#Murakami Gen

[drawnaghht]

btw, if you liked my post analysing just the magnet "holsters" in Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, I'm eventually gonna post more outfit description/analysis! just cuz I've already been writing some longer descriptions for a while now - that's one of my fave things to research and write about, since it can be good art reference for my own drawings, and especially since I can go through the episodes looking for anything new to write down or connect :)

Also, thank you so much for the replies on my post! LOVING the reactions I'm seeing on it, I didn't expect this to do numbers at all but I'm pleased people enjoy reading me ramble about details in a show I like haha xD I don't usually get replies on my other fandom posts, so this is very surprising, even here. I'm touched!

Replies below! :)

@ranarenee - I already replied to you on the original post, but I genuinely just wanted to feature this comment cuz I'm glad ppl are having a positive reaction to this post xD

I also think it was probably a bit easier to animate them! in addition, because it provides an interesting change of technology in the world of Usagi Chronicles, it means that it might have become more interesting to design this hypothetical descendant-world. I'm sure they might have also just thought it was an interesting and unique element of what they were making, but from Art Director Khang Le and Stan Sakai's CBCC interview, and the SDCC@ Home 2021 panel I remember it was mentioned a few times how many clever things they found to make the production spending smaller on the more trivial things.... so the magnetic holsters feels like a thing that might have hit many birds with one stone, so-to-speak. You have the easier drawing of boards and maybe a few things made lighter for the 3D crew (no extra models or rope to animate, for example), but you also have a pleasing design element to give the main fighters in the cast - Usagi, Gen and Chizu - as well as other characters who would happen to wear weapons on their person aside from Karasu-Tengu. Like mentioned in the post, Kitsune is an interesting exception here, because of course, she's based on UY Kitsune who is also not a direct fighter or anything, but also, the world of SR appears to be at peace of some sort, and it's mentioned several times that there were wars at some point, so not many ordinary citizens of Neo would even have these unless they wanted to use or carry weapons every day. Kitsune wants to blend in with this ordinary citizenry and does so quite well.

I just thought of this today and I guess my post sort of mentioned it, but this existence of the magnets also seems to imply some hierarchy of income or money flow. Kitsune doesn't have any because she doesn't need them and she wouldn't spend money she doesn't have on them anyway. Chizu is Lady Fuwa's favourite student despite how she treats her - and gets the best undercover gear, so like Gen and Usagi, custom magnets. I suspect also that Chizu deliberately somehow got herself assigned to the temple-job (headcanon for now), or perhaps hoped it would be something like that, because she didn't want to get any of the more victim-heavy missions the Neko Ninja do. Gen obviously has spent his own money on the holsters and they are there out of pure practicality - can't be a bounty-hunter without wepons, can you? So the magnets seem more like they're ordinary but custom for the outfit. And Usagi, as discussed before, possibly inherited them because of the clan mon adorning the inlay of the magnet.

@kinokothere - thank you!! I will probably continue making posts like this even if I have no audience! why I made this blog at first was to collect my SRTUC fandom theories and drawings under a more organized platform compared to twitter, where this specific fan-account started. I now write almost explusively about SRTUC so you can bet I have way fewer notes than if I wrote about shipping or something else popular for example xD

Thank you @0yasumi-0-ya-su-mi! it's a fun little world-building detail that I really liked when I started wtaching and I hope other fans also include it more in their work x3

@umhuhwellthen x3 thank you!! i love seeing reactiong tags like this one!

[our-happygirl500-fan]

I don't really believe for a second that any of Yuichi's friends would be able to actually give him good romantic advice.

[sha-biest]

HI SHA CAN I BEG U TO DO THIS WITH ANGENLO

(no pressure ofc!! :D)

I'M SORRY IT TOOK TO LONG BUT I REALLY WANTED TO DO THIS AND PUT SOME EFFORT INTO IT TOO!!

I love them so much, I HAD to do it for them!!

[djpachipikachu]

i dont forget about him promised . I jusy barely draw this guy ,,,, graves gen real

theyre both stupid ichi looks up to him for reasons but gen also keeps taking them thru shortcuts that r more like longcuts and ichi knows his shortcuts suck but they never learn their lesson

[hitokshellart]

Ref for the orphan gang (Kaikishi Warriors) in BMC! :D

[pink-arcee]

Lord Kogane is always using them and it’s lowkey funny as hell - poor kids don’t have anyone telling him to leave them alone

…yeah this one took a long time to draw. And yes, they’re playing Uno

[wtf-a-psychoanalysis]

This is based on my head canon that Usagi gets on bad terms with any lady he meets. Usagi probably told Gen about them and his annoyance with the ninja. Gen likes drama bc it’s funny so I wants to make them fight. His money is on Leona

[glazedmcguffin]

redrew the squad as a group of people in a haunted house (original image under cut)

[untilsfe]

Usagi Yojimtober Day 20 - Laughter

With this kind of friends, why does he even need enemies?? x'd

I remember a lot of cartoons in my childhood that had this type of scenes and how much I used to think it was funny. Idk, simple correlation I guess.

[cousin-counter]

"Don't be so stingy! After all, your cousin said you have lots of money!"

USAGI YOJIMBO: THE CROW #2

[milolunde]

They make me so full of joy. So full of beans.

[our-happygirl500-fan]

Yuichi seems like he would ask one of his friends to come with him when he's trying to confess to a crush for moral support.

[rainnybear]

SAMURAI RABBIT HEADCANONS

Usagi

He/Him

Bisexual

Trans Male

ADHD (Combined Type)

Chizu

She/They

Trans Female

Lesbian

Kitsune

She/Her

Lesbian

Gen

He/Him

Health Anxiety

[djpachipikachu]

never posted this doodle page bc i thought it was ugly but i drew this like a 1-2 months ago while reading the comics ,,, yuichi usagi being an autistic little kid reading yhe comics has never been more real

panel redraws and me trying to imitate him when hes rly ridiculously tiny bc i love him when hes ridiculously tiny look

[hitokshellart]

Working on a funny haha video with the brothers ever

[bunnybunstrawbieee]

Gen

Rhinos are hard to make but it was fun, finally drawn him :]