Usagi Podjimbo Otakuology

Politics and honor don't always mix. In a temple in which Usagi is staying with his friend, Priest Sanshobo, sanctuary is sought by a dying samurai who holds a secret that could change the course of the entire nation. Usagi and Sanshobo are bound to protect it, but there's a whole band of samurai determined to defeat them at any cost!



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Usagi, while crossing a snow-covered mountain pass, comes across a little girl and her severely wounded father, the only survivors of a party attacked by bandits. It's rabbit against nature as the ronin attempts to usher them safely through the pass, in a snowstorm, stalked by predatory animals, with the threat of an avalanche literally above their heads!



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Usagi recounts the battle that cost Lord Mifune his life and, for the first time, reveals how he got the scar over his left eye. Nakamura Koji is on his warrior pilgrimage, honing his skill for the day that he can avenge himself on the one who bested him in a duel many years before. But he will never make it to that day unless he can defeat the Surudoi school of swordsmanship, who have ambushed him on this journey. In this fight, however, Koji will not be alone -- he is joined by Usagi Yojimbo





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Usagi encounters the mysterious female samurai, Inazuma, whom he had met in previous travels. She has been on the run from assassins, and, during her brief rest, she tells the story of her drunken husband and the twists of fate that turned her into a fugitive."



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An assassins' guild to one side and a hostile, mysterious medicine peddler to the other, Usagi Yojimbo is between a rock and a hard place. High in the mountains above ancient Japan, he is forced into battle along the narrow Chrysanthemum Pass.



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The war between the cat ninjas and the bat ninjas resumes. Chizu, the leader of the cat ninjas is transporting a secret document, and when she meets up with Usagi, he is compelled to help her against the bats.



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