Just read the Novel or watch the Trilogy with Mifune, boys.
Do you feel it too? Or have you lost all hope ..?
Just read the Novel or watch the Trilogy with Mifune, boys.
This thread title reads like an announcement. It's mean, is what I'm saying. =)
I can synthesize how it likely would have gone down based on where things were headed
In instances like these I try to take a broader perspective: If Inoue has truly lost his spirit for the series, then I wouldn't want the ending he'd create anyway. I'm reminded of an introduction to a Robert E. Howard story collection (gifted to me by @Griffith a long time ago), in which Howard said he wrote furiously because Conan "took complete possession of my mind and crowded out everything else in the way of storywriting." Conan "stalked full grown out of oblivion and set me at work recording the saga of his adventures." Clearly that's not the case when it comes to Inoue and Musashi.
The kind of spirit that makes great stories can’t be manufactured. And I wouldn’t wish anyone dispossessed of that storytelling spark to be forced to crap out an ending merely because fans want a bookend to their shelves. But if circumstances change, and Inoue somehow rediscovers that spirit, I'll still be here ready to read.
https://www.skullknight.net/forum/index.php?threads/inoue-takehiko-the-last-manga-exhibition.11141/post-179313 said:"I thought 'The LAST Manga Exhibition' could become an opportunity for me, to turn the "Musashi" I depicted and his lifetime of killing dozens of people into a positive, despite everything.
What I'm trying to say is--The people that read "Vagabond" all along. The people that accepted my many twists and turns during these 10 years, and kept following me.
I really, really wanted to make them feel good. "I'm glad I kept reading." --I absolutely wanted to make them feel that way.
Drawing "shadows" to draw "light."
Conflicts and killing people are "shadows."
I thought I had to draw that side, or I wouldn't be able to see the "light." I thought that was what I was proceeding towards.
However, even if it was something along the path to my destination, the pictures that depict killing people, although pictures, also had the power to unconciously hurt people's
hearts. Unseen thorns were left remaining in the reader and the artist. When I discovered a part of myself that felt, I don't want to show these to people that still have God-like, bare open souls, like young children, I felt this was a certainty.
I'm glad I was able to draw this story at this time. No, it had to be this time, and it had to be a "Manga drawn in space, experienced with one's entire body," or it really wouldn't have been possible to get across.
I now truly feel that I finally had an opportunity to depict "light" itself. When I think so, it all wasn't a mistake. It turned into the exact form I was proceeding to.
Even when I depict sorrow, it is no longer sorrow without a destination.
July 2008
Inoue Takehiko"