I Finally Caught Up To Vinland Saga...

It's been a year since I've been caught up to Vinland Saga, and so I thought it was time to re-read it and catch up. Let's talk about it.

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[masteryoda]

Vinland Saga is one of those manga that doesn’t glorify violence, but makes it more realistic and represents the struggle of Thorfinn as the lives he took begin to haunt him. And I love it for it

[Brght]

I've been caught up for like 8 chapters now I love this story. I love when Hild says that she forgives Thorfinn like such a good scene

[primordial_rot]

Vinland saga really is a perfectly written masterpiece and one of the few seinen series that has actually received a masterclass adaptation

[egg]

Vinland Saga to me always felt like the opposite, but also important, side to Berserk
In the way that Guts is a protagonist known for never sitting down, to keep going and cut through everything for his goal, to keep struggling
Thorfinn is similar through a struggle of, well, not fighting. Guts looks at danger straight ahead taking it head on. Thorfinn looks at danger trying to work around it or remove the conflict entirely.

There’s a line when Thorfinn visits his father’s grave “When I was a boy my father said something to me. ‘You have no enemies. There is no one you should hurt’. Now I realize what a noble teaching this is. I want to do right by those words. But, IT’S JUST SO EXHAUSTING.”

Thorfinn doesn’t always go through an external struggle every moment of his life but suffers keeping to the ideology to set for himself. That in the world you NEED to stand your ground in what you believe and know is right. Even if the world says otherwise and I love his conversation with Canute because of this clash of Ideology.
To not kill and use the first resort that always reduces and takes away conflict.

Where Guts is offense style of Thorfinn is defense

Guts is an unstoppable force, The Struggler, Thorfinn is the Immovable Object, A True Warrior, like his father
1 took out 100 men
1 took on 100 punches
2 sides of a similar coin

[genep]

Sigurd is a severely underrated character

[chabbenthegoat]

Bro when hild forgave thorfinn I teared up. So beautiful.

[realkingofantarctica]

I feel at this point in the manga that Vinland Saga is something very different to its common counterparts of Vagabond and Berserk. It has matured, not through (exclusively) craftsmanship, tone or mentality, but rather purpose. I think that while purpose is interpreted quite literally as one of the biggest themes in all three of these seinen giants and their corresponding authors, in Vinland Saga it has taken a new meaning.

Vinland has detached itself from being part of this "trinity" in my opinion. Vinland Saga is like someone who went to art school and devoted themself to becoming a master painter, but is now in their 30's and paints for fun, painting for the people around them, even though their art would single-handedly turn a gallery into a national landmark.

[jdubluffy]

The most important line for me is when thorfins father said we have no enemies which can seriously change how people interact with people on a day to day basis really profound

[sandyaxe]

Been caught up with the manga for a year now. And all I can say is... Welcome to the club brother

[wanderer]

Thorfinn's development in farmland arc is one of the greatest character developments in history of manga

[leonardodeassis]

The moment Hilde forgives Thorffin and his reaction was the first moment ever in all those years reading manga that made me cry, I read many sad moments through the years, but none ever felt this real and beautiful, Vinland Saga is none less than a masterpiece.

[Naxos]

The story is so well written that it blows my mind. Even though this manga is almost 20 years there have been almost no hiatus and the mangaka is actually finishing it and I respect him for that.

[Alex-bH]

Whenever people say it fell off, I laugh

[joaquinsantillan]

I think hild repeating herself a lot reflects thorfinn saying "i am only doing this in order to have a duel with you askeladd" "i am the one who will kill you askelad" and those things. She has her inner conflicts and they are showed so little comapared to thorfin because she is a side character

[ruddthreetrees]

I’m reading my first ever manga (monster) and it’s amazing

[Bojoschannel]

I've read many of the classics of world literature and other classics for many years now and i got to say, Vinland Saga's prologue and farm saga together form one of the best pieces of storytelling i have ever witnessed. I couldn't believe what i was reading half the time. It really has changed my life and that place is only for very few pieces of literature

[kvn]

The "I forgive you" segment of chapter 191 makes me cry

[onixtalks]

One of the latest chapters involving Hild (if you're caught up, you know the one) absolutely destroyed me in the best ways possible and reminded me of the strength of the emotional core that's found within VS. Truly a masterclass of character writing and the value of a powerful pay off.

[legosanero]

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE GANTZ VIDEO PLEASE I NEED IT, WE NEED

[retibra]

6:38 That entire scene of Thorfinn being told he has to carry everyone with him to get out of that pit, reminds me of a story I once read about of a man who was stuck in purgatory, when he would try to escape, piles of other dammed souls would hang onto him to try and leave as well, he would try to get them off him, which would only result in him falling down once more and failing to escape. Eventually, he decides to bear the burden and lets them hang on to him as he climbs out, which is when he finally succeeds.