Netflix announced drop date for Usagi animated

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Netflix announced drop date for Usagi animated Mar 23, 2022 22:55:49 GMT -5 shaxper likes this

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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2022 22:55:49 GMT -5

Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles will debut on Netflix on April 28.

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Netflix announced that Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, the new animated series inspired by Stan Sakai's Eisner-winning comic book series Usagi Yojimbo, will debut on April 28th. The series is mainly CG-animated but with hand-drawn flashback sequences. According to Netflix's synopsis, "Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles follows the teenage rabbit, Samurai Yuichi, descendent of the great warrior Miyamoto Usagi, on his epic quest to become a true samurai. But he isn't alone! He leads a ragtag team of misfit heroes – including a roguish bounty hunter, a cunning ninja, an acrobatic pickpocket and a faithful pet lizard – as he battles depth-charging moles, metal-tipped winged bats, and monsters from another dimension, all in the pursuit to become the best Samurai Usagi!"

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Netflix announced drop date for Usagi animated Mar 25, 2022 8:07:42 GMT -5 shaxper likes this

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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 25, 2022 8:07:42 GMT -5

Mar 23, 2022 22:55:49 GMT -5 @mrp said:

Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles will debut on Netflix on April 28.

From the release:

Netflix announced that Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, the new animated series inspired by Stan Sakai's Eisner-winning comic book series Usagi Yojimbo, will debut on April 28th. The series is mainly CG-animated but with hand-drawn flashback sequences. According to Netflix's synopsis, "Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles follows the teenage rabbit, Samurai Yuichi, descendent of the great warrior Miyamoto Usagi, on his epic quest to become a true samurai. But he isn't alone! He leads a ragtag team of misfit heroes – including a roguish bounty hunter, a cunning ninja, an acrobatic pickpocket and a faithful pet lizard – as he battles depth-charging moles, metal-tipped winged bats, and monsters from another dimension, all in the pursuit to become the best Samurai Usagi!"

-M

Beat me to the punch! I just read this on screenrant and it blew me away as I hadn't seen many updates from Stan on this project. I know how shaxper is spending his April vacation!

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Netflix announced drop date for Usagi animated Mar 25, 2022 8:19:57 GMT -5

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Post by shaxper on Mar 25, 2022 8:19:57 GMT -5

My big fear about this series is not that it will do poorly. I think it will be outstanding. Instead, I'm worried that it will do too well and that we'll end up with a larger fanbase for Yuichi than for Usagi. I love that Stan chose to make the series about a descendent (presumably) so that the animated adventures can exist within the same continuity/universe without contradicting anything in the comics, but there is definitely a risk that goes along with it.

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Netflix announced drop date for Usagi animated Mar 25, 2022 8:41:41 GMT -5 shaxper and Slam_Bradley like this

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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 25, 2022 8:41:41 GMT -5

Mar 25, 2022 8:19:57 GMT -5 shaxper said:

My big fear about this series is not that it will do poorly. I think it will be outstanding. Instead, I'm worried that it will do too well and that we'll end up with a larger fanbase for Yuichi than for Usagi. I love that Stan chose to make the series about a descendent (presumably) so that the animated adventures can exist within the same continuity/universe without contradicting anything in the comics, but there is definitely a risk that goes along with it.

It could happen, but I'd be okay with that honestly. It's like the Ninja Turtles, there are fans of the original comics, fans of the original live action films, fans of the original cartoon, fans of the 2000's reboot cartoon and fans of the Nickelodeon series (and somewhere out there I'm sure there are even people who enjoy the Michael Bay films and the Image comics..maybe) but none of that effects how I enjoy the series and if it gets more people enjoying it then its a net positive in my book.

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Netflix announced drop date for Usagi animated Mar 25, 2022 13:10:42 GMT -5 Trevor likes this

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Mar 25, 2022 8:41:41 GMT -5 thwhtguardian said:

Mar 25, 2022 8:19:57 GMT -5 shaxper said:

My big fear about this series is not that it will do poorly. I think it will be outstanding. Instead, I'm worried that it will do too well and that we'll end up with a larger fanbase for Yuichi than for Usagi. I love that Stan chose to make the series about a descendent (presumably) so that the animated adventures can exist within the same continuity/universe without contradicting anything in the comics, but there is definitely a risk that goes along with it.

It could happen, but I'd be okay with that honestly. It's like the Ninja Turtles, there are fans of the original comics, fans of the original live action films, fans of the original cartoon, fans of the 2000's reboot cartoon and fans of the Nickelodeon series (and somewhere out there I'm sure there are even people who enjoy the Michael Bay films and the Image comics..maybe) but none of that effects how I enjoy the series and if it gets more people enjoying it then its a net positive in my book.

You're not wrong at all. Heck, we may even end up loving the new guy more. It would just be a big shift, one that moves the focus of communities like this one away from the very character its named for.