#Inspectors Ishida

[untilsfe]

Lately my art hasn't been arting very much. So I spent this two weeks doing a bunch of busts of UY characters to overcome the art block!

I don't know how Sakai does to have so many characters and give spotlight to almost all of them. Respect.

[reviilo]

you are so dear to me 💟

[citrus-soda]

soggy jimbo doodles that I'm probably never gonna finish.

[acespeon]

Usagi said fuck cops

[pizzazz-party]

acab, always, it’s just—do you think anyone has ever tried to arrest a yokai in Usagi Yojimbo. it doesn’t even have to come from a cop, it could be a citizen’s arrest.

[mutagn]

still on my usagi grind. his forehead scar (it's curved downward and thanks to the animation style kind of looks like a stylistic choice for his eye/eyebrow area, but it's a scar) that he gets in the battle in which mifune is killed is fully there when we meet him. what are you all doing to this child

[librarycomic]

Until I came across a stack of recent collections at my local library, I hadn't read any Usagi Yojimbo for a few years -- I knew I'd missed all of the recent full-color collections, but not that I'd also missed a few from the end of the series at Dark Horse, back when it was still published in black-and-white. If you haven't read any for a while, either, the series is as good as ever, and as much as I liked the old uncolored books the newer collections are fabulous, too. These are the three I liked best.

Usagi Yojimbo: Mysteries (Volume 32) by Stan Sakai. Introduction by Yuki Matsuzaki. Dark Horse, 2018. 9781506705842. 180pp plus a cover/pinup gallery. Contains #159-165 of UY Volume 3.

Usagi comes across a dead, high-ranking samurai in the woods, and finds a little girl hiding nearby. On his way to take her to Inspector Ishida, they're accosted by some samurai who want the girl and even go so far as to attack Usagi when he's buying her a meal. It's a huge mistake and only the beginning of a larger mystery that starts with finding the girl's father's confession. Thieves Kiyoko and Kitsune make an appearance, and of course my favorite scenes are the "The Body in the Library" chapters.

Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming (Volume 35) by Stan Sakai, colors by Tom Luth. Introduction by Peach Momoko. IDW, 2021. 9781684058020. Contains #8-14 of UY Volume 4.

This volume starts with a graphic lesson on how tatami mats are made, which plays into the plot. Usagi heads to the north province where he grew up. He crosses paths with samurai transporting new tatami mats for Lord Gifu, who will use them as part of a tea ceremony for an emissary of the shogun. When the samurai are attacked, Usagi helps defend the tatami from the ninja. Later Usagi is pursued because he continues to wear the mon of Lord Mifune, which begins a journey to his home village, Mariko (the woman he loved), and Kenichi, his childhood friend and rival. Katsuichi-sensei (Usagi's teacher) and Jotaro, who is secretly now Usagi's son, also make appearances. The best part of the color version: seeing the blue Usagi wears during the fight scenes.

Usagi Yojimbo: Tengu War! (Volume 36) by Stan Sakai, art assist by Randy Clute, colors by Hi-Fi Design. Introduction by Kevin Eastman. IDW, 2022. 9781684058754. Contains #15-21 of UY Volume 4.

Usagi seeks his other master, a one-handed tengu named Sojobo. There's a flashback to how Usagi earned the right to be trained by him, and, in the present day, as you might guess from the title, Usagi finds himself in the midst of a war between supernatural creatures. Toward the end of the story he meets someone from his past, from just as he fled the battlefield with Lord Mifune's head. And then Usagi meets Yukichi, who remembers when their paths crossed years ago.

[shystrangercowboy]

Inspector Ishida is next! Audio by @jamjoob on tiktok. It's supposed part 13 my bad 😬

[sunnimint]

About Shattering Stars

👀👀the holiday episode you say....

Me who vividly remembers the issue with Inspector Ishida and The Holy Bible: no one tell Usagi about where the Christ in Christmas comes from🫢

KLUNK!!!!

THATS ACTUALLY FUNNY.

Usagi when he meets Ishida: Inspector, I think my kami knows your kami 🤔

In all seriousness, this chapter will be very lighthearted and we might see some mistletoe shenanigans 👀

[the-bar-sinister]

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[post-tg]

Tokyo ghoul not only explores the relationships between parents and children but also paternal or maternal figures.

Among the “bad” parents or paternal figures, the most serious would be: * akihiro Kanou as a father figure to Kurona and Nashiro but who has condemned the twins' lives by turning them into half-ghouls and managing to manipulate them by stating that they are a failure.

Tsuneyoshi Washuu whose relationship with his children is not explored as much in the manga, however, he had intentions of wanting to rape his own daughter to continue the branch of the Washuu clan. Not only that, he also incorporated Juuzou, Kaneki and Mutsuki as inspectors despite having psychological instability.

Torso's father who is more focused on physical and verbal abuse towards his son. until he killed the first friend he had and indirectly turned him into a murderer of women.

Mutsuki's father, which could be said to be the worst paternal relationship in the TG:re, (in addition to the fact that she was physically abused, it can also be inferred that she was sexually abused) and Mutsuki's mother for being absent and being afraid of him, even knowing what what her husband did.

big madam as the mother (father for Juuzou) who tortured quite cruelly until she sterilized her son out of the need to love him only for his body.

With all that said, it seems that Sui Ishida needed the absence or abuse of parents so that the characters could be more realistic or emotional in order to provide development, show their true motivations and not become a hindrance to the story.

And of course there are also good fathers and paternal or maternal figures and quite a few neutral ones that help in the growth of the characters.

It is my opinion, I would like to be corrected in the conclusion.

// sorry if I get into this. I'm new to tumblr in a few months

Tokyo Ghoul's plethora of shit parents

Apart from Takeomi and Seidou, everyone in Tokyo Ghoul are victims of having Shit Parents TM. And if they're not overtly BAD (see: the fucking thing that Mutsukis called "Dad"), they're either MIA or marginal at best.

Why is this a thing? I get that part of It must be to emphasize how dangerous the world is, but could there be an underlying reason? (plot device for the characters to "need" connection with others and to find family/friends? Monopolizing on the whole "bad start in life"? Idk)

We see parents that physically abuse their children (Kaneki's mum, Mutsukis parents, and Big Madam who is a parental figure for Suzuya), those that emotionally mistreat them (Kaneki's aunt and uncle, Saiko's mum), and then there's the absentees, who have either abandoned their kid, or died.

With the parents that die (both the Kirishimas', Uta's family, Akiras' mother, Eto's mother, Uries' dad amongst more), even though it's hardly the adults' fault that they're dead, it's still difficult for the kid that's left behind. It's challenging not to feel resentment -even knowing it's completely unwarranted- for the adult that left permanently. Their death has still robbed their child of a parent.

[I think it's worth considering how well Hide turned out considering his backstory in comparison to all the other characters].

Do you think Tokyo Ghoul would be monumentally different if more of the character's had parents that didn't die at an early age? Or, do you have a theory behind why Ishida chose to bump off so many adults (other than plot conveniences)?

I don't really know where I'm going with this, but it's something I noticed

[lady-perpetua]

Hama’s strong faith in God and his desire to keep the Bible out of the hands of the Shogunate gave him the strength to sacrifice himself to make his enemies believe it was burned with him in the fire. But before he charges into the flames, he says something that honestly made me start to tear up the first time I read it: “My faith is built on sacrifice!”

It reminded me of Matthew 16:24-26 (NKJV): “Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul.” 

And then later one we learn something pleasant yet surprising: Inspector Ishida is a born again Christian and Hama gave him The Bible before he tricked everyone. We also learn that Toto-san is also a born again Christian that helps his Brothers and Sisters in Christ meet in private to talk about Hama’s sacrifice and the safety of the Bible. 

This whole arc follows the very real history of the Kakure Kirishitans. Christians who faced heavy persecution from the Shogunate and those who were found to be Christian were tortured to renounce their faith or executed if they refused. Stan Sakai actually goes into detail about it at the end of the last issue. 

When I first read this arc of Usagi Yojimbo I was so happy and moved over learning that one of my personal favorite characters in the series was Christian. Especially with the lack of Christian characters who’re displayed in a positive light instead of an antagonistic or demonized way. Highly recommend this arc for all my Brothers and Sisters in Christ looking for a good story with well written characters. 

[reviilo]

inspector ishida the only cop ever

[citrus-soda]

It's hard to tell when reading the UY omnibuses, but since the comic generally runs at a pace of one issue every 1-2 months, Vol. 32 and 33 would've been, in real time, two years worth of Usagi and Inspector Ishida just. Solvin murder mysteries and shit. Why is this so funny to me? Two mysterious mysterious years....

[turtlehell]

[pizzazz-party]

QUESTION inspector ishida is a little old man and it is very possible that the Tokugawa shogunate is less than ten years old present day. So we are only about ten years out of the constant warfare of the Sengoku period. What was Ishida doing during the Sengoku wars.