Accidental Misnaming: When Usagi appears with in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, "Usagi Yojimbo" is incorrectly used as his actual name.Hopefully, the Turtles can make an appearance. Rather than an adaptation of the comic, it will be a future-set series about a descendant of Usagi, much like the once-proposed Space Usagi series.
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On February 6, 2018, a full animated series was officially announced as being in development and in July 2020 it was announced as Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles on Netflix.
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A mobile game for iOS and Android was also released, Usagi Yojimbo: Way Of The Ronin. Gold Rush Games published Usagi Yojimbo Roleplaying Game using the Instant Fuzion game system and later Sanguine Games published Usagi Yojimbo: Role-Playing Game using a variant of the Cardinal system used in Ironclaw with the second edition using the Powered by the Apocalypse system.Ī Chibi version of Usagi, Gen and Kitsune was added as an expansion to CMON's Arcadia Quest in 2020.Ī video game for the Commodore 64 called Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo was released in 1988. And most recently, in 2019, the series moved to IDW Publishing, renumbered yet again and being published in colour. In March of 2018, the series moved to a series of miniseries, with both the total numbering and the Dark Horse numbering listed in the indices. note Though the Mirage issues, which were originally published in colour, are in B&W as the colour plates were lost at some point. Collected editions are available, with the first seven books published by Fantagraphics and the rest by Dark Horse. It was then published by Eastman and Laird's Mirage Studios for a time, before moving on to Dark Horse Comics. Starting out in the anthology Albedo Anthropomorphics, it later moved to Fantagraphics Books where it started its ongoing title. The latter two shows have also done episodes set in Usagi's world-the closest things yet to an Usagi animated series.Īs one of the more famous and successful examples of creator-owned comics, Usagi Yojimbo has had a number of different publishers. Besides TMNT comics, Usagi has appeared in two episodes of the 1987 cartoon (and even had a figure in the toy line), eight of the 2003 show, and three on the 2012 show (with one being written by Sakai himself).
His most well-known appearances are those with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, thanks in part to several crossovers between different incarnations of the properties, and the friendship between Sakai and the Turtles creators.