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Please pm me who you think is the largest character in Sensei Sakai's work.
Please use the height of Usagi Yojimbo to measure your answer.
"This ? character is as tall as ? Usagi Yojimbos."
Enter as many times as you wish.
Random number generator will be employed if needed...
Time to measure up!

Best wishes to all.
Have fun.
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Taisho Steve Hubbell has already entered the contest.

Of course Steve has!

Dear Readers,
4 people have entered this trivia game so far.
Their answers are all very large.
However, not any of them are the correct answer....
Enter as many times as you would like.
Best wishes,
go

Dear Readers,
I have just received an answer from Mayhem, our Daimyo.
Our seventh response.

I am pretty sure i have not yet received a correct answer from anyone.

Please enter as many answers as you like.
I will publish all entries at the end of the game.
I will also check with someone above my rank to be sure of the final answer.
My greatest fear is to mess up this contest.....

Best wishes to all!
Have fun!
go

Dear Readers,
We just received our ninth response to our trivia question.
After consulting with our Sensei i must report:
We have no correct answers.
Please try as many times as you like.
After we finish this question i will add a fishy bit of future trivia....
Never give up!
Best wishes to all.
go
ps. Thank you very much to Steve Hubbell for forwarding responses to our trivia contest from other social media sources.

"Would the Usagi Gundam be a character or a vehicle?"

go wrote:"Would the Usagi Gundam be a character or a vehicle?"

Would you consider the Millenium Falcon a character?

Well, yeah, but I decided to try guessing that just in case heh.

I've tried 4 times.

1 vehicle
1 that was "fishy"
2 that were monstrous

All 4 incorrect to the best of my knowledge.

I suppose the real clue is Sensei Sakai's work. Not UY. That's where I get stuck.

Dear Go,

I just submitted mine as well. I wasn't sure if I would get it in on time, but I had a good idea what character was the biggest (at least in my mind) It might be one of Gaffey's monster submissions. But this was a fun contest, Go! Thanks!

Peace, maka

I had to send in one more "fishy" entry. Had trouble figuring out it's true size.

Last day of our contest!
13 great entries so far and one might be correct!
Never give up.
Best wishes,
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Steve Hubbell wins with:
"How about the Kameyama or giant space turtles from the Space Usagi series?
They have to be at least 500 Usagi's in length."

Congratulations to our Taisho!

I began with the idea of the Gods being the largest characters in sensei Sakai's work.
When i looked at the drawings i realized there was no scale with which to measure the Gods on the first few pages of Grasscutter.
A few pages after the Gods is the 8-forked serpent of Koshi on page 15 of Grasscutter.
These were good answers, but Steve's is ichiban!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much to all who participated in our contest.
Special thanks to our Sensei Sakai for his help and wonderful work to choose from.
Here are the guesses as they were received:

First response from Steve :
Godzilla
Then again, Daimajin looks a hair taller on the cover of Usagi Yojimbo #68
And Lord Hebi would be the tallest of all the characters whom Stan Sakai actually created….

Second response from johnsonk513 :
I am going to say that Usagi Gundam from Usagi Yojimbo: Senso is the largest character and
I will guess Usagi Gundam is as tall as 50 Usagi Yojimbos

Third response was from: Gaffey
Usagi Gundam is as tall as 20 Usagi's.
Assuming Usagi is a 5 foot tall bunny, then Usagi Gundam has to be at least 100 feet tall.
Not sure how the ears fit into this equation, but that's my guess.
Gaffey

Fourth response was from: Kris Buker
My guess is Lord Hebi. I'm thinking he's 4 or 5 Usagi's long/tall.
I am also happy with using Usagi as a unit of measurement, just sounds right.
'We need to build a house 3 Usagi tall and 14 Usagi wide’.

Fifth response was from:
Sent: Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:27 pm
From: jabba359
To: go
When you say largest character in Sensei Sakai's work,
do you mean anything he's draw (even outside the Usagi universe)?

I'd wager that King Kong is one of the largest. In the "Kong of Skull Island" universe, Kong measures about 100'-120' tall.
I figure that Usagi, with ears (not pointed straight up), is about 6' tall.
That would make Kong approximately 17-20 Usagi's tall.

Perhaps even larger is Usagi Gundam.
I made some measurements of the drawings and figure that UG is about 30-34 Takenoko-Sensei's high.
Usagi is taller, so I'd imagine that UG is about 27-30 Usagi's tall.

I'm not trying to win, but thought it would be fun to participate in this challenge.

Sixth response was from:
Jason LaGory's answers from the UY Dojo Facebook page....
Jason LaGory 9:17pm, 4/27/17
Usagi Gundam is as tall as 20 Usagi Yojimbos
and Lord Hebi is as long as 10 Usagi Yojimbos

Seventh response was from: Mayhem
Sent: Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:07 am
I'll launch with an obvious one first to see how I get on... Usagi Gundam,
which when measuring the page in question, appears to be about 20 Usagis high, or more, as you only get up to its top knot on the page!

Eighth response was from: johnsonk513
Sent: Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:57 am
You never said that the character had to be in the Usagi universe so I will throw out another guess of Kong is the largest character and I will guess
Kong is as tall as 10 Usagi Yojimbos


Ninth response was from : Gaffey
Sent: Fri Apr 28, 2017 7:41 pm
The Sea Monster on the cover to Furrlough 50?

Tenth response was from Gaffey:
Sent: Sun Apr 30, 2017 9:31 am

How about Kamakura Akugenta as a stone majin giant? 7 and a half Usagi's?
or Godzilla from Sumi-e part 3. Also around 7 and a half Usagi's.
Can't quite tell which is taller based on how Stan draws them.
They are much smaller than the Usagi Gundam (vehicle).

Eleventh response is from Maka:
My guess is the Kamakura Akugenta Stone Majin Giant in Sumi-e Part 3, Usagi Yojimbo V3, issue 68.
This character is as tall as 10 Usagi Yojimbos (my estimate).

Twelfth response is from Gaffey:
Sent: Mon May 01, 2017 8:30 pm

My final guess will be the octopus demon from My Lord's Daughter.
When Usagi is riding the shark to the surface, you can see that the tentacles alone have to be 10 or 11 Usagi's tall.
So I'll go with 15 Usagi's since I can't see the head.

Thirtheenth response is from Steve:
How about the Kameyama or giant space turtles from the Space Usagi series?
They have to be at least 500 Usagi's in length.

Congratulations Steve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you also to Steve for forwarding entries to our contest from Facebook.
Thank you to all who participated.
Best wishes,
go

When Maka said he was going fishy, I thought he meant he was going to go with the Giant Catfish that the islands of Japan are sat upon and which makes an appearance in the upcoming TMNT / Usagi cross-over.