Vagabond

http://www.bookdepository.com/Vagabond/9781421520544

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/vagabond-volume-1-takehiko-inoue/1013998235?ean=9781421520544

https://www.amazon.com/Vagabond-Vol-VIZBIG-Takehiko-Inoue/dp/1421520540/

etc.

News flash. I've read manga for thousands of dollars, completely free. Whoah.

Where can I read the first couple of hundred chapters without using a leecher site?

http://www.bookdepository.com/Vagabond/9781421520544

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/vagabond-volume-1-takehiko-inoue/1013998235?ean=9781421520544

https://www.amazon.com/Vagabond-Vol-VIZBIG-Takehiko-Inoue/dp/1421520540/

etc.

Where can I read the first couple of hundred chapters without using a leecher site?

What gives? No new chapters in almost a year?

It's on hiatus, but I haven't heard any news on it in a long time..

It began with Berserk, stirring in its slumber, waiting, watching, boat

THEY OFF THE BOAT

Historie, Vinland Saga, and Vagabound all releasing around the same time? Manga that take forever to be released all in the same window of time...conspiracy

It began with Berserk, stirring in its slumber, waiting, watching, boat

So, uh, what’s the big difference between those reups and the chapters that were already uploaded?

Historie, Vinland Saga, and Vagabound all releasing around the same time? Manga that take forever to be released all in the same window of time...conspiracy

ummm... triple dupe?

The last chapter of the book details the fight between Musashi and Kojiro; so, i'm afraid not.

for having read the 2 novels, I confirm it as well

and the battle itself is rather short, though the author can surely fill several chapters of inner monologues

however, the manga might be extended with side stories like the childhood in Mimasaka, Miyamoto's run with brigands, Ochie's "adventures"

....

I really hope he's not taking a long break again..

Thanks, but I already did that years ago, so I know facts  I am asking about the fictionalized tale.
What I wanted to know was, if the story of Musashi (novel) went on, after the duel with Kojiro?

The last chapter of the book details the fight between Musashi and Kojiro; so, i'm afraid not.

you can already wiki miyamoto musashi, and it gives you a basic view of the different steps that we read here in vagabond. From my understanding, we are more or less in the middle of musashi's life
But the autor plays a bit with the order of event's (like encountering iori before his battle with kojiro). I did read SPOILER
[that kojiro died from duel with musashi, so i hope the autor will find a creative solution ('cause i woudn't want kojiro to die...)]
hope this helps?

Thanks, but I already did that years ago, so I know facts  I am asking about the fictionalized tale.
What I wanted to know was, if the story of Musashi (novel) went on, after the duel with Kojiro?

Kojiro is so annoying to me, even if I know his background story and I know why he acts like that (or more like why he does not act like a regular person) I still get annoyed with the way he acts, mostly because I think that  he at least partially acts like that because he knows that he can get away with that kind of behavior.

Thanks, that was quite informative. Actually I am always interested in the background of these historical references in fiction. But I get why some readers here are irritated about your post... You should use some "one liner" catch-phrase to get attention, then use spoiler to your wall of text, it would lessen the itch for haters  while people interested would still read it.

 

Anyway, my main question... I want to ask for somebody who read the Musashi (novel), how much of Musashi's life had Yoshikawa-sensei covered?

you can already wiki miyamoto musashi, and it gives you a basic view of the different steps that we read here in vagabond. From my understanding, we are more or less in the middle of musashi's life
But the autor plays a bit with the order of event's (like encountering iori before his battle with kojiro). I did read SPOILER
[that kojiro died from duel with musashi, so i hope the autor will find a creative solution ('cause i woudn't want kojiro to die...)]
hope this helps?

Kojiro seems to have a lot of fun there~

Some words of advice. The next time you want a powerful warrior as your man, give him a background check. I only feel that this will end for Kojiro like it did for Bushido Brown in Boondocks. 

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Thanks, that was quite informative. Actually I am always interested in the background of these historical references in fiction. But I get why some readers here are irritated about your post... You should use some "one liner" catch-phrase to get attention, then use spoiler to your wall of text, it would lessen the itch for haters  while people interested would still read it.

Anyway, my main question... I want to ask for somebody who read the Musashi (novel), how much of Musashi's life had Yoshikawa-sensei covered?

Finally.. next chapter can't come soon enough!

Fuck all those religious people in the comment section. This is a comic site for God' sake!

1. Nips is a racist term. Stop using it.

Would you prefer "elevens"?

In Dante's divine comedy there is a special place in the first circle of hell which is not so bad and reserved exclusively for greek philosophers and the like, which were born before jesus but had exceptional merit.
 
The divine comedy is not part of the dogma, but it was massively popular, so at least the idea was there in popular culture.

1. Nips is a racist term. Stop using it.

Spoiler

2. The main branch of Christianity actively spreading its teachings in Japan between the 15th and 18th centuries was Roman Catholicism. The Portuguese were the first Christians to arrive in Japan and therefore the ones who brought in their priests to convert people. Until the 18th century, Japanese called western clothing as "padre" clothing thanks to this. Many Japanese people influenced by Christianity became converts of Catholicism. One such person was the lady Hosokawa Gracia, daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide (the killer of Oda Nobunaga) and wife of Buzen-no-kami Hosokawa Tadaoki, the lord of Kokura since 1600. As such, to honor his late wife's memory (Gracia had herself killed in 1600 when Ishida Mitsunari tried to use her as hostage to obtain Tadaoki's support) Tadaoki and the Hosokawa clan allowed Catholic missionaries free rein in Kokura until the prohibition of Christianity under Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada in 1614. This is the same Hosokawa Tadaoki who's currently Kojiro's boss and is in the process of employing Musashi as of chapter 326 of Vagabond. Being a Catholic myself, I need to point out that until the Second Vatican Council the Catholic Church specifically encourages missionaries to propound the Doctrine of Salvation in exactly the way the priest in chapter 325 did. Yes, it was - AND IS - a basic tenet of Roman Catholicism that if you die without accepting Christ the Savior, you go straight to hell. The only "exception" we accept in doctrine is in Vatican II's Lumen gentium 8 allowing that "many elements of sanctification and of truth can be found outside its (the Church's) visible confines." However, this does not in any way or form modify the very basic tenet of the Doctrine of Salvation. It simply means that the Church accepts the possibility that some (incomplete) form of the requirements of Salvation can be found outside the Church. However, the Lumen gentium 14 also points out that, "Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved." This statement specifically closes the supposed loophole that outsiders seem to believe exists in Catholic doctrine post Vatican II. Yes, the Church accepts today that there might be elements of Salvation outside the Church, but unless you convert to Catholicism, you go to hell! Also, the statement is not there to be inverted. A lot of people inside and outside the Church ignorant of proper doctrine seem to think that "knowing" is the operative word, meaning people ignorant of Christianity could therefore be saved. NO THEY CAN'T! That's not what it says! The statement is there to clarify very specifically that there is no alternative path whatsoever and that Lumen gentium 8 does not in any way or form allows for any alternative paths. In the context of Vagabond, then, Matahachi got it all wrong. Heck, to begin with he's familiar with Christianity, specifically Catholicism. Therefore he's going to hell. His mom is going to hell too, ignorance is not an excuse. That lady's dead husband knew about Christianity and didn't convert before dying. He's going to hell. All the unbaptized ancestors of the Japanese are also going to hell. Plain and simple. This is exactly and specifically what Catholic Doctrine has always said about the path to Salvation.
 
3. There was almost no Protestant missionary activity in Japan until the 19th century. There were two reasons for this. The first was that the Dutch and British emissaries to Japan arrived only after the relatively intolerant Toyotomi Hideyoshi had succeeded Oda Nobunaga. Whilst Nobunaga had been a shrewd and ruthless atheist quite willing to exploit Jesuit and Fransiscan naivete to gain access to their weapons and knowledge, Hideyoshi was a staunch traditionalist who - ironically for one of his position - actually respected and revered the Emperor. He rightly identified Christianity as a threat to Japanese traditional religions. He was already stuck with potential Christian rebellion incited by the Fransiscans, so he felt no need to allow even more Christians access to his dominions. Hideyoshi was particularly alarmed by the continued flirtation of the powerful and ambitious northern daimyo Date Masamune with both branches of Christianity. As a result Hideyoshi was tempted several times to outlaw Christianity altogether. His hostility was noticed by the emissaries who concluded that the mighty trifecta of Gold, Glory, God could probably do better without its third G. The second reason was that when the even more traditionalist Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun of Japan, he strictly enforced a no-missionary policy on both newcomer European nations, and both signed treaties accepting the limitations demanded by Ieyasu. This meant that Dutch and British missionaries (what? You thought Europeans respected treaties?) arrived in Japan right smack-dab in the middle of the most brutal anti-Christian persecution in the 17th century under Ieyasu's successor Hidetada. Hidetada had a personal reason for persecuting Christians, that being his brother Matsudaira Tadateru's own flirtation with Christianity. Tadateru was more popular than Hidetada and was Ieyasu's preferred heir at one point (Hidetada had screwed up royally in the prelude to Sekigahara, straining father-son relationship until Ieyasu's death). Most importantly, Tadateru was the son-in-law of the powerful Date Masamune, who by 1610 had basically become to Ieyasu what Ieyasu himself had been to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. When in 1615 Matsudaira Tadateru refused to mobilize his forces at speed to support Hidetada's Winter Siege of Osaka, Hidetada relieved him of command and started depriving him of subjects. It was around this time that Hidetada realized that the majority of Matsudaira Tadateru's supporters and the vast majority of surviving Toyotomi supporters were Christians. It was probably not a coincidence that the edict signed in 1614 started being enforced strictly in 1616. It was into this environment of extreme distrust and brutality that Protestant missionaries first discovered themselves in Japan. As is common with their ilk, they took the rational path and stopped their activities until things cooled down again in the 19th century. In the meantime, Catholics were being martyred left and right. In any case, what this basically means is that when Japanese people today think of Christianity, their traditional ideas would be far more influenced by the Catholics than Protestants, and you can see this clearly in most manga and anime, although it's often clear that most authors have no clue about what Catholicism is like. The best depiction of Catholicism I've seen in manga and anime is actually the faith-centered dialogues in (of all things) Maria Holic....
 
4. Therefore, taking 2 and 3 into account, ironically Vagabond GOT IT RIGHT in its depiction of a 16th century Christian missionary operating in Japan. He would have been a Catholic espousing the strict, pure, Catholic form of the Doctrine of Salvation unadulterated by later innovations.

In addition to the passage in Epistle to the Hebrews 11:6, this has traditionally been used to argue that those who sought God even before Christ’s birth could obtain salvation. In other words, this might very well be true of these Japanese ancestors you spoke of, too. Your claim that all born before Jesus automatically earned eternal damnation is nonsense and has never been the official doctrine of the Catholic Church, not even in the 16th century. Same thing for the truly “ignorant”.

(This is a quote of Moloch, I screwed up the format).

In Dante's divine comedy there is a special place in the first circle of hell which is not so bad and reserved exclusively for greek philosophers and the like, which were born before jesus but had exceptional merit.

The divine comedy is not part of the dogma, but it was massively popular, so at least the idea was there in popular culture.