Vagabond
バガボンド
Inoue, Takehiko, Yoshikawa, Eiji
Manga
Completed
1998
Description
In 16th-century Japan, Shinmen Takezou is a wild, rough young man, in both his appearance and his actions. His aggressive nature has won him the collective reproach and fear of his village, leading him and his best friend, Matahachi Honiden, to run away in search of something grander than provincial life. The pair enlist in the Toyotomi army, yearning for glory—but when the Toyotomi suffer a crushing defeat at the hands of the Tokugawa Clan at the Battle of Sekigahara, the friends barely make it out alive. After the two are separated, Shinmen returns home on a self-appointed mission to notify the Hon’iden family of Matahachi’s survival. He instead finds himself a wanted criminal, framed for his friend’s supposed murder based on his history of violence. Upon being captured, he is strung up on a tree and left to die. An itinerant monk, the distinguished Takuan Soho, takes pity on the “devil child,” secretly freeing Shinmen and christening him with a new name to avoid pursuit by the authorities: Musashi Miyamoto. Vagabond is the fictitious retelling of the life of one of Japan’s most renowned swordsmen, the “Sword Saint” Musashi Miyamoto—his rise from a swordsman with no desire other than to become “Invincible Under the Heavens” to an enlightened warrior who slowly learns of the importance of close friends, self-reflection, and life itself. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Chapters
The Man Named Tadaoki
To be a Samurai
Noted Treasure
Kokura's Treasure
Travel Clothes
Dragonflies
Shusaku Collapses
Ridges Between Rice Fields
Something Frail
Rice Seeplings
Pure and Clear
Spring Thunder
N/A
Breath
A Corpse and Lives
The Fool's Paddy Field!
A Lively Life
Late Autumn
Earth
Logusgts
N/A
Infinite Smiles
The Water Path
Overflowing water
Rainy Soil
Children of the Earth
At the End of the Journey
The Future of Our Freedom
Mogura
Instructor
The Flower of Kakura
Kojirou's City
Paper Ballon
Give It Up
Tremors
Profile
7 Years
The World of People
The Music Inside
Kokura
The Way of "Without a Blade"
Tiger and Tiger
Learning to Smile
The Spiral
Thirteen Years Old
This Form
A Great Man Falls
Ittousai, the Demon Swordsman
Aspiration
Treasure
A Friend
A Chance Meeting
Liar
Mother
Mother and Child
Dreams Worn Out and Returning Home
Within the Ring
Vagabond
Light
On the Edge of the Sword
Crossroads
Fragments
Just That Much
Heat Haze
The Facts of a Dream
Separation
Moonlight
The Flames of Hatred
Still the Stick
The Glowing Light in the Depths
Contradiction
Voices
Questions
Home
To Live by the Sword
An Unprisoned Musashi
Prayer
An End to Fighting
The Man in the Rumors
Pulse
While You Sleep
Nothing's Changed
Reunion
The Solitary Way
Frogs
Battle's End
One Sword
An Auspicious Encounter
Blood-Stained Mud
Changing Times
Somewhere Along the Way
Battle Threshold
The Depth
Heaps
It Finds a Way
Life
Exhaustion
Sallowed Sky
The Rapids
Swarm
Army of One
Debt to the Yoshioka
Musashi Against Seventy Samurai
Ichijoji Sagarimatsu
From the Treetop
Friends
Old Friends
Admiration and Hate
Unbreakable Bonds
Demise
Forward, Denshichiro!
A Year After
It's Already Begun
Rengeoin
Worthless Junk
Bright New Morning
On the Eve of Battle
Rivals at Play
A Long Detour
Chance Encounter
Afternoon Nap
Straightforward
Sottaku
Sword Sharpening
The Day After Tomorrow
Presumptuous
Ladder to Success
Two Kojiros
Kojiro and Matahachi
Grass, Snow and Blood
The Real Kojiro
Return of the Vainglorious
Confrontation of Rivals
Talk of the Town
Bedlam in Kyoto
Koetsu and Myoshu
Painting with Water
The Death of Seijuro
Burdened
The Place Where I Belong
Before Dawn
Altercation After Dark
Rendaiji
Eagle and Ant
The Same Moon
First Snow
Carving Demons
Gathering in Kyoto
Koun and Kojiro III
Koun and Kojiro II
Koun and Kojiro
Open Mind
Younger Brother
Ichizo
The Desire to Fight
Sons
The Sword
Strands of the Departed
The Distant Ocean
Over the Mountain
Mountain of Shattered Dreams
First Friend
Death Torches
Refugee Hunters
Six O'Clock at Sekigahara
Rampage of the Beast
Those Who Defy Death
Battlefield
The Stage
Muso Gonnosuke
Ganryu
A Complete Life
The Departure
Shore of Blood
Blood Battle
Brothers
Numb
Mad Tiger
Blood Bath
Tiger
Jisai's Cocoon
Senior Disciple
The Fifth Year of Keicho (1600 A.D.)
Master and Pupil
The Kanemaki Dojo
Savior
Sword against Swor
Flames
Butterfly
Farewell, Kojiro
A Gift from the Sea
Kojiro and Tenki
The Plan
Driftwood
To Live by the Sword
Fate
Seaweed
Glimmering Waves
Hands
The Letter
Tsujikaze Kohei Part Two
Tsujikaze Kohei Part One
Spiral
Connections
Akebi Fruit
Moths
Two swords
The Resurrection of the God of Death
The Girl and the God of Death
Rindo
Chain and Sicklev
Baiken
Apparition
He and I
Osugi's Ordeal
Mother
Lowlife
Uncle Gon
Sea of Clouds
Summit
The Road to Ise
Footprints
Journey
Autumn Sky
Farewell at Dawn
The Infinite Universe
Blue Sky
The Real Thing
Son of the Invincible
Unrivaled
Sliding Door
Reunion
Longing
Retribution
Valor
The Four Senior Disciples
Bamboo Flute
The Battle
One Man Battle
Disciple
Provocateur
A Round of Discussion
Ship of Stone
Promise
Legacy
Successor to the Invincible
The Peony Message
Coming Home
The Yagyu
Ascending Dragon
They Call Me Sensei
Don't Put Your Life on the Line
Survivors
Sudden Storm
Playing in the Sand
Shinnosuke
Inshun
Life III
Life II
No Sword
Kami Izumi Ise no Kami Hidetsuna
The Master
Legacy
Heaven and Earth
Spiders Thread
Dawn
Duel's Eve II
Duel's Eve
Hozoin Pickles
Sasaki Kojiro
Vermin
Osaka
The Decision of a Formerly Kept Man
Vision
Journey
Lying Low II
Lying Low
Surviving
Fear III
Fear II
Fear
The Demon Within
Unease
Life
Inshun's Spear
Howl
The Assassin
Agon
Inshun
Graceless
Bloodthirst
Hozoin
Distraction
Departures II
Departures
Wanderers
Inferno
A Single Stroke
Ignorance
Demon II
Instinct
The Master
Chaos at the Yoshioka School
The Challenge
First Step
Miyamoto Musashi
A Place in the Sun
Death
The Demon's Child
Tree of Shame
Invincible under the Sun
Captured
No Fear
Cut Down
Life
Takuan
Demon
Left Behind
Fiancee
Miyamoto Village
Farewell Takezo
The Troubles of Hon'iden Matahachi at Seventeen
Blood Game
The Brigand Tsujikaze
Oko
Akemi
Shinmen Takezo
