* Gennosuke Murakami, from the Usagi Yojimbo comic book series

The other regular contributors to the book are letterer Stan Sakai ( himself the creator / artist of the equally famous Usagi Yojimbo ), and colorist Tom Luth.

* Stan Sakai has mentioned his plans to include a character based Wong Fei-hung in a future issue of his comic book Usagi Yojimbo.

The character Miyamoto Usagi, himself based on famed swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, is the lead character in the comic book Usagi Yojimbo, a term literally translating to " Rabbit Bodyguard ".

The series is also influenced somewhat by Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés ( Sakai is the letterer for that series ), but the overall tone of Usagi Yojimbo is more serious and reflective.

Usagi was first conceived as a supporting character in The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy, a brief series that predates Usagi Yojimbo.

The Usagi Yojimbo series has been published by three different companies.

The third is Dark Horse Comics, at which Usagi Yojimbo is still being published ( as volume three, over 140 issues ), and who also released a fourth Color Special.

A fourth publisher, Radio Comix, has published two issues of The Art of Usagi Yojimbo which contained a selection of unpublished drawings, convention sketches, and other miscellaneous Usagi Yojimbo artwork.

The first issue also included an original Usagi Yojimbo short story.

In 2004, Dark Horse Comics published a Twentieth Anniversary hardcover volume also entitled The Art of Usagi Yojimbo.

Because Usagi Yojimbo is a creator-owned comic and Stan Sakai has complete and sole ownership of the character, Miyamoto Usagi has been able to appear in occasional short stories published by companies other than the one currently publishing his series.

Stan Sakai has also been able to experiment with formats for Usagi Yojimbo, as when he published the color story " Green Persimmon " first as twelve separate 2-page chapters serialized in Diamond Comic Distributor's monthly catalog " Previews.

With Usagi Yojimbo stories in single page " gag " stories as well as multi-issue epic adventures.

Usagi has also appeared several times in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ( the comic, both of the animated series, and the toy line ), and the Turtles have appeared in Usagi Yojimbo as well.

Here, " Usagi Yojimbo " is incorrectly used as his actual name.

In the manga, she even tells them she is the princess they have been searching for, although in fact she is merely serving as a decoy to protect the real princess, Usagi.

In the anime, having lived in England for some time, she is skilled at the language ( in one episode it is shown her skills are more refined than Ami Mizuno's ), and Usagi begs Minako to teach her.

Starting in Act 1, Minako is shown as a famous singer, of whom Usagi Tsukino in particular is an enormous fan.

The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo is presenting an exhibit entitled " Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo from July 9 through October 30, 2011.

Most significantly, the main character's name, Miyamoto Usagi, is a play on " Miyamoto Musashi ", Japan's most famous historical samurai and the author of The Book of Five Rings, and " Usagi " the Japanese language word for " rabbit " ( The story notes for one volume also cite as an influence Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, which features Miyamoto Musashi as a protagonist.

Rei is the last Senshi to die in the battle against the DD Girls in the first season's finale, giving her life for Usagi.

In Sailor Moon R: The Movie, Rei is hysterical when Usagi gives her own life for her friends.

She claims to hate karaoke ( which the other girls love, especially Usagi ), but is later coerced by Minako into posing as an idol — exactly what her anime counterpart wishes.

He is best known as the creator of the comic series Usagi Yojimbo.

While Usagi Yojimbo draws most heavily upon samurai and chanbara films, it has also been influenced by Japanese films from other genres.

In the manga, by contrast, Minako suspects Yaten of being an enemy ; while confronting the Starlights, she and Rei reaffirm that they do not need men because they have dedicated their lives to their duty of protecting Usagi.

Usagi was named the thirty-first greatest comic book character by Empire Magazine.

Usagi has appeared in stories published by Cartoon Books, Oni Press, Sky Dog Press, Wizard Press, and most recently in the benefit book Drawing the Line, the proceeds of which went to Princess Margaret Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children, both in Toronto, for cancer research.

There was also a computer game called Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC platforms in 1988, by the now defunct computer game label Firebird.

* Various copies of the Usagi Yojimo series have been translated into Indonesian by the PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama publishing house.

* Usagi Yojimbo, an ongoing comic book series created by Stan Sakai in 1987.

First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly sole artist ( Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story " Broken Ritual " is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black-and-white version of the story " Return to Adachi Plain " that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paperback edition of Usagi Yojimbo ).

He is always addressed as Mamo-chan by Usagi throughout the series during this time period ( Chibiusa also addresses him with this nickname later on ).

Meanwhile, Usagi and her friends decide to dress in their own homemade sailor fuku in order to scare the thieves away from the jewelry store owned by Naru Osaka's mother, ( Usagi as Sailor Rabbit, Naru as Sailor N,

: Buu makes a short appearance to help when Neko Majin Z is rendered helpless by Usagi Majin ( the lesser-known rabbit version of Neko Majin ).

In the live-action series, she was voiced by Miyū Sawai, who also played Usagi Tsukino and who had her voice digitally deepened and altered for this role.

* Usagi Yojimbo Roleplaying Game: Anthropomorphic animal roleplaying in feudal Japan, based on the Usagi Yojimbo comic book series by Stan Sakai.

* " Usagi Yojimbo " by Stan Sakai — the adventures of the rabbit ronin before the strip got its own book.

It is the second most extensive, long-running, entirely original creator-controlled, self-contained North American comicbook in history, only exceeded by Cerebus, and has the most issues among comics that are still regularly published, followed by Usagi Yojimbo and Savage Dragon.

The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo presented an exhibit entitled " Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo from July 9 through October 30, 2011.

A prototypical example of the former usage in the original Japanese which brought the term to the attention of Western fans is Chibiusa, a pet name for the diminutive daughter of Sailor Moon formed from Chibi Usagi (" Little Rabbit ").

: The introductory sequence shows Poemy fighting shadowy figures of various other magical girls such as Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon, Tickle from Majokko Tickle, Utena from Revolutionary Girl Utena, Megu and Non from Majokko Megu-chan, Mahoro from Mahoromatic, Sakura Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura, and the considered first magical girl in Japanese animation, Sally, from Sally, the Witch.

The North American version was released first and lacks certain features added to the later Japanese, European and Australian versions, notably the Dristone game mode, single-card multiplayer, the moon stage in Mission mode and the character of Rabbit ( Usagi ).

Usagi Tsukino ( Serena in the dub ) is a play on words for Moon Rabbit, the translation for " tsuki no usagi " in Japanese.