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Vagabond has had over 82 million copies in circulation worldwide. [40] Vagabond won the Grand Prize for manga at the fourth Japan Media Arts Festival in 2000. The following is an excerpt from the speech congratulating Takehiko Inoue: "From Toyotomi to Tokugawa. Musashi Miyamoto grew up amidst the turn of two great eras. Mr. Inoue has taken the ...
This is a list of chapters for the Japanese manga series Vagabond, written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. It portrays a fictionalized account of the life of Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto , based on Eiji Yoshikawa 's novel Musashi .
Manga author Takehiko Inoue started Vagabond, having wondered what the character of Musashi Miyamoto was like when he read Musashi. Having come off of drawing a sports manga , Slam Dunk , he wanted to create a series about more basic concepts, such as "life and death, the human condition, etc."
Takehiko Inoue (井上 雄彦, Inoue Takehiko, born 12 January 1967) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for the basketball series Slam Dunk (1990–1996), and the jidaigeki manga Vagabond, which are two of the best-selling manga series in history. Many of his works are about basketball, Inoue himself being a huge fan of the sport.
The manga series Vagabond is loosely based on Musashi, with protagonist Takezō later renamed Miyamoto Musashi and seeking to become the greatest swordsman in the land. The Necromancer, the fourth installment in Michael Scott's The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, refers to Niten.
The following is a list of the best-selling Japanese manga series to date in terms of the number of collected tankōbon volumes sold. All series in this list have at least 20 million copies in circulation. This list is limited to Japanese manga and does not include manhwa, manhua or original English-language manga.
Little Vagabond: 1968: 小傻仙: Wong Yuk-long (黃玉郎) MCC Cartoons: Mung Cha Cha Cartoons: 1968: MCC 畫集: Fung Siu-ho New Mr. Wang and Mr. Chu: 1968: Mak Man-ching (麥敏青) The World of E-king Yen: 1968: 嚴以敬漫畫選集: Yen E-King (嚴以敬) Happy Family TV Episode Comics: 1969: Solar Lord: 1969: 小魔神: Wong Yuk-long ...
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