Vinland Saga Season 2

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Japanese: ヴィンランド・サガ SEASON2

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Type: TV

Episodes: 24

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 10, 2023 to Jun 20, 2023

Premiered: Winter 2023

Broadcast: Tuesdays at 00:30 (JST)

Producers: Dentsu, Kodansha, Twin Engine

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: MAPPA

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Themes: Gore, Historical

Demographic: Seinen

Duration: 25 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.81¹ (scored by 310,585 users)

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Ranked: #31²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #359

Members: 603,433

Favorites: 14,065

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8.81

Ranked #31Popularity #359Members 603,433

Episodes: /24

Synopsis

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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Background

Vinland Saga Season 2 was released on Blu-ray and DVD in two volumes from June 21, 2023, to August 23, 2023.

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Adaptation:	Vinland Saga
Prequel:	Vinland Saga
Side story:	Vinland Saga Season 2: Drowning in the Shadow, Vinland Saga Season 2: Same Old Story

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Characters & Voice Actors

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

Arnheid

Supporting

Saco, Mayumi
Japanese

Snake

Supporting

Komatsu, Fuminori
Japanese

Ylva

Supporting

Nabatame, Hitomi
Japanese

Erikson, Leif

Supporting

Ueda, Youji
Japanese

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Fujiyama, Naokado

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Matsumoto, Hitoshi

Producer

Yonezawa, Akira

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Hasegawa, Hiroya

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Opening Theme

	"River" by Anonymouz (eps eps 1-12)
	"Paradox" by Survive Said The Prophet (eps eps 13-)

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Ending Theme

	"Without Love" by LMYK (eps eps 1-12)
	"Ember" by haju:harmonics (eps eps 13-)

Reviews

Apr 2, 2024

VHxted

Recommended

Really recommend both manga and the anime. Vinland saga really conveys its message pretty well and also life-changing personally for me, the character development of Thorfinn from season 1 to season 2 is drastic but also captivating. The pacing in season 2 may be slower and less action packed but the character writing really makes up for it

The show really delves in to the deepest inhumane side of humanity, but there's always a glimmer of hope amidst all this mess that humans have created. Vinland Saga season 2 beautifully portrays Thorfinn's journey of hatred and redemption, exploring themes of death, destruction, despair, and ultimately, redemption

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Feb 23, 2024

choairy

Mixed Feelings

I'll just get this out of the way: this Vinland Saga season is either so intellectually crafted that my pea brain could not understand its perfection, or it is really just overrated by the community.

I get the point that Thorfinn develops in a fascinating way, reaching a conclusion that most people are afraid of facing, but I felt like it was a bit forced. Yes, the events of the first season (especially the ending) are impactful in many ways, both to Thorfinn and to the reader, and the fact that Thorfinn's father was how he was has influenced his mentality. But it just feels ...

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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.

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