The people who say this season is boring or bad, are anime fans who only watch anime for action scenes and not story telling.

The Slave arc of Vinland Saga has the best cast in anime. Every character is like a cog in a machine that helps the story progress, and all of them develop individually in interesting ways. I was most surprised by Olmar and Snake, because they weren’t the main focus of the story but still contributed to the plot and turned out to be great people.

I'm really excited to see how MAPPA handles The Baltic Sea War arc. It also has many fantastic character development moments, while also being arguably the most action packed arc in the seires.

This show was so human and beautiful it really touched me.

I just finished season 2 like 40 mins ago, i dont understand why i cried but i guess it just shows me how much you can get intact with these characters. The author really did an amazing job into developing these characters and just how the anime portrayed the growth of Thorfinn itself at the same time giving also attention to the side characters and really making their stories worth to hear. I'm still fresh from the ending and I really started to love it. Amazing video btw! Onwards and Upwards!

Season one focuses on how Vikings see the world Season two focused on how regular people see the world, especially those that suffered under the vikings and the consequences of their harsh world. Einhard and his husband for me were the main highlights of the season because it gave Thorfinn the beautiful conclusion he came up at the end. RIP Einhard, Gardar and their family.

Coincidences in and of themselves are not a sign of bad writing. Leif finding Ketil is not out of the realm of possibility especially when they're under the same kingdom umbrella and clearly travel the same general locales often. Not only that, they were in the same place when Einar was bought.

As someone who isn't into anime. I can't express enough what a masterpiece I think the show is. I thought season one was incredible and I was shocked by how good it was and I was like, there's no way they can top this right? Well.... Is it possible to ever be more wrong?. And season 2 just left me even more speechless and even a month later im still trying to process it and i don''t think any piece of fictional media with a message has ever been able to convey to me like Vinland Saga has.

i lovedddd canute and thorfinn’s dynamic this season, it was brilliantly written and made canute my third favorite character

I knew nothing about Vinland Saga before I started watching, just heard a lot of good hings about it. After catching up and then finishing season 2 it's easily one of my favorite stories of all time.

Finished season 2 a couple of hours ago. Easily one of the best anime arcs ever, wow, could never imagine crying over characters only having conversations as often as this. Truly mindblowing

Masterpiece 10/10 without question. The sword pommels are historically accurate, i found one metal detecing in east Anglia. Did you know, Thorkell the tall in actual history became the lord of east anglia for several years? He was the lord of my homeland. Crazy.

This is by far one the best analysis of Vinland saga I’ve ever seen. I hope you get the views you deserve.

A month ago in 7/10 (at 1am) i wanted to finish the second season of Vinland saga when i wake up but i woke up to a war. I couldn't finish it. it was hard for me to watch an anime about war and peace in a war. But yesterday i decided to finish it and it completely changed my view, now that i watch this video, it's just feels so real to just want peace and not wanting to fight. I wish all wars will end, and that the world will be a better place

This video deserves a million views you definitely did this anime justice I can feel the work you put into it. I have rewatched it 4 times just cause I love it so much it hurts my soul that it’s not at 1 million people are sleeping in vinland saga.

Just finished Vol 13 of the mange, this is one of the best anime/manga series out there, it speaks to human nature, the struggle of life in a cruel world, and how one can persevere and rise above, from their own sins to this world's trials.

I always thought that iron fist Ketil was the old master. And that was the reason Snake is so close to him.

I know that there are many good animes around but I couldn’t help but feel uninterested after a few episodes, I thought maybe I outgrew anime until I accidentally found out about Vinland Saga. I was extremely impressed to a point where I didn’t want to watch too many episodes in one day so I can give myself time to focus and understand every detail in this amazingly animated story. This anime has the best character developments! Every second of Thorfinn’s journey was so interesting to watch, and Einar’s character was the perfect puzzle piece for his development. Amazing story, can’t wait for more.

Vinland Saga being a stylized telling of the [probably spoilers but history nerds will know as VINLAND is the big hint] is absolutely fantastic to me. So many real life characters and effort in making it historically accurate (relatively speaking) makes me so incredibly happy. Cnut (Canute is also acceptable), Thorfinn, Thorkel (IRL he was Thorkel the Tall.. no bullshit), Leif Ericson, Ketill, and so many others are all people that really existed and the series tried quite hard to put them in roles that mimicked their real lives. The absolutely stunning part isnt the amazing writing, the incredibly deep and well developed characters, or the beautifully animated settings, its that they put faces and personalities to the absolute GIANTS of the real Viking era.

Excellent review. Loved the breakdown of characters too! It was nice to see a segment for Arnheid. She's an important part of this arc and it's nice for her to get some focus in a review!

Vinland saga is indeed a masterpiece and i did not know why I loved it so much. Everything you said is something that i felt and knew but couldn't explain it to myself. you just got ur self a subscriber.

What a great video, also your hollow knight ost usage is truly masterful

More Vinland videos please. I loved the ones you did on the 1st & 2nd season so much

Those closing thoughts are so true. I would love to hear a recap from Thorfinns own experience! Great video dude! Keep it up

I have the same nitpicks as you but this season pushed this anime to one of my all time favorites. Not many anime have made me so emotional I even teared up with your summary of some of the events 😭😭 just so good

Just finished watching Season 2 after watching Chainsaw Man and Rewatching Season 1 with my GF, Ive never read the manga but i would not have expected that such an action and spectacle based Anime will turn into something so slow-paced and thoughtful... and still pull it off masterfully! All the character development felt so natural. For me the bad piece of writing was how fast Knut was turned at the end. It sorta makes sense, and it was an impactful moment seeing Knut essentially shocked back to his former ways by Thorfinns behaviour, but the whole thing sorta happened within 15 minutes, there could have been some more leadup in how he is actually morally batteling with the weight of the crown, instead of just being subdued by it.

thank you for remiding me about my favourite manga and showing amazing scenes from its anime

Great work, great video!

Fantastic analysis and video, the best I’ve seen so far about Peakland Saga

This was one of the most beautiful video essays I have ever watched

I was just watching your first Vinland saga video the other day, nice

Another well made, beautiful video!! 👏🏿 👏🏿 👏🏿

I was waiting for this video! Once again, its one of the best videos on Vinland Saga i have ever seen and I can see that you put so much work into it. Thank you so much

Great video like always.

Well made, thanks for the video and your insight.

bro your story telling is so good

10/10 perfect video, you articulated how amazing this show is in a way ive always wanted to. Thank you.

Fantastic and thorough analysis

Honesty, I'd say Snake is more like an Anti Hero. He does do questionable things, like staying with Ketil, and Kill Armhide's husband. He never did anything truly evil. He's a good man who just does questionable things. To call him a villain would just ignore the good he did. He stopped Ketil from killing Arnhide (or at least he tried), he treated the slaves like human beings, stopped Fox from killing Thorfin, looked after his men, and looked after the Old Master.

A fantastic analogy....Thank you so much.

for me vinland saga is one of those animes/mangas that makes me actually learn, feel growth, do something good from something i was able to learn, this is the kind of animes i can call master piece, everything about it just make sense for me and i can understand not everybody sees it as i do, but im glad to try and tell anybody why i do throw animes like this to the very top of my fav series, its not always about the flashing scenes, its not always about the best drawing/animation, for me, just like this, can be a good life lesson i didn't know i needed, until i learned.

great vid

Love this video

The sequence of thorfinn climbing out of hell with askelads help was absolutely perfect

Wonderful video! Season 2 is so masterfully created and underrated.

Damn great video and what a damn great work of art Vinland Saga is

Awesome video and truly vinland is easily in my top shows ever. Though kinda wish you had a talk about his scene with askeladd. That that whole scene is full of mixed emotions and was well done💯

Great video, good job

great video xD love Kettle, Leaf and Gelling

The last two episodes of this made me feel something I don’t know what but it was a similar feeling I had when I finished ds1 truly a masterpiece.

Great video

Not only vinland saga is a masterpiece, but also this video👍🏻

Underrated channel

That scene with him beating Arnheid was somerhing i did not expect. My jaw dropped that whole sequence. The dynamic showcased was something ive never seen in anime.

Very nice vid

You are a very talented writer with a profound brain. Thank you for making videos. I hope you get great success in your future.

Great season. My only criticism is the pacing of one or two specific episodes but otherwise it was masterfully told.

Nobody does Vinland videos and it sucks because I love watching them so thank you for this please do an video on Canute

I really hope this wins anime of the year. I know it probably won’t, but God it was so good.

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That Canute shift in season was soooooo unexpected. The divergence bewteen Canute and Thorrfinn. MASTERPIECE

the path of pain ost killed it fr fr 💯

I cried in the end. This was indeed a masterpiece ❤

Best review i have ever heard

I never really viewed snake as a bad guy. I also think things are more gray in this anime than black & white

I was about to rant for no Olmar, but nicely saved at the end....it is in the beauty of simolicity for his change

The thing tho ketil didn’t free the male slaves out of the goodness of his heart but rather, he did that then hired them to work in his farm. It would make the slaves work harder and them still serving him once they’re free. His good deeds were to serve himself, hence the reason y he’d never get rid of arnheid as freeing her won’t benefit himself. His father said that Ketil was greedy, so once all his wealth and farm was threatened to be lost, lost it.

Yeah, i also really wanted to see the reaction of his family to what he went through throughout these years

11:25 Imo it wasn't a bad idea that Olmar wasn't killed off at all. If anything, Olmar represents youthful insecurity (compared to Ketil's similar personal case) as much as Thorfinn does with self-forgiveness in the making along with Einar and Canute to their own. Olmar was one of the many (even to this day and age) who are deluded by the idea of masculinity about what it takes to be a real man, considering that he was raised with life handed to him on a silver platter. In the end, Olmar learned better than that thanks to Thorfinn. This is what I also loved with this show. Even such a garbage character I once thought he was in the story can redeem himself like that.

One scene I think that also crucial to Thorfinns change was the farmhands, where Einar gets rightfully pissed off that they are making their life a living hell just because they are slaves. The dynamic is a reoccuring theme through out life and in media, in A Silent Voice our protagonist is effectivly the farmhand. But the real truth in both cases, the farmhands and the slaves are in the same position, the system incentivizes them to be cruel and to keep them down. It's almost as if Ketil created a situation where he didn't need to be harsh, because the system itself took care of that for him. Oppression through lower standing people isn't new, but like you said, Vinland Saga is one of the few that really wants to delve deep into it and hammer home why not just slavery, but the world itself creates this while not removing agency from people like Pater.

What music you use in the first chapte? Its so familiar. This arc is really insane bro. Love the video

"This video is rated S for spoilers" I'm stealing this lol

5:25 love this lol. "Viking Jesus".

Im really glad you realized how good vinland saga is. There is a AMV that really shows how much emotion goes into the show. Its called "Dont Panic" by Fin. Really good stuff I highly recomend it.

Please, more vinland content.

My friends want me to always read the manga and be up to date on stuff but anime just hits different and Vinland Saga Season 2 was something special, the animation, ost and we’ll just everything. It was an almost perfect show. “I have no enemies.”

Out of all the animes ive watched. vinland saga the farmland arc made me cry the most. Not bc of the tragedies but because i could empathize with a character who has held onto hate and is now trying to break free from it

I can see how some might not like the slower pace and reduced “action” (especially after the first season), but i loved both seasons. I can’t think of a single show that i’d hold in higher regard (a non-anime show).

Not to mention, how Thorin’s father Thor understood all of this and you only understand that in the end of the story

0:04 Pure vessel ost 😍

Bro gave us half a second to avoid major spoilers thanks

Thorfinns ptsd scenes are the most raw displays of emotion I’ve ever seen in a anime

Even though I already was a peaceful, non-violent person, this show has transformed me on such a deep philosophical level that no other peace of media has come anywhere close to. I have no enemies. No one has.

Its interesting that youre labelling those series of events youre describing in 10:25 as "coincidences". I mean how else would the plot move without them? I thought the sequence was clever and me personally i really appreciated the anticipation that started to build once you see the building blocks of the inevitable reunion with btw the season 1 characters.

your recap episode could be the first episode or episode 0 of season 3 as the way season 2 wrapped up was great

11:13 it wasn’t an excuse. Canute said he was going to requisition ketil’s land prior to Olmar making a fool of himself in ep 12

27:30 as the Ending said, There is no Freedom without love❤

I like how undertale music iw plqying in this video its fitting since they have the same morals or similar themes

Amazing video on this masterpiece of an anime/manga! Could you please tell me the song on Ketil's part of the video? Starts Around 12:32!

Very good

I agree the gripe on us not seeing him tell about his adventures

Love how after Einar pulled Thorfinn out of the mental Slums, he was kinda just there, Y’know giving the solid One liner, then It’s almost like they switched Places.

good video

Thorfinn is the tragedy of lost potential, but also the reincarnation of a warrior. A decade plus of incredible violence, only to set it aside to bring peace. He still had that skill to defend against the army and could have turned the entire war, but he chose the strength of peace, which ultimately won the battle.

I am doing the youtube things, for even though I don't know you, I don't want you to run. That was a very good ending for your video, made me laugh!

Season two reminded me of the ending of the movie The Shawshank redemption

The hollows knight empy vessel theme with thorfinn who is acutally an empry vessel, mastepiece music election

Why did you unlist the cult of the lamb video?

I remember cheering thorfinn to kill canoute...within a second yukimurua made us realize "our default is violence "the viewer was caught up in the wrong aspect of thorfinn

Amazing video. Honestly makes me appreciate season 2 a whole lot more, was unfortunately one of the ones that was kinda feelihg like it was getting a little boring since we didnt our GOAT actively fight again. But your vid makes me appreciate more the fight of becoming a true pacifist Thorfinn embarked on this season.