We miss you, Tomoe.

[Maka]

[estee]

[lookatyouhacker]

[estee]

Ahem...

Well we've all showed how we feel about Tomoe.

But if you'd like to see my views in greater detail, please read the latest chapter (Chapter 10) for more.

I hope you like it.

*forgive me lookatyouhacker for using your thread to plug my fan fiction*

[lookatyouhacker]

I'll be sure to check it out. But in addition to Tomoe, I really want to see Noriko come back as well. I want to see more of just how awesomely evil she can be. I think it would be interesting if she attempted to use Horikawa's own animosities towards Tomoe to her own twisted advantage, even attempted to blackmail him into using Tomoe's marriage as a cover-up for assassinating her, (not that I think Sakai-sama intends to go this route) and you know how she prefers to humilate her opponents after defeating them? Well, I think it would make Noriko a much more menacing villain if she humiliated some of the male samurai she beat specifically by raping them!

[lookatyouhacker]

While Stan hasn't decided when Tomoe's finally coming back, he still drew some pictures with her in them. Aside from the revised 119 cover art, he also drew these:

[Maka]

Those are so awesome! Lovely sketches! I saw the color one but not the black and white before. Thanks! Peace, maka

[lookatyouhacker]

You're welcome. It's good to know that even with Tomoe currently absent from the series, Stan is still making artworks with her in them. As tempted as I am to have my reaction to them be this:



Stan did point out that he still has a somewhat hard time deciding when she'll finally be back. Even in the upcoming "Usagi Yojimbo Supporting Cast Series," which will be out in 2021, I guess, the supporting cast is so massive that Sakai might not know who to focus on first. I can say, however, that the Tomoe marriage subplot would be better off being resolved in that simply because it must have happened quite a bit before the current bunraku storyline.

[lookatyouhacker]

[lookatyouhacker]

[lookatyouhacker]

[estee]

[lookatyouhacker]

I hope so. My big problem with Kubo is that he just came right out of nowhere.

[lookatyouhacker]

One thing I'm hoping for in this upcoming spin-off series is that Tomoe does get the focus of, well, one out of the first seven stories.

[lookatyouhacker]

You know, now that I think about it, a lot of Usagi's back up singers take some pretty long leaves of absence from time to time. It happened to Chizu, Gen, Sasuke, Kitsune, Jotaro, and the like. So, this additional series will do them some good once it finally gets off the ground.