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Whats Your Opinion on Vagabond?!




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Metabee177



Joined: 31 May 2024
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PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2024 12:56 pm Reply with quote
I haven't read vagabond (yet) but I know its based on Miyamoto Musashi and his philosophy but....is it actually good? And how long is the manga? I also hear that its not even finished yet.
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Alan45
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 7:23 am Reply with quote
I quit reading it after a couple of volumes because it was excessively violent.
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FishLion



Joined: 24 Jan 2024
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 4:32 pm Reply with quote
It is excessively violent indeed, it has dismemberment and a ton of blood, if you like comics about overly violent warriors then you may enjoy. To me the art is beautiful and amazingly rendered, one of the most detailed manga I have seen in awhile, but the story has kind of fallen flat so far. To be fair I am very early on, but despite me specifically having an interest in Musashi Miyamoto and his philosophy and sword techniques I have been bored. He feels too much like a blank slate, he doesn't give any reason for being a warrior besides feeling like he is meant to and putting his intense murderous intent to the relatively noble cause of mastering swordsmanship. It could be a slow starter, but so far it has been a lot of drama and violence with no real motivation besides the fact that he is a gifted warrior who decides to take on the swordsmanship schools.

Unless it improves, I would rather read Berserk which has incredible detailed horror and violence as well as great characters and plot. Berserk is also still being published (although by a team after the death of the original author Kentaro Miura) so you won't have the same issue as the seemingly permanent hiatus Vagabond is on.
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