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Post by shaxper on Feb 20, 2016 23:48:00 GMT -5
 Published: August 1996 Synopsis: "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." Notes: 1st Koroshi, The League of Assassin Discuss the issue and/or post full reviews below! |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 29, 2016 8:00:47 GMT -5
A fairly simple action story but I like how both Usagi and the medicine peddler had both heard of one an other.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 29, 2016 8:08:39 GMT -5
Why don't I recall this one at all? I only made the OP entry three weeks ago!
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Post by stillpoint on Oct 24, 2016 0:36:40 GMT -5
This was the first time I had seen a word put to Usagi's (and other characters') uncanny ability to know when someone was following him or lurking out of sight or about to attack: dairokken.
I like this story, especially the co-workers (the medicine-dealer assassin and hunter assassin) who have little respect for each other. Such a--for lack of a better word--human touch. Thinking of later stories, I believe many Koroshi refer to their colleagues as fools or incompetents. And of course Kagemaru schemes for years to usurp Chizu as jonin of the Neko ninja. Maybe Usagi owes his continued survival in part to a lack or camaraderie among his adversaries.
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Post by brutalis on Feb 21, 2017 9:50:23 GMT -5
This is one of those stories which illustrates how the bad guys are their own worst enemies at times. They have no sense of honor among themselves and will usually place their own desires before the agenda of what they have been told to do. It is also evident that Lord Miyagi is insensitive and uncaring of his vassals and his responsibilities to them, using them however he see's fit in his arrogance and almost acting as vile as the villains in the story who are out to kill him.
I find it rather ironic that Icho may have done more good over time helping the poor with his medicine's versus the killing he has done. Even more so in that Usagi shows a liking for Icho and even hoping that Icho wasn't the killer he had heard tales of.
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