First manga I ever read was this one

Yes.

How the hell did Vagabond end up being the first manga you read?

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It's pretty popular actually

How is that actually? I keep seeing it shilled but it seems like a simple edgefest, what's special about it?.

It has a lot of gore but I wouldn't call it edgy. It's about two disciples at a dojo and it showcases how fucked both that world and timeperiod were and how fucked in the head people could end up because of those circumstances. And the art is great.

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Blind man and one-armed man are absolute kino and you need to experience their journey yourself

That's like Lone Wolf and Cub for little babies.

>shit
>vagabond
At least one thing we can agree on.

Lone Wolf and Cub is the most overrated piece of shit I've ever read

It's not edgy in the sense that it tries to shock you. But it doesn't hold back from depidting how fucked up the feudal era was.
The story begins with describing the relationship between feudal lords, retainers and samurais as of that between sadists and masochists. Which is pretty accurate.

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years ago when it was still being released, it was very popular. you see it get recommended every now and then, same as berserk. those 2 mangas were actually one of the first mangas ive read

Takehiko Inoue is probably my favorite mangaka of all time, but I try not to say that too often just to avoid being equated with Vagabondfags.

Inio Asano
Naoki Urasawa
Taiyo Matsumoto

How can he draw in that style? Does he just take forever to release new chapters?

shit compared to the novel

I guess it depends on when you started getting into manga and your taste at the time. I was pretty young when I started reading manga and Vagabond was apparently releasing in the US and started just a little bit before I started reading manga. I don't remember seeing it in stores but then I'm sure I didn't look because I was mostly reading shonenshit at the time.

If someone was using the internet frequently in the early 00s (which I wasn't) it was probably more well known to them. But your phrasing of "years ago" makes me think you're talking about something more recent. Like 2010 instead of 2002.

this

>Not the best Samurai manga
>Not the best Inoue manga
Why are Vagabond fans deluded.

Vagabond was monthly but Inoue was drawing stuff not dissimilar in Slam Dunk when that ended and that was weekly, he's very talented.

As far as detail in weekly series go, Morita and Hara, and maybe his teacher Hojo, might have him beat though.

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The whole samurai shtick falls apart once you realize they got completely btfo by portoguese chads because rapiers are fundamentally better than katanas.
Not to mention that roman legions which existed more than 1000 years prior to the first samurai would btfo any japanese army of musashi's period.
Man I love them, but japs are so pathetic when it comes to warrior culture.

it's shit

Sorry, I don't read abandoned shit. If the creator doesn't care enough to finish it then why bother?

this, i read it and now i will never feel complete

I remember the days when Berserk, Vagabond, and Vinland Saga were seen as the "grownup Big 3", basically starters for people looking to branch out from shonen. Can't even imagine how and where all of them ended up nowadays.

He doesn't need to finish it. Everyone knows the story of Musashi anyway

>Everyone knows the story of Musashi anyway
Then why start at all?