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I don' know has anyone seen this cartoon. It apears on Cartoon Network. Pretty nice. Nice drawing and good plot. Anyhow on episode XIX, in which Usagi finds remanents of fis home village, we can see glashbacks from his past. In one of them he is playing near a bridge on a small river. A mean, rather rugged, wearing a black, old kimono, and pushing a cart with a child in it aproaches the bridge. He has a samurai sword by his side. On a bridge there are four ninja-like guys waiting on him. He takes the kid out of the cart. And heads to the ninjas. Young Jack looks at him slaughtering the ninjas. He also briefly exchanges looks with the kid. After the massacre, the Samurai(Yagi?) put's the kid in the cart, and leaves.

When I saw that eppisode, I immidiatelly thought of "The lone Goat and the kid". Anyone else saw the episode?

It should be noted that "Lone Goat & Kid" are themselves a parody of a famous comic Samurai pair known as "Lone Wolf & Cub". LW&C come from a long running comic of a human samurai and his son, they go around the Japanese countryside much like LG&K. Although I wouldn't discount an interest in Usagi by the creators, I would assume the incident in question (yeah, saw it) is based on the original Lone Wolf & Cub more than the Sakai followup, as good as it may be.

It should be noted that "Lone Goat & Kid" are themselves a parody of a famous comic Samurai pair known as "Lone Wolf & Cub"...

...which also spawned the "Baby-Cart Assassin" series of six movies in the '70's starring Wakayama Tomisaburo, which are available on video (have a look on imdb.com under Kozure Ôkami). These were VERY true to the comics, with only a little bit of the suckiness inherent to movies of the time. The first two were edited into one 98% slashing, 2% story version for North American release called "Shogun Assassin", which is good from a yuk but not really representative of the series.

Yagi and Gorogoro also happen to be the co-stars of the current UY epic "Fathers and Sons", in which we get to see Jotaro and Gorogoro team up! Awesome!!!

i luv SJ, ive seen that episode many times but it has never occured to me. That seems really weird, i cant beleive that could've been baised off of UY!!! ill have to watch it again.