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They look very impressive to me at first glance - I'd have to look more closely and refer to some of my books on the history and development of samurai armour.

Bet they're expensive though...

Wow! Thanks for the thorough response!

The reversed printing thing is a good point - for ages I thought Lone Wolf was left handed until I realised that Dark Horse had reversed the images for its translated editions.

Domo arigato gozaimasu.

As they say, 'the clue's in the name'

Read an article in Judge Dredd Megazine (which I am still to get round to scanning or typing up for Steve ) and was fascinated by the idea of a rabbit samurai, ordered books one and two from Amazon and now am the proud owner of books one through nineteen and a large credit card bill...

Just wondering - has UY been published in Japanese and if so how was it received?

I think the phrase 'timeless genius' sums up Usagi pretty well, so yes, he will still be famous in 5 years time.

Don't worry Hugegoat - it's not the ending that's important (though it is incredibly moving), but how they get there. You'll still enjoy the book.

Great film, but I think he must have ripped off 'A Fistful of Dollars' for the plot, just like he ripped off 'The Magnificent Seven' for his film 'the Seven Samurai'.

My favourite characters!

Especially Spot. Both of them.

A school for children with 'magical' psychic powers... someone who defeated an evil lord when they were just a child.

Why does this sound familiar?

Sake with ice cream? I should have realised...

Manga tends to have a very distinctive visual style, which Usagi doesn't share, although it does have occasional panels which have a sort of manga feel without directly copying the look. Just to get really dull, another term people use for comics is 'sequential art'. You can always use that one if y...

Domo arigato gozaimasu for the info Stan.

It looks like I may have to track down one or two of those as well then. Though having seen a copy of Book 2 being sold second hand on Amazon for about £300 it might take some time...

Do the hard cover tpbs have anything in that isn't available in the soft cover?

I hope not or I'll have to start collecting them as well. Oh well.

I'm rather happy at the moment as for my birthday I just got DVDs of 'Rashomon', 'Yojimbo' and 'Ran'.