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Like the Netflix series, Space Usagi took place in the future and featured a descendant of the samurai warrior.Īccording to the official Usagi Yojimbo website, an animated Space Usagi series was attempted in 1994. However, much of it also seems to closely resemble Space Usagi, a less well-known spinoff of the comic books. Some things are the same - Yuichi is clearly meant to be the equivalent to Usagi and the “roguish bounty hunter” could be a version of Usagi’s ronin rhino friend Gen. That futuristic description sounds a tad different from the original series. It adds that Yuichi 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.” However, we do know that the animated series will feature a descendant of Miyamoto Usagi, not the original rabbit from Usagi Yojimbo.Īccording to Netflix’s official synopsis, “the series takes place in the far future, set in a world that mixes modern high-tech images with classic Japanese references.” It goes on to state that “teenage Rabbit Samurai Yuichi” is on an “epic quest to become a true samurai.” Netflix has not revealed a voice cast nor an exact air date for the series. It is described as a comedy-action series. The new animated series will be called Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles. Usagi and all of his friends and enemies are anthropomorphic animals, taking the usual human roles of honorable warriors, ninja spies, scheming magistrates, noble lords, humble peasants, shopkeepers, and so on. The series is partially inspired by the films of Akira Kurosawa and other samurai movies. Sakai has also incorporated other bits of Japanese culture and folklore.įor example, Grasscutter is a fun adventure about the legendary sword Kusanagi, which is sort of the Japanese equivalent to Excalibur - except that the Japanese government states that the always-shrouded, never-seen sword is real.

Since the 1980s, Japanese American comic book artist Stan Sakai has created many tales about Miyamoto Usagi, a wandering ronin in the feudal Edo period. Unlike the original stories, the animated version will not take place in the past. Netflix recently announced that they will release a CGI-animated series based on Stan Sakai’s Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series Usagi Yojimbo. But it will definitely be “in the future.” It may not be quite exactly the same samurai rabbit that they are thinking of. New product releases, all the Kickstarter news and a host of TTRPG news.Usagi Yojimbo fans will soon get to watch the adventures of an animated samurai rabbit in the future. Talsorian Games, ray guns & ruins, realm fables, ronin, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, s5e, Sanguine Productions, seventh-inning slaughter, shadow of mogg, Shane Ivey, sharpers in the dark, shiver, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound, soulbound starter set, starfinder, starfinder galaxy exploration manual, Steve Jackson Games, stormforge, Synthicide, the dee sanction, the dungeon coach, the fantasy trip, the gilded cage, the gunslinger, the solo society, the yellow king, Tiamat, tour of nu-earth 1, tsr games, twisting host, Usagi Yojimbo, vaesen, wanderhome, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, wizkids, wyld sea, wyrd science, zyborg commando resurrection overdive Routinely Itemised: RPGs #59 Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary column, and this week we look at TSR Games (3) threatening OSR communities, new RPGs hitting digital and physical shelves, RPG reviews and discoveries.įiled Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acadecon, Achtung! Cthulhu, adventures in the forgotten realms, Arcadia, batts, black void, blackpine adventure co, blood sword, brw games, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, Conan: Waves Stained Crimson, creation bodega, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Cyberpunk RED Data Screen, dark alliance, dark realm roleplay, dark sun, defiant, dms guild, dungeon crawl classics, Dying Earth, en publishing, eventide, Fantasy Grounds, fat magic, frenzy kitty games, gama, ghastbashers, gms magazine, GURPS, hard wired island, heresy lab, ill met by moonlight, indie groundbreaker awards, into the oblivious depths, iron studios, izegrim creations, last redoubt games, legion games, Loke BattleMats, manic productions, megalos, Metal Weave Games, miniforge, Modiphius Entertainment, my body is a cage, netherborn games, on the wings of valkyries, Paizo Publishing, parable games, Pelgrane Press, peter rudin-burgess, planeshift, quarter elf publishing, R.

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