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The Usagi Yojimbo RPG will end as the license expires

April 10, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The license for Sanguine Games to produce the Usagi Yojimbo tabletop role-playing game has expired, and the rights-holders elected not to renew.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: powered by the apocalypse, Sanguine Productions, Usagi Yojimbo

Samurai Rabbit meets yoyo: Netflix’s The Usagi Chronicles

April 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Usagi Yojimbo is a popular manga. It once had a tabletop RPG too from Sanguine Games but that’s now vanished from DTRPG. Is the upcoming Netflix release connected to that? The trailer is now out for the new show. It doesn’t follow the original but the teenage Yuichi, a rabbit samurai descendent of the warrior […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: netflix, trailers, Usagi Yojimbo

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Sanguine Games

September 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Netflix will air an animation called the Usagi Chronicles, a series based on Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo comics. Which publisher produces a best-selling Powered by the Apocalypse Usagi Yojimbo RPG? Yep, that’s Sanguine.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Sanguine Productions, spotlight, Usagi Yojimbo

Netflix gives us a look at the samurai rabbit chronicles Usagi Yojimbo

July 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The series takes place in the far future, set in a world that mixes modern high-tech images with classic Japanese references. It follows the teenage Rabbit Samurai Yuichi, descendent of the great warrior Miyamoto Usagi, on his epic quest to become a true samurai.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: netflix, Sanguine Productions, sdcc, Usagi Yojimbo

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #107

July 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary column, and this week we look at TSR Games (3) threatening OSR communities, new RPGs hitting digital and physical shelves, RPG reviews and discoveries.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcadia, black void, blood sword, brw games, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dark alliance, dark sun, defiant, dms guild, dungeon crawl classics, Dying Earth, en publishing, Fantasy Grounds, gama, GURPS, hard wired island, indie groundbreaker awards, iron studios, izegrim creations, Loke BattleMats, Metal Weave Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, parable games, Pelgrane Press, peter rudin-burgess, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, Sanguine Productions, Shane Ivey, shiver, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound, soulbound starter set, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, Synthicide, the dee sanction, the fantasy trip, the yellow king, Tiamat, tsr games, Usagi Yojimbo, vaesen, wanderhome, warehouse 23, wizards of the coast, wizkids

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #59

July 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

New product releases, all the Kickstarter news and a host of TTRPG news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Adam Koebel, alien rpg, Arc Dream Publishing, battleground games, bundle of holding, Chaosium, cortex prime, Delta Green, destroyer of worlds, Diana Jones Award, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, Dying Earth, exploring eberron, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, HeroQuest, humble bundle, indie groundbreaker awards, kobold press, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, rifts, roll20, routinely itemised, Sanguine Productions, savage worlds, star trek adventures, starfinder, sword chronicle, the dragon prince, those dark places, twilight: 2000, uk games expo, Ulisses Spiele, Usagi Yojimbo, vaesen, warehouse 23, warhammer, wizards of the coast

Netflix to stream Usagi Yojimbo anime

July 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The show will be set in the near future and follow Miyamoto Usagi’s descendent, a teenage Rabbit Samurai Yuichi.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: netflix, Sanguine Productions, Usagi Yojimbo

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #15

September 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve made it to Friday again and earned a chance to lean back, take a deep breath and scroll through seven days of RPG industry news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, anvl, Arc Dream Publishing, astral tabletop, black void, Chaosium, cortex, cypher system, Delta Green, dndbeyond, drivethrurpg, Evil Hat Productions, fandom, fantasy flight games, genesys, Green Ronin Publishing, king arthur pendragon, Monte Cook Games, pathfinder, routinely itemised, threefold, Usagi Yojimbo

Sanguine Productions will release Usagi Yojimbo RPG 2nd edition

September 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The RPG is set in Stan Sakai’s Eisner winning anthropomorphic fantasy Edo period Japan. The comic series follows Miyamoto Usagi, a swordsrabbit with the heart of a hero.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Sanguine Productions, Usagi Yojimbo

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