| i was wondering why did the author of vagabond make kojiro a deaf character when he wasn't deaf in real life? any hypothesis on that? i mean, he could've just made him talk and hear, like he originally did but he chose to make him deaf.. hmm |
| Make the character more interesting? It's unique, at the very least. |
| Definitely. It also closes him off from the rest of the world and adds to his absolute talent in swordsmanship; his mind is entirely dedicated to it and is free from other distractions. I personally think making him deaf resulted into a great archrival. too bad we're never going to get a continuation of Vagabond |
| i thought maybe the purpose was to reduce talking and focus more on the blade. historically musashi and kojiro were archrivals so their relationship is destined to be special in the manga. so i thought maybe the author wanted to highlight their relationship to the blade and spare dialogues. would've loved to see their final epic battle, hopefully the manga is going to be published again |
okwhynot said: Yeah that's one way to interpret it. i thought maybe the purpose was to reduce talking and focus more on the blade. historically musashi and kojiro were archrivals so their relationship is destined to be special in the manga. so i thought maybe the author wanted to highlight their relationship to the blade and spare dialogues. would've loved to see their final epic battle, hopefully the manga is going to be published again i dont know man. MAL regards it as finished which I find extremely weird since the author did not say a word about it ending. He only notified for a break as far as I can remember. it's been like three or four years already since the last chapter. |
| The thing is. Kojiro is not really someone who existed in real life. There's 0 physical, historical or any kind of evidence he's ever existed besides Miyamoto Musashi stating that he did, so the popular hypothesis is that Kojiro is someone that Musashi made up back then to spread his name. And Vagabond has made plenty of changes to the autobiographical novel of Musashi that it's based on. |
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| wow that surprised me, i thought i already did some good research on that topic and was sure kojiro really existed. thanks for clearing that up a little! that would've also been a pretty cool plottwist in the manga, to find out that kojiro didn't exist in the first place. but the actual plot doesn't fit this hypothesis. |
EddyJpeg said: sorry for the reply to such an old post as a post that often comes up in a google search I felt the need to correct something the book Musashi is not an autobiography but a piece of fiction by Eiji Yoshikawa what book he might have been mistaking with is Musashi's actual book The Book of Five Rings which does not have any reference to Kojiro Now as to whether Kojiro was a real person am not sure there various different sources online that claim he did with different levels of validity but personally for me it's very hard to get any concrete evidence having no understanding of the Japanese language thanks for the info! no need to apologize, information is timeless you mean this question i posted comes up in google searches??haha |
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