Sunday Story Ratings #75: Usagi Yojimbo Book 5.4: The Way of the Samurai

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Usagi Yojimbo Book 5: Lone Goat and Kid: 4. The Way of the Samurai by Stan Sakai

Originally published July 1990 in Usagi Yojimbo Volume 1, Issue 23; this edition August 1992, July, 2008 printing

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

 

PG

Parental Guidance recommended for audiences under 15 years of age

(V, H)

 

Some violence {PG}

Some supernatural references {unweighted}

 

Representations

Gender:

Significant and speaking characters all male, women present in background only.

Sex:

No presence.

Race & Ethnicity:

Characters are all anthropomorphic animals in a culturally Japanese (Edo period) setting.

Disability, Physical Diversity and Health:

A character is terminally ill, seeks honourable death by blade rather than face disability before death.

Awards

None found

Notes

Many of the stories in this volume have been varying degrees of bittersweet, concerning death and satisfaction in life, and this is one of them. Leads into and sets up the next story.