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You people have no idea how long I've been wanting to draw this picture. Goemon Ishikawa is a lengendary theif from Edo Japan, compared with Robin Hood on many accounts (except Goemon was said to be a real person). Some say he was a former samurai, an ex ninja, or both, but all agree that he was a leader of a band of chivilrous theives who protected the poor folk from the greedy government (no doubt Yoshimitsu from soul calibur is based of him at least somewhat). Goemon is also the subject of much popular Japanese culture; many Kabuki plays revolve around him, and he even has his own video game series! Ganbare Goemon (or Mystical Ninja over here) is a long running platformer (still going since the NES) by Konami that takes a comical look at his adventures in fantasy Edo Japan, and it has been a great sorce of inspiration for me. Sure, I've drawn the cartoony video game goemon before, but I've always wanted to draw his historical and theatrical rendition. I have even tied him in with my main fantasy series, The Intrepids!

Yes, Goemon Ishikawa is the son of the samurai, Goeyoshi Ishikawa in The Intrepids, and his mother is most likely the ninja Ume Boshi. I have been planning this for awhile you see, since Goemon has the honor of being one of the main characters in the next gen Intrepids series (see my picture called Shantae Ondine for details). He will be teleported to safety just before his historical point of death (boiling in oil after failing to assassinate Hideoyoshi Toyotomi, by the way), to preserve line of Goeyoshi, and live without aging in Neuron untill the new Intrepids series actually starts. Or maybe he just gets sent forward in time. I'm not sure.

One point for me to work on was his hair. Goemon is supposed to have a big puffy hairdoo, and it's even kinda spikey in mystical ninja, as well as being two colored. I decided to not only go with the two colored hair, I thought up an upper hair design that's kinda in the middle, kind of akin to Guile from Street fighter's hair. The clothing I got from an Ukyo ai print of goemon that I really like, and was actually the inspiration for my last Goeyoshi picture (entitled "Winter Reflections-Ishikawa"). I have him here in his trademark pose, in his most famous scene, running from gaurds on the rooftops of Kyoto, and delivering his famous line, "A magnificent view! A magnificent view! For this view of spring, a million dollars would be too low a price, too low a price!"

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You people have no idea how long I've been wanting to draw this picture. Goemon Ishikawa is a lengendary theif from Edo Japan, compared with Robin Hood on many accounts (except Goemon was said to be a real person). Some say he was a former samurai, an ex ninja, or both, but all agree that he was a leader of a band of chivilrous theives who protected the poor folk from the greedy government (no doubt Yoshimitsu from soul calibur is based of him at least somewhat). Goemon is also the subject of much popular Japanese culture; many Kabuki plays revolve around him, and he even has his own video game series! Ganbare Goemon (or Mystical Ninja over here) is a long running platformer (still going since the NES) by Konami that takes a comical look at his adventures in fantasy Edo Japan, and it has been a great sorce of inspiration for me. Sure, I've drawn the cartoony video game goemon before, but I've always wanted to draw his historical and theatrical rendition. I have even tied him in with my main fantasy series, The Intrepids!

Yes, Goemon Ishikawa is the son of the samurai, Goeyoshi Ishikawa in The Intrepids, and his mother is most likely the ninja Ume Boshi. I have been planning this for awhile you see, since Goemon has the honor of being one of the main characters in the next gen Intrepids series (see my picture called Shantae Ondine for details). He will be teleported to safety just before his historical point of death (boiling in oil after failing to assassinate Hideoyoshi Toyotomi, by the way), to preserve line of Goeyoshi, and live without aging in Neuron untill the new Intrepids series actually starts. Or maybe he just gets sent forward in time. I'm not sure.

One point for me to work on was his hair. Goemon is supposed to have a big puffy hairdoo, and it's even kinda spikey in mystical ninja, as well as being two colored. I decided to not only go with the two colored hair, I thought up an upper hair design that's kinda in the middle, kind of akin to Guile from Street fighter's hair. The clothing I got from an Ukyo ai print of goemon that I really like, and was actually the inspiration for my last Goeyoshi picture (entitled "Winter Reflections-Ishikawa"). I have him here in his trademark pose, in his most famous scene, running from gaurds on the rooftops of Kyoto, and delivering his famous line, "A magnificent view! A magnificent view! For this view of spring, a million dollars would be too low a price, too low a price!"