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"..If I ran as far as a I could, all the way across the sea, what would I find there? If there were a land across the horizon, a land without war or slaves, if there were a land of peace.."  Loosely based on both history and myth, Makoto Yukimura's legendary manga explores themes of Honor and Vengeance, War and Blood, Love and Death. It started back in 2005 and in just a couple of weeks its animated adaptation will finally begin. Staff: Director: Shūhei Yabuta Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko Script: Hiroshi Seko Kenta Ihara Music: Yutaka Yamada Character Design: Takahiko Abiru Art Director: Yūsuke Takeda Sound Director: Shōji Hata CGI Director: Mayu Takehana Director of Photography: Yūki Kawashita Background Art:(Bamboo) Izumi Hirabayashi Kentarō Ōnuki Color design: Satoshi Hashimoto Digital Work:Hirofumi Araki Editing: Kashiko Kimura  Characters: Thorfinn(Yuto Uemura) A sullen and flippant young warrior who has closed his heart in his quest for vengeance. Wields his daggers with agility and deftness.  Askeladd(Naoya Uchida) Leader of a band of vikings one-hundred men strong. His personable demeanor belies his cunning and ruthless mind.  Bjorn(Hiroki Yasumoto) Askeladd's right hand man. Has served loyally for years. Capable of becoming a fierce combatant when he ingests his mushrooms and enters a berserker's rage.  Thors(Kenichirou Matsuda) Father of Thorfinn. A kind and easygoing man who lives his life as a humble shepherd. He was once the most powerful Viking on the Baltic Sea.  Young Thorfinn(Shizuka Ishigami) An adventurous and cheerful boy who loves his father dearly.  Thorkell the Tall(Akio Ohtsuka) Jovial and gigantic no other viking alive loves battle as much as him. He wields two Dane axes with mythical strength.  Prince Canute(Kensho Ono) Secondary heir to the throne of Denmark. Timid and Silent.  PV 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkJmBWvCfNU PV 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2aneW0sH7c PV 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVs4io58Gm4 PV 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xAlirMzjCQ PV 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xqEp7R9SYM Background art samples https://twitter.com/V_SAGA_ANIME/status/1077126973451833344 https://twitter.com/V_SAGA_ANIME/status/1074605194980323328?s=19 https://twitter.com/V_SAGA_ANIME/status/1072057093967044608?s=19 Vinland Saga will begin streaming on Amazon on July 7th. Episodes 2 and 3 will be released on July 8th. There will be 24 episodes in all. Theowulv fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jul 21, 2019 |
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I pray to god this will be the first good historical anime in years
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Jun 22, 2019 14:25
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Davincie posted:I pray to god this will be the first good historical anime in years
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Jun 22, 2019 14:44
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Oh good. This is finally getting out there. Can't wait! They couldn't have casted Askeladd better if they tried.
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Jun 22, 2019 16:12
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Davincie posted:I pray to god this will be the first good historical anime in years does Golden Kamuy not qualify?
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Jun 22, 2019 16:15
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Golden Kamuy anime is not TERRIBLE, but it definitely does not live up to the quality of the source material. It's like B- on it's best episode. Question for Vinland Saga mega-fans: I kind of fell off of the manga when Thorfinn grows up, has his "maybe violence is bad" epiphany and decides to pull a Vagabond and get super into farming instead of adventures, how likely is it that the anime ends right before/right as that happens? OnimaruXLR fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jun 22, 2019 |
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Jun 22, 2019 16:37
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:does Golden Kamuy not qualify? Not in my opinion
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Jun 22, 2019 17:08
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Golden Kamuy anime is a botch job.OnimaruXLR posted:Golden Kamuy anime is not TERRIBLE, but it definitely does not live up to the quality of the source material. It's like B- on it's best episode. That's not quite how that goes down but it would be a decent break point if this is just 1 cour.
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Jun 22, 2019 19:45
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In this for the End Prologue scene reactions. Also thanks for reminding me that I've got to go back and catch up on the manga.
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Jun 22, 2019 20:00
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OnimaruXLR posted:Question for Vinland Saga mega-fans: I kind of fell off of the manga when Thorfinn grows up, has his "maybe violence is bad" epiphany and decides to pull a Vagabond and get super into farming instead of adventures, how likely is it that the anime ends right before/right as that happens? And that's kind of what I was alluding to with my post, I'm wondering if it'll rush to that part or stop a good chunk before it.
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Jun 22, 2019 21:04
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Davincie posted:I pray to god this will be the first good historical anime in years rest in peace Kingdom
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Jun 22, 2019 21:18
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The anime is two cours long. I think adapting to the end of the first 8 volumes would be great.
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Jun 22, 2019 22:28
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Will this get past the prologue or would that be the entire season?
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Jul 1, 2019 00:17
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https://twitter.com/Kirari_star/status/1147524082033819650 First episode was really good! Still no English subs out yet tho.. c'mon Amazon.
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Jul 6, 2019 21:36
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Up now on Amazon.
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Jul 7, 2019 17:28
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The first three episode are up it looks like if you click Next when you get into the player. I enjoyed the first episode a lot! These early bits are a little slow but I remember enjoying them a lot. Only read like 40 - 50 chapters so I'm excited for a slow burn, glad this season is 24 episodes
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Jul 7, 2019 19:28
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Wake me up when Thorkell shows up. Given the weird release schedule I might wait till it's complete and binge the entire series. I'm not the biggest fan of the direction the manga eventually takes. But the beginning was great stuff.
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Jul 7, 2019 20:24
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Thorkell is in the very first episode .
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Jul 7, 2019 21:03
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Mulderman posted:Given the weird release schedule I might wait till it's complete and binge the entire series. Wait, what's the release schedule? I'm interested in the series but that's something I'd like to know before I start watching.
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Jul 7, 2019 21:52
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I assume they just mean that the first three episodes all aired today so Episode 4 will be on July 28th
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Jul 7, 2019 22:10
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Blaze Dragon posted:Wait, what's the release schedule? I'm interested in the series but that's something I'd like to know before I start watching. Expect My Mom posted:I assume they just mean that the first three episodes all aired today so Episode 4 will be on July 28th It's this.
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Jul 7, 2019 22:36
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Did they add that beginning bit with Thorkell? I don't remember any hint that Thors was even a real fighter dude, other than being gigantic, until around what they show in episode 3. I'm assuming that they'll rearrange the opening scene from the manga to around episode 5 or so. Gyges fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jul 7, 2019 |
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Jul 7, 2019 23:03
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I am super pleased with what we've seen so far.
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Jul 8, 2019 02:14
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Survive Said the Prophet is extremely aptly named for Vinland Saga
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Jul 8, 2019 04:27
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Gyges posted:Did they add that beginning bit with Thorkell? Yes that was added. I liked it at first but I think that scene doesn't really work at all after realizing its supposed to be the moment Thors deserts. The way it plays out like he just got bored for being too good at fighting rather than how much he came to hate violence.
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Jul 8, 2019 08:22
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He did get hit by an arrow after seeing someone die with regrets and he felt no joy in that kill Guess that's a hint
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Jul 8, 2019 09:00
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Theowulv posted:Yes that was added. I liked it at first but I think that scene doesn't really work at all after realizing its supposed to be the moment Thors deserts. The way it plays out like he just got bored for being too good at fighting rather than how much he came to hate violence. He quit after the guy said that he was sorry he wasn't coming home. It was clearly meant to be a "...Yeah. I can't keep hurting people like this." moment, even if it didn't land for everyone. I mean, it not landing for you is fair, but the intent was there.
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It just feels a bit off to me to showcase how cool it looks as he slaughters like thirty dudes as the moment he finally quits is all. That said, I think there is a purposeful contrast between how effortless and dispassionate killing is to him compared to how much he desperately struggled to save that one man's life later in the first episode Theowulv fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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Jul 8, 2019 09:40
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It's the moment he deserts, not the moment he decides to desert. Given that he faked his death in battle so the Jomsvikings wouldn't come looking for him, I think we can assume that he settled on this course of action some time before there was a good opportunity to do it. Even the Jomsvikings don't fight large naval battles every day. So he's been stuck acting the part of the idolised war hero for weeks or months, putting on a face and hiding his contempt for the warrior's entire way of life, acting like a loyal comrade to the men whom he now thinks of as unrepentant murderers with body counts almost as high as his own, because if he lets on that he really doesn't want to be a killer anymore people might get suspicious about his "heroic death". With that in mind his detachment and seeming emotionlessness during the scene actually seem very natural to me. He's got a real "if I just middle-finger out of this lovely job they'll give me a bad reference" vibe to him. He's been stuck half-heartedly putting in the work for a while and it's been eating him up inside to the point where even acting surface-level enthusiastic is a gruelling effort of will. To the point where even at the crucial moment - his entire death-in-battle story will succeed or fail based on Thorkell's impression of his actions - he finds himself losing focus, unable to do anything but mechanically go through the motions.
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Yeah I would agree that they sold well how Thors doesn't have the stomach for this anymore. He throws the guy's sword back to the bottom of the lake, spaces out dreaming of Vinland, takes arrows to the chest. With the show starting at the chronological starting point and not with where Thorfinn is now, I'd imagine they mostly wanted an action scene as a hook and hey I thought it was a pretty effective one
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a computing pun posted:To the point where even at the crucial moment - his entire death-in-battle story will succeed or fail based on Thorkell's impression of his actions - he finds himself losing focus, unable to do anything but mechanically go through the motions. Expect My Mom posted:He throws the guy's sword back to the bottom of the lake, spaces out dreaming of Vinland, takes arrows to the chest. With the show starting at the chronological starting point and not with where Thorfinn is now, I'd imagine they mostly wanted an action scene as a hook and hey I thought it was a pretty effective one I can see it when you put it like that. Either way the fall of hail is my favorite part of the scene.
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a bunch of people posted:the stuff in spoiler tags almost immediately can we just veer away from that entirely in the anime thread
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Jul 8, 2019 23:16
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This show's back and hot-drat, what a return.
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There's moments where I kinda feel like this adaptation's cinematography kind of falls asleep at the wheel, but I adore the manga and we've still got some gorgeous character art and great voice acting going on here, so I suppose I'm still watching.
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I think the show is great but I don't like the opening at all. I wish they went more in traditional Scandinavian music or just metal. Or maybe something like Nightwish's "Over the Hills and Far Away".
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Jul 29, 2019 10:00
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Huh, I forgot Thors did the died standing up thing.
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Jul 29, 2019 10:00
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Makatka posted:I think the show is great but I don't like the opening at all. I wish they went more in traditional Scandinavian music or just metal. Or maybe something like Nightwish's "Over the Hills and Far Away". Metal would be awesome for this show...
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Jul 30, 2019 00:13
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Good set of pipes on Thorfinn's seiyuu.
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Jul 30, 2019 04:15
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Makatka posted:I think the show is great but I don't like the opening at all. I wish they went more in traditional Scandinavian music or just metal. Or maybe something like Nightwish's "Over the Hills and Far Away". Get Sabaton to do it.
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The Sandman posted:Get Sabaton to do it. You mean Amon Amarth.
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