Vinland Saga

[MassiveGat]

Easily my favorite manga of all time

 

[sorawild]

@Kanami-chan how is Hild a bad character? She is literally a ghost of Thorfinns past reminding him that he can't just run away from or forget his violent past.

 

[Yourself]

Raws are out

 

[alsila]

A 2 years jump in a flash. Why doesn't it tell the travels to Constantinopla or Mediterranean Sea?
I don't like this skip 🙄

 

[Yatagan]

Glad to have someone else picking this up for translation, but I'd work on the type setting. The choice of font looks...not great.

Edit: Nvm, I shouldn't complain. First page said they weren't fluent and were just doing it so we can catch up before officials come out.

 

[omarwhadaan]

Oops I didn’t realize we jumped 3 chapters from 163 to 166 be careful guys

 

[Kushinda]

Am I stupid? Where's 164/165?

 

[Sabinou]

You can read the missing chapters on mangastream, I'll mention it for those of you who don't know.

 

[bastek66]

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-11-10/makoto-yukimura-starts-drawing-final-arc-of-vinland-saga-manga/.153123

 

[PatateAuMiel]

I just read this thing in one go, this is just too good

 

[ooogooman]

@alsila

A 2 years jump in a flash. Why doesn't it tell the travels to Constantinopla or Mediterranean Sea?
I don't like this skip 🙄

Vinland Saga has been very patient with its storytelling. It has spent whole chapters on one-off minor characters, never to be seen again. It has lovingly given attention to secondary characters, gradually developing them and their relationships over time. It has slowly, carefully revealed and developed its core themes over hundreds of chapters. It has already used one very substantial timeskip and survived quite intact. I am inclined to give Yukimura credit for all that and trust the pacing decision they've made.

 

[TSP]

bleep bloop

 

[firefox1234]

Am i the only one who think 9.26 is still too low?😆

 

[firefox1234]

Manga creator Makoto Yukimura posted on Twitter on Sunday that he has started drawing the fourth and final arc of his Vinland Saga manga. In the Twitter post, he stated that the overall Vinland Saga manga is divided into four parts. The first three parts include the "War" arc, the "Slave" arc, and the "Eastern Expedition" arc. Yukimura added that the final arc will be more than 50 chapters long with more than 1,000 pages, and will take "several years."

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ne...awing-final-arc-of-vinland-saga-manga/.153123

 

[VietJustin]

yo, which chapter do i start on since finishing the anime

 

[pembokatx]

@VietJustin from chapter 55, chapter 54 is called end of prologue too, just like the animu, so I guess this should work as a psa too for animu watchers that want to continue reading the story until season 2

 

[razereaz]

who is this havarr again ? someone daughter or what

 

[freakattaker]

CHAPTER 160* OR SO SPOILERS HERE.

Spoiler

I'm personally of the opinion that the timeskip was... strange. The trip to sell the horns was hyped up as a 2 year long DANGEROUS expedition. We get as far as Jomsburg and then there's just no more danger in the rest of the world I guess. It just feels like a shoddy one to throw in compared to the Prologue -> Farmland skip because we don't actually miss that much in the first timeskip... At least in regards to Thorfinn the main protagonist. Followers of Canute's story may have missed out, but I feel as a significant side character his story was told fine. But we're missing details as well as some nice down time that could've been spent developing the characters some more.

I wanted to see the dynamics of Thorfinn's and Gudrid's relationship. I wanted to see how the lands beyond freaking England and Denmark looked. I wanted to see the band of characters exploring the world just a bitttt more. The excuse to have down time to develop characters is there, as there is reason to since it was hyped up to be a significant trip! Yet the actual point of the arc was apparently to just close down Jomsborg for Canute who's handling it all offscreen... I'm not saying this is the first and only flaw of this manga. There are others, but I've been able to over look most of them for the good parts. This flaw is literally the author stripping away some potentially really good and juicy parts. And for what reason? I can only imagine it's to speed the plot along, but it's done at an unnatural point of the story. Another reason could be to avoid having to actually write or spend time on developing all of the new characters the author threw in. The characters are fleshed out, but they were starting to feel pretty stale and 2 dimensional by the end of the 3rd arc as far as I'm concerned.

In fact I think the biggest reason the author decided to timeskip is because Thorfinn marries Gudrid which is fact of history, but he can't actually write natural romance. So to avoid that, he just time skipped as soon as he could after they got together. It's the only explanation I could think of after starting off the third arc with "this will be a perilous and dangerous journey we may not survive over the course of 2 exciting years guys!!" And there's history in the writing of this manga that the author isn't here to explore the fine parts of romance, but to tell the psychological struggles people have in the face of war and suffering instead.

 

[H3avy]

Is that Wendy from DND Crusaders?

Someone call the Inquisition!

 

[kliu27]

This manga went from a 10 to a 0 in half a year