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RockSplash
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This is pretty cool. It looks more kid friendly than the original comics(they took themselves a little too seriously IMO), but Iove more action kid shows. Reminds me a lot of the nick TMNT in the mid 2010s.
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dm
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Happy to see success coming to Stan Sakai, I've been reading Usagi Yojimbo since near the beginning.
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Generations
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I'll be honest, I don't know what I expected, but this wasn't it. And I can't say I'm a fan of it.
The trailer makes the show come off as a bit generic, with the comedy and the dialogue, and aside from all the similar names I can't see any connection to the source material at all. It may as well have been anything. Can't say I'm interested to see this one. |
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blooperboy
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HannoX
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It's been years since I've read any Usagi, but this trailer is nothing like any of what I have read and doesn't look like it'll be nearly as good as what I had read.
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MFrontier
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This seems like it's taking some influence from Usagi but turning it into your typical kid Superhero cartoon, with a young, rookie, teen protagonist joining up with a group of colorful, eclectic, and capable friends to fight monsters like a Saturday Morning Cartoon.
Like, I think there's validity to that, but it's not really Usagi Yojimbo. I was already disappointed that this wasn't going to be a straight adaption of the comic, but even tonally it feels entirely different. The fact that his descendant gets a home base with his friends is so different from Usagi's warrior pilgrimage as a Ronin. And, like, Usagi did way more than fight Yokai. Yokai was like the thing Usagi liked dealing with the least. He hated every time Sasuke dragged him into something involving Yokai. Also, I'm genuinely surprised there doesn't seem to be a new version of Jei in this. |
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bagman
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What in the chop socky chooks did i just watch
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dm
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W-e-l-l, there's a bit of returning to Usagi's Teenage Mutant Ninja roots here, plus leaning heavily on the atmosphere of the playful Usagi stories (pretty much guaranteed by the presence of Kitsune).
Sakai has done something like this before --- there are some "Space Usagi" stories set in the future, with reincarnated characters we know. Mix in some of the stores of apprentice Usagi. I'm guessing there's a preponderance of "talking animals are for kids/we can't really do furry-Kurosawa" among the boring money people, and the model they're working from is something like Kung-fu Panda more than Kubo and the two strings. |
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