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GrouchoM — Restrained Retainer
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Tomoe Ame, personal bodyguard to Lord Noriyuki, has been captured, trussed and thrown into a room at the castle of Lord Hikiji for safekeeping. With Tomoe out of the way, Lord Noriyuki becomes that much more of an easy target for assassination.But Lord Hikiji doesn't have Tomoe killed, as he would any other samurai who opposed him. No, to assuage the bitterness between him and Tomoe for her past opposition of him, he intends to sell her into slavery. He knows the humiliation that will bring to the proud samurai, and he knows he can get a good price for one as fair as she.
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I was just doodling before work a few mornings ago and this picture sprang up. I had the entire picture drawn in ten minutes and when I looked at it, I didn't want to change a line. Talk about being in the zone. One ink and color job later and here it is.
Oh, and check out Usagi Yojimbo. A better samurai in feudal Japan saga you won't find.
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That's a fantastic expression. It's really easy to see the frustration and anger is bleeding off her face.
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Tomoe Ame has never been a shrinking violet.
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I seen this on another site and love it just as much here! She looks really angry but is still hot!
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Tomoe doesn't like being restrained. And she doesn't play well with Lord Hibiki.
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Those who play with her may find she is no 'mere woman'.
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There aren't enough overused smileys on devaintart to express how much I love this!
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Lovely, but the bad guy is holding a samurai prisoner and hasn't tied her legs? That's just asking for trouble
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Samurai were often a cocky bunch - - especially cliche bad guy samurai who always seem to show up in Japanese period adventure fiction. They probably think those are enough restraints to hold "a mere woman".
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Good point - this then leaves the possibility of a scene where the "captive" kicks the crap out of her guards, and then unties herself
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No, you won't. Usagi is one of the very few remnants of my Bad Old Days of comic collecting. Great stories, great characters.
Thos. Merchant
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Well, other than "Seven Samurai", the original 50's movie. But then they don't have bondage like this....
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Well, yeah, Kurosawa did pretty well with "Seven Samurai" and my favorite, "Yojimbo", and a few others. But Usagi Yojimbo is the best samurai COMIC around.
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I'm going to have to see if I can pick up a reprint of that (they reprinted "Enemy Ace", my all-time favorite, so why not?).
I loved "Seven", even made better when you realize that they had no CGI for the arrows. The scene where a woman is running across a square and a mounted archer thunders past, and you see the arrow take her in the back? Well, Kurusawa had her put a block of wood under her kimono and then had a trained archer just off camera. If you slow the video down, you can actually see the arrow in the air!
Farmer: "Where will we find samurai who will fight for rice?"
Elder: "Find hungry samurai."
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I never knew that. I bet he couldn't have gotten away with that post-Vic Morrow.
Fantagraphics has collected all the Usagi Yojimbo stories published under their imprint. I don't know about the stories published under the Dark Horse imprint, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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Yes, they have. I think the first 7 volumes are Fantagraphics, and Dark Horse has the rest up to around 20 or so.
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