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* TheBerserker: Musashi starts out as one, with some characters pointing out how he puts his entire life behind his attacks. This [[ CharacterDevelopment starts to change]] as he learns to be in control of himself, and becomes a stronger fighter
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* BeardOfSorrow: When Gion Toji returns in the Yoshioka arc, he has one. Not surprisingly, his pride has been crushed and he is a shell of his former self.
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* AntiHero: Musashi starts out a completely self-centered [[GlorySeeker]], although he starts to [[CharacterDevelopment grow]] [[TookALevelInKindness out of it]] as he realizes the [[ LonelyAtTheTop futility of being the greatest swordsman]], and the value of human life.

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* AntiHero: Musashi starts out a completely self-centered [[GlorySeeker]], [[GlorySeeker Glory Seeker]], although he starts to [[CharacterDevelopment grow]] [[TookALevelInKindness out of it]] as he realizes the [[ LonelyAtTheTop [[LonelyAtTheTop futility of being the greatest swordsman]], and the value of human life.
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* AntiHero: Musashi starts out a completely self-centered [[GlorySeeker]], although he starts to [[CharacterDevelopment grow]] [[TookALevelInKindness out of it]] as he realizes the [[ LonelyAtTheTop futility of being the greatest swordsman]], and the value of human life.
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* WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter: Musashi starts out only using a wooden sword, even opting to use a wooden practice sword when offered a real one in the Yoshioka dojo. Though later on in the series, he switches to a real blade.
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* WalkingTheEarth: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviosly, for a series called Vagabond.]] Our protagonist Musashi is a {{Rōnin}} wandering the land of Japan seeking out opponents.

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* WalkingTheEarth: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviosly, for a series called Vagabond.]] Our protagonist Musashi is a {{Rōnin}} {{Ronin}} wandering the land of Japan seeking out opponents.
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* WalkingTheEarth: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviosly, for a series called Vagabond.]] Our protagonist Musashi is a {Rōnin} wandering the land of Japan seeking out opponents.

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* WalkingTheEarth: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviosly, for a series called Vagabond.]] Our protagonist Musashi is a {Rōnin} {{Rōnin}} wandering the land of Japan seeking out opponents.
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* WalkingTheEarth: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviosly, for a series called Vagabond.]] Our protagonist Musashi is a {Ronin} wandering the land of Japan seeking out opponents.

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* WalkingTheEarth: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviosly, for a series called Vagabond.]] Our protagonist Musashi is a {Ronin} {Rōnin} wandering the land of Japan seeking out opponents.
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* WalkingTheEarth: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviosly, for a series called Vagabond.]] Our protagonist Musashi is a {Ronin} wandering the land of Japan seeking out opponents.
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* ToBeAMaster: Musashi's inital motivation is to be the greatest swordsman, Invincible Under the Sun. As he encounters old masters like In'ei and Yagyu, he becomes motivated to understand them and reach their level.
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* NotAfraidToDie: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. While Musashi does learn to accept that he may die in a fight, he also learns the value of his own life and other's, and not to throw away his life recklessly.
** Played straight with characters like Sasaki Kojiro and Ito Ittosai, who live by the sword and aren't afraid to lay down their lives for battle.
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* MartialPacifist: The old master characters, Hōzōin In'ei, and especially Yagyū Sekishūsai, along with their own master Kam'Izumi Ise no Kami, who believe that the ultimate mastery of the Way of the Sword is being One With Heaven and Earth, in which case ''No Sword'' is needed.
** Takuan is a bit of one, an itinerant monk who can solve most problems with words,but he's not afraid to get his hands a little dirty if he has to.
** Musashi eventually develops into one. He starts seeking to escape the cycle of killing and violence and finds strategies to end fights without bloodshed.
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: Set during the twillight years of the Way of the Sword, it's followers despise firearms, weapons that take no skill or effort to manuever.
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* {Jidaigeki}: Set in the very early days of the Edo Period. The very first panel of the series takes place during the aftermath of the Battle of Sekigahara.

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* {Jidaigeki}: {{Jidaigeki}}: Set in the very early days of the Edo Period. The very first panel of the series takes place during the aftermath of the Battle of Sekigahara.
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* {Jidaigeki}: Set in the very early days of the Edo Period. The very first panel of the series takes place during the aftermath of the Battle of Sekigahara.
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* {{Determinator}}: Musashi. Whether it's cutting people down, or growing rice paddies. If his mind is set on something, he will not stop until he achieves it.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Musashi existed. Takuan existed. Kojiro might have existed. Other than that, it's pretty much all made up.
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Gion Toji starts out as a more conceited and bloodthirsty {{Foil}} to Musashi. [[ AlwaysSomeoneBetter After meeting stronger fighters,]] [[ BreakTheHaughty this doesn't last.]

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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Gion Toji starts out as a more conceited and bloodthirsty {{Foil}} to Musashi. [[ AlwaysSomeoneBetter [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter After meeting stronger fighters,]] [[ BreakTheHaughty [[BreakTheHaughty this doesn't last.]]]
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* ArrogantKung-FuGuy: Gion Toji starts out as a more conceited and bloodthirsty {{Foil}} to Musashi. [[ AlwaysSomeoneBetter After meeting stronger fighters,]] [[ BreakTheHaughty this doesn't last.]

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* ArrogantKung-FuGuy: ArrogantKungFuGuy: Gion Toji starts out as a more conceited and bloodthirsty {{Foil}} to Musashi. [[ AlwaysSomeoneBetter After meeting stronger fighters,]] [[ BreakTheHaughty this doesn't last.]
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* Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Gion Toji starts out as a more conceited and bloodthirsty {{Foil}} to Musashi. [[ AlwaysSomeoneBetter After meeting stronger fighters,]] [[ BreakTheHaughty this doesn't last.]

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* Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: ArrogantKung-FuGuy: Gion Toji starts out as a more conceited and bloodthirsty {{Foil}} to Musashi. [[ AlwaysSomeoneBetter After meeting stronger fighters,]] [[ BreakTheHaughty this doesn't last.]
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* Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Gion Toji starts out as a more conceited and bloodthirsty {{Foil}} to Musashi. [[ AlwaysSomeoneBetter After meeting stronger fighters,]] [[ BreakTheHaughty this doesn't last.]
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: as expected from a manga inspired by the ''Literature/{{Musashi}}'' novel which spans 900 pages.
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* DistantFinale: Inoue made a special epilogue chapter for a 2008 manga exhibition showing [[spoiler: an elderly Musashi's finally moments, giving some closure to his story]]. However, this chapter hasn't received a proper release, but translated scans can be found online.

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* DistantFinale: Inoue made a special epilogue chapter for a 2008 manga exhibition showing [[spoiler: an elderly Musashi's finally final moments, giving some closure to his story]]. However, this chapter hasn't received a proper release, but translated scans can be found online.
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* DistantFinale: Inoue made a special epilogue chapter for a 2008 manga exhibition showing [[spoiler: an elderly Musashi's finally moments, giving some closure to his story]]. However, this chapter hasn't received a proper release, but translated scans can be found online.
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* AdaptationTitleChange: The manga is based on the novel ''Musashi''.
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Now has a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Vagabond character page]] that still needs a ton of WikiMagic.


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** Ch.78 ends with Matahachi (now calling himself "Kojirō Sasaki") affirming that "one day, Kojirō will defeat Musashi"—such an arrogant attitude surprises and enrages the readers, to the point that in some websites that chapter has even more comments than Ch.1.
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Unbeknownst to the villagers, the monk, the legendary Takuan Sōhō, frees Takezō after a few days, rechristens him as Musashi Miyamoto, and sends him off on the journey that changes him into a LivingLegend and, eventually, the figure we know today.

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Unbeknownst to the villagers, the monk, the legendary Takuan Sōhō, Sōhō Takuan, frees Takezō after a few days, rechristens him as Musashi Miyamoto, and sends him off on the journey that changes him into a LivingLegend and, eventually, the figure we know today.
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** Takuan Sōhō, In'ei Hōzōin, Sekishūsai Yagyū, Kanemaki Jisai, Ittōsai Itō, Sadakore, Kōetsu Hon'ami, Katsushige Itakura, Tadaoki Hosokawa, Ujiie Magoshiro.

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** Takuan Sōhō, Sōhō Takuan, In'ei Hōzōin, Sekishūsai Yagyū, Kanemaki Jisai, Jisai Kanemaki, Ittōsai Itō, Sadakore, Kōetsu Hon'ami, Katsushige Itakura, Tadaoki Hosokawa, Ujiie Magoshiro.Magoshirō Ujīe.



** Takuan Sōhō, Munisai Shinmen, Kenpō Yoshioka, In'ei Hōzōin, Sekishūsai Yagyū, Hidetsuna Ise no Kami Kami'izumi, Kanemaki Jisai, Ittōsai Itō, Sadakore, Kōetsu Hon'ami, Kakubē Iwama, Katsushige Itakura, the wood carver father, Iori's father, Tadaoki Hosokawa, Ujiie Magoshiro, Shūsaku.

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** Takuan Sōhō, Sōhō Takuan, Munisai Shinmen, Kenpō Kempō Yoshioka, In'ei Hōzōin, Sekishūsai Yagyū, Hidetsuna Ise no Kami Kami'izumi, Kanemaki Jisai, Jisai Kanemaki, Ittōsai Itō, Sadakore, Kōetsu Hon'ami, Kakubē Iwama, Katsushige Itakura, the wood carver father, Iori's father, Tadaoki Hosokawa, Ujiie Magoshiro, Magoshirō Ujīe, Shūsaku.



** Kenpō Yoshioka

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** Kenpō Kempō Yoshioka



** Ujiie Magoshiro

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** Ujiie MagoshiroMagoshirō Ujīe
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** Takuan Sōhō, Munisai Shinmen, Kenpō Yoshioka, In'ei Hōzōin, Sekishūsai Yagyū, Hidetsuna Ise no Kami Kami'izumi, Kanemaki Jisai, Ittōsai Itō, Sadakore, Kōetsu Hon'ami, Gakupe Iwama, Katsushige Itakura, the wood carver father, Iori's father, Tadaoki Hosokawa, Ujiie Magoshiro, Shūsaku.

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** Takuan Sōhō, Munisai Shinmen, Kenpō Yoshioka, In'ei Hōzōin, Sekishūsai Yagyū, Hidetsuna Ise no Kami Kami'izumi, Kanemaki Jisai, Ittōsai Itō, Sadakore, Kōetsu Hon'ami, Gakupe Kakubē Iwama, Katsushige Itakura, the wood carver father, Iori's father, Tadaoki Hosokawa, Ujiie Magoshiro, Shūsaku.

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