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Vagabond
Vagabond
Vagabond
Kanji バガボンド
Romaji Bagabondo
Information
Form Manga
Volumes 37
Year Released 1998
Magazine Weekly Morning
Demographic Seinen
Author Takehiko Inoue

Vagabond (バガボンド Bagabondo) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. It portrays a fictionalized account of the life of Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, based on Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi.

It has been serialized in Weekly Morning magazine since 1998, with the chapters collected into 37 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha as of July 2014. Viz Media licensed the series for English release in North America and has published 35 volumes as of March 2014. Vagabond won a 2000 Kodansha Manga Award and the 2002 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and has sold more than 82 million copies worldwide.

Plot[]

Growing up in the late 15th century Sengoku era Japan, Shinmen Takezo is shunned by the local villagers as a devil child due to his wild and violent nature. Running away from home with a fellow boy at age 17, Takezo joins the Toyotomi army to fight the Tokugawa clan at the battle of Sekigahara. However, the Tokugawa win a crushing victory, leading to nearly three hundred years of Shogunate rule. Takezo and his friend manage to survive the battle, and afterwards swear to do great things with their lives. But after their paths separate, Takezo becomes a wanted criminal, and must change his name and his nature in order to escape an ignoble death. Based on the book "Musashi" by Eiji Yoshikawa, Vagabond is a fictional retelling of the life of Miyamoto Musashi, often referred to as the "Sword Saint" - perhaps the most famous and successful of Japan's sword fighters.

Gallery[]

For a list of Vagabond manga volumes, refer to Chapters and Volumes

Morning 2008-25
Morning 2008-35
Mornin 2009-26
Morning 40 2009
Morning 41 2009
Morning 2010-09
Morning 16 2012
Morning 25 2012
Morning 2012-30
Morning 39 2012
Morning 47 2012
Morning 4.5 2013
Morning 2013-12
Morning 29 2012
Morning 42 2013
Morning 46 2013
Morning 2014-07
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