What is a tokage?

Hugegoat · Post by **Hugegoat** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 20:46 -0700

h'llo all, is me again

Uh, well the title describes it all. Wats a tokage? Either i never read the part if it describes it or im an ignorant 11 year old

Leonardo-san · Post by **Leonardo-san** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 21:41 -0700

Tokage are the little lizard, dinosaur-like creatures in the UY world.
Very cute, I think. Sometimes they get into trouble. Sometimes they cause it.

Post by **Todd Shogun** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:46 -0700

Tokage are used in UY for two reasons:

1) To replace all of the mammalian wildlife and pets in Usagi's world because it is an anthropomorphic world. The only exception to this was Noriyuki's dog Koro... but we haven't seen him in awhile. Notice how there are no bird or horse people in Usagi's world either. These are because these appear as animals. There have been some reptilian characters though. Usagi had a pet tokage once -- Spot -- who went on to become Zato Ino's pet.

2) Stan likes drawing dinosaurs -- see Space Usagi for some wild varieties of tokage.

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 21:23 -0700

"Tokage" in Japanese literally means "lizard".

Hugegoat · Post by **Hugegoat** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:58 -0700

o, ok guys and thx again

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ai no ahodori · Post by **ai no ahodori** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 13:58 -0700

The tokage are one of my favourite things in Usagi Yojimbo cartoons. I love the little background humour they bring to the strip and I am in constant awe of Stan's ability to make them express so many different emotions, whilst only saying, "Eep!".

Also, of course, one of the most moving sequences involved the death of one special tokage.