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thankfully the site site is normal today.

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>FLOO!: 26

>>153255083
Tonight on Feudal Japan Mystery Theater

>>153255065
It's time.

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>quality paper
I must shill my favorite authority in this topic, David Bull: https://youtu.be/IsLigsmxzTQ

>>153255245
>Sign in to confirm you're not a bot
?

>>153255141
>Rampaging villain defeated by booze
Feels weirdly familiar.

>>153255313
I wonder if we could dig a legendary sword out of his ass.

>>153255332
Now how many more legendary swords could Usagi possibly bumblefuck his way onto?

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>>153255264
what do you mean?

>>153255386
I click on the youtube link, hit play and that text appears over the blacked out video.

>>153255065
>site site
trout trout

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>>153255407
weird, I just used a normal youtube link.

>>153255264
try using a VPN, that usually works.

>>153255206
>Saburo
Lot of Third or Second sons running around.

>>153255386
Kami is dead, Kami remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?

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>>153255427
so many ways to lose face, but only one to win it back...

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>>153255459
relax there's like 8 million of them around, geez.

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>>153255490
Usagi with one eyebrow constantly raised reminds me of this

>>153255245
He looks like he'a going to sing about pigeons and kill me.

>>153255245
Not sure I ever though before about the pottery of Saburo insulting Kami by saying all merchants care about is money, then him desperately trying to pay him for his poem, which he refuses because it has a value beyond money for him.

>>153255524
Cool sheetimg.

>>153255635
So, are you going to count all the jizo we see in these panels or just slap a +200 marker on your tally?

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>jizo statues: 225

>>153255659
I am lazy, after all.

>>153255533
Save the image-posting for after storytime, as to not disrupt

>>153255699
come on Usagi, you just had a near identical experience with that drum-maker, are you really going to do your doubting thomas shtick again?

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this bandit would've made a great civil engineer

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>jizo statues: 226

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very poignant chapter, once you realize what it's about.

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alright, now for some proper feudal japan.

>>153255841
FUCKING ICE!

>>153255841
stay frosty bros

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>FLOO!: 27

>>153255825
you already counted that one with the rest of the two hundred, murder.

>>153255883
Imagine just being some rando vassel or worker when your lord suddenly just starts bragging about something. You'd have a higher survival rate if someone mouthed off to the greek gods

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>>153255887
nope, I counted 26 + 199. the last one wasn't finished yet!

>>153255921
my bad, lol

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>jizo statues: 227

>>153255833
It’s about stan and this comic, isn’t it

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>>153255937
exactly

>>153256033
ShoYOU! ShoME!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz-mJed_bP0

>>153256019
Be sure to consider your fortune in having modern cooling and refrigeration. No need to kill two ice runners every time you want a cool drink.

>>153255533
People still don't know it's a scar?

>>153255374
He'll somehow stumble upon Excalibur, the Sword of Atllia ,and the Tenka-Goken

>>153256049
>Usagi will now proceed to have nothing but bad luck

>>153255279
This story makes me think Stan really hated a poet he met that was way up his own ass

>>153256019
Oh hey, I never noticed that, but in the top left panel, Saburo is guarding lord Ito!
This will probably play a huge role in the wedding arc.

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bac-what? has this old fool been reading nabnan books again?

>>153256149
Heathcliff-san has entered

>>153255301
comforting Ayano

>>153256033
In today how is made: Onions sauce

>>153256033
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9z5YVxbq_0

>>153255039
A cover indicating the next 20 years of UY

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>>153256177
oh shit, it really is him. I could recognize that neandertal brow ridge anywhere.

>>153256010
>>153256002
>>153255997
Hikiji is pleased by this cool gift.

>>153256212
>leaves the assistant to do guard work on his own
He’s gonna die, isn’t he
>>153256259
Knew it

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naughty naughty wada

>>153256458
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uW47jWLMiY

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these don't count of course, but there's 130 jizos here.

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people have been doing custom bindings for UY for a while, huh.

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this is it for today, thanks for reading!

>>153256352
>tmw someone walks in on you while you're fapping to futa kitsune porn

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>>153256536
Thanks for storytiming.
Hopefully tomorrow I can watch videos without any issues.

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>>153256305
Stop bleeding into that shoyu! It's very unhygienic and could spoil the whole batch!

>>153256180
>my onions sauce is so good it let my mind transcend spacetime and learn bacteria theory centuries ahead of time

>>153255407
Do they want you to confirm you're not a bot or do they want to confirm your age?

>>153256649
They want me to confirm that I'm not a bloody clanker.

>>153256316
you think those two have explored each other's bodies?

>>153255892
Wasn't Ito the ugly bastard that's trying to marry Tomoe either to himself or one of his retainers?

>>153255997
what the fuck Hebi's terrifying

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Book 29
440 Usagis (13188 total)
780 Panels (27819 total)
No Neko (1184 total)
No Komori (199 total)
No Mogura (37 total)
No Ninjas of the Dark Light (4 total)
>Usagi 13k
This one's for you, Mon Anon.
>>153256553
Haha, that would be so awful!! You should point some out to us so we...know where to avoid it...hahaha!

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>>153255635

>>153255238
I always like how Sakai really manages to make it obvious even to someone unfamiliar with haiku that Saburo's poem is both a direct imitation and dogshit. I think that's harder than it looks.

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since yesterday there was no storytime because the site shat itself, I started on a project I mentioned before I wanted to do, a proper map of Usagi's japan. for the base provinces I used https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2CVTR0, which itself was built off a 19th century map of provinces, daimyo domains, and road networks (the tookaidou, toosandou, etc). if you compare to other sources, especially the one I will post next, you'll notice a couple differences the biggest one being Mustu (Hikiji's province) eating part of Dewa. it must be because there's no real answer to how exactly 1600s tokugawa japan was really partitioned, but I took the liberty of making that Mifune's land that he lost. conveniently it also has some mountainous terrain that I think would be where usagi's village is.

this is a very bare bones version, ideally I want to make a better layout and symbology later, as well as try to track usagi's journey. please tell me anything that you think should be added.

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this was the other "source" I used.

>>153255647
This story is full of those little grace notes, like how he establishes Saburo as a ludicrously over-the-top piece of shit you enjoy hating, and then moves on to the merchant and you think okay, this one's going to be the sensible and humble one, but then the merchant immediately rips on his servant the same way Saburo did.

>>153247203
I spat out my drink on this one, good job.

>>153255101
>BUT
>A
>COPPER

>>153255386
>Look, Usagi!
>A skull balloon! He's beyond saving.

>>153255245
(Reminds me of the recent movie "No other choice" where the subplot is all about the paper industry.)

>>153256904
>built off a 19th century map of provinces
*18th century, sorry

>>153255458
It's almost certainly deliberate, to show that this one's a leftover wastrel. His father's probably happy to have this annoying shitbird out of his house and expense account, even temporarily.

>>153255386
>He hit his neck on the wooden block we use as cushion at the wrong angle and died on the spot, sadly a very common occurrence for which there is no remedy.

>>153255467
>the evidence is already visible on this page
Stan's so damn thorough.

>>153256702
Yep its him, and Saburo is here too >>153256019
>>153256177
Ito seems like a nice enough old granpa (ignoring the 3 people killed because of a retarded dare) I hope nothing bad happens to him in the wedding arc

>>153255133
RIP "other two"

>>153255454
I like how Ishida represents the cutting edge of the changing society. If Usagi is the remnant of the old - a Samurai in an era that has little need for samurai - Ishida's constant use of his Shogunal Authority to batter nobles into submission represents the sort of place Japan is turning into

>>153255524
I like that Benki doesn't back down out of fear, he just figures he'll enjoy Saburo getting it in the ass.

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>>153256180
>bacteria
Cmon Stan

>>153256904
Usagi has lots of land to roam and meddle

>>153257089
>Yep its him, and Saburo is here too
That damned meddling ronin rabbit. I'm trying to clap his girl's cheeks or let my lord clap them.

>>153257102
>If Usagi is the remnant of the old - a Samurai in an era that has little need for samurai
Can you expand on this a little? Were the samurai being phased out slowly even 4 centuries ago?

>>153255101
RESPECT THE JITTE
And damn if I haven't been screaming that in my head every time I use it in Mewgenics...

>>153255763
The drum maker was appealing to Raijin the thunder god, though. He's a shinto kami, so that taiko working should be proof that the buddhists are wrong.

>>153255794
>jizo #200 really does save the day
Don't think I ever noticed this before.

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>>153256497
you shouldve counted the jizzos from the cover in that other thread OP

>>153255937
Yes. Masa is his animal-guy self portrait and this was issue #200 overall of Usagi, counting the Fanta issues, the Mirage issues, the Color specials, and I think Yokai at this point.

>>153257102
ironically Usagi is a young man and Ishida is the elderly one
>>153257221
When the Tokugawa Shogunate united the country after centuries of civil war, there was no need for the massive armies of samurai fielded by petty lords. Huge numbers of soldiers found themselves jobless and penniless. Its a recurring theme in UY

>>153255841
Not to be the other guy, Murder, but I think you missed counting the jizo here. Panel four, lower right

>>153255245
Everyone bashes the merchant until he's got something you want to buy

>>153255817
>>153256441
Pretty expository bad guys recently

>>153255490
RESPECT THE JITTE!

>>153256051
>No need to kill two ice runners every time you want a cool drink.
Four, in fact! You're so infeudated at this point that you just disregarded the first two.

>>153256428
Throwing a katana through someone's skull feels like a pretty miraculous feat.

>>153256049
>WHY WOULD ANYTHING GOOD EVER HAPPEN

>>153256428
damn, usagi has a pretty strong throwing arm

>>153256149
Why hasn’t anyone stuck this guy's head on the "I hate Mondays" seppuku edit?

>>153256051
(Technically you can simply dig a deep cellar and keep it there all year long but I guess that too was a pretty recent development compared to Usagi's time.)

>>153255600
Based Ishida

>>153257221
They weren't phasing out the caste of samurai/bushi, but technically they became completely useless for several centuries.
This was because the Tokugawa wanted to create a state of permanent peace in Japan, by turning it into a hermit kingdom with rigid social castes, adherence to tradition and unquestioning loyalty to the establishment.
To achieve this, they disarmed the populace and forced the feudal lords to waste their money on ceremony and grandeur, so as to not allow them to build up any forces to try and become the shogun in stead of the shogun.

So, what is the warrior caste going to do during a enforced time of peace? Mostly, just administrative duties, arts and talking about what it means to be a samurai.
Which is how we got stuff like Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, or the fanfic that made practical warrior caste into a honormongering bullshitto club.
Well, it wasn't just the books fault, there was also the whole social order of the time where the only way to get up was by one-upping your peers at your devotion to your lord and shit.

>>153257531
>>153256051
Having a steady supply of ice before modern refrigeration is certainly possible, but its a tremendous feat of logistics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HVYHNTDOFs

>>153255817
>Jizo stacks stones for the dead children to find peace
>Stone jizos have now been stacked on this bandit letting the living know peace
Sugoi

>>153257551
And people thought Sonic was being silly for asking "What good is a world that goes on forever?" when he had his own run-in with feudalism.

>>153255426
jitte status: respected

>>153256033
>How It's Made: HIATUS

>>153256268
>drinks a cup of onions every day
>never sick
Meanwhile in reality, if you drink a cup of onions sauce you'll be sick instantly, because thick brine is an unbelievably effective emetic.

>>153256404
Damn, Usagi cut 3/4 of the way through that guy's torso.

>>153257486
>>153257502
You now remember that the dog guy in Sword of Narukami threw a *snapped* katana through a guy's forehead hard enough to kill him.

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I will now shamelessly repost stuff I made last year.

>>153257617
Cool!

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>>153257953

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>>153255459
>>153255502

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>>153257961

>>153256770
I want to boop his snoot

>>153257935
These characters are just built different between that and Usagi slicing through whole trees before

>>153256196
clan /fit/ strikes again

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>>153257979

>>153256202
>Onions sauce is in my blood
Yeah I bet you probably have hypertension...

>>153255997
Aww he looks adorable in that bottom middle shot

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>>153257990

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>>153258004
And that's it.

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>>153257235
>he doesn't know that the three teachings (or four, or five, who even knows anymore) are one
do you even east asia bro?

>>153258094
I East Asia enough to know that the priority of the Taoist classics is #1: shit on Confucianism; #2: unite with the mysteries of the universe.

Syncretism: not even once!

>>153256240
Part 2 came out over a year after part 1.
>>153256458
After this page, there were 3 long years without a proper Usagi story.

>>153257235
The Usagi Universe has Yokai and Jesus existing side by side. I don't think theological accuracy is what Stan was going for.

>>153257980
Do not boop the giant snake monster lord.

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>>153256904
That's pretty cool Murder. You might have to do a separate, more detailed map of the area around Geishu province because that's where a lot of the named places and events happen (like the Mother of Mountains story).

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>>153257830
GIVE'M SOME MEDICINE BOYS
'E CAN'T HOLD 'IS SHOYU HAW HAW HAW

>>153258615
It never did click how much 'archipelago' Japan really is until I saw this pic. Huh.
Kind of like the great lakes but in reverse.

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Not gonna lie, I was so tempted to just draw a chunk of ice and call it a day

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Good news, everyone! 4chan has stopped shitting its bed, so I can implement my plan and start posting short bonus storytimes of assorted Sakai works in the next few threads! I'm not dumping it all at once to prevent the thread from dying early, even if those stories are all very short.

First, a story from a Shi comic. This here was the best issue in the entire series, because it had little to do with the boring, strongly sexualized, Japan-ish themed woman warrior from the 90's you can see on the cover, but instead it featured many Japan centered stories by talented guest artists. And Sakai was one of them!

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>>153256529
>"Teru Teru Bozu" was an excuse to remind readers that Jei is still around.
>It was also a lighthearted story

>>153258728
>Shi Kaidan
Four Kaidan?
(Sees the kanji)
*gulp* DEATH Kaidan!

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>>153258728
It's about swords!

>>153258701
And what is your excuse for NOT drawing the ice?
Great work s always.

>>153256904
You know how to keep a guy interested. I'm looking forward to it!

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>>153256820
>This one's for you, Mon Anon.
Absolute kino, thank you.

>>153258780
>Monkey man doesn't look like a monkey
Sakai, what the fuck?

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>>153258780
And bitterness!

>>153258774
Can you believe she was getting crossovers with major Marvel characters, like her comic was the next big thing? Who the hell even remembers Shi?

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>>153258824
And failure!

>>153258820
Let the man cook!

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>>153258840
And about the effects of fucking with the supernatural!

>>153258840
Love how "Sakai" all these expressions are. Draw some snouts and move the ears and this is just a Usagi Yojimbo story.

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My package arrived in the mail today!

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>>153258863
And horses not wanting to die!

>>153258866
It's amazing, isn't it? I was overjoyed when I found out about this short story.

>>153258900
Darn, my copy is yet to arrive.

>>153256316
>>153256689
There it is. There's the gay couple Stan alluded to. Kimifags btfo.

>>153258780
Thank you

>And what is your excuse for NOT drawing the ice?
It would've looked a bit too much like a rock, I'm saving that for later

>>153258481
does it have Jesus, or does it only have people believing in Jesus?

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>>153258908
And horrible, ironic death!

>>153258900
Impeccable timing! Also, nice book!

>>153258960
So, what did we learn today?
Always sheath your sword, no matter what sorta hentai moaning sounds they make.

>>153258908
middle right panel is straight out of Usagi

And that's it for today! Like I said I will keep things brief.
Tomorrow, however, the sky is the limit with another amazing short story by Stan Sakai!

>>153258936
Understandable, have a nice day!

>>153258988
What an amazing lesson for the kids!