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VAGABOND
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What is The Book of Five Rings, and where is it in Vagabond?
Musashi's 1645 strategy treatise, written in Reigando cave in the last months of his life, and its place in Vagabond: the destination document the whole manga is…

Why is there no Vagabond anime?
No anime adaptation of Vagabond has ever been produced or announced, despite 82 million copies sold. The documented reasons: an unreproducible art method, an…

What other manga has Takehiko Inoue made?
Chameleon Jail, Slam Dunk, Buzzer Beater, and Real: the complete serial shelf of Takehiko Inoue besides Vagabond, and the 2022 film that capped the set.

How accurate is Vagabond as history?
The Yoshioka duels are real, the seventy-man stand is invented, Kojiro's deafness is Inoue's creation, and even Sekigahara has been re-argued by historians:…

What should you read after Vagabond?
Yoshikawa's novel in the Terry translation, The Book of Five Rings itself, William Scott Wilson's biography of Musashi, and Inoue's own Real: the four doors out…
