Creator Takehiko Inoue is an expert in visual storytelling who uses highly stylized art with minimal dialogue.
Creator Takehiko Inoue is an expert in visual storytelling who uses highly stylized art with minimal dialogue. This gives Vagabond a very cinematic quality that emphasizes mood, emotion, and action over exposition. However, it’s a very slowly-paced manga, focusing on the meditative moments in between actions. It can dwell on poetic visuals for pages at a time, giving the series a very different tempo and tone than most mainstream seinen series.