Aboard a small passenger ship where a group of rowdy peasants sing and dance to a fun folk song on deck. However, during the climax of the performance, one of the peasants accidently bumps into an arrogant samurai who takes offence and moves to kill the transgressor, until a fellow passenger intervenes. Ikeda is a famed warrior and general who led a revolt against the Geishu Clan years ago When his revolt fails and his army is vanquished, Ikeda and two of his retainers flee to an abandoned farm and determine that their next course of action is to hide and wait. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Usagi tells two short tales to Sanshobo: one that describes a crazy misadventure he had, and another that describes some important lessons from his past. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Politics and honor don't always mix. In a temple in which Usagi is staying with his friend, Priest Sanshobo, sanctuary is sought by a dying samurai who holds a secret that could change the course of the entire nation. Usagi and Sanshobo are bound to protect it, but there's a whole band of samurai determined to defeat them at any cost! #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Usagi, while crossing a snow-covered mountain pass, comes across a little girl and her severely wounded father, the only survivors of a party attacked by bandits. It's rabbit against nature as the ronin attempts to usher them safely through the pass, in a snowstorm, stalked by predatory animals, with the threat of an avalanche literally above their heads! #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Usagi recounts the battle that cost Lord Mifune his life and, for the first time, reveals how he got the scar over his left eye. Nakamura Koji is on his warrior pilgrimage, honing his skill for the day that he can avenge himself on the one who bested him in a duel many years before. But he will never make it to that day unless he can defeat the Surudoi school of swordsmanship, who have ambushed him on this journey. In this fight, however, Koji will not be alone -- he is joined by Usagi Yojimbo #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Usagi encounters the mysterious female samurai, Inazuma, whom he had met in previous travels. She has been on the run from assassins, and, during her brief rest, she tells the story of her drunken husband and the twists of fate that turned her into a fugitive.#UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
An assassins' guild to one side and a hostile, mysterious medicine peddler to the other, Usagi Yojimbo is between a rock and a hard place. High in the mountains above ancient Japan, he is forced into battle along the narrow Chrysanthemum Pass. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
The war between the cat ninjas and the bat ninjas resumes. Chizu, the leader of the cat ninjas is transporting a secret document, and when she meets up with Usagi, he is compelled to help her against the bats. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Those who travel the haunted paths of The Tangled Skein are warned to make an offering of protection to the demons that rule the woods. When a traveling party fails to make that sacrifice, they pay the price in another way -- the young woman traveling with them is overcome with great illness. Now it's up to Usagi to exorcise the demons the only way he knows how -- in battle. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Noodles Pare 2 Usagi gets yanked into another of Kitsune's schemes, this time with a mute noodle vendor as her unlikely accomplice.#UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Usagi gets yanked into another of Kitsune's schemes, this time with a mute noodle vendor as her unlikely accomplice. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Usagi crosses paths with a mysterious swordswoman while the corrupt merchant from "Kaiso" (last issue) plots revenge against him. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Usagi aids a family in protecting their seaweed farm from an aggressive competitor. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Runaways Continues to delves deeper into the wanderer's past. Stopping in a town he hasn't visited in decades, the rabbit hears a name called out and his mind retreats to a time when he was a fresh young warrior in the service of Great Lord Mifune. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Stopping in a town he hasn't visited in decades, the rabbit hears a name called out and his mind retreats to a time when he was a fresh young warrior in the service of Great Lord Mifune. Plus in Black Soul Jei makes a new friend in the form of a little girl named Keiko. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
The final story in this arc surrounding General Fujii is Daisho Part Two, in which Usagi and his guide meet up with Gen and Stray Dog right at the end of Mongrels. The three samurai decide to team up to raid General Fujii’s lair, and they engage in an all-out fight for money and honour. However, not everyone on the team is keen to work together, and betrayal is afoot. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Usagi pursues the villain Fuji from "Slavers" in search of his swords.Gen and a fellow bounty hunter attempt to trust one another in pursuit of prey. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Slavers part 1 Usagi attempts to liberate a village from a band of brigands that has enslaved it, but bites off more than he can chew. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
The gambler from “The Duel” returns, and this time his plan is to eliminate a shady business partner by betting for Usagi in a fight to the death, in “The Gambler, the Widow, and the Ronin.” Meanwhile, the widow of a samurai Usagi killed in a duel plots her own revenge! Also in this issue, “Battlefield” concludes, as a young Usagi sneaks back onto the field of the dead. But will ghosts claim him before he can return what he stole? #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit
Usagi crosses paths with a wandering priest who plays the shakuhachi in The Music of Heaven. But as night falls in the woods, an old enemy stalks them both! And in Battlefield part two, a young Usagi is haunted after stealing a sword from a fallen soldier. #UsagiYojimbo #StanSakai #ComicPodcast #UsagiPodjimbo #SamuraiRabbit