They find housing with two women, but are soon attacked by the Tsujikaze gang, and in the confusion of the fight their paths separate: Takezō decides to become a vagabond and wander the world challenging strong opponents, and Matahachi chooses to stay with the women. They manage to escape and swear to become "Invincible Under The Heavens" ( 天下無双, Tenka Musō). Two 17-year-old teenagers who joined the losing side, Takezō Shinmen and Matahachi Hon'iden, lie wounded in the battlefield and pursued by survivor hunters. The story starts in 1600, in the aftermath of the decisive Battle of Sekigahara. In 2000, Vagabond won the 24th Kodansha Manga Award for the general category, as well as the Grand Prize of the sixth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2002. The series is currently on an extended hiatus, with the latest chapter released in May 2015.īy December 2012, the manga had over 82 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Viz Media licensed the series for English release in North America and has published the current 37 volumes as of April 2015. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning since September 1998, with its chapters collected in 37 tankōbon volumes as of July 2014. It portrays a fictionalized account of the life of Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, based on Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi. Vagabond ( Japanese: バガボンド, Hepburn: Bagabondo) is a Japanese epic martial arts manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue.
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