Vinland Saga
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| -Nice bloodshed in the beginning. Thorfinn's first kill was pretty intense. -That language thing was really weird. It's always weird in anime when they say "I'm speaking _____". -I thought Thorfinn was going to scream again at the end. It was pretty cool to see him just sigh instead. We like saying "it's a dog eat dog world" now-a-days, but in this era of humanity, there was a lot more truth to that. I'm glad they didn't shy away from the brutality.  |
Birdsanddrugs said: i just wanted to say this about ur signature: "O Kawaii Koto~"shane_nichols said: Yeah they're awesome, but Ufotable is in a league of it's own. I'll admit that. Both are great studios. To be fair sometimes Wit studio also gets into an animation trance and makes a scene epic af like they did with a few scenes in AOT. |
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| I'm glad that he's much more of a warrior now, but damn, poor village. That old lady killed and then... her daughter... yeah, we all know what happens to her now. |
| “What do you do when there is an evil you cannot defeat by just means? Do you stain your hands with evil to destroy evil? Or do you remain steadfastly just and righteous even if it means surrendering to evil?” ― Lelouch Vi Britannia |
| The pain and horror of the life you leave behind in an instant with that first kill. |
| What a great episode. The climax, with the woman dissapearing, and the ED, it was perfect. It really highlights the growth of the MC. |
| Another good episode really like Askeladd Son of Olaf ,He became some weird father figure for the boy. And i love when the bad guy spare the weaker warriors life and telling him to better himself and come back because he is not worthy to by his sword yet.The boy have better himself and will become stronger . The scene at the end was really strong seeing to severe consequence of war. Also enjoys the animation it looks good But anime i want to see Females warriors ,, There are a lot of Viking Legendary Heroines . Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, Freydis Eiríksdóttir , Sigrid den Stolte, Lagertha the legendery leader of the Shield Maidens feared by all men.She was also married with another women!! YES!!.The female where equal to the males and went to war with them . You have 6/10 and will not move up until you included the strong heroines!!We are extremely proud over our strong warrior females!! And they are a important part of our culture and heritage  |
Yuri-CrusaderAug 21, 2019 8:34 AM
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| On the one hand, it's really nice that there was some attenton paid to the difference in spoken languages and thus the inability to communicate right off the bat, but on the other, well, the execution could have been better if both nations didn't speak the very same one on screen. Dunno. It always feels off, but it didn't make the episode that much worse. Thorfinn's life isn't a walk in the park, but he's trying to cope with it. Adapt to the situation. Hell, we're talking Vikings here! Then again, it was still painful to see that heartbroken old lady cry in front of him. Apart from all I've said, that mid-air spinning attack Thorfinn did to defeat those two soldiers reminded me so much of Levi that I couldn't help but laugh XD Well played, WIT! |
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| Thorfinn's reaction after killing for the first time was quite realistic. Really liked the way how it was portrayed. And the scene with the old lady crying at seeing Thorfinn killing those soldiers was perfectly handled as well. I almost could feel her emotions. Very good episode overall. |
SouthRzVaAug 21, 2019 11:26 PM
| I am not disappointed, but I feel like watching berserk that doesn't have the balls to be one. At least, so far. |
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Mythologically said: *This is beginning to rival Dr. Stone for the title of "hardest to believe show of the season". The little kid can kill professional soldiers because he is the main character 😎. It's also beginning to rival Arifureta for worst CGI of the season. For having pretty good animation and art, the CGI is pathetic. I'll give this a couple more episodes, but so far even the action scenes have bored me to death. The difference is that Vinland has a good story&characters when Dr Stone is pretty pathetic on all criterias. I don't remember him kill them so easily in the manga but I was young when I read it, so I don't know if the anime amplify actions... CGI is bad as always.. it's the same even for Kimetsu which has a pretty good animation overall. I don't know if you still watching this but this part was fillers and the child part was very short on the manga. If you want something more realistic (with no fight) you need to wait the second season tho. |
| I take it back, Thorfinn is not Eren Jaeger, he's Anakin Skywalker! A Darth Vader in the making. Damn. |
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| H's already a killer? It seems this Anime will have several time skips because maybe this revenge story will have to take decades or more. It's sad how the old lady saw him as her John, and then when she cried in disappointment. Man this is going to be a heart-wrenching story. |
Stark700 said: THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- The cruel life continues for Thorfinn. On the battlefield, we're also getting more bodies dropping. However, I do admire his bravery and his fighting skills semes to be improving. Someone as young as him taking on gronw up soldiers is also a feat in itself. Thorfinn is lucky that he survived in that battle. Really looking forward to how much more this season plans to develop his character. i think that the story is quite boring so far, most of the characters are pretty unlikeable, the only character i liked had to die in the beginning and now i have to follow the new MC who is eh |
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| Ok, that ending was very sad. The old lady was heartbroken when she saw what Thorfinn was. And ofc, she was killed in the end despite it was not explicitly shown. I'm growing to like Askeladd as a character more and more. |
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Mythologically said: This is beginning to rival Dr. Stone for the title of "hardest to believe show of the season". The little kid can kill professional soldiers because he is the main character 😎. It's also beginning to rival Arifureta for worst CGI of the season. For having pretty good animation and art, the CGI is pathetic. I'll give this a couple more episodes, but so far even the action scenes have bored me to death. I almost burst out laughing a little too loudly when you even mentioned Dr. Stone. Honestly, if you look at just about every shounen anime in existence , they're all pretty 'unbelievable'. If we were to rate an anime show based off how realistic it is...well then how does that statement even make sense. I mean, if you want we can make the comparison since you insist. Just looking at the FIRST episode where a boy is turned into stone moments before his high school confession and some genius kid counts by the second for a whole three thousand years, essentially rebuilding civilization single-handedly thanks to his encyclopedia brain and let's compare it to this historical anime featuring vikings. Thanks for the laugh I honestly really needed that felt good 😂 I do agree the action scenes aren't all that interesting...it's a war I mean I don't see any crazy jutsus/superpowers/moves but I do appreciate the historical element of this show. I think I should be able to keep watching but I do think pacing has been a little bit interesting these past few episodes. Almost like you are expecting it to move more quickly but it's going places you don't expect. |
EarlCielDec 12, 2019 11:20 PM
| Thorfinn is growing up! Also, I felt bad for that old woman. I hope they made it out alive or were spared at least. |
"At some point, I stopped hoping." |
| aaaaand dropped I"m not listening to some filthy subhuman eat with its mouth open, nor do I want to listen to some worthless old traitor who doesn't mind selling out her people |
| looking at that woman was like looking in a mirror for the first time in ages.. that realization must have hurt |
| Thorfinn getting stronger by being among his enemies.. |
| I'm Bruneian and I like anime. And Manchester United. And fat cats. |
| Glad to see he's getting a bit stronger but still not warmed up to thorfinn. Hope we see the the return of his surviving Sister and Mother soon too. |
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| Man, what a heavy episode. The brutality is increasing and Thorfinn is being consumed by the carnage laid before him. |
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| Damn,the years passed so fast.Ouch,the ending was sad :(.I mean,I love Askeladd,but they kill everything in sight. |
Come on man,where is that Noragami season 3 masterpiece.We want it, Bones! |
| Thorfinn is starting to look the part as a warrior. It's only a matter of time before he surpasses a certain someone. |
| Sad seeing Thorfin becoming what Thor's never wants him to. Another good episode |
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| It was awesome seeing Thorfinn turn from a weakling into such a fearless and brutal fighter as the years went by but I'm genuinely upset at him for what he's done. He didn't have much of a choice if he wanted to take his revenge on Askeladd and he did warn the two kind folk using their language but he's become the very thing he swore to destroy at this point... I guess this is the cruel reality of how things were like in these barbaric times. |
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| His father just told him to use only his weapon to defend not to kill. *sigh* |
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| thorfinn kills a few people and now thinks he is hot stuff, not yet boi you need to rape a good few women you beta. Was hoping he would rape that old hag and that blonde bitch. |
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| What a powerful episode, for a brief moment Thorfinn experience the life of having normal family and such stuff. And for the lady for once to felt on how loving experience having a son that she once lost. And he felt care and sympathy but it just didn't work because of the barriers. Great development of the story on Thorfinns journey of becoming a full-pledge Viking that kills to regain that honor of his deceased father. |
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| I hope that the old woman wasn't killed. |
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| 6 episodes in and I'm sure this anime is going to take me to a strange but interesting story, Thorfinn was lucky not to die in multiple situations and Askeladd seems to be a very enthralling character, he says words that you wouldn't expect from the guy who pretty much killed Thors in a cowardly manner... |
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| Good to see language barrier still exists in this anime unlike some other anime. Pretty heartbreaking to see Thorfinn sort of working with his dad murders to get an oppurtunity to kill Askeladd, even bringing misery to the lady who helped him.... |
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| God this is such a good anime. I can't believe I waited this long to get into it. War is bloody man. |
"I'm not going there to die, I'm going to find out If I'm really alive." |
| Cruelty life can build a character. Just like Thorfinn. Thought the girl and mom is alright. |
| A bloody childhood is really not fit for any child it's straight-up scary, And there goes his first kill damn that's something else So the journey begins, The way he experiences each battle he improves a bit it's amazing to see how Thorfinn's progression in this season it's really eyecatching, I have a bad feeling about this mother and daughter acquainting Thorfinn I thought they would die right there but damn the look on Thorfinn's face. |
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| This is unrealistic on so many levels.At one time he was just practicing swinging swords and out of nowhere he learned to kill so many people.Sure when he first killed a man he had trauma but then it was like."Oh no,anyway" and he started killing more people with no training. When the old women brought him in he should've just run away without getting any personal attachment.I hope she realizes that it was because of her which caused the killing of the villagers. At least in Attack on titan,Eren does formal training to become a full fledged soldier but Thors just started killing people out of nowhere.Thors is like,the worst version of Eren Jaeger and I heard he's gonna get development in the coming season.Let's see how it goes. 6 episodes in and I'm already nitpicky and it is a very bad sign.Hope this season improves at least in the second half PLEASE. Literally no episode has gone above 3/5 and this episode was like a 2/5 Mythologically said: This is beginning to rival Dr. Stone for the title of "hardest to believe show of the season". The little kid can kill professional soldiers because he is the main character 😎. It's also beginning to rival Arifureta for worst CGI of the season. For having pretty good animation and art, the CGI is pathetic. I'll give this a couple more episodes, but so far even the action scenes have bored me to death. Other than the cgi and action scenes you took the words right out of my mouth. |
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| @hamza121419 makes more sense but the thing is you're not really sure how did he became so op when the anime didn't even show his full training and straight away started killing people.In other words,I'm not fully convinced if he even trained or not. |
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