#sanshobo

[reviilo]

you are so dear to me 💟

[charleysketches]

its been awhile since i’ve drawn usagi related stuff, these were for /co/’s annual storytime...also not to mention my first time drawing Sanshobo in like three years, heh. 

[pizzazz-party]

ok i hear what youre saying. but what if said character went through the trouble of getting the gun powder blessed. they paid buddhist priests pray over it and briefly stuck the end of the grasscutter sword in it and everything

on one hand, i wanna see a character try to blow up jei with gun powder. on the other hand, i don’t want jei to learn what gun powder is on the off chance that he survives

[sroloc--elbisivni]

was talking to @pizzazz-party about an Usagi Yojimbo mermaid au which i think is very important for two reasons. one is miyamoto usagi with a big black and white koi fish tail. the other is that in my head only Usagi is a mermaid, and at some point while swimming around under the sea he discovers Grasscutter and doesn't know it's a sacred artifact but he DOES know that crabs are drawn to it. so to him it is just The Sword That Summons Lunch. this is especially important for the possibility that up on land, the witch hired by the conspirators is getting extremely antsy that the sword hasn't appeared yet, a fuss starts up about it, and eventually Chizu and potentially Gen and Sanshobo as well are searching along the Shimonoseki strait for Grasscutter and they run into this fucking mermaid and have a conversation along the lines of

"We're looking for this legendary sword, a sacred artifact gifted by the gods with great powers."

"Oh, like my sword that summons lunch?"

"NO, NOT LIKE YOUR SWORD THAT SUMMONS LUNCH."

(they were, in fact, looking for his sword that summons lunch.)

[shystrangercowboy]

Next is Sanshobo!

[aoyagi-wakazashi]

i never make sideblogs, but i've realized i want a place to put my usagi-specific interests. so here is that place.

my main info can be found on my main blog, but for quick reference, hi, my name's danger, i use they/them pronouns (and also some neopronouns.)

i'll probably use this account to post analysis, reblog cool art, and basically anything else related to usagi yojimbo. anything nsfw will be tagged as such, and suggestive posts will be tagged 'nsfw ish'.

as of writing this, i am in the middle of volume three of usagi yojimbo.

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[characters] chizu gen jei jotaro katsuichi kitsune lone goat and kid lord noriyuki mariko miyamoto usagi sanshobo tomoe ame usagi yojimbo (character name) -> i.e. 'usagi yojimbo miyamoto usagi'

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[sushi-rat]

Jokes aren't as funny when you explain them, but the lyrics of Rasputin remind of Usagi a little so here he is being tormented by his friends with an edited version. This is a bit OOC for some of them

If I was a more competent comic creator/artist this wouldn't look so sloppy, but I'm just trying to make a joke that probably no one else will find except me so I don't care 😊

[chuckdraug]

Usagi Yojimbo Inktober Challenge

Day 07 - Sanshobo

[life-set-to-random]

Usagi and his friend, Priest Sanshobo, about to start some $#¥&.😏

The destructive masculinity in the room increases 😜

[lunaticobscurity]

You are tasked with making an Usagi Yojimbo fighting game. How does it play, and who do you include?

every time i play last blade 2 i think that the mechanics and atmosphere of that game would be perfect for an usagi game, so it’d be a lot like that. there’d be a button just for parrying, some stages with ambient sound instead of music, and so on. i think a single player mode that has you pick a character and wander about a map getting into random encounters against packs of thieves or monsters or other enemies would be cool too.

you could also have a “dramatic time passing” system, which is something i made up and never wrote down before. basically, time passes on the stage (the weather changes, the sun goes up or down, and so on) to give the impression of a long, dramatic duel between characters. but obviously, you aren’t going to be playing a single fight for hours, so “time” would pass quicker depending on certain “drama points”, like weapon clashes, counters and counter-counters, and so on.

as for characters, you have to have usagi, gen and tomoe, as well as zato-ino, inspector ishida and sanshobo. as for evil characters, there’d obviously be jei, but other than that, i’d have to go back and read a bunch of stories to find the coolest one-story villains. a recent evil character who’d be unique enough to make the cut would be the foreigner rodriguez. you could also have a character that was a gang of low-hp, low-skill goons that you controlled all at once to try and take down a single named character. (mirror matches where both players pick the gang “character” would probably entertaining to watch on yourtub too)

every stage would have a random chance of the woodcutter family appearing  somewhere in the background every time you play

[kc-anathema]

okay, finishing up the ask for Rainy Day Friends

What inspired this fic? I forget where I found out that this pairing is a thing, but once I did, as a Leo fangirl, I had to take that idea and sprint with it.

Where did the title come from? Two places. 1, the popular saying. 2, the Sailor Moon song (I’m already singing it again). 3, the rainy setting.

What part was most difficult? Describing Leonardo’s sneaking into the temple. It wasn’t so much the description so much as I just wanted to get to the next part and to saving Usagi.

What are you most proud of? Getting parts of Usagi’s world in there--especially the priest Sanshobo. If I’m going to set the story in Usagi’s world, I want it to feel right and have his elements and characters.

What do you like best about this fic? Leonardo dressing up as a courtesan for a disguise. It only had to last a few seconds, but the work he puts into it and the description of the outfit was satisfying to write.

What do you like least about this fic? It feels a bit contrived. The story feels very plot heavy to me, not as character driven as I would like. But then it was being acted upon by an outside force, so I suppose it’s impossible to avoid some deus ex machina when there’s an actual deus working his machina.

What’s a reference you made no one has picked up on yet? I don’t think there are any in here that anyone missed. It’s a very straightforward story.

What’s a bit that sums up your take on a character?  His hand began to tremble as he reached the door. He'd never attempted a disguise this elaborate and gender-specific before. Telling himself that he only needed to cross the room, he took a deep breath and went inside.

Favorite line(s) of dialogue? "You make a very convincing courtesan," Usagi smirked.

Favorite line(s) of prose? He had plenty of time to look for clues and scraps of legends referring to the dark god. The first ninja belonged to the world of shadows and death, and for now his world had blossomed unexpectedly into light, like clouds parting after a storm.

Were there any points where you were trying to do something specific with sound, vocabulary, or rhythm? Not sound but image. Sound really didn’t stick with me on this one.

Imagery that is important to the fic, either while composing or in the fic itself? The rain. It’s raining at the beginning and the end and there’s a monumental storm in the middle.

How many drafts did the work go through? Just one. The story came out pretty evenly and steady. I knew exactly where it was going to go and end.

Were you listening to anything while writing the fic? If so, what? Moon Phases - Traditional Chinese Music, specifically the Dance of the Yao Tribe. I think. It’s been awhile.

What were you most worried about during the composition? I didn’t want the god to come off as weak or stupid. He needed to be powerful, threatening, in control...and yet he had to still be tricked, openly and honestly. Not easy.

If you used a beta, what did you agree or disagree on? No betas! I ride alone! And if the horse dumps me, I will get up and walk.

Did anything surprise you during the writing? I still really love fight scenes. I wish more people wrote them--good, character driven fight scenes and battles and small skirmishes. God damn it, I wish writers would push and try and get better at them.

Were there any alternate versions of this fic? There is a sequel to this, where Leonardo and Usagi become a couple despite Splinter’s misgivings...and there’s supposed to be a third story to finish a trilogy, where the dark god returns, Leonardo is claimed and Usagi needs his brothers’ help to rescue him. I don’t know if I can ever get to it. I’m not sure how it would go--very unformed in my mind.

Were any parts written under the influence? Exhaustion, exhaustion and exhaustion.

What did you learn from writing this fic? This was earlier in my writing, and I made the mistake of uploading a couple of chapters at once. The sparse comments made even thinner by only being given on one chapter instead of both...I still feel the sting. I think that was the first time I started to have the doubts of “why bother uploading?”

[reviilo]

a fucking sorcerer is hunting inazuma/jei, usagi is coming back to sanshobo's temple and katsuichi is going to his duel with jotaro

... nothing good will come from these things right

[charleysketches]

WIP of a possible OC for a potential Usagi Yojimbo fancomic (fic-thing), a shrine priestess is sent to train under Sanshobo to hone some strange, spiritual powers, time for research before I embarrass myself further

[pizzazz-party]

sanshobo and sasukes ship name could be SasHobo. who said that.

[astophy]

[untilsfe]

YESSS!!! Yes to everything you say and more!!!

The only thing this show has in common with Usagi Yojimbo are the characters names. And they didn't even respect that properly!!

Even when they tried to give the characters a similar background to the originals, they just drop that in following episodes.

The aliens thing if you ask me was a poor way to replicate the formula tmnt uses with the Krang and everything.

I'll die on the hill in wich the show should have been 2D instead of 3D. It just doesn't look well, and by the quality of the animation in the first episodes, I think it definitely would have been a better option.

Also, tho I'm really pissed they didn't include Tomoe. Noriyuki, Sanshobo and others, the most 'Wtf' thing I was presented was Usagi’s Sword... Yeah, sword, because apparently he left Willow branch and young willow I don't know where!! Dude!!! We literally have an arc where he gets almost demon mode because of his swords!!! Where are they!!?!? Aaaaah!!!

guys i please ask y'all to not tag "samurai rabbit the usagi chronicles" or anything related to that show in my usagi yojimbo posts

the tags are already messed up because of leosagi thing and people didn't know to distinguish miyamoto and yuichi

not to mention that i'm definitely not a fan of that show, so pls respect