Sunday Story Ratings #72: Usagi Yojimbo Book 5.1: Frost & Fire
Usagi Yojimbo Book 5: Lone Goat and Kid: 1. Frost & Fire by Stan Sakai
Originally published December 1989 in Usagi Yojimbo Volume 1, Issue 19; this edition August 1992, July, 2008 printing
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
M
Not recommended for persons under 15 years of age, but no legal restrictions
(D, V)
Mild drug use {PG} {tea, alcohol}
Violence {M}
Representations
Gender:
Only two female characters, depicted in tension with each other - loveless, honour-bound wife vs passionate peasant lover.
Sex:
Heterosexual relationships only, a marriage and the passionate violation of same.
Race & Ethnicity:
Characters are all anthropomorphic animals in a culturally Japanese (Edo period) setting.
Disability, Physical Diversity and Health:
'Crazy' as insult.
Awards
None found
Notes
Tragic story. Loveless marriage. Inadvertent sibling murder. Shiftless, grasping villain whose greed destroys all those around him and then himself.