| Vagabond | |
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Vagabond_(manga)_vol._1.png) First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Musashi Miyamoto | |
| バガボンド (Bagabondo) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Takehiko Inoue |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Morning KC |
| Magazine | Morning |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | September 3, 1998 – May 21, 2015 (on hiatus) |
| Volumes | 37 |
Vagabond (Japanese: バガボンド, Hepburn: Bagabondo) is a Japanese epic martial arts manga series 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. 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.
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Inoue is also the mangaka (manga creator) behind the epic ongoing series, Vagabond (Viz Media), based on Japan's most revered and influential samurai warrior, Miyamoto Musashi.
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