Sunday Story Ratings #65: Usagi Yojimbo Book 3.2: A Mother's Love
Usagi Yojimbo Book 3: The Wanderer's Road: 2. A Mother's Love by Stan Sakai
Originally published May 1988 Fantagraphics Books in Usagi Yojimbo Vol. 1 Issue 8; this edition August 2010
Fantagraphics Books
M
Not recommended for persons under 15 years of age, but no legal restrictions
(V, T, D)
Violence {M)
Themes (M) {Corruption; Domestic Violence, Murder}
Drug Use (G) {Tea}
Representations
Gender:
Major guest character is an old woman; story focuses on relationship between her and her son.
Sex:
Heterosexual marriage-relationships / descent indicated, only.
Race & Ethnicity:
Characters are all anthropomorphic animals in a culturally Japanese (Edo period) setting.
Disability, Physical Diversity and Health:
Infirmity due to age.
Awards
None found
Notes
This was... a lot darker than the previous story. Our itinerant protagonist (along with Spot) gets caught up in an intrigue of corruption that ends with kinslaying and a character begging to be executed.