The Big City

**The Big City** is the 1st episode of the Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles tv series.

## Summary

Usagi reads a comic about his ancestor Miyamoto Usagi about his harrowing fight against the legendary Yokai O-Dokuro. He would then play attack his Aunt's Farmbotto with his two sickles until he sees Spot tremble with fear. Assuring Spot that it's deactivated, Usagi takes a jab at the Farmbotto causing it to turn on and run amok. Struggling to stop the machine, Usagi manages to stop it by tossing his sickles into the open compartment of the Farmbotto. Believing everything is alright, his Auntie arrives at the scene and sees the damage his impetuous nature had caused. Although Usagi apologizes, his Auntie understands that he wants to become a Samurai one day. Figuring that he can do nothing right and that he's turning sixteen soon, Usagi tries to mention something, but is cut off by his Auntie who wants him to repair the Farmbotto.

After spending the entire day fixing the Farmbotto, Usagi readies himself to leave his Auntie's house and set off to Neo Edo, but is caught by his Auntie. Expecting to be reprimanded again by her, she instead tells him that she understands that he doesn't belong there and needs to set off to Neo Edo. But before he does that, his Auntie bestows upon him her katana Edgewing with the Omurasaki Gem embedded on the hilt of the sword. She also advises him to learn respect while also becoming patient and more level-headed. With that, Usagi promises to find a Sensei in the city, and that he'll take good care of Edgewing. However, Usagi backtracks on his promise noting he doesn't need a sensei while en route to his destination.

Finally arriving in Neo Edo, Usagi is captivated by the scenery of the place and after mentioning he can't wait to show the people his skills, his Steamcyle starts to act up. Figuring that his Steamcycle was just picking up the extra energy from the Ki-stone, Usagi continues forth. Hearing news of an escaped convict by the name of Warimashi with a hefty bounty on his head, Usagi becomes resolved to hunt the criminal down and collect his bounty. Usagi then daydreams of him fighting off a group of bad guys and when he snaps out of it, crashes it by a set of stairs. Deciding to walk from there on out and leaves his Steamercycle at a safe location. Walking down the sidewalk, the people of Neo Edo seem apprehensive toward Usagi and when he notices an airship in the sky, he walks into the street with ongoing traffic. Standing in the center of the street a constructionbotto heads straight for Usagi, but in the nick of time malfunctions and stops an inch by Spot's face.

Perplexed by the odd occurrences that have befallen him to that point, Usagi then sees a rhino wielding a spiked club and bullying a pig pedestrian. Usagi then intervenes and helps the pig escape, however, as it turns out, the pig was really the wanted criminal Warimashi. The rhino who turned out to be a bounty hunter was on the tracks of Warimashi for weeks, gives Usagi a brief lecture, and chases him around the city. In the process of all of this, Usagi gets entangled in a Fox Puppeteer's Yokai puppet. Hopping away while still entangled with the Yokai puppet, the hefty weight of the Rhino reveals that the Fox had stolen from her audience and flees the scene to chase after Usagi to get her Yokai puppet back. On the streets, Spot is taken hostage by the Rhino making Usagi leap forward and unintentionally into a hole.

Down in the hole, Usagi is released from the bindings of the Yokai puppet, and Spot gets released from the clutches of the Rhino. While the Fox checks up on her Yokai puppet, the group is surrounded by what the Fox claims are the third most dangerous gang in Neo Edo, the Mogura. The leader of the Mogura, Chikabuma, felt offended by that comment that the Fox said and wasn't going to allow them to escape unharmed. It's then that the Mogura group does what they call "Snapping Practice" and at the end of it creates a sonic boom that floors the group and in retaliation, they attack the Moguras. Before the Moguras are able to produce another what the Fox calls, "Power Snap", Usagi creates a cave-in. Although the Fox's Yokai puppet was on the other side, she finds an egg-shaped trinket that she believes is worth something. Using the situation to introduce himself, Usagi formally apologizes to the two only to have to dodge the Rhino's spiked club causing him to have to flee once again.

Finding a light-filled hole from the ceiling, Usagi leaps towards it and ends up in a room where he knocks and breaks a bunch of priceless objects upsetting the cat there. The Rhino and Fox then appear from the hole and continue to chase Usagi until they're stopped by the Monk Bear who demands the cat named Chizu who their visitors are. The Rhino and Fox then introduce themselves as Kitsune and Gen respectively. Usagi then tries to introduce himself, but is again attacked by Gen, Kitsune, and now Chizu. The Monk Bear intervenes and introduces himself as Tetsujin the last of the Kaikishi. Usagi recognizes the name of Kaikishi as being Yokai Hunters, but Gen and Kitsune downplay it since not a single Yokai has appeared in thousands of years. However, Tetsujin claims that Kaikishi still exists and that he's the last one and that they're in the Kaikishi Temple. Right when Tetsujin asks why Usagi does look like Miyamoto Usagi and he answers that he's his descendent. At that moment, the Ki-stone starts to react to Usagi's presence and lightning starts to expel from it. Without hesitation, Usagi touches the stone while Tetsujin grabs him in order to stop him, but fails. From there, Usagi witnesses several flashbacks and a vision of his ancestor Miyamoto Usagi.

Flung back into reality, the stone starts to crack and flying orbs that are said to be Yokai exit from the crack. It's then that a hand emerges from it, and outcomes a huge masked Yokai. The Yokai calls Usagi, Miyamoto Usagi, but Usagi clarifies that he's really Yuichi Usagi, however, the Yokai hears nothing of it and vows vengeance against him.

## Characters

* Yuichi Usagi
* Spot (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Miyamoto Usagi
* Yuichi's Aunt
* Tetsujin
* Warimashi
* Gen (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Kitsune (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Chikabuma
* Chizu (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Kagehito