UY stories set in other countries?

[Jet_Jaguar]

This might be a difficult thing to do considering the restrictions on leaving Japan during the time that UY is set, but I think it would be interesting if there were a UY story set outside of Japan. It might be necessary to play a little bit fast and loose with history to write such a story, but I think that it could probably be done somehow. Another part of Asia, like China or Korea, seems most likely, but there are other possibilities. At some point in the 17th century, Japan sent a diplomatic delegation to Mexico, so that might be a possibility (Shusaku Endo wrote a novel about this diplomatic mission, but I've never read it). You'd have to play really fast and loose with history to have Usagi go to Renaissance England and meet William Shakespeare, but I think something like that would be fun (I wonder what kind of animal Shakespeare would be). Anyone have any other ideas?

[theGreatMutoh]

I had wondered about this in a post myself awhile back.

It would be great to see Usagi travel and interact with other cultures and societies.

I really like some of your ideas, Jet.

[Marchino]

yeah!!!! i agreed i would be really cool to seee Usagi in Mexico also it would be cool Usagi in Spain!!... ok, dreams dont have any cost

Abayo,
Marchino

[Martin]

This makes me recall a cancelled project Warren Ellis was planning, about a realistic meeting between Vikings and Samurai in ancient times. It sounded awesome...how about Usagi meeting some Viking travelers?

[kony000]

Maybe not an Usagi but his cousin It will be more safely and It won't "destroy" comic because strong adavantage of Usagi is loyalty to history
But Uasgi travelling across medieval Europe sounds great

[Jet_Jaguar]

But Uasgi travelling across medieval Europe sounds great

Actually, it would be more like Renaissance Europe (or "Early Modern" if you prefer that term) since UY is set around 1600. In the graduate English class where I studed Medieval literature, the Middle Ages were usually defined as lasting from about 5 or 600 AD to 1485 or thereabouts (Of course, Italy had their Renaissance about a hundred years before England had theirs).

[kony000]

Of course Medieval finished in XV century but I mean cousin of Usagi not himself (maybe not very clearly ) Why medieval Europe? I think it would be the most interesting but also not very possible from historical way.

P.S. There are three events which "finished" Middle Ages: capturing Constantinople by Turkish, the invention of printing by Gutenberg and discovering America by Columbus