Vagabond

Porcelainpot

Here's an interview of Inoue talking about all this. The interesting part begins at the ***

I agree he's not quite back were he used to be, but then again he is one of the oldest still in active business. The job is pretty demanding, and most of his contemporaries are only doing one shots these days. Maybe he will never be back were he used to be. His works are still better then a lot of what the newer guys make. I'm still hopeing for a graceful end on this story and his career as a regular mangaka.

Thanks for posting the interview. I had no idea Inoue was in such a position, and I hope the currently monthly release schedule isn't tiring him out too much at the age of 46.

@Monkey King: I figured so from the raws, yes.

Porcelainpot

318 raw. http://raw.senmanga.com/Vagabond/318/1

! A slow and non happening, but of course very pretty and relaxing, chapter.

GEPPETTOSMONSTER

what's currently happening in vagabond reminds me alot of the kettle farms in vinland saga.

Monkey King

@GEPPETTOSMONSTER:

what's currently happening in vagabond reminds me alot of the kettle farms in vinland saga.

I don't think Inoue has depicted Musashi casually interacting with "honorable" war criminals yet though.

GEPPETTOSMONSTER

@Monkey:

I don't think Inoue has depicted Musashi casually interacting with "honorable" war criminals yet though.

hahaha! very true

redon

Weekly Morning #46 cover ^^

Drake

Well. I'm glad the farming arc is finally done.
I definitely loved every moment of it, but I want to see the continuation of his samurai journey.

Also, I can't remember, but has Musashi had any encounters with Kojiro yet?

Patta

@Drake:

Well. I'm glad the farming arc is finally done.
I definitely loved every moment of it, but I want to see the continuation of his samurai journey.

Also, I can't remember, but has Musashi had any encounters with Kojiro yet?

Yes, they had. Here

Monkey D. Destiny

Finally caught up, great series! Does anybody know how often a new chapter comes out?

Monkey King

I just did a reread, and the farming arc was really great in fullness.
I like how the change of hair follows along with us having yet another new stage of Musashi.
The…fifth Musashi so far?

Excellent series.

Myu

@Monkey:

I just did a reread, and the farming arc was really great in fullness.
I like how the change of hair follows along with us having yet another new stage of Musashi.
The…fifth Musashi so far?

Excellent series.

I feel exactly the same.

I've never dig into it much but how paralel is manga and the book?

Mickamott

Just picked up the first Vizbig and this series is gorgeous! Haven't gotten too much into it but from what I hear I'm in for a treat, so I think I'll take it nice and slow and savor my first run-through.

I've been on an Inoue binge recently and all of his series' are top notch. I'm currently on 22 of Slam Dunk, 3 of Real, and 2 of Vagabond.

Monkey King

@Mickamott:

Just picked up the first Vizbig and this series is gorgeous! Haven't gotten too much into it but from what I hear I'm in for a treat, so I think I'll take it nice and slow and savor my first run-through.

I've been on an Inoue binge recently and all of his series' are top notch. I'm currently on 22 of Slam Dunk, 3 of Real, and 2 of Vagabond.

Vagabond is best on a second read when you have more awareness of what things lead to. Rest assured it starts out kinda simple, but it has MAJOR character development.

redon

Part of Volume 37 cover, on sale 17th July in Japan.

Mizrath

Hey, I know it's not the best forum etiquette, but do we have any information about the future of this series? The last chapter came out in January so does he only release one a year? I'm not very familiar with the schedule

Robby

@Mizrath:

Hey, I know it's not the best forum etiquette, but do we have any information about the future of this series? The last chapter came out in January so does he only release one a year? I'm not very familiar with the schedule

From wikipedia.

In April 2009, Takehiko Inoue told Nishinippon Shimbun that he suspected Vagabond would be ending "within one or two years." Claiming that he did not know how it would end, but that it had entered its final stages. In January 2010, he confirmed it would be ending within the year. However, in September during a hiatus due to health concerns, Inoue announced that the ending had been delayed until 2011.Inoue posted an update on his website in December 2010, stating that Vagabond would not return until he regained "enthusiasm" for the series.

After eighteen-months, Vagabond returned to Weekly Morning as a monthly series in March 2012.The manga just got off another lengthy hiatus, with the reason stated being for Inoue to work on research.

Galaxy 9000

Vagabond will return January 29th.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-01-06/vagabond-manga-to-resume-on-january-29/.82949

OneKey

Oh hells yeah! Though I did catch up during the hiatus so it may be somewhat hard to follow it with the monthly schedule and the pacing.

Monkey King

Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Charliezard

Just out of curiousity, how different is Vagabond to the popular Musashi novel? From what I've seen of Vagabond they are based off the same romanticised story of Musashi. I loved the novel and am, in future, interested in picking up Vagabond. I'd like to know if I should expect the same story with awesome pictures or some interested deviations.

Monkey King

@Charliezard:

Just out of curiousity, how different is Vagabond to the popular Musashi novel? From what I've seen of Vagabond they are based off the same romanticised story of Musashi. I loved the novel and am, in future, interested in picking up Vagabond. I'd like to know if I should expect the same story with awesome pictures or some interested deviations.

Interesting to severe deviations.
It's more accurate to say Inoue has taken inspiration from the novel. I think at the start he was trying to just adapt it in some fashion, but before long it kinda became it's own thing with Inoue like making his ultimate grand "sports as way of discussing life and human beings" statement.

MiyamotoMusashi

@Charliezard:

Just out of curiousity, how different is Vagabond to the popular Musashi novel? From what I've seen of Vagabond they are based off the same romanticised story of Musashi. I loved the novel and am, in future, interested in picking up Vagabond. I'd like to know if I should expect the same story with awesome pictures or some interested deviations.

It´s significantly different, both regarding certain events and the actual tone and focus of Musashi´s journey

Ordinary

I'm 200 chapters in, still reading, but I'd like to post and interview I found: A conversation between Katsuhiro Otomo and Takehiko Inoue

https://mangabrog.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/a-conversation-between-katsuhiro-otomo-and-takehiko-inoue/

Charliezard

@Monkey:

Interesting to severe deviations.
It's more accurate to say Inoue has taken inspiration from the novel. I think at the start he was trying to just adapt it in some fashion, but before long it kinda became it's own thing with Inoue like making his ultimate grand "sports as way of discussing life and human beings" statement.

@MiyamotoMusashi:

It´s significantly different, both regarding certain events and the actual tone and focus of Musashi´s journey

That's quite interesting. I wasn't expecting it to deviate to that extreme, especially not in regards to the philosophy of his journey. A little worrisome because I thoroughly enjoyed the tone and philosophical aspects of the novel but exciting in that it's new and I might even prefer this approach.

sabinis

@Charliezard:

That's quite interesting. I wasn't expecting it to deviate to that extreme, especially not in regards to the philosophy of his journey. A little worrisome because I thoroughly enjoyed the tone and philosophical aspects of the novel but exciting in that it's new and I might even prefer this approach.

Be ready for start of a manga to be "beat em all" kind of thing. Further it goes, more Musashi reflect on his actions and on himself.
When I started to read it I was really suprised at lack of depth in first dozen of chapters but then it those chapter were used to add that lacking depth - in short just wanted to say or warn - dont judge manga too soon if you enjoyed so much philosophical aspects of novel.

TheGreatestSwordsman

I'm going to read this after REAL. Just finished watching and reading Slam Dunk, and it may be the best thing related to sport that I've watched/read on any medium. The Kainan and the last match were probably some of the amazing arcs/segments in anime/manga and added into the list of my favorite moments in anime/manga. Incredible stuff. I've been taking my time with Inoue since I've heard of the hype surrounding him for some time and finally got to it. Definitely one of the best mangakas unless his other two mangas are not on SD's level, which I doubt.

I've been hearing he takes a lot of breaks with Vagabond though, it sounds like another Togashi.

Robby

@TheGreatestSwordsman:

I've been hearing he takes a lot of breaks with Vagabond though, it sounds like another Togashi.

Not really.

1)The art is consistently good, no scribbles.
2)He didn't stop in the middle of an arc 4 times and then end with a bunch of deus ex machinas.
3)He's apparently about to start the final arc which will only take a year or two, but he's been upfront about the fact that he wasn't sure how to go about doing it right, rather than giving empty excuses.

Of course, he stated that a couple years ago, so his endpoint may have changed while he tried to work out how to do it.

Darth

Hmm… does anyone knows a site with good quality scanlations of first 188 chapters of Vagabond? It would appear that Batoto only hosts them from 189 onwards.

sabinis

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TheGreatestSwordsman

@Robby:

Not really.

1)The art is consistently good, no scribbles.
2)He didn't stop in the middle of an arc 4 times and then end with a bunch of deus ex machinas.
3)He's apparently about to start the final arc which will only take a year or two, but he's been upfront about the fact that he wasn't sure how to go about doing it right, rather than giving empty excuses.

Of course, he stated that a couple years ago, so his endpoint may have changed while he tried to work out how to do it.

Good to know. Yes, I have noticed his art is really fantastic. Which arc are you referring to in regards to Togashi?

Galaxy 9000

@TheGreatestSwordsman:

Good to know. Yes, I have noticed his art is really fantastic. Which arc are you referring to in regards to Togashi?

! The Chimera Ant Art, most likely.
! * Gon's angry powerup.

The Rose Nuke.

Robby

@Galaxy:

! The Chimera Ant Art, most likely.
! * Gon's angry powerup.

The Rose Nuke.

Actually, both of those things were set up pretty fairly… and had the arc not had massive hiatuses in it, would have been a more natural extension. They seemed to come out of nowhere because we only got 10 chapters at a time, but Gon's thing was actually building up pretty much the entire 100+ chapter arc and fit just fine with established nen rules, complete with the cost it had... and the chairman's actions made more sense considering his plan.

Those weren't really satisfying resolutions, but they weren't deus ex machinas.

What they did in the epilouge short arc to patch things up however...

! Killua's sister that can literally grant any wish including saving lives miraculously, and after spending a whole volume detailing the limits and consequences of that power, declaring that Killua can actually use those cost free as much as he wants.
! And also the evil guy trying to take over the hunter organization was just kidding.

Even those things would be mitigated if the series would just keep going and we'd get some actual follow up on the costs and fallout of those things, but… instead its just sitting there for years at a time as how it is.

Doffy. D Evil

@Darth:

Hmm… does anyone knows a site with good quality scanlations of first 188 chapters of Vagabond? It would appear that Batoto only hosts them from 189 onwards.

http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Vagabond

Vectorkov

@Doffy.:

http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Vagabond

Thanks for the link. I just started getting into this and I think I'm really going to like it.

Kaimon

Almost at Chapter 200 and this series has knocked RuroKen out of my top 5, I loved the Kojiro arc way more than I thought I would

Monkey King

@Robby:

Actually, both of those things were set up pretty fairly… and had the arc not had massive hiatuses in it, would have been a more natural extension. They seemed to come out of nowhere because we only got 10 chapters at a time, but Gon's thing was actually building up pretty much the entire 100+ chapter arc and fit just fine with established nen rules, complete with the cost it had... and the chairman's actions made more sense considering his plan.

Those weren't really satisfying resolutions, but they weren't deus ex machinas.

What they did in the epilouge short arc to patch things up however...

! Killua's sister that can literally grant any wish including saving lives miraculously, and after spending a whole volume detailing the limits and consequences of that power, declaring that Killua can actually use those cost free as much as he wants.
! And also the evil guy trying to take over the hunter organization was just kidding.

Even those things would be mitigated if the series would just keep going and we'd get some actual follow up on the costs and fallout of those things, but… instead its just sitting there for years at a time as how it is.

Yeah it's notable that Pariston was really annoying as a character in the mini-arc, but I'm already liking him more and more with all the recent chapters. Togashi blue balling the shit out of people really hurts little things like that which would ordinarily be developed within half a year rather than half a decade lol.

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@Kaimon:

Almost at Chapter 200 and this series has knocked RuroKen out of my top 5, I loved the Kojiro arc way more than I thought I would

It is not even to compare Vagabond to Kenshin.

Darth

322 was the last chapter before the hiatus, correct?

Man, this manga. Excellent art, good characters, good developments, good plot and it even has quite a lot of interesting philosophy.

322 chapters in four days. Been a while since I last read something with such dedication.

It's good to do such things from time to time though.

sabinis

@Darth:

322 was the last chapter before the hiatus, correct?

Man, this manga. Excellent art, good characters, good developments, good plot and it even has quite a lot of interesting philosophy.

322 chapters in four days. Been a while since I last read something with such dedication.

It's good to do such things from time to time though.

Well then you ate great meal like a fast food.

When you speedread manga like that its 100% certain that you will miss out on a lot of thing.
Also wow at how much free time you still have, just like me 6-7 years ago

And "Thank You" for people that provided you with links or info would also not hurt you at all.

bryannmaina

I can't believe how good it all was.

I actually loved every but of this. There were things I hated and disliked but the execution of the story arcs, the progression the developments and characters were truly excellent.

I really adore Matahachi's entire story. Never knew I could care about A worm.

I'm with Darth. It's bern a while since I read anything with real dedication.
For me though it took two weeks, I tried to limit/restrain myself

Ordinary

yeeesss I caught up at last, and almost in time for the new chapters. 5 days more.

zym

With us nearing the end, and ultimately the final fight, what would you say is left chapter wise? 100?

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OneKey

@zym:

With us nearing the end, and ultimately the final fight, what would you say is left chapter wise? 100?

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Less than 50 chapters, I'd think. Then again, it's hard to make an estimation with the pacing of this series.

100 chapters would take over 8 years, excluding future hiatuses. Not sure if Inoue is up for that.

Doffy. D Evil

Chapter 323 is out :
http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Vagabond/Ch-323–Travel-Clothes?id=220360
http://bato.to/read/_/302273/vagabond_ch323_by_happyscans

AlucarDraculA

Is the guy on this page http://bato.to/read/_/302273/vagabond_ch323_by_happyscans/21

The same guy who Kojiro killed as a boy?

Ordinary

Uozumi = Denshichiro
Sendo = Seijuuro

Monkey King

@AlucarDraculA:

Is the guy on this page http://bato.to/read/_/302273/vagabond_ch323_by_happyscans/21

The same guy who Kojiro killed as a boy?

No, I mean I actually did a double take too. But no that guy was a low level samurai or a peasant even if I recall. Who had no sons.

Or do you mean Master Fudo? Kojiro didn't kill Fudo that was Jisai. And no way is that Fudo lol.
That's really not a very Vagabond plot thing either dude, sounds like something out of a shonen.

Kondo

I didn't expect his art style to change so much. Regardless, it is nice to see the plot moving. Musashi being the wise one in a duel is pretty fun too. Can't wait for the climax.

Sâuza

Did it ? It just looks like a cleaner scanlation + more details in the drawing compared to what we got in the 10 or so chapters.

skeletonbrook

actually it looks a little of to me, small things like proportions. musashi seems to have a shorter nose in some panels.

Silverblade

Inoue's art has been slowly changing ever since he has moved from the pen to the brush. Can't really pinpoint the exact moment, but the current artstyle has taken shape quite a while ago, somewhere between the meeting with Ittousai and the arrival to the farm, so that would be somewhere close to five years now. Inoue's brush technique is free and fleeting, drawing a lot from traditional Japanese painting style. It's fascinating to experience his evolution as the artist in real time.

And yeah, new chapter, good chapter. And with both Imperial Scans and Happy Scans doing it, it probably means reading a chapter at least twice to me. Feels good to read Vagabond again.