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Stan sakai usagi5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Sakai also created a futuristic spinoff series Space Usagi. Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story "Broken Ritual" is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black and white version of the story "Return to Adachi Plain" that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paperback edition of Usagi Yojimbo. Another notable reference to Japanese fiction is his character Zato Ino the blind sword pig, who is an homage to the great Zatoichi of the silver screenįirst published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly-sole artist. Stan based his main character on the samurai Miyomoto Musashi. ![]() Many of his characters were inspired by Japanese history and fiction. Usagi Yojimbo started out as a small drawing in his sketchbook. Sakai became famous with the creation of Usagi Yojimbo, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan. ![]()
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