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  • Usagi Yojimbo is the long running comic set in 17th century Japan, with anthropomorphic animals replacing humans, featuring the lovable rabbit ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, who wanders the land as a shugyosha (student warrior on a pilgramage) occasionally selling his services as a yojimbo (bodyguard).

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  • And even in that timid genre, no author dares to produce a genuinely superior man as his hero, for in his rage of shame the mass man will send his yojimbo, the critic, to defend him.

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  • Makoto Konno is in the middle of an idyllic high school life: she has two male friends who act as her loyal yojimbo, meeting her every afternoon for a game of baseball; an artist aunt who acts as her mentor; parents who give her a full fridge and no criticism, and no particular aspirations whatsoever for life after graduation.

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  • Log in to Reply asdf (UID#816) on September 4th, 2009 at 10: 48 am rl usagi yojimbo?

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  • Â We find out that they are yojimbo who take "protection" jobs for money, but we're not sure how they got into this situation.

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  • PRESS-CONTINUED: Usagi Yojimbo is a long-running comic set in seventeenth-century Japan, with anthropomorphic animals replacing humans, featuring the lovable rabbit ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, who wanders the land as a shugyosha (student warrior on a pilgrimage), occasionally selling his services as a yojimbo (bodyguard).

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  • The opening chapters find him wandering aimlessly looking for yojimbo work to maintain his samurai status.

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  • Bottoms up! quoth Amazon: "this item has been discontinued by the manufacturer." word to the yojimbo/sanjuro. mifune is a hero!

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  • Although the mysterious employer of the yojimbo refers to himself only as "The Crow", his secret messages all bear the stamp of the "Tempo-sen" which is created by dipping the large Tempo-sen coin in ink and pressing it firmly onto the secret notes.

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  • Or a coupon for the subscribers to the barebones yojimbo list?

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  • Toshir�? Mifune.

    *Reaches for a tissue.*

    March 27, 2008