I Finally Caught Up To Vinland Saga...
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- 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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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
Yes, men are abble to cleave a mast and 2 soldiers wearing chainmail with one swing of their axe like Thorkell did :D realism!
@@K4inan Realism in story building and theory of lead characters motivations , messages and senses . Realism in terms of action scenes especially in fiction, animation series is never problematic until the story stays powerful enough to push the audience to witness more of the story. I think Vinland saga does this type of things in a beautiful way
@@goodgrief9307 I agree, was just having s laugh
My favorite part is
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When that one viking dies in a raid and we get his perspective as he dies. At first he's happy thinking he'll go to Valhalla but as his vision and senses fade He begins to panic and wants to tell his friends it's not worth it, fighting and death isn't worth it. But then his thoughts fade into nothing
"Thorthin" lmao
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
I cried and cried and cried in that part. Indescribable
Hild is the best character in my opinion, she is amazing.
Thorfinn would be doing Askeladd a favor his hairline is nonexistent he aint getting no bitches.
Best scene in the entire series
Same😭🥲
Vinland saga really is a perfectly written masterpiece and one of the few seinen series that has actually received a masterclass adaptation
I mean I wouldn't say perfectly but it's still my top 1 regardless of if it's objectively worse than others. Just wish we got to see Thorfinn's and Gudrid's relationship develop more instead of just a time skip.
@@overheaven8684 yeah definitely
I agree, a 100/10
FAAAAAAACTSS🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
@@overheaven8684 what would u say is like objectively better than it bc if sum is outranking Vinland I’m tryna read it
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
Man, This is very well said 💯
I agree. And to me Thorfinn battle is more harder than Guts. Because the fight to save a life is harder than the fight to kill. I really love Thorfinn character development. From a killer to a savior. So I don't understand why people hate Thorfinn development.
Chapter 193 was a masterpiece
Sigurd is a severely underrated character
I loved his growth
For real
I love Siggy
I love how even though his pride is hurt he understands you can't just make someone love you and you have to move on. I'm happy he now follows his heart with his friends and wife.
Bro when hild forgave thorfinn I teared up. So beautiful.
fucked me up for real. was one of the most beautiful moments in fiction I've experienced for a while.
same 😢
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.
could you explain this purpose more?
Ur just trying to justify how it fell off
@@CornG4397 vinland saga never fell off dude.
@@lamenudenciaesreal You just coping never see a single person talking about the last 2 arcs cause they shit
@@CornG4397 🤓
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
For me it's when the priest tells Canute that love doesn't exist, only discrimination. Don't know why but this whole segment with Canute's dream really got to me
“I will run away” and “you have no enemies” are statements I live by.
wow its like jesus been said this :0
Been caught up with the manga for a year now. And all I can say is... Welcome to the club brother
Thorfinn's development in farmland arc is one of the greatest character developments in history of manga
In history of fiction
Next to guts from berserk 🔥
I gotta agree but Musashis development from being takezo and attoning for his actions and becoming Miyamoto Musashi is right behind it, it's cool because Throfinns character takes inspiration from Musashi
@@julianlowry2610 what about Himura Kenshin?
@@carlosdanielcalderonmontoy3723 Kenshin has one of the best redemption arcs in all of fiction. His conclusion as to how he would finally atone made me cry abit. I'm always divided b/w who i like more, Kenshin or Thorfinn lol.
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.
About time 😉
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.
Whenever people say it fell off, I laugh
Fell off? WTF?!!🤣🤣
Its the rice paddy arc haters all over again smh
It did though, after ch 99
@@rudra1286 ok
@@rudra1286 clown
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
I’m reading my first ever manga (monster) and it’s amazing
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
The "I forgive you" segment of chapter 191 makes me cry
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.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE GANTZ VIDEO PLEASE I NEED IT , WE NEED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We need to talk more about gantz, it seriously is wild
Terraformers
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.
My favorite seinen of all time. The anime really did the first arc justice, and I really hope the same can be said for the second.
Thorfinn is obviously an amazing character, but it amazes me how Yukimura managed to make such a complicated and charesmatic character in Askeladd in the short time he had on the pages. Both him and Thorfinn are in my top 5 manga characters.
I don’t think any word better describes this manga than the word “saga”. Thorfinn’s story is fully encapsulated by that word. Incredible manga, one of the best I’ve ever read!
wdym he comes from season 1 as a beast to seasons where he never kills he just knocks people out that’s so ass
went from badass to a bitch
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Thorfinn: I just wanna live in peace with myself and my loved ones
Thorkell: hehehe, akimbo-axes go brrrrrrrrrrrrr
Thorfinn & Hild parallels are my favourite parts of the manga.
The future seeing chapter was wild can't wait to see it animated
Day #305 asking the masked man to watch/read black lagoon
Pacifist = pass +👊fist.
NICE:) 1:54
Everyone needs to like this video ASAP so his brother gets exposed to this masterpiece
Watched the anime in 2019 and read the manga after. Been in my top 10 since.
Gudrid best girl. She does so well to Thorfinn. Their relationship is not forced at all. I just wish we got to see it a bit more lol
I read Vinland saga as my third manga ever and even today free reading many many more it still stands out as one of the greatest in development and storytelling, one of my favorite manga of all time.
i need to catch up to Vinland saga aswell, all i know recently is that Thorfinn was tryna communicate to those people and he was forgiven, and it was amazing to read
I like Vinland saga however I feel like it just became a bitch show, Thorfinn getting smack around like a a baby when in all really he’s strong ass hell. I feel like if the fighting kept on it would’ve been better I need somebody to change my mind so I can keep watching the manga
I just finished it about a month ago and it really pushed me to think about how I was dealing with my anger and hatred through vengeful thoughts and chasing things that would aid in that drive, when Thorfinn began talking about the “first option” it felt like a wake-up call. It hasn’t completely changed how I do things all that much, but I do stop and think before I get absorbed in my anger and might lash out and think about that first option.
Vinland Saga is a very interesting dissection of violence and it's relation to toxic masculinity.
The way Vinland saga explores the cycle of human violence and how it ultimately just destroys everything around you is rivaled only by the likes of Berserk
Both the characters and the story itself shift their themes from revenge and the brutality of war to that of pacifism and personal developement
Its honestly an absolute treat with the artwork tying it all together
Hild (Hildr) is the name of a valkyrie and means battle in old Norse. Hild is used in many poetic phrases for battle. Old Norse poetry use many poetic phrases to allude to concepts because it makes it easier to write alliterative verse, the poet can pick any number of different phrases to fit with the alliteration instead of being tied down to just a few words. And the archaic set phrases become a poetry in themselves.
The main tale about Hildr is a darker version of the rape of the Sabine women where the host of the father and the host of the husband / bride stealer fight and kill each other and are then resurrected in the evening by Hild and then fight and kill each other the next day, every day, forever, until Ragnarök. Hence, Hildr came to embody eternal battle or battle itself.
The husband / bride stealer of Hild is Heðin, hence, a kenning for Hild is often used to allude to Hild is often "the woman of Hethin" or "hethins maiden" or some such.
Here are some kennings using Hild or allusions to Hild to say "battle" in a poetic way:
"leikr Hildar"
= Hild's Game = battle
"Heðins snotar mot"
= to meet Hethin's woman = battle
"harðan leikr Hildar"
= hard game of Hild = battle
So Hild as the name of a revenge cycle is not a bad choice.
Fun fact if people didn't know. Vinland is a Danish word, meaning wine country. It's the name the Danish Vikings gave America when they first discovered it.
I'm actually Danish and didn't even realise the name was Danish until a friend told me😅
Vinland Saga is incredible. Simply incredible. It proves that Change is possible in anyone's life, that you can be better than your past self if you really try hard enough, this is one of those very few stories that are close to my heart
Despite the fact that Attack on titan is gonna probably have my favorite episode of 2023. Vinland Saga is gonna be my AOTY next year and I’m anticipating it the most
Vinland Saga is sick, if your younger brother doesn't wanna read it that's absolutely his loss.
This series peaked for me with the battle at Jomsborg. Was not expecting it to be that great
Gudrid is ruining this entire series for me....
I'm genuinely curious why u think that
I'm not completely caught up but I don't have much to catch up on but this journey of Thorfinns and everyone else along the way is so damn great it's criminal
The lowpoint for me is definitely the third arc. Baltic sea has so much going for it, Sigurd for example was such a standout, yet handled poorly and sorf of comedically. Other than that, this forth arc in Vinland, this is definitely one of my highest points for the story.
Vinland saga has moments that can truly stick with you. Arnheid's death messed with me for a while.
The mood of the story shifts as the story goes on. I believe it's meant to reflect Thorfinn's change. Like, comedy is there in the prologue, but it is uses more liberally as the story continues. That's good storytelling, in my opinion.
Masked Man became a slave for UA-cam and now understands Thorfinn after buying his freedom (he’s relatively happy now).
I don't think the elder actually saw norseman. He saw the English, French, Spanish and he couldn't tell them apart from the norse since he'd never seen white people before recently
What I want to know is: How Thorfinn got Gudrid pregnant when he's packed on a boat with his best friend and his adopted child?
Unless there are multiple floors in those boats, somebody was too close to the action.
Mask, what’s your guilty pleasure manga that manga that you know is shitty but maybe it’s your first or has something in it meaningful to you. For me, it’s Cage of Eden long running, no anime, and a shitty rushed ending but you’ve gotta love a survival story.
this story is so great and relateable on so many human levels.. I cried when Hild forgave Thorfinn, one can just imagine how much that meant for both of them..
I caught up right when I started the school year, and since I am a senior now I noticed how before I would have not been able to enjoy this series as much if I read it a year ago. This is because I thought (at least before reading peakland saga) that I was a fan of action manga only, but this manga proved me wrong really fast. It's my favorite manga ever because it hits so close to home and the characters are all endearing in their own right, even the "villains", who I would argue aren't really villains because I can see why the characters act the way they do and it just feels very realistic. This series really just hit my emotions and has a special place in my heart.
Masked man thanks for upload you made my day and I think you make amazing videos on manga. Thanks to you I started reading Berserk keep up the great work love from czech republic
you should watch better call saul
Get it to 10K!!!! I want this brother to see what a thematic masterpiece Vinland is 👏🏼
Haven't read the manga yet, but the final scene from season 1 is one of the most beautiful scenes I have ever seen in an anime.
I'm too scared to watch this for spoiler reasons, as I'm reading this manga myself at the moment. I'm reading through the infamous Farm Arc.
I'm absolutely loving every second of it and it's been incredibly addicting to read. It's been written and paced so well, that it's very easy to read. It's smooth to read through.
Vinland Saga's anime is the first anime that made me want to get the manga to continue the story, now that says hell of a lot about a story. I'm nowhere finished with it (I'm on book 7), but it's already special to me in that regard.
Berserk is my first ever manga that I started to read and Vinland Saga is my second. I'm reading both of them alongside each other to an extent and it's amazing to go through two absolute peak stories at the same time.
Masked-Man, I'll be watching this when I've finished the story myself. Very much looking forward to it.
tell your brother to get at it!!
Farmland arc was just the best where we see thorfinn's peak character development
So goood!
I’m so scared reading new chapters of Vineland saga. I only want good things to happen to Thorfin. He’s been through so much. So I don’t want to see bad things happen to him anymore.
His brother now has to read Vinland saga.
I really like that this hits on that idea of being empty allowing for rebirth. Because how I've heard it is "when you have nothing you can be anything". It's the idea of once you have nothing to lose you have nothing holding you back. It is both a comfort to those going through stuff and also a reevaluation for those that find materialism losing it's luster. In the case of the latter you find that your possessions aren't what defines you as a person, you learn that you don't even need a roof over your head. The only thing we truly require is food, once that baseline is achieved we can put all our energy into achieving our goals, whatever those may be.
The way I break it down is saying "say your goal currently is to relax on a beach, you can achieve that" and people like to respond you need a car, gas, etc. I then slap my legs and go "nope, you've always had transportation sorted, your legs are all you need".
such an excellent series ,it's been almost a year and a half since I caught up and I love each and every chapter.I feel like this big part of the arc worked in the same way as the elf island part in fantasia arc ,they were the calm before the final storm
Yes Vinland saga is peak.
Yes if you're young, then you're not gonna be able to understand the deeper meaning behind every character. Although you have an amazing plot and development you can enjoy and grow from. Im 16 and I caught up to the Vinland saga manga when I was 15 and it became my favorite. I believe I'm gonna continue to love this manga more and more as I grow older and as I become more wiser. (yes, I admit that I'm not socrates level wise (yet :) ), just because i read seinen manga, also I don't believe age in number always signify intellect). Vinland saga manages to have a very diverse cast while still having parallel characters. And the fact that every important character including villains have their own personal achievement, just shows how important the characters are and how well it can positively affect a good story. The manga is ending soon i believe, and I wish the best for it. The manga still has a few very important conclusions to make and I believe once they have been made, it's in the GOAT-debate.
'I will avenge you, Father. I will save you, Mother. I will kill you, Fjölnir.'
-Thorfinn Vinland Saga the movie. lol XD.
Gotta read this book.
Vinland Saga changed my life and the way I think. Farmland arc is my favorite arc. I know how Thorfinn feels, I felt the same way. He truly is a role-model.
Damn i caught up to Vinland saga like two days ago aswell, lets goo😂
Anime ended in 54 i see
I don't think any Manga(not anime) has ever brought me to tears the way Vinland Saga did. I just think it sucks that most people will probably not enjoy season 2 with its lack of violence in comparison to pre time skip. I love this series and wish that it got more attention because I think it deserves it; however I can see why it doesnt🥲
Try dandadan if you want to cry
Experience offers perspective, intelligence grants many perspectives.
8:54 I fell like the Baltic war arc was brought down somewhat by a lot of the comedy, like that anime shit where characters are just screaming or being dumb isn’t funny to me so Sigurd and his friends were just annoying
Yes it is monthly. I am very much enjoying this arc even though it is slow arc, i love these small moments of chacter interaction.
Still haven't read past the first volume (like 5+ years ago) so I'll have to come back to this video another time but I've always wanted to read it. As much as it's been thrown next to Berserk, I've always gotten the sense that it's far more grounded, with maybe less extreme lows and less fantastical highs. Curious to see if that holds up.
It do be very good
This is now in my top 7 manga of all time. Thank you so much for giving me the push I needed to read manga in general, let alone one of my top 10
So Mask finally decided to catch up on peak?? Rare mask W
I think hild i aa really good foil, and support. Like it makes sense with er traumatized and it would be naturally to not forgive him, even as she obviously supports the thorfin she obviouly likes and trusts, he just also, pretty sure her way to bak him up on staying on his path and not slipping up.
Yeah its one phrase, but it changes meaning throughout the story in that she wants him to suceed, and back him up an has his back.
during the farm arcs for vagabond and vinland saga, I always remember the quote "it's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war"
Is this show action or more of a journey? Like does he restrain himself from fighting a lot?
Gotta get your brother to read
"Partner"? "Friend"?? That's his Brother 😡
askeladd's death is still my favorite scene in this manga.
I've only read the Prologue as of now but Im hyped to get to the rest of the manga sometime soon especially Farmland. But Masked when's the Fata video coming??? Been waiting on that one for a while now.
Why is thorkell called "best girl" when he's a man ?
New anime watchers aren't ready for Arnheid 😭
I really hope that despite how slow the recent chapters are, that Yukimura is setting up for a big finish for the ending of Vinland Saga.
"Their fathers liked to Pass fist" 😂 that's hilarious
I just rewatched the first season to be ready for the second season and then I remember the manga from about a year ago. As I saw the paths of each of the characters, and how much it paralleled with Berserk in different ways.
i stopped reading for a hot min to let the series build up and it was almost painful to hear how great its gotten and not be in the know but i always was like nah nah nah just a lil longer and im back on the sattle. but now i think its the perfect time to catch up. i love me some vinland saga.
Your brother has to rear Vinland Saga now
I already said it in your community post, but I've been caught up with the Manga for about a year now and I've loved it (watched the anime first). I've been thinking of rereading the series for a while and will definitely once I find the time. Thank you for getting to this series.
What a beautiful way to summarize this video and the message this story wants to deliver. It really was spot on and hit real deep. Keep up the amazing work, brother❤
14:51 yes yes yes yes, this is one of the top moments in the series, like what other manga does that
i got caught up to vinland saga when the most recent chapter came out, and hearing you talk about vinland saga makes me reminded why i love it so much
Watch cyberpunk edgerunners
Right after I said a few days ago we need more Vinland saga fans. Love to see it.
What makes Vinland Saga special is that Thorfinn's journey is not a character development but rather character building.
I don't like when fully grown person with already established beliefs makes a full 180 turn just from one traumatic experience. And they will start to call it "amazing character development".
Torfinn's change is not character development because he doesn't have character, all he has is just one big desire to kill Askeladd. He doesn't have character because he didn't get to, he didn't have a chance to built his own personality. Because since age of 6 he was full of hatred which clouded his eyes.
When Askeladd died and Thorfinn's desire to get revenge is gone, he's now empty. All he ever had was hatred, and now he has nothing. And Thorfinn is now left with life he doesn't know how to live - much like every person ever at some point of its life.
But going through uncertainty, to not have answers to your existential questions - it's essentially what life is
I am still waiting on your Billy Bat review.