Dark Horse announced at the 2006 New York Comic Con that they had licensed "Shin Lone Wolf & Cub", Kazuo Koike and Hideki Mori's follow-up to "Lone Wolf and Cub", starring Ogami Itto's son Daigoro, the famous child in the baby cart. In this new series, which picks up immediately after the climactic battle of the original series, the bodies of Ogami Itto and Yagyu Retsudo are left lying on the beach with Daigoro left alone standing over his father's body (since no one, for political reasons, dares to bury either body or take charge of Daigoro). A bearded samurai, Tōgō Shigetada of the Satsuma clan and master of the "Jigen-ryū" style of swordsmanship (based on the actual historical personage Tōgō Shigetaka, creator of "Jigen-ryū"), wanders onto the battlefield and assists Daigoro with the cremation/funeral of Ogami Itto and Yagyu Retsudo. Tōgō, who is on a training journey and also carries a "dotanuki" sword similar to Ogami's (and crafted by the same swordsmith), then assumes guardianship of Daigoro, including retrieving the baby cart and teaching/training Daigoro in "Jigen-ryū".