Like any good biography, fictional or not, the best thing about Vagabond has always been how intimate it is, and not just with its main character. It’s never a history lesson and it never feels like it, though Japanese history does play a significant role when talking about someone like Miyamoto Musashi.
In this volume of the story, we are once again watching Musashi try to heal from the injury he incurred in his big battle against the Yoshioka. We spend time not only with Musashi, but with some of the other people who have come together to support him while he heals. Everyone seems to be embroiled in deep, thoughtful conversation. There’s little idle chatter in Vagabond and even less of it in this volume.
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