Usagi Yojimbo

• Title: Usagi Yojimbo #28
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• Writer: Stan Sakai
• Artist: Stan Sakai

In their wanderings, Miyamoto Usagi and Yukichi come across an art merchant attacked by bandits. Although they are not able to save the merchant, they are able to scare away the attackers and save the merchant’s assistant and the cargo they were delivering, not realizing that the assistant is in league with the bandits.

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• Title: Usagi Yojimbo: Lone Goat and Kid #4
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• Writer: Stan Sakai
• Artist: Stan Sakai

Part 2 of “Blood Wings,” Usagi Yojimbo: Lone Goat and Kid #4 opens with Miyamoto Usagi captured by the Komorai Ninja as the rabbit ronin attempts to dissuade them from attacking the gold shipment. Usagi’s bluff that the village knows of their attack gains him the necessary time to escape and Usagi decides to warn the village rather than the caravan carrying the gold who he is already too late to save.

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• Title: Usagi Yojimbo #27
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• Writer: Stan Sakai
• Artist: Stan Sakai

On their travels, Miyamoto Usagi and Yukichi encounter a young woman, Shizuye, at a shrine in the woods. From an old man, the pair learn that the shrine is dedicated to another young woman, Midori, who met tragic end in the haunted woods at the hands of a merchant who eventually also ended the lives of himself and his family. After fending off three men hired to kill Shizuye, the ronin stick around to watch and make sure history doesn’t repeat itself.

Although neither Usagi or Yukichi see any ghost discussed in the story (or at least don’t realize that they do), “A Ghost Story” is appropriately tired as the merchant’s jealous wife’s attempts to kill the servant eventually lead her to an unexpected encounter in the woods putting an end to Shizuye’s troubles for good.

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