Usagi Trivia November 6th - 13th

[Steve Hubbell]

Over the past 30+ years, Stan Sakai has created a lot of characters for his Usagi Yojimbo comic. And out of all those characters, a lot of them have been kids. This week's contest is a scavenger hunt to see who can come up with the LONGEST LIST of kids who have appeared in USAGI YOJIMBO STORIES. To limit the lists, only kids with ACTUAL NAMES will be counted. To complicate things, the title of the story in which each child FIRST APPEARS needs to be listed. No limit on submissions, so PM me your initial list and then keep adding to it.

Good luck......

[Steve Hubbell]

Last day to get your lists in for this week's trivia contest.

[Steve Hubbell]

Subject: Usagi Trivia November 6th - 13th

Over the past 30+ years, Stan Sakai has created a lot of characters for his Usagi Yojimbo comic. And out of all those characters, a lot of them have been kids. This week's contest is a scavenger hunt to see who can come up with the LONGEST LIST of kids who have appeared in USAGI YOJIMBO STORIES. To limit the lists, only kids with ACTUAL NAMES will be counted. To complicate things, the title of the story in which each child FIRST APPEARS needs to be listed. No limit on submissions, so PM me your initial list and then keep adding to it.

Good luck......

Let's go *cracks knuckles*

"Lone Rabbit and Child" - Lord Noriyuki
"Homecoming" - Jotaro, kid Mariko, kid Usagi and kid Kenichi
Usagi Yojimbo (v.1) #1-4: "Samurai" - Tsuruichi, son of Lord Mifune (poor baby )
Usagi Yojimbo (v.1) #5: "Silk Fair" - Genta the samurai
Usagi Yojimbo (v.1) #6: "Zylla" - does he count?
Usagi Yojimbo (v.1) #8: "A Mother's Love" - kid Atsuo
Usagi Yojimbo (v.1) #24: "Lone Goat and Kid" - Gorogoro
Usagi Yojimbo (v.1) #28-31: "Circles" - kid Shunichi and kid Shunji, Katsuichi-sensei's life-savers
Usagi Yojimbo (v.1) #32: "Kitsune" - kid Kitsune, so cute with a top!
Usagi Yojimbo (v.1) #34-36: "Gen" - kid Gen, so cute being swept off his feet!

Usagi Yojimbo (v.2) #9-10: "Slavers" - Hiro, son of the village leader
Usagi Yojimbo (v.2) #13: "Black Soul" - Holy jitters, it's Keiko. The creepiest of them all
Usagi Yojimbo (v.2) #15: "Kaiso" - Hayato, son of Kichiro the seaweed farmer

Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #8: "A Promise in the Snow" - Fumiye, the ghost girl
Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #10: "The Patience of the Spider" - Motokazu, son of General Ikeda, unnamed

Usagi Yojimbo Color Special #4: "Green Persimmon" - Ichiro, the kid saved by Usagi

Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #13-22: "Grasscutter"
* Prologue 4 - Emperor Antoku
Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #28-29: "The Courtesan" - Kotaro, son of Lady Maple and of Ishida after that

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Tournament" - kid Tomoe. Second cutest of all, and my avatar in several websites

Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #32: "A Life of Mush" - Eizo, the rude samurai wannabe
Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #52: "Kitsune's Tale" - Kiyoko, Kitsune's ward. You know, I think she might be the second most important child in the series, after Jotaro, of course
Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #61: "Out of the Shadows" - Hideko, little girl who's almost trampled by a horse
Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #72 "Kill the Geishu Lord" - Kaze, Lord Noriyuki's body double
Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #73 "The Pride of the Samurai" - Ichirozuke, the proud samurai's son

Usagi Yojimbo Color Special (v.1) #1: "Tomoe's Story" - Tajima (Tomoe's brother) and kid Noriko the Blood Princess (in the revised version)

Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #94: "Remnants of the Dead" - Hanako, Merchant Endo's daughter
Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #103-104: "The Darkness and the Soul" - oh so many:
* Ichiro, the roof-jumper who broke his leg;
* Kei-chan, who grew a pumpkin for priest Jizonobu;
* kid Jubei, later a monk but for now a very sick kid;
* Keifume, Lord Goyo's very ill daughter
Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #111-112: "Sakura" - Momo, the serving girl who is rescued by Sakura
Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #128: "Teru Teru Bozu" - Taro, the boy who ate too many sweets. Ouch!
Usagi Yojimbo (v.3) #152 "The River Rising" - Keiichi, Hatsu the former bandit's son

Space Usagi "Death and Honor" ch.1 - prince Kiyoshi
Space Usagi "Death and Honor" ch.2 - princess Masayo
Space Usagi "White Star Rising" ch. 1 - Lady Ch'yoko, the psychic

And I've reserved a special spot at the end for the cutest of them all (and yes, I know I have overused the word, but she is):



Yuki, the Hatamoto's daughter!

And Richarddragon wins the contest by a landslide, burying all the competition with his awesome list of kids in the Usagiverse.....

[richarddragon]

Yay me!

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