#vinland saga meta

[ipsen]

tokyo ghoul re is so interesting because arguably the most interesting version of the main character (reaperneki) is immediately followed up with arguably the worst version of that same character (kingneki) which is then followed up by arguably an even worse version (dragoneki)

[ruiination]

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[guideaus]

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[daisyachain]

Vinland Saga/Black Sails comparison. VS vs BS. Full detail and spoilers for both

1. Historical fiction, specifically blend of major historical figures and fully made-up dudes as main characters.

Black Sails was born from extrapolating Treasure Island into the past, and part of this involves supporting TI’s claim that these were events that may have been real and could have happened. Black Sails uses this blend to play with the idea of truth.

If Silver is a liar, which he is, then how can we possibly take the rumours of Flint and his treasure seriously? What sort of real events would have led Silver to create or shape those rumours? If Treasure Island is the fiction that Silver created, Black Sails is the truth, and if Black Sails is the fiction that the showrunners created, history stands behind it to disprove or argue. Black Sails plays squash against the fourth wall right up until the end where--in its most transparent move yet--it shows us Silver’s (made-up) story of Flint’s retirement as a scene.

Black Sails doesn’t have imagine spots; it only breaks out of the story for true flashbacks. In fact the flashbacks more often than not reveal the truth. The scene at the farm can’t be defined as true or proven untrue; it exists on an equal level of truth as every other scene in the show, that is, it’s all made up, so none of it can be true. Everything has been created and presented for us by the showrunners, just as everything in TI is created by Silver and Bones.

Vinland Saga has a similar number of stories and truths, but they’re all remarkably straightforward for a story that blends fiction and reality. Where BS integrates history to further muddy the waters, VS introduces fiction only where real life runs out. It was supposed to be a dramatized history at first, only records of the time are so sparse and mixed up in legend that a true history is impossible. BS questions what truth could possibly mean in a time where hearsay was evidence.

VS takes a pro-truth stance to the point where even a character defined by his two-faced deviousness can tell a story and have it ‘proven’ true by flashbacks. No word Askeladd says to us, the audience, is ever doubtful even if his orders to his men are facetious. Even his offer to Thors of leadership, though believed by the characters to be a lie, is true. VS doesn’t just avoid the meta commentary of BS, it legislates truth into itself.

Back to the start: BS was born of the assumption that Silver must be lying. If the lie exists, there must be some contradictory truth. So what truth could possibly exist that the lie would be useful? BS searches for a sense of historical and material truth behind the fantastical treasure. VS was born from a single piece of truth. There are records of Gudrid and Thorfinn’s settlement in Europe and archaeological evidence in Mi’kma’ki, but there’s precious little to draw from before that. VS starts with the truth and has to come up with an explicit lie, a fiction that would begin to support it.

So, both blend outright fiction with history, but not in the same way. Surface similarity.

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[sprintinglightning]

My Understanding of Thorfinn Karlsefni

Thorfinn Thorsson never intended to kill Askeladd. He definitely wanted to, no doubt about that, but he was never going to be capable of going through with it. Why? Because Thorfinn was six years old when Thors died. He spent more time with Askeladd’s crew, eleven years, than he did with his own family. So, it seems pretty natural that, being a child with no stress who grew up in a loving home and a stable support system, he would develop an attachment to cope, regardless of his personal feelings. Askeladd meant something to live for. He gave Thorfinn a purpose so he couldn’t just get rid of him - not that he could ever admit it to himself. Because the man KILLED HIS FATHER, how pathetic and downright disrespectful would it be for him to have formed an attachment to someone like Askeladd, the very antithesis of what Thors stood for. 

He had the idea of revenge right after Thors was killed, but Thorfinn was an impulsive kid, shown how by he snuck on the ship in the first place. He didn’t have the capacity of thinking things through. Same thing happened when he decided he was gonna kill Askeladd. He came to realize the world isn’t like home. He doesn’t know how to sail or even where the fuck he is. How the hell would he get back to Iceland? What happens to him if he kills Askeladd? He has no concept of the future. Anything could happen. And so he sticks with him because that’s what gives him stability. His interests are conflicted now. He wants to kill Askeladd and he wants purpose, so whether he’s conscious of it or not, he doubles down on the anger and the yelling and the death threats to hide the fact that he needs Askeladd to be able to function. He’s still angry about what happened, but not as much as he pretends. 

It all comes out and is shoved in his face in episode 22. Askeladd is sick of Thorfinn’s shit and opens his eyes to what he’s doing. He tells him his story. He tells him, if you really hate someone, you do everything you can to kill them. The method doesn’t matter so long as they’re dead, the implication being that Thorfinn doesn’t want to kill Askeladd so he should drop the act already. When confronted with the idea of his own feelings, which are so abhorrent to him, Thorfinn denies it, falls back on what he’s always done. No. You’re wrong. I hate you. “I’m gonna kill you no matter what.” 

Finally Askeladd give him one last smack upside the head. Thorfinn’s only value to his is as an attack dog. All he has to do is dangle a duel in front of his face and he’ll do anything. He fought Thorkell for him. TWICE. Thorfinn fought 7’2” Thorkell who casually cuts people in half for Askeladd, once when he didn’t even ask him to. Doesn’t he realize that what he says vs what he does don’t line up with each other? 

The nail in the coffin is when Askeladd brings up Thors. “I must thank Thors”/“I should be thankful to Thors”, hammering it home that if Thorfinn really wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps, he wouldn’t be dueling in the first place. The entire concept of “I would never do something so cowardly as to stab a man in his sleep because I’m Thors’ son” and the “honorable duel” is BULLSHIT. Askeladd knows it. Thorfinn knows it. Even Thorkell whose known Thorfinn for like a collective day picks up on it. It’s over at this point.

Once Askeladd starts walking away, he cracks. He tells him to wait and attempts to chase after him. It starts to sink in so he momentarily flips back to the rage, to the point where he stabs the damn snow. Telling himself more than Canute to shut up. But at the end of the day, he’s still a kid. The attachment outweighs the vengeance quest. He’s still a child so can’t let his attachment go because it’s all he has so he gets back up, telling Askeladd to wait. 

Gruncle Thorkell puts a voice to what Thorfinn knew. How pathetic.

Once everyone is gone, Thorfinn is forced to accept it. After everything he’s done, no matter what he said or if he was physically capable, he was never going to kill Askeladd.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. even if it didn’t make any damn sense.

[sayaka19fan]

Askeladd vs Thors

I think some people don't understand the meaning of the duel between Askeladd and Thors and why Thors couldn't act differently.

Look at Askeladd's plan first: he suspected that his opponent was a fearsome foe based on Floki's behavior. That's why he decided that the archers were the best choice to do the killing. His job was to take down Thors and nobody else. He could order to shot at any time and Thors was aware of the archers' strange inactivity.

When Thors asked for a duel he thought that the archers were there as an intimidating measure. He thought that he was facing some pirates who were looking for slaves. He hoped he could scare them enough and the duel was intended as a demonstration of strength. When Thors realized that they were after his head the duel was already accepted. At that point he knew that whatever he did he wouldn't probably have saved his life. Had he killed Askeladd the archers would have shot their arrows anyway and Askeladd's crew would have taken over the ship, the captured slaves and would have got the reward for the assassination.

Accepting the duel was pointless but Askeladd indulging in it was for Thors a hint that the man was trustworthy and honorable, because he was keen to giving him a death fitting for a warrior instead of taking the easy win.

Askeladd offered to serve Thors when Thors showed that he was aware of how killing Askeladd was futile at that point. Askeladd gave him this way out but since he didn't want to throw away his pacifism, Thors was dead the moment they fell in Askeladd's trap. Askeladd misunderstood the refusal at first as Thors looking down on him, it was only when he was told that none of his men had died that he realised Thors's reasoning.

Bjorn reminded Thors that they would sacrifice the others to take him down and that there was only one thing worth in the negotiations: his life. And it showed that Bjorn has no squarm if he can help Askeladd not to lose his face in front of the crew, that he was all and though his man. No one else in that crew except Askeladd was going to honour a warrior code, so it became crucial that Askeladd kept being their captain.

Askeladd didn't swore not to kill Thors, he swore to retreat immediately. He didn't break his promise at all. He accepted the humiliation of defeat in exchange of a major humiliation: Thors suffered the death of the fool to save Askeladd's face so that he could keep his promise. Were there no witnesses it could have ended in another way, this is for me the element that turned it into a tragedy.

[absolutebearings]

in the episode where askeladd’s band mutinies and tries to steal the prince,  some of the mutineers muse about trying to get bjorn on their side, so they dont have to fight him to get at canute, and bjorn immediately snaps:

(his rejection is framed through who he is as a person and who they’re asking him to betray) loyalty is an admirable trait, but loyalty as identity is some of the most terrifying shit you can possibly imagine. there’s no morality, no ideology, no greater idea that moves them, because their person is the foundation, their wants needs and plans are the priority -- you can’t even motivate them with practical self interest, because they aren’t loyal to themselves, in fact they barely seem to even NOTICE themselves, only as far as they can be useful to the subject of that loyalty. but the truly heartbreaking thing is that their drive to subsume themselves entirely doesn’t even need to be encouraged or manipulated because its essentially instinct. in this case askeladd just told them all that they’re dane scum and he’s always despised them, which is shattering to hear after you’ve dedicated 2 decades of your life to someone, but being shattered changes nothing for bjorn -- why would it? his devotion has always been completely unconditional. 

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Reading Vinland saga for the first time and there is smth… meta-offputting about the way thors is characterised. On the one hand we are obviously supposed to admire his steadfast pacifism and disdain for violence (which are very good!) but then… the comic also lingers very heavily and lovingly on just how ultrastrong and stoic he is. Compared to several of the more temperamental and wiry slave/war-mongers

These feel in conflict!! If violent and physical intimidation conflict is really as unworthy as he makes them out to be, what is the virtue in being such a Viking gigachad? But what is truly unsettling is, I really do instinctively think better of Thors for the shows of superhuman strength! Some of it is ~”faithful signaling”: the pacifism means more when you could kill just about anyone with a flick of your middle finger. But that doesn’t exhaust it, being fully honest. Some of it is just “heehee stronk nice”

To kill the inner stacy is an ongoing spiritual struggle

[wirsinddieranters]

i've been hyperfocusing on vinland saga recently, but like.. i do legit want to try and write a meta for people to point to about aot and genocide to make it very clear to people that it's not even meant to be an allegory for jewish people

i went to school for poli sci, i've taken a lot of courses on stuff about genocide, i was taught the signs of it, and it's like... honestly it's really clear that isayama had just researched genocides and made it happen realistically using various examples throughout history, and i'm really tired of hearing about how eldians = jews

even the people that don't say it's nazi propaganda complain that isayama should argue more against japanese imperialism (though the series already has a clear anti-imperialist slant and paints the japanese equivalent's interest in exploiting paradis for resources as a negative), and it bothers me because like. why the fuck should he when it's clearly not even about ww2

[ruiination]

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[untapanimedraw]

Anime of the Decade 2019

Alright, now we start breaking down this current year. There was a fuck-ton of anime that I watched and to get this done on time and without going crazy I can only highlight some of my favorites, but it was a damn good year. Lets get into it!

Winter:

Dororo - This is a remake of an incomplete anime series from the late 60s. And besides this show having an absolute banger of an OP and ED, it has some gorgeous art and a story full of heart and ambition. Party is over. 

The Promised Neverland - Definitely the suprise show of the season for me. I hadn’t read into the manga and was fortunate to not have been spoiled on anything going into it and that was definitely for the best. For a show based on suspense and mystery, keeping the thriller aspect is of absolute importance. This show was absolutely spectacular. 

Kaguya-Sama: Love is War - Oh man, this show was so much fun. Just so much fun from start to finish. The mind games, the banter, the character interactions are all so entertaining. There’s a surprise ED too that is too adorable to even describe. 

Mob Psycho 100 S2 - Ok, so this is my AOTS and a strong contender for AOTY. This second season takes everything we loved about the first season and cranks that up to 15 and then they have the absolute gall to throw in some super strong character growth as well! And as if that wasn’t enough, there were multiple EPISODES this season that had some absolutely mind-blowing animation. 

Spring:

One Punch Man S2 - Oh man oh man, I so wish this had kept everything the same from a production standpoint as the first season. This story is arguably slightly more interesting than the first season, and this could definitely have benefited from a 2 cour airing. And nothing has been able to top that season 1 ending fight and animation. This was a troubled season, and I hope if there’s another one that the production will be able to keep up with everything. 

Demon Slayer - This was such a great surprise of a show. I hadn’t heard about it or anything about it before starting and I was quite pleasantly surprised. One of the best new shounen shows of the last few years. 

Attack on Titan S3 Part 2 - And here is my AOTS. This second part of season 3 is just everything good about Attack on Titan PLUS... FINALLY! THE basement reveal!!! This is the building culmination of years of waiting and dozens of episodes and it is truly great. 

Isekai Quartet - Talk about the biggest surprise of the season, this show came completely out of left field. It’s an isekai show about 4 isekais. Like, this show is so fucking meta it’s insane. Also everyone is chibi, even Ainz. And there’s going to be a season 2 and they’re adding Shield Hero to the case. Truly insane. 

Carole & Tuesday - I really wish I could give this my AOTS, that’s how much I love this show. Particularly this first half. It’s basically a 90′s show that somehow got missed and is now being made and that still feels like it belongs. This is really an anime that’s a love letter to music and it succeeds wholly. 

Summer:

Dr. Stone - This is my AOTS. I absolutely adore this show. This season there were a LOT of shows that aired on Fridays and this was the first one I watched every single time. Humanity has been petrified for over 2500 years and this story follows Senku a science obsessed high school student who decides to recreate the entirety of scientific evolution in record time. Bill Nye meets prehistoric era shounen series. What an awesome idea, and I absolutely love it. 

Fire Force - Fire Force is like a love letter to fire animation. The only thing that holds this show back is some completely unnecessary, ill-timed, and ill-executed fanservice with a particular character. It really feels like a block that keeps me from wholeheartedly reccommending it to people, but besides this it’s an absolute treat for the eyes. 

DanMachi S2 - Wooooo season 2! AND we’re getting a season 3 and a MOVIE!!

Vinland Saga - Holy shit, this show is beautiful. SO good. 

Fall:

My Hero Academia S4 -  Hell yeah, more HeroAca. This first part of season 4 has been a slow-burner, so we’ll have to see what the rest of the season has in store for us next year. 

Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun - This is such a charming show. It’s got all the appeal of the fun shows of the 2000s and reminds me of a less ecchi Rosario Vampire. And it is absolutely worth checking out. 

Vinland Saga (second cour) - I’m going to cheat a bit and include this in my fall selection. It is a 2 cour show, but the second part of the season is almost drastically better than the first part and I thought the first part was a solid 10/10. This takes it up to another level both in the visuals and the story and characters. Definitely my AOTS. 

Alright, so we have Mob Psycho 100 S2, Attack on Titan S3 Part 2, Dr. Stone and Vinland Saga. I am having some legitimate struggles right now. Dr. Stone wins on straight entertainment value, Mob wins on character growth and animation, AoT wins on payoff and action, and Vinland Saga wins on beauty and story and characters. I think it all comes down to Vinland Saga as AOTY, but damn that’s a hard choice. 

[arcaneranger]

Final Thoughts - Summer 2019

Hey, look who finished the season perfectly on time, even if he did so by dropping a bunch of stuff last minute! (Technically, as of writing, I haven’t finished Re:Stage Dream Days, but you can rest assured that it’s bad.)

I thought I was going to do a first impressions rundown video for the entire season at once, since my impression posts don’t tend to get a lot of engagement anyway, but since I didn’t end up going through with it, I’ll summarize my point - summer started strong, and even here at the end, I can easily say it’s the best season thus far in what’s largely been a letdown year for seasonal anime (and a god damn renaissance for long shows, thanks to My Hero Academia, so if I seem down on a season that had Dororo, or Vinland Saga, or Fruits Basket, remember that I exclude those shows from my considerations until the end of the year).

This season saw several high-profile continuations like A Certain Scientific Accelerator, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon II, and Symphogear XV, but also new works by creators like Mari Okada, and anticipated adaptations of Astra: Lost in Space and Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, and in the end, well...a lot of those were mixed bags at best, but the biggest drawback I will remember Summer 2019 for is that it was drowning in bad isekai shows. The aforementioned Arifureta, the basically-counts Danmachi, and also Isekai Cheat Magician, Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks, The Lost Ones, Demon Lord Retry!...it just never ended, and that’s not even counting If It’s For My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord. 

Speaking of all that stuff, let’s get right into it, yeah?

28 shows were simulcast this season, and of those, I…

Skipped 4:

Yami Shibai 7, Starmyu Season 3, A Certain Scientific Accelerator, and Lord El-Melloi II Case Files: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note were all skipped because I have not watched the previous series.

Dropped 15:

Worst of the Season: If It’s For My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord!

I dropped this after one episode because I found the aesthetic and tone to be aggressively boring and I found even the cute daugheroo character to be utterly generic in execution...and then later found out oh boy was I right to drop it, based on how many people compared it to the Bunny Drop manga that we don’t talk about. *shudders*

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest

Wins the “biggest tryhard” award for being just the most straightforward an SAO award gets, right up to being grimdark for dumb reasons. The first episode alone had inconsistent animation, and that just did not bode well for the future...and the plot instantly reminded me of Slime, which soured on me over time. I let this one go sour after one shot.

Demon Lord, Retry!

The blandest of beige this season, Demon Lord had neither the story nor the production values to reel me in or convince me it was anything but the Overlord wannabe it so clearly was.

Isekai Cheat Magician

This show was a pretty transparent attempt to have an isekai story with a childhood friend romance plot, and while I’m fine with one and a half of those things, it couldn’t execute them in any decent way by the end of the first episode, and just wound up being largely boring.

Wasteful Days of High School Girls

Speaking of boring, what if Nichijou wasn’t funny? You’d get something like this.

Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?

So the tone this one ultimately ended up having was pretty much exactly what I expected after the premiere - it leaned too hard on jokes that weren’t as funny as it thought they were, and too hard on the dumb hentai mom trope, and neither of those things interested me in the slightest. Pretty okay with having left this off the watchlist.

The Ones Within

I have stated multiple times in the last few weeks that Symphogear is great because it can convince you that it’s a work of genius. The Ones Within has, unfortunately, convinced itself that it’s deep social commentary of some kind, rather than a bargain-bin Danganronpa with no real thought put into it.

Are You Lost?

I’m amazed that we got another Eromanga Sensei this season and it flew entirely under the radar. For God’s sake, the first episode featured a young teenage girl eating a bug and drinking her own urine. I just didn’t see myself being particularly entertained by the shock value longer than the premiere.

Ensemble Stars (4/10)

I can’t tell if this one is actually over, but Funimation’s site doesn’t list any new episode premieres coming up, so I’m gonna assume it is? I gave this one a shot and hung onto it because it took UtaPri’s premise and gave it the slightly more serious tone I was looking for, but dropped it after the second episode started to drown us in side characters with no hint that the floodgates were closing, rather than giving ample screentime to a select cast so they could actually become at least two-dimensional before throwing in more people we’re supposed to care about.

BEM

BEM suffered from an unfortunate lack of distinct personality, which sucks when it seems to have had a decent story to tell. Nothing else about the show wound up sticking out to me, though, which has me fully convinced that Production I.G.’s name is only on this to boost recognition, and the second-billed LandQ studios did the majority of the work. And their best-known other show is Swordgai. So...

To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts (5/10)

I have gotten absolutely no pushback so far for my decision to tear into this show because it should have been a different show, so I’m gonna take that as a general agreement of my earlier statement. What a waste of a concept.

Cop Craft (5/10)

This one I still think I was not crazy to pick up after the first episode, because it wasn’t until the third that the animation tanked hard and the pacing went absolutely nuts, and apparently stayed that way. Did they write a thirty-nine-episode story that had to be condensed into twelve or something?

Magical Sempai

This one I probably would have kept watching if the majority of its humor wasn’t just the title character embarrassing herself in lewd ways. It was funny, but I didn’t see myself enjoying anything more than one episode of it.

GRANBELM (6/10)

This one I got halfway through before realizing that, during my end-of-season catchup, I had absolutely no desire to return to. The plot didn’t really start moving until the fifth episode, and in that time I had not gotten particularly invested in the characters, especially since the show makes fun of the viewer for thinking that the big mecha dream battles actually had stakes beyond “you don’t get to be The Thing”. At least it looked nice and the mecha designs were very original.

Are you willing to fall in love with a pervert, as long as she’s a cutie?

There were four shows this season with questions for titles. Just saying! This one actually had me hooked right up until the end, revealing that not only is it a fanservice show, but a fetish pandering one. That being said, if I were attracted to women, I could have seen myself getting something out of it, what with the decently moody tone and good production values.

I put 2 On Hold:

Is It Wrong to Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? II

I’ll probably come back to this when the third series comes around, just to give it one more chance to pull me back in, but ditching my favorite character for harem antics and character shilling just did not endear me to this long-awaited sequel.

Re:Stage Dream Days!!

This one’s not actually on hold, but I don’t have any other good place to mention it. This one I’m gonna make it through just on willpower, not because it’s good, but because it starts out as the most shameless rip-off I’ve ever seen in anime, specifically of Love Live!.

And I Finished 7:

Kochoki (5/10)

I thought I was gonna give this one a 7 at least, for nearly the whole season, for being a decently-told and somewhat new telling of Nobunaga’s early life with great production values for Studio Deen...right up until the structure fell completely apart at the end, almost completely out of nowhere. I’m still in awe of the gall this show had to literally skip over the final battle.

How Heavy Are The Dumbbells You Lift? (8/10)

This one came right the fuck out of nowhere and totally blew my expectations out of the way from the very first episode. Looking at the summary, I was convinced I was gonna drop this after the premiere...and found myself totally hooked by its cheery visual presentation and excellent sense of meta-comedy, not to mention its genuine educational value.

Astra: Lost In Space (8/10)

One of two adaptations I was really looking forward to this season (along with Fire Force), Astra was pretty much what I expected - a very good translation of a very good manga that ran for the perfect amount of time to be divided into twelve-ish episodes. A fantastic and memorable cast of characters enhanced a surprisingly twisty story, and Lerche made it all look just as good as I’d hoped.

The Demon Girl Next Door (8/10)

Speaking of defying my expectations, another show I was expecting pretty much nothing from, maybe one I could compare to Gabriel Dropout or something, that was instead an incredibly charming story of a girl trying to save her family by defeating a magical girl...with a very, very loose definition of the word “defeat” in play. I couldn’t have asked for much more from this one, aside from maybe a sequel?

Given (9/10)

Speaking of “Lerche” and “gorgeous”, this profoundly gripping story of a spacecase and a loner hesitantly making music together blossomed further and further as it went on, and became my new go-to reference point for explicit gay relationships in anime. It went where even Yuri On Ice!!! couldn’t, and left me desperate for a Part Two.

O Maidens In Your Savage Season (9/10)

My write up for this show was one of my longest in recent memory, and I stand by it - even if Okada had to write a few plot contrivances in to get where she’s going, at least she presented her cast in an incredibly thoughtful way and gave them a satisfying payoff, with the knowledge that they’re teenagers and all of their problems can’t be solved in one semester. The high water mark for discussions of sexuality in this medium.

BEST OF THE SEASON: Symphogear XV (9/10)

Anime is wonderful, and so am I.

So that wraps up summer! We’ve got a lot to look forward to in fall, even if My Hero Academia and Food Wars’ fourth series will both ultimately end up on a list in the distant future next year. Will Psycho-Pass 3 redeem the series? Will Azur Lane be better than Kantai Collection? Will Beastars beat Aggretsuko as the biggest furry panderer of the year? Only time will tell. And then I’ll tell you all what I think it said.

[awdheshcom19]

Vinland Saga GoGoAnime episodes download from 1 to 500

Vinland Saga GoGoAnime episodes download from 1 to 500

Vinland Saga GoGoAnime is a graphical novel made by Asimabba. The story is set in the same world as Sword Art Online but focuses more on the magical and online world of Orience instead. It follows the storyline of the game (SPOILERS). Here, in this article, you will find all the episodes Vinland Saga in the Gogoanime website 2020.

Vinland Saga GoGoAnime full story

When the town of Vinland…

[sayaka19fan]

Vinland saga You can't fight your blood ~ 血を争えない Ep. 05