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  • Usagi Yojimbo (Comic)
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  • Albedo Anthropomorphics Volume 1 Issue 2 "The Goblin of Adachigahara"
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Country
  • USA
Synopsis
  • Usagi Yojimbo 兎用心棒 or "Rabbit Bodyguard" is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai in 1984. Set primarily at the beginning of Edo period Japan , with Anthropomorphic animals replacing humans, it features a rabbit Ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, who is partially based on the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Usagi wanders the land on a musha shugyo occasionally selling his services as a bodyguard. Usagi Yojimbo is heavily influenced by Japanese cinema and has included references to the work of Akira Kurosawa and to icons of popular Japanese cinema such as Lone Wolf and Cub, Zatoichi, and Godzilla. The series is also influenced somewhat by Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés , but the overall tone of Usagi Yojimbo is typically less comedic. The books consist of short stories, and occasionally novel-length stories, with underlying larger plotlines which culminate in long extended story lines. The stories include many references to Japanese history and Japanese folklore, and sometimes include mythical creatures. The architecture, clothes, weapons, and other objects are drawn with a faithfulness to the period's style. There are often stories whose purpose is to illustrate various elements of Japanese arts and crafts, such as the fashioning of kites, swords, and pottery. Those efforts have been successful enough for the series to be awarded a Parents' Choice Award in 1990 for its educational value through Stan's "skillful weaving of facts and legends into his work." The series also follows the standard traditional Japanese naming convention for all featured characters: their family names followed by their given names. Usagi was named the thirty-first greatest comic book character by Empire Magazine.
Publisher
  • Dark Horse Comics
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Year
  • 1984(xsd:integer)
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