Game Dogs

**Game Dogs** is the second episode of season 2 of the Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles tv series.

## Summary

Perched high upon a dead tree branch, the Yokai O-Dokuro sends his right thumb to spy on Usagi and figure out a way to steal his Kaikishi Yo-yo weapon.

Eventually, the thumb finds Usagi and his friends in the garage area of Gen's mansion. After Usagi repairs a cupboard, the Tsukumogami releases itself from the object, thanks Usagi, and leaves. This makes Toshiko concerned as the repairs they're making to Ashibasha would make the Yokai possessing it to go away. Elsewhere, the Tsukumogami that possessed the cupboard now possessed an arts-in-crafts clam that Lord Kogane was working on. After it disparages Lord Kogane, he takes the clam and heads off to his Yokai extermination team.

Back to Usagi's group, Toshiko has a meltdown that if they fix the Ashibasha, then it's Yokai will leave them just like their parents did. Despite Gen trying to console his sister, she insists they tell their friends why their parents left them. In the past, Gen and Toshiko's mother was a renowned surgeon in Neo Edo; however, after she treated the heavily injured Ookami, who was the most wanted criminal in the city. This caused her entire family to be exiled from Neo Edo, and the Shiba doctors who were her assistants took over the hospital. Gen then admits that the Shiba doctors were his only friends until that point and, thankful for everyone there is his friend now, suggests they go to the arcade. Toshiko mentions she'd prefer to stay behind with Ashibasha, but notices it is gone again. Right as Usagi's group exit the mansion, Lord Kogane stops them and demands that the group deal with his Yokai problem. On the other hand, Usagi refuses as he's no longer a Yokai hunter and notes that he's befriended some of them. Usagi's friends stand in solidarity with him, so Lord Kogane threatens to throw them all in jail, but after a staredown with Usagi claims that the paperwork associated with doing that is too troublesome. So, before leaving for the arcade with his friends, Usagi informs Lord Kogane about how to remedy his Yokai problem.

At the arcade, Usagi's group meets the Shiba doctors and offers them to play the new physical arcade game Super Punchy Kick Face Go! Confident in his skills, thanks to his tenure in defeating Yokai and the gangs that Neo Edo has to offer, Usagi accepts the challenge and plays it with his friends. However, by the third round, they're all knocked out of bounds, and taking advantage of the situation, the thumb steals Usagi's Yo-yo.

Meanwhile, the Tsukumogami chastises Lord Kogane's artistic skills with coloring eggs, but notes that the eggs he worked on in the past before he was Shogun were magnificent. Noting its purpose as a Tsukumogami, which haunts neglected things, he believed that Lord Kogane is the one that is neglected and believes he needs to reconnect with his artistic side.

On the streets of Neo Edo, Toshiko finds Ashibasha stuck in an alleyway and promises never fully to fix it. Returning to Usagi's group, Chizu gives Usagi the bubble wand that he wanted. Then, O-Dokuro appears before them, announcing he'll have his revenge against the group. Although Usagi's friends prepare themselves to fight, Usagi admonishes them from doing anything drastic and tries to reason with O-Dokuro. He, however, tries to attack Usagi, who deftly dodges all of his attacks. Accepting that he must fight, Usagi then realizes his Kaikishi weapon has gone missing. Chizu and Kitsune then try their Kaikishi weapons against O-Dokuro, but to no effect. Gen then fuses his war clubs into one and attacks O-Dokuro as Chizu and Kitsune tactically retreat, and Usagi searches for his missing Yo-yo. Usagi then locates his missing Yo-yo inside one of the arcade crane games and has Kitsune try and retrieve it for him while he struggles to fight against O-Dokuro. Enlisting the help of the Shibu doctors, Usagi and Gen lure O-Dokuro over to where the Super Punchy Kick Face Go! machine was used to help fight against him. It works until Usagi is knocked out of bounds by the game and is forced to use his bubble wand against O-Dokuro, which is super effective against him. Finally, Kitsune retrieves Usagi's Yo-yo and return it to him. Wasting no time, Usagi uses it to capture O-Dokuro's body, and its head pleads to Usagi for mercy. Usagi decides to show O-Dokuro mercy and not return O-Dokuro's head to the Ki-stone, but only its body, and carries O-Dokuro's head as he can't move.

Over to Lord Kogane, he fits a tiny hat to his clam-possessed Yokai, which pleases it and, after telling Lord Kogane to embrace his artistic side, goes away. Returning to Usagi's group, O-Dokuro learns that the Ashibasha isn't Usagi's group's servant; it's a part of their family. As the group gets inside the Ashibasha and drives away, O-Dokuro lists the things that would make it bite.

## Characters

* O-Dokuro
* Yuichi Usagi
* Spot (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Gen (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Chizu (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Kitsune (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Lord Kogane
* Toshiko
* Kiyoko (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Ashibasha
* Ookami