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Alex
Alex
I feel like my brain has been rearranged every time I picked up a book, but that’s what I got from ‘Vagabond’. Although it’s often paired with ‘Berserk’ due to its dark tone, the two series are quite different. While the fight scenes in ‘Berserk’ are against supernatural enemies, Musashi’s battles are against his own ego. All the fight scenes in ‘Vagabond’ are very realistic, no flare-ups of supernatural power. Even the tiniest of battles feel tense and you feel the extent of the defeat and the growth the winner experienced. In contrast to the vast landscape of ‘Vinland Saga’, ‘Vagabond’ takes place on a very tight focus, making each win hollow and every loss life-changing. It’s just as good, in a completely different way.
2025-11-16
Tristan
Tristan
Vagabond is another historical manga but so different from Rurouni Kenshin. While Kenshin tries to be an ideal hero, Vagabond dives deep into the mental struggles of swordsmen, specifically looking into the life of Miyamoto Musashi. The artist, Takehiko Inoue, does an amazing job of showing every detail of his characters, even to the point of showing every single drop of sweat on their foreheads. The angles and lines of his art really bring out the weight of every sword Musashi fights with, even to the point of showing the cracks in them. Unlike Blade of the Immortal however, Vagabond isn’t just some dark gritty story. It’s a deeply philosophical and introspective look into the mind of Musashi as he struggles through life, often taking 3 volumes to show a period of time of a few months.

It’s not a shounen that you can take and read in one sitting. You have to sit down and read it, but because it doesn’t have a linear plotline for the main character, it can be hard to follow at times. Musashi has good days and bad days, and there are times when he even backtracks on his previous progress. His way of thinking is constantly being questioned and this brings about many problems for him and the supporting characters, like the rather tragic Sasaki Kojiro. ‘Vagabond’ is not ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’ (though that’s high action as well) in terms of a masterpiece that will stay with you for a while and leave its mark like a bruise.
2025-11-16

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