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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jul 8, 2019 16:34
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Thors intentionally breaking his own sword to lower Askeladd's guard is still so drat cool.
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Jul 30, 2019 12:54
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Hargrimm posted:I just continue to be mystified by the Amazon subtitler's complete prohibition on using exclamation marks at  The Vikings are here. Everybody run for your lives.
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Aug 19, 2019 23:53
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Each Wednesday a new chapter of Animal Land Saga is posted to the anime's website. Even without a translation I find them pretty easy to follow along. Ch. 1  Ch. 2  Ch. 3  Ch. 4  Ch. 5  Ch. 6  Ch. 7 
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Aug 23, 2019 11:05
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Thorkell's conversation with Floki is my favorite part of his introduction. "gently caress your patriotism and gently caress your money I only fight 'cause its fun, and it's only fun when my foes are strong."
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Sep 3, 2019 09:30
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macabresca posted:I meant direction. It's not the easiest material to adapt in a visually interesting way and I feel like the creators really didn't put much effort this time. No background music, no interesting shots, pretty boring landscape... just a bunch of dudes talking I liked the way the wind picks up as Askeladd delves into his past/plans but other than that I have too agree with you. In particular the shots of Artoias were dull especially compared to last week with the way Gratianus dramatically flourished his cloak and then the shot of the sword in the stone.
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Oct 8, 2019 01:01
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Nov 8, 2019 09:25
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Hmm... Hmm...
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Nov 25, 2019 05:18
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I think the first time I read the manga I didn't really care about Bjorn, but when re-reading it/watching the anime I appreciate him a lot more. He's a remorseless thug but he just wanted Askeladd's companionship dammit! In almost every scene together he was trying to get Askeladd to open up to him but he doesn't succeed until the very end. It's meant to be ambiguous how Askeladd truly felt but his reaction to missing Bjorn's heart feels pretty telling to me.
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Dec 9, 2019 01:22
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Askeladd doing the anime villain thing where thinks it's over will always be hilarious to me. "I WIN!"  "gently caress!" 
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Dec 24, 2019 04:11
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That was a pretty solid adaptation all in all. It's a bummer this little conversation didn't make it in though.  "...Sorry about murdering your son" "It's okay he went to Valhalla and anyways I've got plenty more sons"
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Dec 30, 2019 09:08
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