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Post by shaxper on Mar 10, 2016 19:51:10 GMT -5
  Published: April thru May 1999 Synopsis: "Usagi comes to the rescue of a girl attacked by masked bandits. She turns out to be the maid of the area's most renowned courtesan, recently back from seclusion. It comes to light that the assault was not a random attack, but the tip of a conspiracy. Usagi is soon embroiled in a plot involving the province's nobles and the successor to a lord's throne" Notes: 1st Kotaro Usagi slays Chamberlain Toyofuku Kotoro adopted by Inspector Ishida Discuss the issue and/or post full reviews below! |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 31, 2016 21:26:54 GMT -5
A follow up to "the Hairpin Murders" sees Usagi involved in another fun intrigue. I really liked that Kotaro got a good home with the inspector.
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Post by shaxper on Apr 3, 2016 5:17:54 GMT -5
I liked how this one had real consequences. I didn't think twice about Usagi slaying the bad guy here, but he's a wanted man/rabbit for a while after.
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Post by stillpoint on Nov 4, 2016 0:02:47 GMT -5
In the middle of the first part of this story, the maid Yoshino says she would gladly give her life for Lady Maple. I figured right then that she was a goner, but that turned out to be a bit of welcome misdirection.
Life is somewhat cheap in Usagi's world. Bandits, ninja, and various underlings die in droves. But the old lady essentially throwing her life away so Yoshino could be a more effective decoy--a decoy!--really got to me.
This is a nitpick, but the original post says Lord Yamahashi is slain, but it was Chamberlain Toyofuku.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 4, 2016 4:48:20 GMT -5
the original post says Lord Yamahashi is slain, but it was Chamberlain Toyofuku. Noted and corrected. Thank you! |
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Post by brutalis on Feb 20, 2018 8:44:18 GMT -5
A truly sad story which has in its way a happy ending. A woman of great beauty who is adored and sought after just as stars of today are but who is shown to be trapped in a cage of life unable to have any real freedom or love. That Usagi is able to provide Lady Maple's child a real life with a loving mother and father in Isheda and his wife helps to ease the pain that she endured while hoping to give Kotaro a "normal" life of love and devotion and delivers new joy to a family which was hurting in their loss of a child. This one had me in tears by the end and a surprise that the handmaiden survives! Will she turn up again later in Usagi's story as many characters come and go in his travels?
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