However, it’s a very slowly-paced manga, focusing on the meditative moments in between actions.
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.