You Don't Understand Vinland Saga.

watching thorfin"s struggle with his humanity is to me better than the 1st season.

Im enjoying it so far. Not everything needs to be action packed slash and dash. Younger me would be annoyed but after rewatching berserk and reading the manga in my older years ive learned to appreciate story telling more than action

I personally love the thought of treating the first arc as a prologue to the rest of the story, because it often helps people realize that Vinland Saga isn't a story about fighting and revenge, but rather overcoming those conflicts, so really, the Prologue Arc is an outlier from the rest of the story that serves as VS's own sort of Golden Age Arc, giving context to the Thorfinn we see in Farmland and beyond.

I like how Einar refers to him as a "big baby" or something like that. Thorfinn has never truly lived.

The most recent episode was just a pure work of art

Love the progression. Love the metaphor of growing crops and how it correlates to growing as a person and a celebration of life instead of death and destruction. Even for those who obsess over the action there is still a fair degree of conflict within the farm and all the stuff regarding Cnut. I feel there's a perfect balance. Gonna go back through all of vinland in the manga after I watch this weekly. Gonna finally sit down and read the whole thing Prologue, Farmland, Baltic Sea, Vinland. I got 12 volumes and im aching to get the 13th. Side Note: its also sick that since I'm British and in final year of high school taking history learning about the Norman conquest and yes....Cnut comes up.

as an anime watcher of vinland saga i actually like season 2 more than season 1 seeing how thorfinn changes as a person and realises what a true warrior is and the hellish nightmare he couldnt even sleep peacefully and it really changed a smiling boy to a dead serious depressed adult but he gets happy as he works with his friendand this character development was amazing

Vagabond and Vinland Saga have farming arcs and I love both. They were important for the plot and character growth and I also enjoyed the pacing. I guess that's what you get when you have good writers

Been liking season 2 more than season 1 tbh, I think the most special thing about Vinland saga is it's portrayal of violence and it's reflection on it. No one is your enemy.

Vinland Saga has the best character development I have ever seen in anime. People don’t realize the drastic changes and the effects created when faced with a traumatic event. Then after being detached from so long, you have no choice but to snap back in reality and feel misplaced, like how did I even get here? The anime is so realistic and deep, watching a heartbroken boy trying to find himself again as an enslaved man. Even Canute had one hell of a character development himself. Truly one of a kind in this generation ♥️

One of the best part of this story is that npc jormsvikking death where he thought he is going Valhalla but soon realize there is no Valhalla. That hit me hard.

When I had first watched season 1, I was 17 and In active use within my addiction that had caused me to make many mistakes and immoral decisions. I didn’t realize at the at time how much I related with thorfinn because I wasn’t able to see my own problem for what it was either. I’m now 22 watching season 2 in my sober house and i resonate with this season very much being that I am also a shell of a person trying to learn to live more normally in society while battling my past. Although I think anyone can relate with thorfinn in the sense that we all tend to make more mistakes when we are younger and come to eventually regret those things when we are older and have to find acceptance for them. Assuming thorfinn was a teenager in the first season right and now he’s in his mid twenty’s ?. Life is hard and there is suffering but you find ways to keep living and to move on.

I started listening to a new band the other day, and one of their songs just really resonated with how I feel about how Thorfinn's characters is going. I am loving seeing the change in Thorfinn, showing dealing with things like PTSD and learning to resolve living with yourself and your actions. If you are interested Through Stars by Unleash the Archers feels like Thorfinn's theme song to me right now.

I love season 2 because it's really a different experience then what im use to. Most anime feel repetitive but this actually feels different

The thing that makes Vinland Saga special has never been the action sequences. What elevated season 1 from being just another battle anime was all the messages sprinkled in throughout the series, both subtle and not subtle. Thinks like the concept of a true warrior and Thors' message to Thorfinn, the sadness of seeing Thorfinn turn into this hateful being who is complicit in atrocities, Cnut's dialogue with the drunk monk about the meaning of love, Askeladd's role in Thorfinn's life and his dying message to Thorfinn, and so on. All of season 1 was supposed to show you the darkness of the world they live in and the pain caused by warfare, while season 2 is about overcoming that darkness and living a good, meaningful life.

I think Vinland saga started out pretty generic shonen origin, but it grows later in 1st season and grows even more in season 2... As the show grew i think the viewer should grow too.. very nice take on Vinland saga

I was one of the more action lover when I watched the first season, I was like "Hey this is cool, I wonder what more this gives" so I started reading the manga after season 1. I tried it, but it was not to my taste (this was just after season 1, and I could say that this was when I was not critical to stories), so I dropped it, I managed to get to "I have no enemies" and I was like, "good for you" then dropped it. But now, after 4 years, with a lot of good animes, and bad ones, when 291 animes watched and like 450 series reading on the record, I wished to experience the so-called "peak". I did not have all of these feelings when I read Vinland Saga, but what I had was just pure admiration and happiness of Thorfinn, that just made me realise, what kind of story it is. A self reflecting story with a dark and regretful history, this story told me. That a man can still shine so bright after one's dark past, redeem one's wrongdoings through tribulations after tribulations, make mistakes along the way, correct them if it's necessary, for he is simply a man. Nothing more nothing less, for you are just human. And Thorfinn is one of the best written characters in literature.

Here's a visual detail that may or may not mean anything. In the Prologue, Thorfinn's hair always covers his ears. This is when he is completely single-minded and closed off from anybody else i.e. not listening. Some examples. He lets the English family who took him in get pillaged. He doesn't give two spits about what Leif has to say when they finally reunite. And more horrifyingly, he does nothing and moves on when he sees a woman being r*ped. He sees avenging his own suffering as more important than anyone else's. But in Farmland, even when Thorfinn's hair is down, we almost always see his ears. Here, he's more open and listening to those around him. He listens to Einar, finally feels guilt for all the people he killed, finally understands and learns from what Thors and Askeladd taught him, and is open to what he himself needs. Yes, listening may break him. As shown when he gets part of his ear cut off. But it's the beginning of Thorfinn's growth and redemption. You also have the scene with the necklace made of Englishmen's ears. Wonder if that has anything to do with 'warriors' like Thorfinn closing themselves off from (not listening to) those they kill?

Farmland saga is really painfull for me because the episodes always end on a Cliffhanger and i have to wait 1 week

The Farm arc reminded me a lot of what happens in Vagabond too, but I much prefer what Yukimura did here, I was really surprised at how well Vinland Saga went from just warfare to this. Hope you'll do a video on the most recent chapters too!