History Manga / SamuraiUsagi

* {{Bishonen}}: Ootori the ronin's face is so pretty it clashes with his tattoos and coarse way of speaking.

** [[DarkChick Suzume]]: sparrow

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Mozuku wants a world without arrogant samurai, and what better way to do that then to KillEmAll?
** The leader of the Kobukan dojo wants to keep the streets safe and protect the life of the Emperor. So what does he do? He organizes "patrols" with his disciples to scour the streets, punishing any deviation, real or imagined, no matter how slight, from what he perceives as bushido with death, and when he hears his disciples come to the logical conclusion that a samurai's duties involve trampling everyone else down (because this is the inevitable result), he draws his sword and tries to kill them too, and even when the Emperor himself points out how ultimately counter-productive his mindset is, he utterly refuses to acknowledge how he could be wrong.

* CryCute: Shino, and later [[spoiler: Suzume]].

** Things that are punishable by death: [[PimpedOutDress dressing too richly]], [[LimitedWardrobe dressing too poorly]], partying too much and neglecting your family; partying too little and being constrained by your family; [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking improper toothpick presentation]]. [[UpToEleven Being a Samurai and having your wife buy her own groceries or actually doing the cooking in your own kitchen!]] [[InsaneTrollLogic Even if your household is too poor to afford servants for any reason, no exception is made if said reason is that higher-level samurai killed off the rest of your family for imagined slights!]] Heck, just ''buying'' snacks in the local square is often enough reason to be attacked. [[TheyJustDontGetIt The leader fails to comprehend why the samurai he trains come to the conclusion that it's a samurai's job to trample everyone else.]]

''Samurai Usagi'' by Teppei Fukushima chronicles Gosuke's adventures as he tries to build the Usagi Dojo into a dojo that rivals the Kobukan itself, while also trying to get the hang of married life with Shino.

* FiveManBand: The ronins.

* FiveManBand
** FiveBadBand / QuirkyMinibossSquad: The ronins.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Combined with AbortedArc. [[spoiler: Between chapters 67 and 68 was a 15 year time-skip, or more, and right before the time-skip, the Usagi Dojo beats the Kobukan, destroying the "Samurai tradition" and the Kobukan's leader was ''grateful'' for it, up to and including getting himself a wife and their having a lovely baby boy that they doted on.]]

* KnightTemplar: The Kobukan Dojo. At least [[PsychoSupporter one member]] is just ''itching'' to administer justice.
** Things that are punishable by death: [[PimpedOutDress dressing too richly]], [[LimitedWardrobe dressing too poorly]], partying too much and neglecting your family; partying too little and being constrained by your family; [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking improper toothpick presentation]].

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Chiyokichi's "nana herbs". They're not much more than weeds, but Chiyokichi's enthusiasm makes them powerful.

Also, unlike most {{Shonen}} manga, the hero and heroine are actually ''married''.

** [[{{Bishounen}} Ootori]]: literally "larger bird"/phoenix

* {{Bishounen}}: Ootori the ronin's face is so pretty it clashes with his tattoos and coarse way of speaking.

* CryCute: Shino, and later [[spoiler: Suzume.]]

** [[spoiler: All five of the samurai-hating ''ronin'' come from samurai families and were rejected for various reasons]]

* TheFightingNarcissist / MoreHeroThanThou / GloryHound: What the ronins believe samurai are like vs. [[RagTagBunchOfMisfits who they're actually fighting]].

** FiveBadBand / QuirkyMiniBossSquad: The ronins.

** Things that are punishable by death: [[PimpedOutDress dressing too richly]], [[LimitedWardrobe dressing too poorly]], partying too much and neglecting your family; partying too little and being constrained by your family; [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking improper toothpick presentation.]]
* LittleMissBadAss: Suzume the ronin. Her weapon of choice are a pair of ''butcher knife nun-chucks''.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: In order for the ronins to compete against real samurai [[spoiler: they kill ''an entire dojo'' save its leader]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Mozuku wants a world without arrogant samurai, and what better way to do that then to KillEmAll?

Not to be confused with ''Comic book/UsagiYojimbo''.

* {{Gonk}}: The Hulk-like ronin has [[BlackEyesOfEvil jet-black eyes]] and [[TheNoseless apparently no nose]], which is probably why [[spoiler: he was rejected by his samurai family]]. Actually [[spoiler: he's a skinny dude in a fat suit]].

* WellDoneSonGuy: Ootori the ronin as a kid. Already on notice for being a less-than-stellar swordsman, [[spoiler: his "friend" switched his sword for an umbrella, forfeiting an important match and humiliating his father. His dad gave him a knife and told him to redeem himself by committing ''seppuku''.]]

* ImprobableWeaponsUser: Things used as weapons other than swords: Ootori's umbrella, Chiyokichi's hoe, and Suzume's butcher knife nun-chucks.

* LittleMissBadAss: Tsuzume the ronin. Her weapon of choice are a pair of ''butcher knife nun-chucks''.

* KnightTemplar: The Kobukan Dojo.

* TheQuietOne: Maro, as noted in CompellingVoice. The reason he's called Maro at all is because that's all anybody heard of his name when he introduced himself, his full name being Honma Rozan.