Stan Sakai Confirms Usagi Will Be In TMNT
 

It's happening guys

Ok the website doesn't work here, so you need to copy and paste the website and take the spaces out .

teenage mutant ninja turtles .com/2016/09/14/sakai-confirms-usagi-yojimbo-nick-tmnt/

Nice! :D

Can't wait to see Usagi again!

Wouldn't mind seeing him in IDW... maybe this will open the door to that?

The website "doesn't work here" because it is blocked. How many times we gotta tell y'all? Don't link stuff from there.

That's great news! can't wait to see what the Nick version of Usagi will look like.

Yeah, I'm really curious what the character design is going to look like.

This isn't even news, guys. The Playmates leak was confirmation enough. Those of you who want to see his design can just squint at this:



Looks just like the 4kids toy, in art form.

Yeah, but it's a lot better to get the confirmation from Stan himself as he owns the character.

I wouldn't expect the design to deviate from the source material all that much, but I'm still curious how that design will render in cg 3D.

Basically, what I'm holding out for is the ability to watch his design in motion, something that static 2D image doesn't really help me with.

It's also gonna be the first time we get Usagi in CGI form.

So, little ears and ponytail with long black hair?

:D I can't wait to see what they do with him in the series. Hopefully, it won't be another missed opportunity like with the Neutrinos.

...well kind of.
Anyone who was lucky enough to stop by his table at SDCC may have seen this: Usagi Yojimbo: Samurai Rabbit Enters Virtual Reality.

It was pretty awesome.

Only real "source" aside from the Playmates video Greg Cipes posted, is the the site who won't be linked...and I guess this Reddit post: see attachment. Sorry about quality. Here's text
Edit: Further in the reddit thread a poster said Stan was open to Usagi in IDW.

I wouldn't mind that. Usagi is this weird little constant of TMNT who actually isn't a TMNT character. :tlol:

Here's the actual post...again a redditer so not 100% official.

That'd be great. I wonder if it'll be "Usagi prime" who already knows the Mirage guys, or a new "IDW Usagi" like how they did it in the cartoons.

If it's the former, I hope he clowns on them for their stupid rainbow headbands :P

I don't care enough about Usagi to be excited yet; my reaction is more "Hey, neat!"

I really need to read some Usagi...

A missed opportunity with the Neutrinos, how? Like going to cross the street and missing the opportunity to get hit by a Mack truck?

I'm certain you'd love it.

While the UY crossovers are Mirage canon, they're not canon in the UY universe, according to Stan. So I dunno.

Even Shades of Green?

Missed as in there was more they could have done with them instead of just making them faceless mindless drones.

All of it, supposedly.

Just requested the first two volumes of Usagi from my main library. Will let you guys know what I think!

Huh... what about the rest of Usagi vol. 2 by Mirage? Shades of Green was #1-3 of that volume.

Yeah, was about to say... how can they be non-canon when some of them took place directly in the pages of Usagi's core series? In the main story?

Beats me. Maybe I misunderstood & it was only the Mirage-penned crossovers he doesn't consider canon? I guess it's something worth clarifying with Stan. I wanna say I read about this on one of Pete's ask blogs, but as you can see, the specifics are escaping me. :tlol:

I do remember seeing something similar on an "Ask Pete" blog post, so I think you're right... probably does mean the stuff HE does is canon, but the Mirage stuff isn't.

Season 5 being more than likely the final season is gonna end well with the intro of Usagi. My oldest child will be happy to hear he's coming. Thanks for this news Vicky!

At the end of the day... does it really matter, though? Nothing meaningful or with lasting consequences happened in any Usagi crossover, ever.

That reminds me... the Flaming Carrot crossover. I've never read that. Is that any good?

Nah, canon stopped meaning anything to me when Laird declared Image TMNT non-canon.

Flaming Carrot... :tlol: I've never even heard of that except knowing it's a TMNT crossover.

It's pretty wretched. Wouldn't recommend wasting your time with either of them.

But...Raph becomes Bread Boy in the Flaming Carrot x-over!
And they battle the Umpire's Union who've taken over the Umpire State Building and are defending it by throwing pennies off the top!

...

On second thought, it's not your kind of thing, Andrew.

Kirby save us, I am so glad I never bothered to read that...

Absurdist Meta humor is my bread and butter.
It's second only to my love of Slice of Life.
Freakzoid for life!

Eh, absurdist usually doesn't do anything for me.

I did just read "I Hate Fairyland"... which I wouldn't call absurdist but was HILARIOUS. Think Deadpool in the form of a little 8-yr-old Alice rampaging through Wonderland.

More importantly isn't this a sign the show is going on beyond Season 5 into a Season 6?

Just a while ago Greg Cripes posted a cake saying they finished the voice acting for all 124 episodes (by the end of Season 5 they'll have 124 episodes). However if Stan Sakai just recently signed a deal for Usagi to appear, wouldn't that imply it would have to be in new episodes not completed yet?

Could this be the first confirmation of a Season 6?

I haven't read that yet, but I love Skottie Young's art.