Talk:Usagi Yojimbo

message: I would like to suggest that the link to "mythical creatures" in the second paragraph should point instead to the wikipedia entry for "oni."  The "mythical creatures" article is concerned mostly with anglo-saxon fables such as dragons and griffons, etc. 
The article on oni, (and the article on "Japanese folklore") ties in much better with the contents of Usagi Yojimbo.--
JAVanfleet 00:57, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  mythical creatures 

message: How important are the ISBN listings? To my eye, they just seem to clutter up the entire bottom half of the article, distracting from the content. - The Rizz
:I agree with The Rizz. There is no need to have such information. It seems to be useless. I think it should be removed. - Moon5
:I disagree.  The ISBN numbers are a relevant fact for reference of the books.  Specifically if a portion of the article references a book (i.e. a hint towards which book the reader was looking for) it is much more accurate to search for a book by ISBN versus the title which (especially when walking into a store to order the book) can retrieve an incorrect book. - WesHarinezumi (talk) 15:58, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ISBNs 

message: I think we should split the article in two, one for the comic (Usagi Yojimbo) and one for the character (Miyamoto Usagi). -- VederJuda 14:49, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usagi Yojimbo vs. Miyamoto Usagi 

message: I think most, if not all the trivia should go, it's about the specific characters, and I think it should be moved to the pages of those characters, not the comic. -- VederJuda 01:22, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia 

message: The Japanese-language book titles were translations done by me for the Japanese-language Usagi Yojimbo Dojo site.  While I have absolutely no objections to them being used on here, it be should noted that I had no input from Stan on many of the translations. Because of this, I don't really consider them "official". Evan1975 00:44, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This seems to imply that there are official Japanese book translations released, which I'm not too sure of. 惑乱 分からん 13:58, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There aren't. Evan1975 03:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese book titles 

message: quote:
Literally "Rabbit Bodyguard," can be written うさぎ用心棒 or 兎用心棒 Usagi Yojimbo
兎用心棒 is the correct transliteration in kanji (ideograms), meaning "Rabbit Bodyguard".
The correct romanized version would be Usagi Youjinbou or Usagi Yōjimbō.
うさぎ用心棒 is a mixture of a phonetic (hiragana) spelling of "Usagi" and the
kanji for "Bodyguard" (yōjimbō)
Usually, the hiragana (phonetic) spelling would not be used, unless in elemenary school or
if the pronounciation was unclear (in that case, small hiragana characters (furigana)
would be added above the kanji ideogram.
Since in Japanese many words have the same pronounciation but different meanings,
Kanji ideograms are used instead of hiragana. 
If you still want to add a fully phonetic spelling, it would be うさぎようじんぼう.
I would do the edits myself, but I'd like to see a second opinion first. -- megA 14:09, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not entirely true.  There is quite a large number of Japanese words that have Kanji for them, but which are often (or even usually) written in hiragana by adults.  Without an official translation (or a preferred spelling by Sakai) neither うさぎ用心棒 nor 兎用心棒 can definitively be called "correct" or "incorrect". For all we know, a publisher might decide the most impactful spelling would be ウサギようじんぼう---or even "USAGI YOJIMBO". Acidtoyman (talk) 09:51, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Curiously, this site (in Japanese) uses both うさぎ用心棒 and 兎用心棒 on the same page.  The Japanese wiki site, however, uses 兎用心棒.  Acidtoyman (talk) 01:05, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese Transliteration 

message: usagi yōjinbō !--The rules of modified Hepburn prescribe "n" in "yojibo!"--
:Sorry for being traditional ;-)  I was more concerned with pronunciation, so I chose m instead of the correct, but inaccurate n. -- megA 10:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Does it matter? The (English translation?) book itself uses "m". Applejuicefool 16:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The books are all written originally in English, and as far as I am aware have never been translated into Japanese. Thus, the "m" spelling as used in the books is the correct one. LordAmeth 15:10, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which Hepburn do you like? 

message: A lot of people seem to refer to her as "Tomoe Ame," but Sakai's website says "Ame Tomoe". (unsigned)
:That depends on whether you follow the Western (given name first, family name second) or Japanese (family name first, given name second) standard, apparently Tomoe is her given name, see http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/characters/tomoe.html. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 22:42, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ame Tomoe]] or [[Tomoe Ame]] 

message: Does someone have scans? WhisperToMe (talk) 07:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pics?

message: Did Stan Sakai see Japanese works such as this before creating Usagi Yojimbo? (see image: Japanase traditional furrt art) Alex (talk) 08:56, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Does it really matter? He has never stated that anything like them were influential on his creation of UY. His statements about the origin of UY point away from these works having had any influence on its creation. Unless and until Sakai states that they were, any inclusion in the article would just be speculation unsupported by any facts (and potentially in conflict with known facts). The Rizz (talk) 12:12, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Look at this

message: Are Dark Horse issues 1-3 the "Noodles" mini-series? There is conflicting information on the Web whether it is or not. CFLeon (talk) 10:54, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "Noodles" mini-series

message: How about one with just Usagi? Newcomers to the article will wonder who is Usagi, the wolf or the bunny? Lots42 (talk) 13:03, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: The current pic

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message: Too bad this never received a movie adaptation Booger-mike (talk) 16:48, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film adaptation 

message: * What issue is supposed to be the 204th issue in the series? The ongoing series number for Usagi Yojimbo v3 144 is issue 203. Usagi Yojimbo v3 145 is issue 211. Usagi Yojimbo: Senso 1-6 are issues 205-210. But what is issue 204?
-- Meteor  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.16.124.119 (talk) 18:02, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The 204th issue in the series is Usagi Yojimbo Color Special #5: The Artist (July 2014). The inidicia has the usual "Number 204 in a series." --tronvillain (talk) 19:31, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issue 204