Official Episode Discussion S5 Ep 07: Yojimbo
 

The episode is now up on ITunes

Discuss away.

The opening has changed for Usagi's Tale:

Feckin Microsoft doesn't even have When Worlds Collide.

I'm never buying a season pass for a tv show again. Amazon and Sony pulled this same kind of garbage but at I think the longest they ever took was 5 days.

Awesome episode, so intense.

Wow that certainly was a cliffhanger. :lol:

It was weird that the turtles didn't appear until 9 minutes of the episode though but it was great that Usagi had lots of focus.

I have a feeling the turtles are still under Jei's spell, coming out of there brainwashing by getting knocked out, seemed too easy.

Oh man, this is even better than I expected, & I say that having had very high hopes. You can really tell how much love & respect for Stan's work & all that inspired it went into this. Did I detect an air of homage in the musical cues, to that of an older TMNT film? Kintaro is really funny. It's great how he's written to be an annoying character, yet doesn't annoy the viewer. Not so easy to pull off (as evidenced via Timmy). Stellar visuals & an awesome take on Usagi. Can't wait for the rest.

It is such a work of art, this series. Bittersweet how amazing the season is. Makes me doubly sad it's at its end. But they are going out on a high note, no doubt.

Looking forward to the episode, since it'll air at 9am EST here.

Here we go!

I thought it was a great episode, its finally great to see Usagi in full 3D CGI glory, The action was also good, they should do an Usagi Yojimbo series in this style.

It looked like Mikey killed 3 evil samurai solders during the horse chase scene :o

The part where Usagi wandered around the decimated village, it gave me Samurai Jack vibes.

I almost thought that Jei was voiced by John DiMaggio.

Looks like that bear will think that the Turtles and Usagi are dead.

it was really awesome to see "written by Stan Sakai" in the opening credits.

i can tell Stan Sakai really had a lot of respect for Akira Kurosawa's film 'Yojimbo', having named Usagi's Lord - 'Lord Mifune' after Toshiro Mifune the actor who stared in the film.

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Yojimbo
 

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Yes, you can say that it became a cliffhanger....

--Will they survive or be killed on the ground?
--We will know that in the next episode.


--Awesome Episode--

Obviously survive, :lol:

Well probably except the horses.

I noticed a really big tree when they fell, so they probably will manage to get to it to save themselves.

Probably my favorite episode to date that wasn't a season ending episode. Usagi looks so awesome, love his voice as well. I was afraid I was going to hate Kintaro but he's pretty dang funny, really excited for the next episode.

Same here. This episode was excellent. The direction was very good, all the characters were written very well, the action scenes were particular standouts. The dialogue felt a bit off at times, but most of the time they did a good job. The visual storytelling was very good, something I didn't expect from this show, especially this late in.

I don't really have much else to say. It was a very very good episode, easily the best of the season thus far, and I'm interested to see what happens in the next two.

That was awesome Usagi is cool. also thanks to Redworld96 for having the episode already up. Damn Cartoon sites take theretime.

That was an Usagi story alright... Not really sure what to say, it's more or less what I expected.

Enjoyed it a lot, but Kintaro is strangely really annoying to me and I usually don't mind underage child characters in cartoons. I think it must be the VA, he his voice gets really high pitched and squeaky at times. Eh, oh well, it's a minor complaint. Bit disappointing.

I love this portrayal of Usagi, his voice is deeper than expected though. He seems a lot older and more competent than the usual Usagi. Really liked Jei too, although it's weird to me this is his and Usagi's first meeting. Jei also doesn't take the little girl with him like in the comics. I also loved the first 10 or so minutes of the episode had no Turtles at all, it was great to immediately cut to Usagi.

Lastly the horseback riding/battle scene was nice and something we never really got in this show before, unless I'm forgetting something, so it was nice to see.

Loved everything about the episode. Even the little things like the atmosphere and the dinosaurs in Usagi's world all add up.

Can't wait to see what happens next week.

Is the idea of dinosaurs on Miyamoto Usagi's Earth from the Usagi Yojimbo comics?

Tokage lizards aren't dinosaurs. They've been around since the very first Usagi comic.

yeah, the action and cinematography were fantastic!
this was probably one of my most favorite episodes of this series since Tales of the Yokai.

it'll watch so much better once all the episodes are out, and it can all be viewed continuously.

Loved it. Wish it had been released all in one like the last one.


Did they make a Coming Out of Their Shells reference?

Did they? Enlighten us!

I'm probably just reading way too much into Donatello saying that Evil Blind Wolf Dude could, "Count on us."

****kng kino. Too 5 episode of the series. So glad this show was able to make this happen.

Probably a coincidence. I might likewise be reaching, but it seemed to me like they were referencing the first Usagi crossover (The Crossing by Laird) when the turtles came out of the water, then Leo and Usagi had a duel in the stream.

YEAH! THAT'S WHAT THEY TOLD ME!

Hands down one of the best episodes of the series. I love this take on Usagi and Jei.

Anyone else wish they'd make a spin off featuring Usagi?

im not trying to encourage anything but there was also leos line about "how they were experts at getting close to ppl"

The first 10 minutes of this almost felt like a movie. Loved this! I know we would never get it, but a Usagi spin off would be amazing! Can't wait to see the conclusion!

There were a lot of thing that this episode clicked with me. I like how we start with Usagi's perspective and get a taste of not only him but also his world without the need for exposition for the first half, I like the atmosphere and environments(like Mycounis said it gave off an Akira Kurosawa vibe), and the fight choreography made me nostalgic for the human Bradford and Xever fights. There were some negatives however, I didn't care for Kintaro(I was hoping someone put that pug down old yeller style) and I thought it was kinda strange how the demon fox guy pretended to be a frail old man when he was brainwashing the turtles.

All in all good episode

This episode actually felt like Usagi's own show, with the turtles guest-staring in it, much like how TNM turtles crossovered in the Power Rangers in Space episode (the premise was also the same, with the turtles being initially brainwashed by the enemy and all). Although, this time it's actually the other way round :trazz:

Sumo Kuma looked like an Ursaring :tlol:

Did anyone notice that Raph was left out (intentional?) as the rest of them rode off the cliff at the very end?

Oh wow I didn't realise till I went back and watched the last scene just then. Maybe he's the one who saves them or maybe he gets captured and they don't realise till they're safe.

There's also the theory that maybe the turtles are still being mind controlled by the wolf guy and he just temporarily disabled it and then maybe took Raph cause he's the best fighter?

Raph was there when they jumped off the cliff. he is sharing a horse with Mikey.

Be careful what you wish for. :lol:

this was a produced pilot for a never produced space usagi cartoon in the early nineties which stan sakai was involved in.unfortunatelly it never got its chance because the people with the money were frightened of failure with the demise of the bucky o'hare series shortly before.
these were just unfortunate circumstances, but maybe it had to be so and now there is another opening for an animated show of usagi in the waiting?:)would love it if ciro and everyone involved were into continuing with an original usagi series based on the comics after this turtles show is through:)
I have a feeling this moment in usagi's history is a very special one...

one more thing on space usagi: it is a multipart story spin off comic by stan sakai revolving around usagis descendant in the distant future. it was published by mirage studios during the early ninties and is being reprinted in full in the upcomming USAGI YOJIMBO: LEGENDS tpb that is seeing release by dark horse comics soon.check it out, as with everything usagi this is a must read.really exciting and fun and beautiful ideas and illustrations...(I vividly remember the giant space flowing turtle)

An entire movie based on Usagi Yojimbo would be awesome. Maybe not as a live action piece, but more a CG cartoon. Dreamworks would be a good company to do it since it's likely to attract the Kung fu panda fandom and you can theatrically say that even though they are different franchises they could occur in the same universe.

It kind of shocks me that after 30 years, and Usagi's exposure through TMNT, that Stan Sakai never was able to launch a single Usagi cartoon.

It feels like something that should have happened years ago in the 90's or 2000's but never did.

Anybody got a screencap of when Usagi put the bone in Chosen One dog boy's mouth. That was hilarious. :tlol:

The idea I get is that much like Bill Watterson, Stan doesn't want some toy company or a producer wrestling creative control over Usagi away from him, if that's the case it is noble sentiment and should be respected.