Vagabond- Author:
Inoue Takehiko
Main Characters:
Musashi Miyamoto
Sasaki Kojiro
The reason why I chose this specific piece to talk about is because it's one of my very early artistic influences and guide book as an artist when I was a teen. Many of my inking drawings are deviated from Takehiko's style. The wild brush marks of characters in movement capture the rawness from this very chaotic time period in Japan.
It's also one of very few manga produced in modern age that goes in depth questioning the meaning of life through character's course of adventure and various masters/ antagonists he encounters and fights. Eventually in his older times he realizes that the people he'd killed and overcame could not quench anything but his superficial ego. Hungry for an answer, he settles down and finds inner peace and enlightenment from being alone in the woods and eventually realizes that everything he's fought against and struggles with all start and end from no one else but his inner self.
more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagabond_(manga)
I read this manga and I feel that it is one of the must-reads because of its sophisticated story. It started as a generic glory-seeking story which grows to a search for identity and finally a quest to find the meaning of life. The story gets less and less about Musashi and more about his actions and thoughts
回复删除I have not read this one before but I do like the style and can see the correlation with his style and your own. I think I will give it a read though because there are enough stories about warriors and their great adventure. Its always good to see psychological sides of a story as well.
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