Vagabond

Takehiko Inoue's retelling of Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi. Seventeen-year-old Shinmen Takezo survives the slaughter at Sekigahara as a wanted savage, is hunted through his own village, and is broken and remade by the monk Takuan into Miyamoto Musashi. What follows is a duel-by-duel pilgrimage through Edo-era Japan — Hozoin's spearmen, the Yoshioka school, Sasaki Kojiro — drawn in brush and ink unlike anything else in manga.