Yagi still considers himself an honorable warrior, and will not accept jobs that target innocent or honest people, although he charges a high fee for his services. He was once a high-ranking samurai who served Lord Hirone, but a corrupt councillor, Lord Wakame framed him for treason; instead of committing seppuku (ritualistic suicide) to preserve his honor, Yagi left, taking his son, Gorogoro, with him. He is now a hired assassin, carrying his son in a carriage, and they are often referred to as the Lone Goat and Kid; Yagi is a skilled swordsman, while Gorogoro aids his father by attacking enemies with various weapons concealed in the cart. To signal one's intent to hire them, a person posts a picture of a baby carriage. Yagi and Gorogo are based on Ogami Ittō and Daigoro of Lone Wolf and Cub. Zato-Ino – An anthropomorphic pig who was born blind and learned to get by using his superior sense of smell; limited by his blindness, he became a zato ("blind masseur"). In order to protect himself from ridicule, he learned to use the sword, but upon killing his first tormentor, he was branded a murderer and was constantly hounded by bounty hunters. Upon his first clash with Miyamoto Usagi, Zato-Ino lost his nose and was forced to wear a wooden prosthesis in its place. Just before a later encounter, Zato-Ino was saved from an ambush by Usagi's tokage companion Spot, which made them both abandon their vendetta. While later helping Usagi, Gennosuke and the Neko Ninja during the Dragon Bellow Conspiracy story arc, Zato-Ino took an arquebuse bullet meant for Gennosuke, who took Zato-Ino to safety as a gesture of gratitude. Zato-Ino made his way to an isolated village which did not know about his past and took him in as one of their own, giving him a place to settle down at last.Zato-Ino is based on Zatoichi, a fictional Japanese blind masseuse swordsman from a popular film and TV series. According to preliminary plot sketches by Sakai, Zato-Ino's grown daughter was planned to make an appearance in the limited series Senso. References Lists of Dark Horse Comics characters Lists of fictional animals by work Characters