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

Yonezawa, Akira Producer

Hasegawa, Hiroya Producer

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Jun 18, 2024

johanoss

Recommended

Characters 7/10
Vinland Saga's second season continues to be an epic medieval thrill ride. The stunning animation and gritty historical setting immediately draw you in. But it's the complex characters and their morally grey motivations that make this anime truly gripping. Seeing Thorfinn's brutal quest for vengeance gradually evolve into a deeper exploration of the cycle of violence is captivating storytelling.
The characters end up being a bit dull because their development and motivations often seem rushed and unconvincing. They start off with some promise, but the writing doesn't explore their inner complexities enough, leaving them feeling shallow and lacking depth.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jul 8, 2024

KuruptQ

Mixed Feelings

It is weird, very different from season 1. When i saw it, the reaction was as I expected. There is nothing wrong with season 1. Apart from it just being a bait to pull in shonen audience, which whether we like it or not. Are the biggest reason anime is popular in the first place. The writer was out of his mind if he thinks season 2 was gonna have the same success the first season did. You can have character development. But devoting the entire season 2 to it was not gonna retain the massive audience you had.

Now, I realize to that ... season 1 Thorfinn was the most unlikable character ever. However his development came across in this pacisfist, ''everyone who fights is bad'' way. Very preachy and out of touch. I know the writer does not like violence, however there is nothing wrong with fighting back against the system. Season 2 is more of a psychological journey of Thorfinn as he looks for reasons's to live. If you want to see a broken man turn to farming and regain his human side. Then this is the anime for you. I enjoyed it. I do not have to see flashy fights every episode to like something. The backlash was expected though. Don't feed the shonen audience epic fights and animation, then turn around and make a farming and character development anime in season 2. For the story it makes sense. I think it is needed because of season one's ending.

Overall I would recommend people to watch it. If you are only interested in epic fights this is not for you. If you actually care about how Thorfin turns into a normal human being. Then go ahead.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 24, 2023

tragedyhero

Not Recommended

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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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