Evil Genius

Posted: **Sun May 01, 2005 6:23 pm**

Finito wrote:...Well maybe you should reread the volumes or think more before asking, becuz its pretty obvious that when your deaf, you cant learn to talk, so your mostly obligated to be mute too.

What I meant by mute is someone who can hear, but cannot speak. And when you say that someone who is deaf cannot learn to speak, you're wrong there. There's a deaf actress named Marlee Matlin http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559144/ who is deaf but is able to speak.

Posted: **Mon May 02, 2005 3:11 am**

Days Of The Phoenix wrote:In the Viz Graphic Novels, his patented move is translated as the swallow cut. I don't know if anyone else remembers Ukyo from Samurai Showdown, but one of his moves was called the swallow swoop cut. Is Kojiro deaf or is he just mute?

Yeah, it probably is Swallow Cut. I couldn't remember exactly. Anyway, in Vagabond, Kojiro is deaf. He'll probably end up talking later. If not, that'll suck, because I love some of his lines. I'm not sure why they went that route though, because the real Sasaki Kojiro wasn't deaf *shrugs*.

Posted: **Mon May 02, 2005 3:21 am**

In the graphic novels it says Inoue's Vagabond is based on Eiji Yoshikawa's MUSASHI, a fictional account of the life of Miyamoto Musashi. I'm guessing the writer used some artistic license when he decided to change Kojiro's character.

I found a BT link for volumes 11-17, if there are people who don't know how to use IRC.

http://mangatracker.kicks-ass.net:6969/ ... h=vagabond

Posted: **Mon May 02, 2005 3:49 am**

Now if you can just find a way to hook us up with 17 - 20, I'd be really happy. Bittorrent or IRC is fine.

Posted: **Mon May 02, 2005 3:37 pm**

i just read musahi biography !!
it reminds me that globally bruce lee and him are not so different ..
For ex: musashi did not belong to a samurai school. He built his own style.

he was good at penmanship:

http://www.escale-japon.com/articles/mu ... euvres.php

it is said that he never took a bath in his entire life.. except under waterfall while he was training

thx phoenix for the link.. don't have vol7 to 10 ?

Posted: **Mon May 02, 2005 6:48 pm**

All I found was the links for volumes 11-17. If I ever find the first 10 volumes I'll post a link to them.

Posted: **Mon May 02, 2005 10:38 pm**

ok thx

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2005 5:34 am**

For the early volumes try the ckmoney irc bots (#ckmoney on irc.irchighway.net), look for the packlists at http://ckmoney.net/, it's just the packlists right now.

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2005 12:08 pm**

Yes, I just got volume 18 from Vicarious Lurker. I can't wait to read it. I'll be back later with some of my thoughts.

Posted: **Wed May 04, 2005 9:55 am**

M-S released vol19.

Posted: **Wed May 04, 2005 1:24 pm**

I seem to recall him taking a bath a couple of times in Vagabond,but then again,its fictional story so..

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2005 4:21 am**

Well, I've read both 18 and 19 now. They were great too, of course. Kojiro is really impressive. I sure hope he learns to talk, but from the way things are going, I bet he will. It was interesting to see him at The Battle of Sekigahara, and then shit just got crazy after that, heh.

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2005 9:20 pm**

Brainpiercing wrote:For the early volumes try the ckmoney irc bots (#ckmoney on irc.irchighway.net), look for the packlists at http://ckmoney.net/, it's just the packlists right now.

THX ...... but i've never succeded DL manga by Irc...

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 8:12 am**

So with despair gone where do I get 18 and 19? ckmoney never got anything above vol. 10.

Manga-sketchbook shows it on their page (but no releases), but I can't use irc right now to see whether someone is serving it on their channel.

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 8:51 am**

Brainpiercing wrote:So with despair gone where do I get 18 and 19? ckmoney never got anything above vol. 10.

Actually, Neverwhere and Despair bots has left EG and gone to a new channel, somehow appropriately named #lurk. You can request manga and stuff as well, and it seems VicariousLurker really likes people raping his bots.

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 10:17 am**

Ah, so that's the deal. well that's great then.

Posted: **Wed May 11, 2005 8:52 am**

Eldo wrote:...and it seems VicariousLurker really likes people raping his bots.

That's good, because I'm all about it.

Posted: **Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:09 am**

I have a quick question....cant seem to find an answer......Vagabond in the U.S. is published up to book 20.......is it on going or is book 20 the end? I need an answer becuz i just oreder 6-20.....so im curious.....thanx guys!!!!

Posted: **Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:18 am**

man this manga is bawls... too much talk.. the author needs to condense thoughts down into like 2 pages max...

total bawls

Posted: **Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:25 am**

And you're an idiot. Go watch dragon ball.

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:59 am**

Dominion wrote:man this manga is bawls... too much talk.. the author needs to condense thoughts down into like 2 pages max...

total bawls

i cant believe you feel that way. each to their own i guess.

the art and dialogue is what puts it apart from the subpar mangas out there.

go read dragonballz and change guy it should do you justice.

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:00 pm**

Dominion wrote:man this manga is bawls... too much talk.. the author needs to condense thoughts down into like 2 pages max...

total bawls

Feh, a post like that doesn't even honor Orson...lame.

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:22 pm**

I bought vol 15,16 yesterday and its cool that we see so much of Sasaki's life. I only wonder something, can he read people lips? I dont know if every deaf person can.

But i'm starting to miss Musashi,hope the story goes back to in a couple of vols.

Posted: **Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:49 pm**

Vagabond is tiiiiite. I just started reading it, now on vol 12.

Posted: **Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:18 pm**

Nice what do you think about what happened so far?

I want more fights like the one against the prodigy monk forgot his name not cause he was bad cause i'm not good with names.