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ballisticbaylor 's review for:
Usagi Yojimbo Saga Book 1
by Stan Sakai
After watching Akira Kurosawa's classic samuari film Yojimbo, I decided it was finally time to read the comic's equivalent: Usagi Yojimbo!
This gets off to bad start with a cheesy Ninja Turtles crossover, but quickly recovers for several fantastic samurai tales of variety (crime, forbidden love, horror, mystic spirituality). You gotta love Miyamoto Usagi, the warrior rabbit based on the legendary swordsmen Miyamoto Musashi and taking many cues from Kurosawa's film heroes. We get a few delightful tales about young Usagi having foolishness rooted out of him by his wise sensi, Katsuichi, but otherwise we follow Usagi in his musha shugyo (warrior's pilgrimage) across feudal Japan, getting into all sorts of trouble, always nobly protecting the powerless, and coming in contact with familiar friends and villains in a loosely conntected and episodic saga. It really shines when several stories link together in epic proportion. I'm excited to continue the many other volume's of the Usagi saga.
This gets off to bad start with a cheesy Ninja Turtles crossover, but quickly recovers for several fantastic samurai tales of variety (crime, forbidden love, horror, mystic spirituality). You gotta love Miyamoto Usagi, the warrior rabbit based on the legendary swordsmen Miyamoto Musashi and taking many cues from Kurosawa's film heroes. We get a few delightful tales about young Usagi having foolishness rooted out of him by his wise sensi, Katsuichi, but otherwise we follow Usagi in his musha shugyo (warrior's pilgrimage) across feudal Japan, getting into all sorts of trouble, always nobly protecting the powerless, and coming in contact with familiar friends and villains in a loosely conntected and episodic saga. It really shines when several stories link together in epic proportion. I'm excited to continue the many other volume's of the Usagi saga.