Vinland Saga Season 2

After his father's death and the destruction of his village at the hands of English raiders, Einar wishes for a peaceful life with his family on their newly rebuilt farms. However, fate has other plans: his village is invaded once again. Einar watches helplessly as the marauding Danes burn his lands and slaughter his family. The invaders capture Einar and take him back to Denmark as a slave.

Einar clings to his mother's final words to survive. He is purchased by Ketil, a kind slave owner and landlord who promises that Einar can regain his freedom in return for working in the fields. Soon, Einar encounters his new partner in farm cultivation—Thorfinn, a dejected and melancholic slave. As Einar and Thorfinn work together toward their freedom, they are haunted by both sins of the past and the ploys of the present. Yet they carry on, grasping for a glimmer of hope, redemption, and peace in a world that is nothing but unjust and unforgiving.

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Thorfinn Main

Uemura, Yuuto Japanese

Einar Main

Takeuchi, Shunsuke Japanese

Askeladd Supporting

Uchida, Naoya Japanese

Thorkell Supporting

Ootsuka, Akio Japanese

Canute Supporting

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Thors Supporting

Matsuda, Kenichirou Japanese

Snake Supporting

Komatsu, Fuminori Japanese

Ylva Supporting

Nabatame, Hitomi Japanese

Arnheid Supporting

Saco, Mayumi Japanese

Erikson, Leif Supporting

Ueda, Youji Japanese

Fujiyama, Naokado Producer

Matsumoto, Hitoshi Producer

Hasegawa, Hiroya Producer

Yonezawa, Akira Producer

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May 30, 2024

Dompa112

Recommended

My experience with this second season was a weird one. Im still not sure what to think or explain it. Halfway through i was honestly a bit bored. I mean i read reactions before hand and was aware of it taking a step away from first season. But yeah its slow in comparison. Not much happening. But i was quite satisfied with the second half, or atleast tge later episodes. It was a good conclusion and somehow made me appreciate the earlier episodes in a new way. Yeah its a bit strange. It builds up so slowly to that ending that when it comes it ... just gives it more meaning.

Second OP is great and helps. Really needs to be Survive said the Prophet.

But overall i ended up enjoying it somehow after that start. More than i though halfway. Still though nothing beats season 1. And since thats a 9 for me thid will settle with 8/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 2, 2024

laineon

Mixed Feelings

Not a bad series, but doesn't hold a candle to the 1st one. It's mostly a mix of calm and dramatic scenes without epic fights or battles. Unfortunately, there was a lot of internal dialogue which kept going over the same things all the time. For Thorfinn it was about how killing is bad, while for Canute it was about how he's becoming more like his father. These daydreamings and nightmares took away the time from more interesting things.

The other thing I didn't like is the middle arc. It's dramatic, but the story unfolds in such a way that makes your unable to sympathize with ... a certain character. So, instead of "Man, I feel bad for [the character]", it's "Man, [the character] got what they deserved. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes". And only after most of the arc's events have happened, they show why [the character] did the things that way. And since you don't really care about [the character] most of the time, you become a bit annoyed at how all the things revolve around them.

Overall, much worse than the first season, but okay by itself. It has both great and bad moments. OPs and EDs are good too.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Nov 24, 2023

tragedyhero

Not Recommended

Funny

The audience’s reception of Vinland Saga S2 has been pretty bipolar. On one hand, we have the fans saying Thorfinn has had fantastic character development and is now a very wise and mature figure, while on the other hand, critics say this season was slow and boring like a farming simulator. However, very few people seem to share my main issue with the show.

Thorfinn is a hardcore pacifist, which is alright, but the show tries to present him and his philosophy as *THE* right way to live your life, and that anyone who uses violence has yet to come to the “enlightenment” that Thorfinn has ... arrived at. I think a great example to illustrate this would be Thorfinn’s iconic “I’ll run away” line, which is basically his response to Canute’s violent expansionism. I’ll reiterate that there is nothing wrong with Thorfinn’s ideology, but at the same time, there’s also nothing wrong with standing your ground and fighting back. Vinland Saga fails to realize this. Ketil is portrayed as this insane, bloodthirsty man who beats up pregnant women simply because he chose to fight for what is rightfully his. Yes, Ketil’s paltry farm guards had no chance against Canute’s Vikings, but what matters here is the intention, and Ketil has every right in the world to try to defend his homeland, even in a losing cause. Meanwhile, Thorfinn pulls up at Canute’s camp to show off his masochism in the most obnoxious way imaginable. The 100 punches deal was dumb for a variety of reasons. First, there is no way an ordinary person can bear a 100 punches. Thorfinn was only able to do it because he used to be a Viking, aka the antithesis of his present ideology. Second, 100 punches was just an arbitrary deal made without the knowledge of Thorfinn’s past. What if the deal was a 100 punches by a 100 different people? Even Thorfinn wouldn’t be able to bear that. The point I’m trying to make is, there’s absolutely no need to subject yourself to such suffering simply because someone tells you to. If you want to do something and someone is trying to stop you, you either defeat the guy by force or give up on your objective. The whole idea that you’ll prove his violence wrong with your silent suffering is so embarrassingly childish.

But for whatever reason, Canute, who went from being a devout Christian to an unholy, immoral aggressor in the span of 10 minutes in S1, again did a 180 and decided to shrink his fleet in England after Thorfinn told him to do so. And guess what happened next. The people whom Canute had so brutally oppressed suddenly realized his goodwill and were all too happy to let themselves be ruled over. The amount of plot contrivance Yukimura adds just to justify his puerile pacifism is honestly hilarious, and it’s baffling to me how so few see the show for what it truly is.

As for the production, MAPPA did a fairly decent job, but I guess the manga is the superior version. Despite finding his ideology disagreeable, I do think Yukimura is a great mangaka, and his panels, at least from what I’ve seen here and there on the internet, are absolutely gorgeous. Either way, the experience isn’t going to be much different if you agree with the points I’ve made.

Thank you for reading.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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