#Vagabond manga kissmanga series#

TakezЕЌ arc: TakezЕЌ Shinmen and Matahachi Hon'iden's perilous escape from the battlefield of Sekihagara, their hazardous housing with OkЕЌ and Akemi, the events corresponding to TakezЕЌ's unwanted return to the Miyamoto village.Thus begins a story that will show how the legend of the acclaimed sword master Musashi Miyamoto was forged. Takuan frees him and, to make him start his life anew, renames him Musashi Miyamoto. TakezЕЌ fights his pursuers but is eventually caught by the monk Takuan SЕЌhЕЌ, who makes him reconsider his purpose in life. Osugi pulls strings to accuse TakezЕЌ of being a criminal. However, Osugi reacts hostile because the village detests TakezЕЌ for his extremely violent and antisocial tendencies, and because the future of the Hon'iden gentry family is compromised now that their heir Matahachi is missing. TakezЕЌ returns to his hometown, the Miyamoto village, to tell Matahachi's mother, Osugi Hon'iden, that his son is alive.

They find housing with two women, but are soon attacked by the Tsujikaze gang, and in the confusion of the fight their paths separate: TakezЕЌ 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 (е¤©дё‹з„ЎеЏЊ, Tenka MusЕЌ). Two 17-year-old teenagers who joined the losing side, TakezЕЌ 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.

#Vagabond manga kissmanga series#

It has sold more than 82 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Vagabond won the 24th Kodansha Manga Award for the best general manga category in 2000 and the 6th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2002. The series is currently on an extended hiatus, with the latest chapter released in May 2015. Viz Media licensed the series for English release in North America and has published the current thirty-seven volumes as of April 2015. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning since September 1998, with its chapters collected into thirty-seven tankЕЌbon 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: гѓђг‚¬гѓњгѓігѓ‰, Hepburn: Bagabondo) is a Japanese epic martial arts manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue.