Usagi’s crossovers with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a testament to Sakai’s personal friendship with the Turgles’ creators, Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman.ĭuring the panel, Sakai shared that he has been very involved in every stage of the project and has given input and approval for everything in the finished product from design to voice actors. Sakai considers the Usagi franchise to be his life’s work and legacy and has historically been fiercely protective of it in the past.

The project boasts James Wan ( Aquaman, Furious 7) as an executive producer, who was a childhood fan of Stan Sakai’s long running comic. All the characters are descendants of the classic heroes of Usagi Yojimbo. Along the way, he’ll team up with the brash rhino bounty hunter Gen, the fun loving fox thief Kitsune, and the serious cat ninja Chizo in this animated action comedy. He and his trusted tokage, Spot, journey through a lush alternate version 26th century Japan that mixes sci-fi technology with Edo period Japanese design with anthropomorphic animals. Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles follows Yuichi Usagi, an adventure-loving samurai-in-training on his quest to rid Neo Edo of the dangerous Yoki. But as announced last year, Netflix’s & Gaumont’s ( The Fifth Element, F Is for Family) will be the first time the bunnicular warrior gets his own solo cinematic debut.

Both products are products of the underground comics boom of the 1980s, and Usagi has crossed over with the anthropomorphic heroes in three of their animated series. You may know Miyamoto Usagi, the samurai rabbit, from his long standing connection to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Netflix and Gaumont Animation shared a first look at the upcoming Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles at a San Diego Comic-Con panel for the animated series based on Stan Sakai’s legendary comic, Usagi Yojimbo.

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