MANGA · STORY NOTES

Vagabond, Volume 15

Volume 15 of Vagabond. Vagabond (Japanese: バガボンド, Hepburn: Bagabondo) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. Based on Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, the story is a fictionalized account of the life of the Japanese swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning since September 1998, with its chapters collected in 37 tankōbon volumes by July 2014. Viz Media licensed the series for English release in North America and has published the 37 volumes by April 2015. The series has been on indefinite hiatus since May 2015. The manga has had over 82 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. 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.

Description adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Vagabond (manga) · CC BY-SA 4.0. Text adapted for this entry.

VIZ Media