriyuki and Tomoe story there's also a rhino thug, similar to this one. I guess Stan always liked the idea of a rhino samurai and thus Gen was eventually born.
>>153569484I can't believe Gen is fucking dead
put away that jar, anon.
>>153569190I've tried learning how to draw with a fountain pen. It's genuinely difficult, and I have respect for Stan just for being master with such a difficult tool.
the kill count article, I believe.
>>153569736The artbook is how I had this twist spoiled to me.
>>153569484Gennosuke, noooooooo!!!!!
>>153569949>>153569942>>153569955The spirit world just seems to love messing with Usagi.
>>153570786C'mon. I doubt he's the only Rhino in UY's Japan.
love this one.
>>153570924I too remember when Frank Miller could actually draw before alcoholism, Cancer and PTSD killed his talent.
>>153570397Fucking sick!
>>153570934I miss Tim Sale. Superman For All Seasons is still one of my favorites.
>>153570770The Attack of giant Usagi!Coming to theaters this summer!
>>153570533Give it eye shadows and is a slut.
>>153570623lmaothere is one of these on ebay on sale for 4,500 dollars.plastic crap collectors are absolutely deranged.
>>153571000>Stan is recipient of the Parents' Choice AwardEvidently none of the parents read a single entry for this award.
>>153570577This is staight up the doom cover.
>>153570637Tomoe action figure with no game Action!
>>153571000I think this might be the only llustration Stan has ever made of his wife.
>>153571000Last page?
>>153571045It's a good way to introduce kids to Japanese culture without traumatizing them.
this is all for today. it's always fascinating to look back at the early stuff to see how different it was. I don't know about you, but I feel encouraged by reading stan's artistic process, it's almost as if we could do it too. anyway, our journey is almost over. tune in tomorrow for the big finale, SENSO!
>>153570825Poor Jotaro.
>>153571110>It's a good way to introduce kids to Japanese culture without traumatizing them."Lol", said Feudal Japan "lmao even!"
>>153571100yeah, I forgot to paste the text in...
>>153571130In most Japanese manga for the same age demographic, this would be considered beyond tame.
>>153570953>PTSDHe was in the army.
>>153568979Tokage kind of have creepy hands.
>>153571155No he wasn't. He was at ground zero when 9/11 happened, he saw both planes hitting the towers, and it destroyed his brain. Two words. Holy Terror.
>>153571123It's almost over again...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4wp6MdDZrsIt's always a fun ride while it lasts and it's great reading reactions here on shit that happens in funny animal feudal japan.Well, see you again tomorrow Murder, oh and on saturday for the 47 Ronin story + afterparty.Here's a little edit I made with Eye-color anon in mind, hope you like it.
>>153570740Oh yeah, these and dip pens are HARD to learn how to use right, but once you figure them out it's super satisfying to do lineart with them
>>153569102What's the wall posters? Leftmost is Groo, obviously, and rightmost I think is Angel and the Ape, right?
>>153571091There's a couple floating out there. One of them is in the DH UY 100 issue special
>>153569776>to me, my samurai
>>153569106>if only you had access to more modern scholarship back thenhonestly don't know that would've helped. I think the infinite research at the finger tips nowadays risks becoming a deluge of choices instead. The fact he was able to just read an encyclopedia and see something mentioned and focus on that served as sort of a filter>>153569301Stan drawing himself like a Peanuts>>153570116It sucks so much man. I get that one must not be tempted to just go "things were better in the past" but modern reprints genuinely suck on their own terms>>153569373>1980I feel every storytime I have to update my idea of when Usagi was created>>153569521There's our boy>>153569631It's funny how much Stan reinforces this story is "outside normal continuity" etc yet the stories that are in continuity absolutely leave space for this having happened>>153570376There's something called a strawberry tree which I think is a classical misnomer- it has strawberry-like fruits, so gets called strawberry tree in English, but it's not actual strawberries, it's uuuuh... medronhos? Arbutus berry in English apparently.
>>153569955Imagine losing to a ghost.
>>153570526I want the adventures of Miyamoto Usagi, The Ghost Who Walks>>153570637Closest we have to a Tomoe turnaround, giving us the ability to understand how Stan conceives of her hair in terms of shapes
>>153569797God this looks so good. Such a brilliant use of white and lighter colors when defining outlines and depth of field. I think Stan's artwork is developed around B&W so a lot of colorings end up sort of garish and cluttered since they're adding visual information where there isn't really meant to be any. But this style preserves the use of negative space and lets the important colors and details stand out.
>>153569871I so much prefer this version of Adachi Plains. I never much cared for Hikiji singling out Usagi and the head. Just swatting him aside before continuing with the battle and it's his bannermen that actually zero in on what Usagis doing.
https://strawpoll.com/61gD9r4x5ZwWe still doing best girl vote? I feel like it hasn't been posting it in new threads. At present Tomoe leads by five
>>153570266Hm. I genuinely feel that Demon Mask loses a lot of its threatening aura when it's not in a stark black and white kimono. But that's just me.
>>153571800What? Neon pink is not treatning enough for you?
Here's a commission Stan did for a dentist about 10 years ago
>>153571191Thank you, it will serve me well.The day before Senso always feels surreal. The storytime is almost over, and it feels like we began months ago and only a few days back at the same time. Every year it seems to last longer and yet somehow ends faster. What an amazing paradox.Time isn't holding up, time isn't after us.Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
Book 50147 Usagis (18694 total)168 Panels (39667 total)5 Neko (1428 total)No Komori (258 total)No Mogura (257 total)No Ninjas of the Dark Light (4 total)No Zō Ninja (1 total)No Hae Ninja (1 total)No Nindroid (1 total)No Usagichi (2 total)No Yukichi (1433 total)No Space Usagi (770 total)No Chibi Usagi (303 total)"All Usagis Look The Same" count - 19767 totalSo, uhh, since I didn't have much to count today, it occurred to me that there was something missing. I'd counted ninjas from Neko to Nindroid, but I forgot the most important ones of all.So I went back and here it is:Total TMNT count - 910Leonardo - 300Raphael - 193Donatello - 206Michelangelo - 211Pic is the 300th Leo panel. Very fitting.
>>153572191It's crazy how all the non-Leo Turtles get ±200 panels. A big part of Leo's advantage is also those 3 short stories he had almost entirely to himself, so actual crossovers seem much more fair for each turtle.
>>153569229Lol, there were a shitload of X-men spinoffs back around '04, weren't there?
>>153572304There's too many now honestly
>>153570740He's doing goddam Shuji techniques with his fountain pen....for lettering. It's no suprise he's got multiple eisners for that.
>>153572304Yeah, the X-Men were still at the height of their popularity. >>153572135Yeah, Senso was always bittersweet to me.
>>153569521>"Oh, let me just casually redraw the entire thing just for this ad, which probably won't even run"Damn, Stan, way to flex on the other artists
>>153569521Man it's always nuts to look back on when the characters were more.... potato.
>>153569560Man, I want a poster of that so bad
>>153570526Is that an usagi mountain?
>>153569353kek
>>153572438That'a the Sergio School of doing things.>Oh, we've lost original pages for over a dozen of Groo issues and can't reprint them anymore? No problem, give me the comics, I will redraw them all!
>>153571110>>153571130>>153571152So, as a child of a samurai family, I had relatives insist that I consume appropriate media. They didn't just want me growing up with glorified toy commercials like Pokemon, and Gundam. One title I remember them literally arguing about was Uchu Senkan Yamato. The right wing types considered it mandatory. The reiwa peacenics thought it was a terrible choice;.So they made a compromise. Uchu Senkan Yamato and Macross, but I also had to watch Grave of the Fireflies and Barefoot Gen. I was also directed >Back then, Oda Nobunaga would have you killed on the spot if you cry watching this.based on the old adage about the shoguns. I was about 5 at the time.
>>153572482Yes it is. It gives him the strength of ten tigers....or rabbits.
>>153570577It's the double-furries from In The Zone! >>153516676
>>153570934RIP Tim Sale, that pic goes HARD
>>153569501>>153569747>>153570504I echo Murder's sentiment: a sweeping Sengoku Jidai epic drawn by Stan at 200% power from the '94-00 era would have been amazing.https://youtu.be/fRdsea2mNx0
>>153572647Anon, I don't think your relatives had any idea what they were doing. The obvious course of action would be to tell you traditional stories from a picture book.
>>153570577>>153571055https://youtu.be/PkhCNx-8Qos?si=btriU3h910rXAK9z
You FREAKS have really outdone yourselves this year. We are clocking in at over SIX HUNDRED memes, scans (or photos taken) and works of fanart created or shared, and I'm not even done collecting and tallying them all yet! Out of that 600, a full 114 are OC by our talented drawfriends, DOUBLING that of the previous record set in 2023. You are all truly the most autistic retards in the most autistic retarded fencing school in all of Feudal Japan!**the InternetLink to the infernal archives: https://mega.nz/folder/Dsd31LiR#grnO0n2INCHplEWo4nOCYQ
>>153572850>he did not subject his child to an 12-hour long bunraku performance read by a blind master in archaic period-appropriate NihongoneseSamurai are all soft shoyu-boys these days.
>>153572647>Gundam>Glorified toy commercialI mean, they weren't too wrong about that, but it's also a solid anti-war story.Series creator Tomino isn't called "the axe murderer" for nothing.
>>153572371? how can you use brush inking techniques with a fountain pen? honest question, it would be neat to learn something newUnless you mean titles and such, because looking at his tools here >>153555097 I'm guessing he uses that fude pen for that
>>153572274I was kinda surprised that the balance wasn't super tilted in his favor, too. One interesting thing I'd like to note is that Raph consistently fell behind in terms of "solo" panels; a good percentage of his count comes from the group shots.
>>153570874Usagi Yojimbo portrays many historically accurate battles from feudal Japan's history!...So here are these tiny enemy crabs.
>>153572647>Uchu Senkan Yamato and Macross, but I also had to watch Grave of the Fireflies and Barefoot Genit sounds like your relatives were priming you to hate America
>>153572647>One title I remember them literally arguing about was Uchu Senkan Yamato.That argument sounds wild. It's a war story but it has one of the most progressive endings IMO. Pic related.
>>153569871The second hardest working man in Japan
>>153572647holy shit are you perhaps the same anon who shared his experience with irl tea ceremonies? >>153572814one can dream.... imagine a spin off on the scale of the later Bone books, with armies clashing and the highest of stakes.
>>153571152I remember Dororo having a chapter were they execute a bunch of villagers including a kid Dororo was friends with, it was hardcore, they lined them to a wall and shot them with arrows.
>>153571091She's thwacking him on the head here >>153569210
>>153572647Listen this might be prying too much but I have to know. Did this weird obsession with trying to instil the right morals fuck with you?I mean. You're HERE. So clearly it did in a but do you feel like that sort of... I don't know not even helicopter parenting is the right word but did it do more harm than good?
>>153569106>Our friend the Bat>makes the bats enemies
>>153573919Well, there was Kazehime, for a minute there
>>153573919maybe he just peered into the future...
>>153569210Such great friends.
>>153569219I kinda dig Stan's more self-deprecating humor here, it reminds me of the Muppets and how they handle it.
>>153573241Every Gundam fan I know is obsessed with those little model kits, so they might have been on to something.
>>153573306I hope he holds a FUCKING A TURKEY DINNER for Hebi
>>153572956>At least two of my edits made it inOh boy, I'm part of history
>>153570097I don't think they did. IIRC the original meaning of "hatamoto" is "guy who carries one of those flags".
>>153570118Ah, the spread Stan drew specifically to fuck with Auditanon.
>>153571492>it's uuuuh... medronhos? Arbutus berry in English apparently.Yeah, arbutus or madrone.
>>153574781The English word is "bannerman" which is literally the same thing, lol
Auditanon here. As this is an art display of mostly seen Usagi art, I did not count most of the death cries. However, I will count this page >>153570757 death in a separate slide as this is unseen and has enough skulls to make me count them.See you tomorrow for Senso.
>>153573241Eh, that's kind of a bunch of hand-waving that it forgets immediately. The re-make, as full of stupid shit as it is when it has to invent something new, arguably was more genuine when it has the Yamato rescure Gamilus from an external threat and ends the war that way.
>>153575154I liked 2199.
>>153575189It's a good distilation of the good parts of the old series, which is mostly from the first TV series with two or three ideas from the inferior later stuff. The main story is good and doesn't have to make any excuses about being a remake, but the brand-new stuff, like all the new characters, are kind of shit.
>>153571110>without traumatizing themdoubt.jpg
>>153570803Cute
>>153570397oh this is cool
>>153571973>NOW DRAW HIM BRUSHING HIS TEETH
>>153570492>EXIT JEI-SUKE
>>153573871What's so weird about trying to teach your kids right from wrong? Or having disagreements about it? Or worrying if the shit your kids are watching is giving them brainrot?
Aw MAN I'm not ready for whatever fuck shit's in Senso... How many more of our favorite characters do we have to see get mogged?!
>>153576888yes
>>153572956Congrats, you beautiful spergy bastards! Now no one will challenge our Dojo! Not TADC, Not Invincible, NO ONE!!!!
>>153569199Huh, it's actually really interesting how he essentially inks it twice. So the line weight isn't just some natural thing, it's an intentional decision to vary it up.
>>153576920Well fuck, everyone's gonna die tomorrow
>>153576715I think that level of selectivity in regards to media is weird. Like yeah giving a kid a TV/tablet with zero supervision is irresponsible but having to get approval to watch multiple family members to watch a cartoon seems like taking things too far. Semi-related but as a kid my Grandmother thought Pokemon was Satanic and banned me from watching/playing it. Weirdly she had no issue with letting me watch CSI as a 5 year old.
>>153576715Look, you don't to let a little kid watch Reservoir Dogs that's one thing, but getting your nickers in a twist of cartoons is an asinine level of overreaction and frankly detachment from reality.
I know I missed Space Usagi but damn >>153479342, Usagi's teacher really is just Owl, isn't he?
>>153569279>Ideas emerge from so many sources-- a line in a book, a visual on TV, an idle sketch, even a single word have all been developed to become mini-epicsI'm reminded that this dude genuinely made an entire comic issue just so he could make a "gone with the wind" pun.
>>153569117I love goofy sketch Usagi
>>153569521Is weird how he already had Sasuke concived long before he actually put him in the comic.
>>153569651You can tell Stan early artstyle by how detailed he drew teeth.
>>153569219>backgroundHas anyone ever storytimed Neilson and Hermy? I've always bee kind of curious
>>153578111>Sasuke Tripsyou're kidding!
said it before but I think the association of this comic with Blake and Mortimer is my favourite meme of this year
>>153570450Jei looks particularly miffed that Usagi stole his spear
>>153570770>>153570987That one guy that's pointing at Usagi, he's yelling "He's just one man!"
>>153569301One comic for a whole library's worth is a pretty good deal.
>One of the most extraordinary mammals ever recorded can be found skipping through the fields and mountains all over Japan: the elusive Lepus Ronini. The meddling rabbit.>While not exactly rare, this species does not claim territory, constantly wandering as if looking for trouble, hence their name. In a span of a year, they can cross half the country, only to turn around and get back to where they started, or anywhere else, really. That made longer observations rather difficult without a dedicated metsuke and is the main reason why this adorable white furred bunny managed to hide its secrets for so long. The free roaming nature of Lepus Ronini goes as far as males not helping with raising their offspring. After mating, they set off, not letting them be burdened by anything.>Remarkably, the meddling rabbit can form a temporary symbiotic bond with the common Japanese rhino, whose bulk offers more safety, while the rabbit uses his superior senses to help the massive, clumsy mammal find his favorite snack: wild pickles. But don't be fooled that without the help from a rhino the meddliing rabbit is helpless. While small, Lepus Ronini are fierce and agile warriors. When in danger, they will bite off a willow branch and use it as an improvised weapon, with deadly accuracy. There are records of them fighting off hordes of cats, bats, dogs, bears and even rabid wolves without even taking a scratch. There is suprising power hidden in those long eared bunnies. Scientists have even taken those resilient creatures to space, where they seemed to thrive in zero-g environment.>Their one weakness seems to be constantly getting outsmarted by foxes. Because frankly, the meddling rabbit is kind of an idiot. Well, nature does not play favorites - you can't have it all, can you?Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough.
>>153579486Capped and kekked
>>153579486>The meddling rabbitshhhbe vewy, vewy quiet, its wonin season and i'm hunting woninshehehehe
>>153578111It's like with Wherewhen, Stan has an idea and waits for a right time to use it.
>>153572956>114 OC picturesBuddha Christ, I knew portrait and character collage drawfriends put things into overdrive, but I didn't expect so many. I'm squealing like a little girl.
>>153570097I dont think those are proper banners, probably sashimono or hata-jirushi which are litle flags carried by individuals to identify each other, like european surcoats. A proper banner called Uma-jirushi had to be much bigger to be seen from a distance and only one or a few would be used as their job was to organise and direct the army
>>153578378iirc dharmanon may have, one year.>>153577104>spoilerThat's not so weird. If this was back in 96-97, when Pokemon first premiered in America, and people were still calling anime "Japanimation" sometimes, it must have seemed like the most bizarre and alien freakish thing to older people. The gibberish word pikachu must have sounded like what gen z/alpha brainrot slang sounds like to us now and the speed at which Pokemon became a pop icon must have been alarming. You had the perfect storm of things to make granny have an alarmist panic about. CSI at least existed in a sphere she was familiar with. The actors looked like people, the setting took place in real life, it wasn't some alien cartoon with weird little satan animals. Obviously I don't agree with her, but as I get older and more removed from the skibidi toilet 67 rizzler streamtube popular media myself, I can better understand where her panic came from.
>>153579486>common Japanese rhino
>>153578378>>153581077>Nilson and HermyI think Dharma storytimed it once and so did I when Murder took over. The interest was rather minimal, sadly.
>>153581173Maybe we should re-try it some year?In which case, should it be posted before or after usagi?
>>153581333Presumably before, since to the extent it's anything in relation to Usagi, it's an abortive prequel.
>>153579486>a dedicated metsuke>males not helping with their offspring>a common Japanese rhino>wild pickles>willow branch>thrive in space>an idiot outsmarted by foxesLmao.An I read it in his voice.
>>153569316Lmao, accurate.
>>153569501Usagi with buckteeth will always feel uncanny to me. It just doesn't fit his design at all, it feels too...stereotypical.
>>153569547God, he really was just Yukichi back then.I can imagine Yu having this exact kind of monologue, but I can't say the same for Modern Usagi.
>>153579486Didn't recognize his photo, had to go back and read it in his voice.
>>153579486Absolute kino!
>>153569513I do too, one of my favorite panels is from the eraly stories were he is with Tomoe and Noriyuki and they walk through a field.
>>153579486
>>153579486My name is David Attenborough... and you can go fuck yourself.
>>153576888I really like when edits make the little translation boxes.
I'll be a little late today
>>153583739Don't let them anal probe you!
>>153583739I told you not to trust those Portuguese gaijin! They are not human!
I'm kinda surprised no one put Usagi's new catchphrase to use for the weapon reveal in Kaito 2, honestly.
>>153581333there's no problem in posting after either. do you want to have a go at it? I could probably do it too, but only next weekend, as saturday I'll dump something else and sunday is mother's day. let me know. >>153583830but he said he needed help to draw all those portraits! alright, no more dilly dally, it's time to end this: >>153584125
>>153579486Lmao, incredible.
>>153579486Huh.
>>153584127There is something very old movie about this shot.
>>153577091Well, not everyone. It's like Hamlet, Horatio and Fortinbras are alive at the end. Think of it like that.
As the Senso thread continues it's sink into 404 Autobump, I'm posting this here. Gotta go back to doing work (got a two-page spread to finish pencilling today) but wanted to mark the end of the storytime in some way, so here's a drawing of Usagi fighting his most iconic foe as he utters his most iconic catchphrase
POST-SENSO TALKBACK UNTIL KARMA CATCHES UP WITH US HERE TOO.POST SENSO'S
Why don't we just ask Dark Horse to reprint the sagas?
>>153589617Amazing.
>>153589617Fantastic stuff.
>>153589595>JOTARO was the sword-plundering nemesis all along
At the end of Usagi no Jikan* I wish to announce that I, pervy Keikoanon, still await the time my evil desires can be fulfilled (it's actually mostly a parody).'cause that one guy said his friend might be interested
>>153589617Thank you drawfriend! Your contribution is noted!
>>153589658Had to update this
>>153589617>It's time to unsheathe my katana*!>*swordhad to do it, great drawing btw! Never knew there were so many drawfriends lurking about!
>>153588266I don't think Kenichi and Mariko have a sexless marriage since their's wasn't an arranged marriage and they clearly care about each other on some level even if Mariko still isn't over Usagi. But that raises the question of why they havn't had another kid besides Jotaro. A question to which I have two theories:>Theory 1: Kenichi is infertileThey tried to have more kids but it didn't work, and since Mariko is clearly fertile she's not the issue, which leaves some problem with Kenichi's plumbing as the culprit. At least he can bust inside his bitch wife as much as he wants in this scenario>Theory 2: Kenichi and Mariko intentionally didn't have another kid incase said kid looked nothing like Jotaro and that tipped people off that Jotaro is a bastardLess a fan of this one since (basically) Everyone Knows™ but it'd fit how Kenichi stuck with a less-than-ideal situation for the benefit of Mariko and Jotaro. Maybe Kenichi's pullout game is immaculate, maybe Mariko takes it up the ass. I can't say for certain but Kenichi isn't painting Mariko's womb white in this scenario. Did I miss something? What do (You) think?
>>153590056It could also be that Mariko doesn't want to do it and Kenichi respects her decision or maybe they both don't feel like doing it, Kenichi because he realizes he'd be becoming dick buddies with Usagi and Mariko out of guilt/psychological infertility.Maybe Kenichi tried at one point, noticed Mariko physically recoiling from it and bracing, but then Kenichi decided he didn't want to inflict something like that to a woman he genuinely loves.
>>153590056>>153590133Could also just be it hasn't happened to happen yet. For all we know, off-camera, right now, Mariko is impregnated, and if we saw them during Wherewhen or Senso, there'd be some Jotaro half-siblings going around
>>153590056>they clearly care about each other on some levelWhich could be Kenichi unwilling to see his childhood crush (who always preferred Usagi in every way) suffer and her gratitude for what he's done for her. Maybe it's because it's when Usagi is in town, but they always seem sad in each other's presense if they aren't worrying about Jotaro.
>>153590056Real question is why would anybody have just one kid when in the Usagi Yojimbo uniiverse, people get killed by the dozens on a daily basis. Do these funny animals just want their bloodlines to end?
>>153590133That's a possibility but I don't really see Mariko going from having sex with Usagi in a field to being so sex-averse she wouldn't fuck her own husband. >Kenichi decided he didn't want to inflict something like that to a woman he genuinely loves.On that line of thought, maybe he caught the clap or the feudal equivalent on his bender after the Great Dogora Humiliation and didn't want to give it to Mariko.
>>153590056Related to the infertility there is also the possibility that they tried having another kid but they didn't make it. Never forget just how bad infant mortality rates were and that isn't even getting into the fact of being poor villagers who depending on the harvest and season can be greatly lacking in nutrition to carry a baby.
>Bushido; an ancient code, lived by the proud Japanese Samurai and while time has passed, some things are eternal: honor, commitment and some times rasing your sword to defend others. And now, the latest of those proud warriors, Miyamoto Usagi, walks that path....>TODAY'S OPPONENT: NEO-JAPAN'S USAGI GUNDAM! GUNDAM FIGHT, ALL SET! READY........GOOOOOOOO!!!!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CprlGbcNl78&pp=ygUMZyBndW5kYW0gb3N0
>Immediate hype for the final battle between Usagi and Alien Hikiji>Hikiji gets jobbed by Hebi insteadIf Stan Sakai won't give me the final boss fight in comics, then I'll draw it myself!!!
Where are the megas I'm gonna hunt the Jotaro x milf art
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>>153590341That could be it. Jotaro would have been born while Usagi was in Mifune's service but shortly after that war broke out between Hikiji and Mifune, which caused a famine at least one year when Hikiji stole most of their food for the war. I could see Kenichi and Mariko agreeing too not have a kid until the village sufficiently recovered, and because Hikiji is shit at managing his own lands, that could take a while.
>>153589733I’m that guy. And as fortune would have it said friend did show up a few weeks ago so least he’s not dead, though no word on any improvements of his situation. Gonna try to be on his ass more so he’s least around enough to participate come next year, even if sparsely, and hopefully fulfill those desires and if not I may just let him in on the deets beforehand cause I don’t wanna keep you waiting too long
>>153589721>robs the restaurant owner for the lulz>goes home to have freaky rhino man fox woman sexPretty sure typing that put me on a list
Do NOT lewd the keiko or kiyoko!
>>153590246Raising a kid isn’t cheap, let alone multiple, and most folks can barely keep themselves fed. Likely isn’t that they don’t want to, but that they can’t
>>153590715But they're so cute and funny!!!!!!
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>>153590605
>>153589999Here you go, anon. Once again, nice Quads, too.
>>153585283https://youtu.be/7Voa01r3UOE
Why must we suffer?
>>153590715keiko x jei
>>153590855I have to find that copy of Rawrbrazzers or whatever it's called. I just HAVE TO.
>>153590903It's a project for the next 10 months. Would be great to be able to post the story for next year's storytime
>>153590855Aww, thanks, looks awesome!
>>153590893You are evil and the blade of the gods will find you soon
>>153590855>TFW no Kaito '84 Beat Em Up where you play as Kaito, Terri, Gen, Kitsune & Yukichi.
>>153591048Not if the blade of the gods find itself into cunny owo
>>153584127I missed the Senso thread proper, so I wanted to say here: thank you for all your hard work. I first found out about this annual storytime last year, but fell off after the great April 1st shutdown + the hack. I'm so glad I got a chance to read through all of my childhood favorite comic again, the ups and the downs and the feudal Japan. Thank you, Murder! Thank you, Enma! And thank you, all anons! I'm already looking forward to next year!
>>153591077>>153591088>two dubs in a rowdamn. also, can't believe it's been over a year since the great shutdown!
>>153591103That year was complete fucking ass. Truly the worst of my life in a very literal way.
>>153590855that is so damn nice
Welcome back to the final death rattle tally! Only one scream found in today's storytime:>*Alien noise*: 6Various stats:>Total death screams in the official storytime: 1899>Total death screams with extras (Stan other comics, The Usagi crossovers drawn by other artists, Sergio's Samurai comic): 1923>Number of skulls in total (+ extra): 475 (+11)Top 3 death screams (+ones found in extras):>1st place: Urk!/Gurk!/Hurk! with 199 counts>2nd place: Yarg!/Argh! with 116 (+1) counts>3rd place: Uuh!/Ugh!/Uhn!/Uhk!/Ugf! with 105 countsSee attachment for the tally. As always, if you have any questions about the count, feel free to ask.>>153587382Nice. I got the reference.
>>153591172How loud do you think it would be if 1,923 people screamed all at once?
>>153591172Thank you Auditanon! Can you post last year's screamsheet as well?
>>153591200Ever been to a soccer match?
>>153591201Sure, here's last year tally on power/honorable cries.
>>153585634>Yeah this is my feeling too. Name a single general that's ever been cool and not a total faggot.Oyaneko and Tadaoka don't deserve this slander.
I don't know if this was mentioned in one of the story times, but I didn't know that there was a pilot for Space Usagi! Guess Stan really wanted to make his space samurai adventure>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWOvcIYd7IU>>153591223I've been to Coachella, I mean hearing hundreds of people dying all at onceScratch that, maybe a gunner could answer that
>>153591116>Kofuyu was 16. I am 16. What difference is there in our souls?Princess Yuki was a good character
>>153589617Beautiful, drawfriend. Thanks for all your art this year!
(Senso thread 404'd before I had a chance to post)This year's storytimes were my introduction to the series. It's been tons of fun reading along with you guys and joining in with edits and stuff. Thank you for sharing this lovely comic and thank you for the company.
>>153590056>Did I miss something? What do (You) think?I think they have a sexless marriage. The first time Usagi returns to the village it's plainly clear that Mariko still has a huge girlboner for Usagi and basically married Kenichi to save Usagi's kid from disgrace. It reads totally obvious to me.
>>153591172>*Alien noise*: 6If you look carefully, that guy says GURK!. Many of the aliens' cries are actually intewlligible; e.g. one of them clearly shouts "bats!" when the Komori ninja attack the cylinder.
>>153591413All the aliens are written in English, the lettering just goes bonkers to make it look weird
>>153588404(Some final mask autism from last thread)On the contrary: it's perfectly clear that the mask Hikiji wears in Senso is a *different one* than the one he wears at Adachigahara in the various versions. Stan is bizarrely attentive to detail at times and clearly draws the Adachi mask as a somen with a happuri-like bottom half (there may be a specific Japanese term for this which I don't know), a cutout for the mouth and chin, whereas in Senso he's wearing what's called a mempo, a half-mask covering the lower 3/4 of the face from the nose down, with a round opening for the mouth only.In fact, you can tell without too much trouble that he's wearing a completely different set of armor in the field in Senso: the most obvious tell is that instead of the characteristic Date Masamune huge asymmetric crescent, the kabuto in Senso has horns. This isn't really surprising; Hikiji is one of the great lords of the land and would be able to afford to own more than one suit of armor, not to mention that the first, "Date" suit is twenty years old by the time of the latter battle.This will no doubt be my last bit of detail autism for this year's storytime. Thanks to Murderanon and everybody!
>>153591484I thought the same, but in some cases (Tomoe and Usagi charging into the other cylinder and surprising the aliens, off the top of my head) I can't make out their dialogue at all, so I decided to express myself conservatively.
>>153590893May Jei cut your evil from the world!
>>153591533That's a good breakdown anon. But what conclusion can we draw from it? Because the two sides are as of now- HIKIJI?! was retconned to being a furry animal-man with the flashback issue in IDW and no amount of us being LUTHED will change that- or HIKIJI was NOT retconned to being a furry animal-man and is still the only persistent homo sapiens in a world of otherwise furry animal-people, and we just got LUTHED into believing otherwise.The lord of the dark sun's different armor sets in Senso really make it complicated, especially since Senso is still technically "the end" but was obviously conceived and released half a decade before the IDW issue. What is Sakai's endgame here?
>>153591260General Ikeda
>>153591622His silhouette is pretty clearly human in Senso, IMO
>>153590893This is the kind of Evil Jei takes care off.
>>153591413If I have to start deciphering Alien gurks and uhhs and gyaas and arghs, I'll be here all night trying to recreate their characters, guessing if they should be unique or go with their existing equivalent. I would also be debating if they should count as do they go to Enma's jigoku or somewhere else?
>>153591670General WHO? You must be confused anon, nobody here but us ignorant peasants.
>>153591622He's still human in Senso, I'm still surprised Stan hasn't retconed that yet despite Luth's coloring job. Still confirms my theory that all human men are evil .>>153590589Hebi, the largest Lord in the setting, did just eat Hikji. That's all that needs to be. >>153589617I kneel.
>>153590516The Martians value precision and efficiency, so the tech they brought was presumably measured to the threat. It's not stated explicitly in the original novel, but if you read between the lines, they likely have better tech available than what they brought to swat the turn-of-the century English flies
Every time I read Senso during these threads, I always wonder, where's Ishida? Is he okay? Did he and Sanshobo team up and unleash righteous fury on the Invaders?
>>153591751I think a similar sentiment was brought up during the 1950s film. The reason the Martians had shields was because a consulting general believed that Amercia's Post World War 2/Korean War arsenal was more than enough to beat the Martians even before the Atom Bomb was brought into discussion.
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>>153591783Well yeah, but as I said, it's implied in the original novel, too
>>153591751>presumably measured to the threatI don't know about that. They pretty much walk right into one them being killed by an artillery piece and then run away before building their "black smoke" launchers. Seems like they underestimated the opposition they'd face. After that they start gassing everything as if worried about getting surprised again. Then they do get surprised again by the warship, which kills two or three of them.
>>153591817Farewell Thunderchild!
>>153591622>What is Sakai's endgame here?It's impossible to say, but for lack of other evidence I'm going to agree with Anon and the worthy Anon in saying that the IDW recolor is most likely just a gaffe of an elderly Tom Luth and that Hikiji remains human. As much as Stan still hides Hikiji's face in Senso, as they point out he also does go to some pains to still present him as human (silhouette, fingers, Hebi's comment that he was an abomination). To me, that's a strange decision, I don't really get the point of both hiding and revealing it, but it remains the strongest assumption.
>>153591751>>153591783>>153591801>martians keep invading>we barely beat them back>they use some kind of amnesia device and history soft-resets>they try again every hundred years or so>we keep barely beating them back>martian autism won't allow them to use overwhelming force they have to make sure every little tiny raygun is optimized PERFECTLY for their planned scenario which can tolerate no deviation whatsoever>good old human adaptability means we are forever locked in a perpetual cycle of being invaded, barely winning, getting amnesia'd, and invaded again
>>153591751I mean you say that but at the same time the martians blunder into shit consistently that gets them before they panic and adapt in other ways, using smoke grenades and deliberately spreading weed and gas and using human shields.Its also just a ridiculous proposition on its face to suppose that this race fleeing complete destruction of their planet's biosphere, a total last ditch chance for survival migration/invasion, aren't bringing their A-game at all times. The martians are the last of a dying race, there shouldn't be any>oh, this is plentyit should be>we are leaving nothing to chance and no opportunities for failure, bring the best possible equipment we can shove into the ships, force the people to sleep cheek to jowl if necessary, and win as hard as possiblewhich is why them invading england (and japan) also makes sense because nobody really gives a shit about england (or feudal japan) and being an island nation nobody inherently feels threatened by having them on their borders to launch a preemptive counter-attack
>>153591860I don't think he's willing to change it after all these years. Maybe as a simple call back to his early works and concepts?
>>153590589I think this is legitimately the first comment I've ever seen that was less than 100% hyped about the way Hebi went out. It's not just a great character moment, it's also somehow 100% in line with chambara aesthetics and themes even though it's about a giant snake biting a guy in half and breaking his spine by smashing him repeatedly into a stone floor, then getting zapped by an alien ray.
>>153591884>nobody really gives a shit about england>at the peak of the British Empire
>>153590593See >>153572956 check 2023 lewd files, there might be more in the other files
>>153591817I'm speaking more about the leaders on Mars and the planning they did. Those are the troops on the ground, and their actions are sensible in the moment -- the Thunderchild is suprising, because it's a prototype, faster, more agile, and with bigger guns than any warship previously built. It's a new threat that's not accounted for by the original plan, so they attempt to capture it, presumably to allow the leaders to assess whether it means a change in plans. And it might have done so, as they apparently start uncorking a flying machine soon after. All of it implies they watched us through their telescopes and knew exactly what our planet's militaries were presently capable of, and built their plans to match, and to succeed even in the face of a few surprises. Their one real mistake was not seeing diseases through their telescopes and bringing their ancient medical tech.>>153591875>martian autism won't allow them to use overwhelming forceI think it's more about cylinder size and weight>>153591884England was the greatest world power at the time, not some backwater. And they had to plan for the likelihood that some of the tech they send will be captured, so they send it over in waves starting with tripods, and then adding flying machines later after Thunderchild. They brought exactly enough power for an overwhelming, guaranteed victory. And the whole thing would have worked, too. We get saved in the end by a total fluke that would not be repeated if they can afford a second strike.
>>153591934>England was the greatest world power at the time>laughs in france>laughs in rising star german>>153591897>>nobody really gives a shit about englandExactly, everyone wants them to fucking die so they can steal british shit and most of the force is policing abroadHell, the irish would probably side with the martians
>>153591751>>153591884One thing the book is a heavy-handed allegory about muh colonialism, so the invaders blundering but adapting with superior technology and every native victory being too small and coming at too high a cost fits.A small British army was wiped out by Zulus with spears and flintlocks because of their careless blundering and Zulu initiative 20 years before Wells wrote the book, but the Zulus badly lost the war because even that first victory killed a signifigant fraction of Zulu men.
>>153591759>where's Ishida? Is he okay?Unfortunately, Senso is canonically set at some point in the 1620s, meaning that the Great Genna Martyrdom and Great Edo Martyrdom either just occurred, or are about to.Mainline Usagi is actually doing a bit of Ye Olde Japan with the kirishitans, as the year there as of Ten Thousand Plums/Tabo is 1607, but Christianity actually wasn't outlawed by the shogunate until 1613 and full-blown kakure kirishitans weren't a thing until after the Shimabara Rebellion in 1638, so things are likely to be even more feudal for our boy Ishida than they were in real life.
>>153591956Germany totally failed to maintain a naval arms race with Britain, giving up on it only two years before WWI.
>>153591967>Heavy-handed allegory about muh colonialismDid someone on twitter tell you that shit? It's about evolution and man's place in the universe more than colonialism.
>>153591980NTA and chill out, a book can be about two things at once.
>>153591979Too bad a navy doesn't help against an invasion that drops out of space to the inland of a country, an army with combined arms specialization does.Assuming the whole navy returns home, gives up entirely on the empire, that just means they manage to defend the coasts and major riverlines but the inner cities like birmingham and all the farmland is toast.
>>153592013Yeah, the narrator mentions that. It's probably why Thunderchild was able to immediately pounce like it did; the whole navy was looking for a chance to do something.
>>153591974You're right and that's also assuming he didn't get killed during the invasion itself, though depending on how badly the Shogun's armies got decimated during Senso, it might buy our Inspector a few more years.
>>153591890Sure, but then why hide his face? He's already shown it once. If he's committed to the bit, he could just go for it.
>>153591956>The Irish beat the Martians not by fighting but by drinking >The streets of London now the largest drunken bare knuckle boxing ring with the Martians fighting like pissed off Irishmen
>>153591974>tfw you suddenly realize that the next Ishida plot arc is likely to be about resolving the case of the Master and given The Hidden that will likely involve the Master finding out that Ishida is a kirishitan and using it against him
>>153591974>We get the Usagi version of this madness
>>153591956It's true, we'd do anything to destroy the proddies
>>153572647Family mon?
>>153584577after I commented on it, I realized I never watched the ghibli version. so I did just that, and holy shit let me tell ya, don't go in expecting a light hearted fairy tale. fuck heian japan, fuck earthly desires, and fuck moon people. >>153589617heh, thanks dude. I saved every character design you made throughout. best of luck to your career! >>153589999>>153590855nice. those watercolors are especially great. they should just color the comic like that. >>153591172your commitment is astounding. a little morbid, too, as it should be. >>153590516they receive an upgrade in that comic, namely force fields against artillery.
>>153592259>fuck heian japan, fuck earthly desires, and fuck moon people.Kek.
Posting to ask once again if the worst part is over.
>>153592259>fuck heian japanfuedal japan prequel
>>153592279
>>153592259Well, morbid is the way of cries in Feudal Japan: it usually leads to death.And thank you for the storytimes. Always a pleasure.
which is worse, ancient japan, feudal japan, early modern japan, late modern japan?
>>153592513All of them. Japan just sucks in general
>>153592513Space Japan, my nigga. 12 million times worse than all other Japans combined
>>153592555>Space Japanimpossible, space japan finally mostly excludes the peasants from most suffering through semi-automated luxury ruralism, selling usage of their land as game reserves to the space faring bushidountil space japan unveils a deathstar or similar planet killing threat it is impossible for it to be as bad as >burn down this village and kill everyone in it to cover our tracks
Goodnight, you jimbos
>>153591289it's a real shame stan's forays into animation never really panned outthen again, his intimate connection with tmnt has a been a pretty big boon for so long now, something I'm sure plenty of other lesser known ip's would die forit's also a pretty unique relationship I think, I can't really think of another situation where a big property has a very frequent guest star that's his whole own little world that's very high quality and quite distinct from the main property
I am going to miss Tomoe. again.
>>153592907Practice makes perfect
>>153592907Next year is her yearsurely...
>>153591994You can read a criticism of colonialism into the text, but you can read lots of things into any text, and that's not the core of what Wells was aiming at, the scope of the book's themes is much wider than that. And what's more, if you go calling H.G. Wells "heavy-handed" then I will consider you an idiot.
>>153589999 >>153590855I can't believe we are not only getting actual Terri fanart, but also color versions and a lewd. So much fanart, so many funny edits, and no open rudeness outside of backpack autism, those threads are blessed.
>>153569880You ever think Usagi got beat so swiftly by hijiki that he subconsciously is afraid of fighting him again, like that thing between hulk and thanos?
>>153593611I think he's just never had a good opportunity to gank him.
>>153593611>hijikiJIGOKU
>>153593611It's not like they cross paths a whole bunch. Frankly I'd very much doubt the dark lord even remembers Usagi at all. It would very much be a M Bison Tuesday situation.
>>153593665i'm sure he remembers his victory over Mifune and still lightly seethes about being denied Mifune's head but it would probably take him a minute to put two and two together and realize usagi was the JUST ONE MAN who ran straight through his whole army to fight himthe meddled schemes aside he'd probably respect usagi more than most of his actual subordinates though would definitely try to cut him down again
>>153591371Thank you for attending, hope to see you again next year.So, how was the samurai rabbit like for you?
>>153592279Yes anon, it's over. It's finally over.
>>153588097>>153587997That merchants daughter Akiko in Sanshobo tries to get with him later and Sanshobo calls Usagi a coward for ghosting her. Its supposed to be a joke but it doesnt feel like one
So has Tomoe definitively won the best girl poll this year?
>>153594521Id say she has.
>>153589659Considering that Terry and later that girl in Space Usagi have red hair, somewhere down the line one of Usagis descendants marries a white nanban she-devil. If its not Usagi, maybe its Jotaro?
>>153592996So instead of leading with that you want to jump right in with a brainrotted, Internet Tough Guy inveective? Alright, two can play at that game, Reddit spacing midwit.
>>153594521Tomoe wins most years, actually. It's amazing what staying power she has despite not appearing for over a decade. It's just that most discussion in the storytimes tends to be about Chizu since she's made more appearances more recently and her personal story-arc hasn't stalled out.
Since I forgot to say it in Senso thread, go and listen to war of the worlds musical, it's great!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93JArmMY3n4I was debating myself on where to post this link during the storytime, but no moment really felt right.
>>153594597Gee, I thought you weren't that anon?
>>153594699I'm not. I am literally another person annoyed that you would bring your current year culture war smugness into this den of sacred autism. How dare you.
>>153594712You're way too angry about this, anon. All I meant was it sounds like nonsense put forward by somebody who didn't read the book carefully or at all. Which is the kind of thing I'd associate with twitter. Or maybe reddit. The "culture war" shit is all you >inferring
>>153594593Seems more likely that a Miyamoto emigrates to the US in the early 20th century and bangs a white girl there.
>>153594721I'll never relax
Thinking about it more, I really dig Senso as a wacky Elseworld story, but I'm a lot less enthused about the idea of it being a potential canon ending to the series. I think a major part of that is how Usagi is at his absolute worst here. He's regressed so hard as a character it's insane, he's easily the worst part about the story. Usagi trying to get it on with Tomoe, IMMEDIATELY after her husband's death, is a level of gross that would be unthinkable with regular Usagi.In a story where everyone else is getting fitting, bombastic ends to their story, Usagi himself feels like he got the short end of the stick. It's just not satisfying to kill him off right as he hits rock bottom. But all that is a lot easier to accept if it's actually not meant to be canon.
>>153594593It's rare but sometimes East Asians can have naturally brown hair. https://soranews24.com/2017/10/28/naturally-brown-haired-osaka-student-sues-government-for-forcing-her-to-dye-her-hair-black/>>153594753Personally I don't mind it as much. Usagi just absolutely crashing out feels very fitting to that grounded, uh realism (in a comic strip about an anthromorphic ronin rabbit occasionally quelling yokai puppets) that Stan can inject into his setting. And as other anons have mentioned, there's some very tantalizing inferences that can be made about just what went down in the yet-unseen Wedding Of Tomoe Ame. Finally, we all know who the real best boy is anyway so fuck that meddling deadbeat.
>>153594753In my interpretarion, Senso (and by extension Wherewhen) is canon, but only as a mostly fictional story in the Space Usagi timeline. The real events were lost to time, so they thrown in the Martians (which don't sound so ridiculous for someone living in SU times) to give their famous ancestor a proper heroic closure. That's how I choose to understand those last few pages set in the far future. It's further supported by the issue in which Akemi is reading a manga about Usagi fighting Jei in a tower full of Yokai to rescue some kidnapped girl, which also never happened.
>>153594805I've heard of Ainu having dark red hair
You FREAKS are truly insane. After doing some scouring last night (and I still have some threads to review) here is where the 2026 content stands at. Just to see what it would look like, I removed the pictures I shared from The Land Of Dragons and the count was still roughly 200 files and 20mbs larger than 2024's, and that year had the two Usagi Yojimbo RPG rulebook PDFs padding its file size. The 2026 folder also doesn't hold any of the supplemental Sakai comics that were shared. If we put those in there the file count shoots up to over 800 and the folder size clocks in at a respectable +600mbs.
>>153594896>King of Hell uses WindowsMakes sense
>>153594843I go with the interpretation that WhereWhen/Senso/Space Usagi is an entirely separate timeline created by Dr. WhereWhen, and not the mainline future.
>>153594896Weebs of /co/! Of 4chan! My meddlers! I seein your eyesthe same fear that would take the best girl from me. A year may come when the wit of Anon fails, when we forsake our drawfriends, and break all bonds of counting stupid shit in the comic, butit was not this year. An hour of ragebait and culture wars, when the Yearly Usagi Yojimbo Storytime comes crashing down, butit is not this year! This year we posted content! By all that you hold dear on this Mongolian basket weaving forum, I bid you keep up, you FREAKS!
>>153594896Damn. I really felt like we had some good conversations too. This was a great year.
>>153595251I just wish new guys had asked more feudal history questions, always fun to look shit up and write about how Feudal Japan was even worse than chambara paints it as.
>>153594843Honestly, I'd buy that. Space Mariko winning is still bullshit, though.
>>153594896I need to contribute next year.
>>153595275>It was even worse than a chambara, it was – may Allah forgive me for uttering this word – a feudal Japan.
>>153594521Neat pulp Tomoe, you know ironically the primal and savage world of a Conan style world is less miserable that Feudal Japan there Usagi the barbarian surely would hook up with Tomoe of the easter isles.
>>153594631Tomoe wins because she's quite kino in her own right and you could tell Usagi wanted very much to remain with her. So all these years later she remains all powerful.
>>153593057Jotaro sees THIS post Senso?
>>153594631Chizu did win the last couple of years in a row, but I will agree that some of it is probably because we haven't seen Tomoe in a new comic in many years. I'm also glad that Mayumi has built up respect over the years, whether it be Venom Kashira/Meddle Gear or her being a tragic likable character that impacted Usagi.
>>153595665I thought Mayumi and Usagi had fun chemistry together, and it was a shame her presence alongside the meddler was so brief. Meanwhile Tomoe is a wonderful character I love, but she has like negative chemistry with Usagi
>>153595665Inazuma best wife before the Jeiening
>>153595611https://youtu.be/uQoURkhD7b0?si=fr8-Pa32Ig-lGqMs
