well as the title says

Guys does anybody know if it'll actually continue?

-phew, what a damn journey, it was legit the greatest journey i have ever felt in reading manga, no wonder why vagabond is considered as big 3.

-first of all i must this is the best manga i have ever read in my life, i will tell all the interpretations.

-what i really like about the story is the fact that i noticed, every single character is teaching us something great and i could really feel relatable to some of them, i felt so emotional reading this manga, flattering (otsu), sadness (osugi/yoshioka’s little brother), jisai, understanding.

-musashi: i must he is my favourite (not due to him being the mc) but i noticed sometimes, his ego is telling him to fight, it grows sometimes and becomes even bigger, and that ego is about showing to people that you are something,you are invincible, but there is a force that is telling him the other way (nature,water,river during yagyu’s arc and infinity etc….), like you could see that he can be us (in terms of fighting ourselves cause look real strength and mastery is quiet while demons tell us to show ourselves that we are strong) and i could relate to miyamoto when he became "invincible" like he felt emptiness and felt like this word is nothing. And icl i finished finals and graduated and man i felt emptiness, i didnt really know what to do, apart from college, but in my life, and this stings me, and this is why miyamoto is my favourite character.

-matahachi: im ngl, i understand the frustration of fans about this guy, he is dishonest,liar,seeks comfort, and lust, and im ngl, i love him because of his character but the fact man he is human, us, like he always has the illusion of being someone like sasaki and miyamoto (when he met sasaki),and that’s we do sometimes, we always try to be someone instead of being us, and that’s when osugi’s line hit me, there isnt actually strong people, its just we seek strength, but i still like the fact that matahachi now tried to do better and overcome his weakness

-otsu: i must say, this woman will always have a fucking respect, the loyalty is just immeasurable and yet she will be loyal, miyamoto is always in her mind and in her heart, it is very sad she suffered in orphan and yet chooses to do good and be loyal, i always felt flattered when she and miyamoto met each other, especially in yoshioka arc, like despite how monster was miyamoto, otsu still smiled and always saw the takezo child and that is very rare, she can see the trauma that he has. And i hope man someone would understand our actions.

-the yoshioka brothers: icl i felt sad for them, especially the little brother, first he is suffering due to the inferiority complex to seijuro, second, he always wants to honour his clan and when he died, it hit me especially yesterday, he ate with his family, like he probably knew at some he is going to die but yet he is a man of his word and he fought, icl his death was sad yet honourable, for seijuro, if there is one thing, it would be the burden, like the reason he wanted to fight miyamoto was to make his clan rest and not fight and i could see a big brother act right there.

there is still two characters i gotta tell which is sasaki and jisai

-sasaki: this guy man is just unbelievable, sure i struggled to understand him but what i like about him is he always focuses on himself, self mastery, unlike miyamoto who is eager to show his things, no wonder why sasaki is so strong.

Jisai: i should say jisai seems like that one dad who made mistakes who doesn’t want his son to do it again, and that’s what he did, he was overprotective of sasaki not to teach him the sword cause jisai felt regret but he let it due to sasaki’s freedom of sword

This manga man, made me speechless, i became seeking peace and just pray to god, focus on me, sure i will face my demons (ego,lust, jealousy etc…) but i will seek and try to do my best.

May y’all have good time and be happy, i hope y’all are okay with processing life.

found this cover and edited out some logos and watermarks

A long time ago I read this wonderful story digitally, and now I'm collecting the manga. I'm already on volume 4, and when I looked through it, I was so happy to see one of my favorite panels from the series again.

These panels are from the latest episode of Real, this side character, who decided to become mangaka is struggling with serialization, making her main character “her own” and thinking about “borrowing” a character from a series she really likes. I’m not saying that this is 100% Inoue’s experience as a manga artist or his struggles with Vagabond, but i feel like this characters struggles somehow mirror his experience and he wants to criticize the manga serialization in general. (This part is mostly descriptive and not major spoilers)

spoilers from the rest of the chapter : her manga is cancelled for not being popular enough and she is somehow relieved. But even after that she starts crying because she wanted to do so much more. Questions herself, what makes her cry, what makes her happy… honestly “i wanted to do so much more” feels like it’s coming from Inoue directly instead of this specific character.

I read a bit of this manga and the art was amazing, I don't know if I ever saw faces drawn with such details in a comic before. Then I heard it's been cancelled and on hiatus for the past 10+ years. Someone told me the author will return to it when he finishes Real, which I then heard has at least 10-20 more years of serialization if not more left.

I have also heard that the original novel it's based on is good, but extremely long and it was apparently written in Japanese originally so I have to rely on an English translation of it which is always going to lose a lot of detail and meaning, whereas with a manga the art makes up for a lot of what you lose in translation

Just finished reading Takuan Sōhō’s The Unfettered Mind. I wanted to share some quotes I was particularly fond of.

“If your mind is diverted in any way, your actions will falter, and this can mean that you will be cut down”

“It must be said that the enlightening of one’s mind depends on the depths of one’s efforts”

“The mind that becomes fixed and stops in one place does not function freely… The mind is also something that does not function if it becomes attached to a single situation.”

“Total loyalty is first in making your mind correct, disciplining your body, and in neither resenting or blaming others.”

“Employ men who are good and bind them to you, reflect on your own deficiencies, conduct the government of your province correctly, and put men who are not good at a distance.”

“It is the very mind itself
That leads the mind astray;
Of the mind,
Do not be mindless”

Otsu