Usagi Yojimbo Saga

Stan Sakai

Aug 2021 · Usagi Yojimbo Saga Vol 2, #7-30 · Sold by Dark Horse Comics

About this ebook

The rabbit ronin's adventures hit an early peak in this second volume featuring brand new original cover art by Stan Sakai!

This collection includes Usagi's first encounters with the Lord of Owls, Inspector Ishida, and more, and is highlighted by the Eisner Award-winning Grasscutter, a grand tale assembling nearly all the series' characters in a struggle over the grasscutting sword of Japanese legend, with the fate of the nation in the balance!



Collects Usagi Yojimbo Volume 3 #7-#30 and Usagi Yojimbo: Green Persimmon!

Ratings and reviews

It's worth buying for the "Grasscutter" story arc alone, but every story is great, and visually well drawn and illustrated. With plenty of ancient Japanese culture too. Usagi is a series that deserves more regard nowadays. Usagi is more then just a character that cameos in TMNT sometimes, but a truly great and classic comic character that can stand on his own. Has some surprisingly darker and violent moments then the previous book, (usually bloodless, blood is usually only seen if it's important to the story) but it doesn't feel like it's trying to be "edgy," and feels dignified. It reads like a classic samurai movie. Some younger readers may find it slow paced at times, but when the story and action picks up, it really picks up. I highly recommend the series, and having it digitally is convenient for a 600+ page book, and worth the price.

good read.. awesome storytelling.. highly recommended..

very good

About the author

Stan Sakai was born in Kyoto, Japan, grew up in Hawaii, and now lives in California with his children, Hannah and Matthew. He received a fine arts degree from the University of Hawaii and did further studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His creation, Usagi Yojimbo, is the story of a samurai rabbit living in a feudal Japan populated by anthropomorphic animals. It first appeared in Albedo Comics in 1984. Since then, Usagi has appeared on television as a guest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; and as toys, on clothing, in comic books, and in a series of trade paperback collections. In 1991, Stan created Space Usagi, the adventures of a descendant of the original Usagi, dealing with the samurai in a futuristic setting. Stan is also an award-winning letterer for his work on Sergio Aragonés's Groo: The Wanderer, the Spider-Man Sunday newspaper strips, as well as for Usagi Yojimbo. He is the recipient of a Parents' Choice Award, an Inkpot Award, multiple Eisner Awards, two Spanish Haxturs, an American Library Association Award, and a National Cartoonists' Society Division Award. Usagi Yojimbo Book 12: Grasscutter was used as a textbook in Japanese history classes at the University of Portland.