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Vinland Saga is pretty amazing. Admittedly, certain elements are kind of obvious if you've read the source material. Yes, Gudrid is going to end up marrying Thorfinn. She's his wife in the actual Vinland Saga. Kind of wonder how the manga's going to handle some of the later bits of the adaptation, though, seeing as how the Vinland colony didn't exactly have a long or peaceful history
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The Sandman posted:Vinland Saga is pretty amazing. Admittedly, certain elements are kind of obvious if you've read the source material. Everyone moves south and it becomes Sleepy Hollowland Saga as the descendants team up with the lost colony of Roanoke to save the world from the supernatural through hardcore pacifism.
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Gyges posted:Everyone moves south and it becomes Sleepy Hollowland Saga as the descendants team up with the lost colony of Roanoke to save the world from the supernatural through hardcore pacifism. Do they get Stands? I'm in if they get Stands.
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May 4, 2014 05:21
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I'm picturing Dances With Wolves, but with Vikings. EDIT: Ahhhh, I spoiled myself by reading Wikipedia. 
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May 4, 2014 06:01
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Historie update. Eumenes continues being awesome.
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May 4, 2014 14:45
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Here's an Otoyomegatari update.  for Mori showin' some skin
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May 14, 2014 07:50
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Epoxy Bulletin posted:Here's an Otoyomegatari update. Haha, looks like the princess just fell in love at first sight with a chick with really really big boobs! Yep, definitely sister-wife material! 
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May 14, 2014 14:00
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MonsieurChoc posted:Historie update. Eumenes continues being awesome.
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May 14, 2014 21:11
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I'm rereading Historie since I trailed off last time before even getting caught up then a few years back. Does it release really slowly due to the author clearly doing it all himself or are the scans just incredibly slow?
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Jose posted:I'm rereading Historie since I trailed off last time before even getting caught up then a few years back. Does it release really slowly due to the author clearly doing it all himself or are the scans just incredibly slow? If I had found it after it was completed in the fixed up volume releases, it'd probably be my favorite manga out there. As it stands now... I've got a similar issue to that other fellow where I have no idea what the significance of the reveal at the end of the last chapter was. The whole thing is way too slow to keep me gripped the way it should. That said, I already know it's going to be awesome a bunch of years from now when we can look back at it. It's a fantastic story.
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Eiba posted:It's released really slow. And even then half the art is unfinished sketches. At least Cesare isn't as much trouble for me because the new chapters that came out after months and months included the start of a new volume with one of those little manga recap blurbs and character reviews. Sengoku Youko (not historical of course) did this recently with one of its new chapters too. And also with Cesare you have less random characters like a Charon that you might forget, in the sense that 90% of the characters are super well-known influential historical figures ("Why hello...Mister...Michelangelo was it?") as opposed to say 70% in Historie. Although I'm actually far more well-versed in the area of history Historie is touching on than I am with Cesare, it just feels like Historie is bound to have more Charons and Phoenixes and so on.  I can't remember if Historie does this at the start of new volumes, probably yes since it's a common manga thing, hopefully there's a new volume with a little recap or something soon. At least there's wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historie#Main_characters quote:Charon  Time for a reread.
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May 14, 2014 23:18
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It is a good day to die: New Gunka No Balzer
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Eiba posted:It's released really slow. And even then half the art is unfinished sketches. 
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May 15, 2014 04:32
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Epoxy Bulletin posted:It is a good day to die: New Gunka No Balzer That was a good one. Hopefully the translators keep up this pace.
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I suppose this thread is probably the best for my question but, how common is the study of ancient greece/rome in Japan?
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Balzer's Army Ch22 Awesome. I love seeing all the tactics. Reading this chapter really makes me wanna fire up Napoleon: Total War.
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Here's chapter 38 of A Bride's Story, probably again, but for gratuitous manflesh this time. Pretty short this time since Mori was jetting off to Paris to attend the Salon du Livre convention (short interviews taken there: 1 2). May's magazine has a Shirley story, hopefully Otoyome will be back in June.
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New Vinland Saga! Next month: EXCITING LOAN TERM DISCUSSIONS!!
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Fifty chapters from now I hope we'll be reading about the viking subprime loan crisis. 
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May 25, 2014 17:01
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BFCland saga.
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Mo_Steel posted:Fifty chapters from now I hope we'll be reading about the viking subprime loan crisis. Viking captain oversaturates the slave market from too much raiding in Ireland, causes crash. "I couldn't give these slaves away!"
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Aww, Halfdan, you big softie.
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Hahahaha Thorfinn 2 pointing to his face at the end "WHAT ABOUT ME, ALSO THORFIN??"
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May 25, 2014 17:46
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His expressions are the best part of the chapter.
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:His expressions are the best part of the chapter. Jackard fucked around with this message at 18:09 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 18:07
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Zorak posted:Hahahaha Thorfinn 2 pointing to his face at the end "WHAT ABOUT ME, ALSO THORFIN??" Nah, that's his nose picking pinky. He was startled out of booger wrangling powered daydreaming by suddenly being called into a one on one negotiation. So is Halfdan's plan to link up the Thors clan with his via marriage or just to get their sweet, sweet land?
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Gyges posted:So is Halfdan's plan to link up the Thors clan with his via marriage or just to get their sweet, sweet land? Thing is I don't think the Thors clan necessarily has that much land? And it's not even Thorfinn's land to offer either, he certainly had no part in it. Halfdan seems to have chilled out somewhat from when we met him in the prologue, that's for sure. Dude seemed outright sinister then, now he's kind of "eh, whatever".
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Zorak posted:Thing is I don't think the Thors clan necessarily has that much land? And it's not even Thorfinn's land to offer either, he certainly had no part in it. Well, he is the eldest living male in the family so if the culture there is anything like it was in many others, he's head of the family in name at least.
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AnonSpore posted:Well, he is the eldest living male in the family so if the culture there is anything like it was in many others, he's head of the family in name at least. True, but I don't think Thorfinn is going to play that ball.
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Is Thorffin's sister married or not?
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Gyges posted:Is Thorffin's sister married or not? She's married to that one kid who had a crush on her before Thorfinn snuck onto the boat.
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Yeah really liked the way they expanded on Halfdan's character in this chapter, guy seems pretty reasonable. Wonder if his son and new wife are going to be part of the 100? Seems a waste to introduce them and not keep them involved in the plot.
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:His expressions are the best part of the chapter.
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So here's a question: Vinland Saga is no stranger to ditching historical fact in its narrative, how do ya'll want this to end? Do you demand that Thorfinn's dreams come to nothing and he be forced to flee back to Iceland, or would you be okay if Yukimura decided to actually make the Vinland colony successful? Also, do you want to continue getting checkups on Canute and company back in Europe?
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The only scenario where it follows historical accuracy where the colonization failed while also keeping it a happy ending is to have Thorfinn and family be absorbed into the indigenous culture and abandoned their own. So colony failed, but Thorfinn lived on happily until he dies of old age or from tuberculosis.
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wid posted:The only scenario where it follows historical accuracy where the colonization failed while also keeping it a happy ending is to have Thorfinn and family be absorbed into the indigenous culture and abandoned their own. So colony failed, but Thorfinn lived on happily until he dies of old age or from tuberculosis. This is pretty much what I expect to happen. That or he comes back and begins his search for Shangri-La
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I'm pretty sure he's going to fail, but hey, not like it's an actual contest. Canute is going to fail too. That's the reality of human mortal ambitions: the sheer unpredictability and immensity of the world that no man can truly command or change its nature. Still, that doesn't mean Thorfinn necessarily will have an unhappy end. Heck, it's a fact that his descendents certainly make it back to Iceland
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I just started reading A Bride's Story after hearing all the praise it's gotten, but it's pretty hard to ignore the inherent creepiness in a 12 year old and a 20 year old being married. Does it get better later?
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May 27, 2014 04:15
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Those drat non-white cultures are so drat creepy
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Silly Voodoo posted:I just started reading A Bride's Story after hearing all the praise it's gotten, but it's pretty hard to ignore the inherent creepiness in a 12 year old and a 20 year old being married. Does it get better later? If you don't find the cultural differences interesting early on and can't relate to the narrative with its very different culture, it's probably not for you, no. It's a work about a very different time and place and peoples. There's a lot of that. Personally I find it fascinating for all those reasons (the fact that it's about such a different culture and time without making it overly anime, with the sheer amount of time and research put into it).
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