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

Usagi Yojimbo is heavily influenced by Japanese cinema and has included references to the work of Akira Kurosawa ( the title of the series is derived from Kurosawa's 1960 film Yojimbo ) and to icons of popular Japanese cinema such as Lone Wolf and Cub, Zatoichi, and Godzilla.

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

A fourth publisher, Radio Comix, has published two issues of The Art of Usagi Yojimbo which contained a selection of unpublished drawings, convention sketches, and other miscellaneous Usagi Yojimbo artwork.

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.

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.

Sakai has tentative plans to produce a fourth Space Usagi miniseries, but nothing has been announced yet.

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

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 ).

Once she has the object of her desire under her services, Beryl has Jadeite implant an item in Mamoru's body that will shorten his life when he is with Usagi.

Normally has a black rabbit named Usagi ( or Rabbit, in English-speaking countries ) that follows him on his travels.

" He has also described her as an adult Tsukino Usagi, with whom she shares a voice actress as well as hair design.

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.

Over the years, creator Freddy Milton has written and drawn many feature-length stories, resulting in a series of full-color albums, a regular Sunday-page newspaper comic strip, appearances in Critters and alongside Usagi Yojimbo

Usagi first appeared in the anthology Albedo Anthropomorphics in 1984, and later in the Fantagraphics Books anthropomorphic anthology Critters, before appearing in his own series in 1987.

Usagi appeared in episodes 32 and 34 in the third season of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon and in episodes 23-26 in the second season of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon for an inter-dimensional tournament against the Turtles.

Sakai originally planned for Usagi and other characters to be human in stories explicitly modeled after the life of Miyamoto Musashi.

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

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.

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

* The Art of Usagi Yojimbo: 20th Anniversary Edition, published 2004.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

True to the name, Usagi often takes work as a bodyguard, and works for various lords, most notably Lord Noriyuki, and teams with other Samurai, bounty hunters, and the like.

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.

Of all the characters, Mamoru gets brainwashed and captured the most throughout the series, probably because of his importance to Usagi.

* 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.

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 ".

Cover of Usagi Yojimbo, book 11